Medlar Tree, Medicinal Plant, 1737
A Curious Herbal, Plate 154. Medlar pears stopped the bowels, especially if eaten unripe. The hard seed was used as a treatment for bladder stones. Medlar (Mespilus germanica) is a large shrub or small tree, and the name of the fruit of this tree. The fruit seed of this plant is poisonous. Common usage and medicinal benefits and properties of this plant are conserves, cooking jams, diarrhea treatment, diuretic, elimination of oral abscess, elimination of stomach bloating, elimination of throat abscess, fattening, fever disposal, handle of knives and tools, hematopoietic, internal hemorrhage treatment, juice, regurgitation disposal cholera, stimulation treatment of throat, strengthen fine skin, strengthen nerves, treatment of intestinal inflammation, treatment of large intestine infection, treatment of menstrual irregularities, and treatment of Cutaneous leishmaniasis. Elizabeth Blackwell (1707-1758) was a famed Scottish illustrator and author who was best known as both the artist and engraver for the plates of "A Curious Herbal" (1737).
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