 Wall-nuts have the perfect Signature of the Head: The outer husk or green Covering, represent the Pericranium, or outward skin of the skull, whereon the hair groweth, and therefore salt made of those husks or barks, are exceeding good for wounds in the...  Torreya - Page 1091910Full view - About this book
 | Robert Southey - Musical fiction - 1836 - 478 pages
...fantastic ; and where the resemblances exist the inference is purely theoretical. Walnuts are said to have the perfect signature of the head ; the outer husk or green covering represents the pericranium, or outward skin of the scull, whereon the hair groweth : and therefore... | |
 | Theology - 1838 - 428 pages
...that part of the human frame for which its remedial uses were intended." Thus walnuts were said to have the perfect signature of the head ; the outer husk, or green covering, represents the pericranium, or outward skin of the skull, and therefore salt made of those husks is... | |
 | 1909 - 844 pages
...the wall-nut tree, than which no more interesting example could be quoted. "Wall-nuts," wrote Coles, "have the perfect Signature of the Head: the outer husk or green Covering represent the Pericraninm or outward skin of the skull, whereon the hair groweth, and therefore salt made of those... | |
 | Medicine - 1849 - 808 pages
...resemble — for instance, if a leaf be heart or liver shaped it shall cure the like. "Walnuts are said to have the perfect signature of the head ; the outer husk or green covering represents the pericranium, or outer skin of the skull, whereon the hair groweth, this is good for... | |
 | Medicine - 1849 - 794 pages
...resemble—for instance, if a leaf be heart or liver shaped it shall cure the like. "Walnuts are said to have the perfect signature of the head; the outer husk or green covering represents the pericranium, or outer skin of the skull, whereon the hair groweth, this is good for... | |
 | 1909 - 858 pages
...tho wall-nut tree, than which no more interesting example could be quoted. "Wall-nuts," wrote Coles, "have the perfect Signature of the Head: the outer husk or green Covering represent the Pericranium or outward skin of the skull, whereon the hair groweth, and therefore salt made of those... | |
 | Frederic Schiller Lee - Diseases - 1911 - 206 pages
...seventeenthcentury herbarist, William Coles, author of "Adam in Eden : or Natures Paradife," relates that " Wall-nuts have the perfect Signature of the Head : The outer husk or green Covering, reprefent the Pericranium, or outward skin of the skull, whereon the hair groweth and therefore fait... | |
 | Agnes Arber - Botanical literature - 1912 - 332 pages
...His account of the Walnut, from his work 'Adam in Eden,' 1657, may be quoted as an illustration : " Wall-nuts have the perfect Signature of the Head: The outer husk or green Covering, represent the Pericranium, or outward skin of the skull, whereon the hair groweth, and therefore salt made of those... | |
 | Missouri Botanical Garden - Botany - 1925 - 530 pages
...instance, his first consideration is the head, and the plants good for it. "Watt-nuts," he declares, "have the perfect Signature of the Head. The outer Husk or Green Covering representing the peri-cranium or the outward skin of the Skull, whereon the hair groweth, and therefore... | |
 | 1923 - 990 pages
...the following quotation from Cole, in which a most elaborate application of the doctrine occurs : ' Wall-nuts have the perfect signature of the head: The outer husk or green covering, represent the pericranium, or outward skin of the skull, whereon the hair groweth, and therefore salt made of those... | |
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