{"id":885,"date":"2022-12-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/?p=885"},"modified":"2022-11-30T16:50:02","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T16:50:02","slug":"the-fig-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/2022\/12\/17\/the-fig-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fig Tree #ChristmasCountdown Door no. 17"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"The<\/a><\/p>\n

‘The Fig Tree’ illustration from Elizabeth Blackwell’s Herbal<\/a> Vol. 1<\/p>\n

Plate 125. The Fig Tree. Ficus.<\/em><\/p>\n

It seldome grows to be a Tree of any great Bigness in England; the Leaves are a grass Green and the Fruit when ripe of a brownish Green; it beareth no visible Flowers, which makes it believed they are hid in the Fruit.<\/em><\/p>\n

Its Native soils are Turky, Spain and Portugal; and its time of Bearing is in Spring and Autumn; the Figs are cured by dipping them in scalding hot Lye, made of ye Ashes of the Guttings of the Tree, and afterwards they dry them carefully in the Sun.<\/em><\/p>\n

Figs are esteem’d cooling and moistning, good for coughs, shortness of Breath, and all Diseases of the Breast; as also the Stone and Gravel, – and the small Pox and Measels, which they drive out. – Outwardly they are dissolving and ripening, good for Imposthumations and Swellings; and pestilential buboes.<\/em><\/p>\n

Latin, Ficus. Spanish, Igos. Italian, Fichi: French, Figues. German, Fengen. Dutch Uygen.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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