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Show on 248 CHuaAP.42, Theatrum Botanicum. TRr1be 2, see yet both Balanus Myrepfica and Myrobalanus have but onefignification in the Greeke tongue. The Arabians werethe firft that made them knowntto the world, andcalled themall in generall by the nameof Delegi, ash the writings of AZe/wes and Serapio doe appeare ; but the Greekes that tranflatedthefe Arabians, gave the names of Myrobalanestinto thefe fruits, becaufe (asit is likely ) they thought the fruit was like unto an Acorne, and therefore gave the name Balanus ; but why they fhould give the other word Afyros, whichfignifieth an oyntment, cannot be underftood by any, for none of thefe were ever nfed in any pretions or {weet oyntment, ‘and Myrobalanos fignifieth as muchas Balanus Myrepfica Glans unguentaria, the Acorne for oyntments. AEzaring amongthelatter Greeke writers maketh mentionof them, but that hofie ofthefe did grow amorig the Arabians their ignorance oftheir growing declareth plainely : for CWe/wes writeth that the Citrini Chebuli and Nigri doe all grow upononetree, and for that they beare twice in a yeare, the Citvini are the unripe, and the QRivriare the ripe of the firft bearing, andthe Chebwli the fruit of the later bearing, which how contrary Unto truth it is, Garzias doth declare, in his booke of the Drugges of the Eaft Indies, where hee plainely theweth that all thefive forts, grow feverally each upona feverall tree, as I have fhewed you before : the Zndians call the Citrinior Flavi Arare, but the Phyfitions Aritigui,and the Indici or Nigri theycall Rexenvale, the Bellerici Gotimi or Gotni the Chepuli or Chebuli Aretca,and the Emblici or Amuale as Garzias hath it,or Axualeas Acofta, Thave you feeintituled chem all purging Plums, as moft properfor them in my judgement, and given them their fundry Epithites according to their quality as I thinke. The Vertues, All thefe forts of Myrobalanes have a gentle purging quality, } fome more and fomeleffe then others, fome alfo purging choller,fome flegme, and fome melancholy ; but they have in themalfoan aftringent quality, more thenisin Rubarbe : the Citrines and Bellericks, much that is the yellow and the round Myrobalanes doe purge choller gently : the Chebules and Emblici that is the purple and fix {quare Myrobalanes doe purge flegme : and the Indies or black ones melancholly:the decoction or infufion of them all doth purge better then any wayes elfe yet fo gentlythat in evacuating the bumors, theyftrengthen the ftomacke, the liver and the heart, but given pouderthey binde the body miore then purge it, and indeed the binding quality in them all, efpecially in tn dryed fruits, is more prodominant, and the as Garzias faith, the Indians wholly ufe them for that purpo therefore theyare the beft medecines to be mingled with Scamony and all other violent purgers; toreftr fe ; and violence and to corretheir fiercenefle,and yet as aine their rind’, to helpe the working of them, as a molt {afe ©Ve/xes faith the yare often put with (a/ia, Manna, & Tamamedecin esthe Belleric ks and Embl.ch s by purging theftomack fromrotten flegme lying therein, and ftrengt hning the braine and joynts; the heart and liver, and binding all other loofe or Auent humors in the parts of thebody, are very effe@uall, asalfo for the trembling of the heart and toftirre up the appetite, {tay vomiting and reftraine the fury and belchingsof chollét, to increafe the oven and facultie ofthe fpirits, to qualifie the exceffive hea ofthe inward parts, and the thirft doehelpe and give eafe to thofe that are truoble d withthe hemorthoides of piles,by reftrai israifed shevens and ning the fierceneffe of choller flowing untothem, and forthis laf effect, the Citrines are moft ufed : alfo for all hot conftitutions and in all hot agues where there are no obftru¢tions, for (theya s all the other forts alfo) doe rather caufe obftrndtions, and therefore in all fuch when they are to be ufed theyate to bee corrected with Wormewood, Juice of Fumiterry, or with Rubarbe, Agarick or the ,Spiknard and the like, as alfo with other call things : the Chebiées in efpeciall doe opening and diuretipurge flegme, fharpen the memory, clearethe eye fight, clenfe and ftrengthenthe {tomacke,and are veryeffectual robalanesin fpéciall, doe purge melancholy, again{t the dropfie, and all old agues: the Indies or blacké Myand blacke or burnt choller, and therebyare quartaine Ague, the Lepry or foule evill, availeable for he and all paralaticke difeafes : the Embliks and Bellericks in efpecial l purgeflegme and comfort the braine very much, asalfothe heart and flomacke, ftay vomiting and fen the appetite, Theyall ofthem in general Purging the maligne fluxibilitie ofthel are of efpeciall fe in all Fluxes bothof the ftomack and bell b ea humors , and {trengthning and binding the parts €tpeciall receit to binde or ftayan old continu abcriarnd: : ba i i and burne a pint ofClaret wine, witha littleed Laske, I have knowne this medicine doe m h good i k Rofemar y and Sugar, where; Rubarbe, firlt fliced and tofted at the fire, ft Wet nc dea oF and halfe vie 1 EChebuleMyr balae fireall ewhi ie andftrained sfting night, ee inthe morni He te aeIstoab be taken Wieforth hes at two didcin rig) wieiae Myrobalanes, which ftanding by the feverall ly as Pi eid coe times, a draught in the He i ; nely t “i tittime, being morning renewed and taken two dayes more, ga € ally, will certaintna gnity and fharpeneffe of the hamors bee not fo ftrong that {carfe any medeee cus it. The Chebule Myroba lanes broken and {teeped in Rofewa ter, or in the clarified juice of Fen" two orthree dayes, andafter {trained forth 3 this water dropped into the a fine cloth cloth wet wertktherein and often apply ed, taket eyes dothclere the fight, and away h a the heat and infl i and diftillations into them : the ammat ion i y pouder ofan seesire Baie chery and ne y ofthe Nea obalaace and Malticke, fie ee ear e them : The Chebules and the E mblicks a op prelerved, whereof the Chebules are are often brought over more ufed Phyfically for Ri igs are, which being t nothing harfh in tafte as the Chebu fuch purpofes as are bef, dow ls, but 2 asa delicate preferved Plum,among other junckets,then ee very Meshesdota of. for ahy Phyficall refpect. : The Theaver of Plants. T ripe 2. is extracted a cleare liquid Rofin or Taipei lee in apn Vesice Turpentine, by boring the tree tothe heart, and recei. it is the tree when e veffells, and into it into ing it ving veffells, an from the body ofPet d g i prowne great and old in many places, an armesand boughes alfo, groweth. certaine excre pee i Cuar.g2; | serbia aap Agéricke growing onthe Larch see, By: Muthromes but greater, called Agaricke of divers an files, that is from the bigneffe of ones hand lefie or more, to as bigge as any mans “head, and fometimes greater, covere witha hard blackifh barke,which being cut and pared away,the fabftance underit appeareth very white, and if it be eiebet fort,verylight alfo, eafie to breake, loofe or ‘paneiin wpe our ftrings through it, fomewhat {weete in tafte at the firft, but ri bitter afterwards,and not having any hard barke on the oe ides the blacke, heavy, and hard, is utterly unfit to be ufed in Phyficke. $e plins, The Larch tree groweth in many woods wens" Trent = Brixiain Italy,and neare the rivers chi and ibe ‘i an - Galatia a Province of Afia, as Diofcarides and Gaon a ss and in Agaria a country of Sarmatia, from w are ie ricke tooke the name; in Si/efaallo Moravia, Lnfatia ; And the Agaricke is gathered in moft of thefe places, fo isthe ace tine likewife, but efpecially from the woods about Trent cc. The Time, : The Rofin or Turpentine ts gathered in the hotteft time of the eare,and the Agaricke atthelatter end thereof, that is NovemBee and Decemberefpecially. The Names. ae ot Aa ce This tree is called aze:2 in Greek and Larix or Laricein Latin. Pliny hath innoonething inall his :Hiftory, fhewed his ae ftancie and repugnancie,more than in this one tree, not one y in not knowing that whereof he writeth,but denying that which is found true by good experience, and faying that in onc place, whichhee contrarieth in another, as in his 16. Booke and zt. Chapter, hee reckoneth the Larch tree among thofe wild trees, that doe not fhedtheir leaves, gad oar pointed, Mee i ( b htree, forthe Pinetree, as hee doth, : 5 é omeaaiete tetinke : and whereas Theophraffes in histhitd Booké, and tenth peer ee the difference berweene the Pine and Pitch tree, faith, that the Pine tree being a pee o the aap geth not from them againe, but as forne fay the Pitch tree doth as it hapned in Lesbos, when the wood yn 4 wasfired, which was {tored with Pitch trees, This very narration Pliny 4b. cnet 39. — app . bi the Larch tree, which Theopbrajtws doth to the Pine tree. And in another place 7) deteie {iv # : . a offemall Pineis called Egz or Egida; and Pliny faith the femal, Larix is called Bgia, . an ick eu may be plainely feene, that Pliny miftooke the Larch tree for the Pine tree. For Theophr altos : A eens pois tion of the Larix, inall his Hiftory, whereby many did judge thatit did not growin Greece, ze _ : have knowne it, and {pokenof it. In one place againe Péiny maketh the icaves ofthe Larch tree tobe fo wee Ys thicke and fat,and in another place hard & drie:againe he faith that the Larch tree Seer tceween oa tocommendit, when asthey have cones, and the bloffomes on them are very popnree® - : ve ia on (it fhould feeme following Vitrzvins, who betore him faid the fame) that the wood of the! one on “is burne, nor makea cole, nor will confumein thefire, any otherwife than aftone, whens him ““ vt ha ica knowledgeth, as Vitreviws alfo doth, that it yeeldeth forth a Roffen ; and how conld any man t fy , that fn yeelding Roffen fhould not burne, when as the very earth and {tones that haveany Se or ep nea7 in them, will burne exceedingly, as is plainely feenein our turfe, in pit and {ea coales w ne ins x i ce 35 in many places of our Land, and elfewhere alfo. This I thought good to fet downe, not fo . ch tc : ain : againt Pliny, as to forewarne others thar tranflate or write others opinions,to be judicious ns are by fea ti whether that whichothers have written agree withthe truth of the matter, and not han overhead either beleeve or fer downe, whatfoever others have writren, be ittrue or falfe. Concerning * rate fc of this tree c Venice Turpentine, there is fome controverfie among Writers, fomeallea Iging ittobeta eae the Firre tree, as Fa/chius and others, and A4atehiolws contending there againtt, that of his owne knowle ge and experience, it is onely taken fromthe Larch tree and no other, for no other Turpentine Whe 2 us gen Cuap, mertimes farmany ages, becaufe the Merchants negleéted tobring the true ee 2 ie ine “2 ure pentine tree, and therefore this onely was ufed : and no otherfort of Tunpentine was‘it - Ctakeninw i ym XLII. Agaricus & Terebinth; 2 ; erebinthinaex“ Larice, : . onthe Agaricke growing Larch tree, and the fine cleare Turpentine taken from it alfo, WR Ecanfe cethe Rofin or 0 Turpen penti {tead of the true fiom the Turpentine tree, which wedoe aftallycall Cipresfe Turpentine, ccaufe asit 18 ane at the belt is gathered in the Mand Cypruz,thofe about Trem as tMatchiolus faith ufe to oat it Shes likely from Laricea, yet Pliny, Galen, and others ofthe ancients have fet renin: the tine ofthe Larch tree doth gently ope al Pectally the Agaticke that gro n andpurge ; € weth thereon, I mutt to thew Wee Be iene Eecuotine the caeSeo o e thetr ee, from whenceit istaken, and a a ieRe 8 fome Batis and wneby:but other €:oniferas & Refiniferas arbo the defcription of the tree it felfe,thall be fhewed y: restrees that beare Conesor Pine apple like frateaterioe is — Me e phe yellowRoffen, like unto the hony of Athens ot Spaine, bur in litcke quantitic and foone waxing. drie, whichis - Gamme of Roffen that fweateth out ofthe tree in Summer of its owne accord without bormg t There is a fome comtroverfie and contrarietie both in the ancient and moderne Writers, concerning Agaricke, er and Galen thinkingit to bea roote,like unto that of Siiphiam, yee doubting formewhatthereof, Dia/orides fait that fome hold irto bea Mufhrome, sor Excrefcence engendred from the rottennefie of the srees, ee are from the earth, Péiny writeth, 45,16, cap.8. that ic was {aid that thofe trees, that bare Acornes in the coun trie |