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Show 13820 Cuar.20, Tbeatrum Botanicum., Triseig neffe ofan Almond, in powder be takenin honied Wine: by the actimony and bitterneffe therein, itisgood to openthe obftructions of the liver, and kidneyes, and the ycllow jaundife and {tone and by the aft ringent qua. lity to ftay the fluxes of the belly ; bur the more effectually if thedecogtion thereofbe taken, that is made With harfh or red Wine: by the notable drying quality therein alfo faithyhe, I doubted not to helpe childrenthere. withthathad thefalling fickneffe,by tying ic about their neckes.. And indeede I faw 4 childe freed fromthar difeafe, thathad for eight whole moneths together,worne a good peece of the rodte about him,andthat as foone as that peece by fome chancefell ftom abouthis necke, or was taken away for tryall of the matter, he fell into the difeafeagaine’s {but having afreth one applyed tohim of maybe,.that the Spirits thereof dtawne into the pores byagaine, he became perfectly well: the reafon where. che inward heate, and ourward aire, pierced the places, effected withthe difealé.and curediit ; for after the fame mannér doth the Saccas Cyrenaiegs, that isthe belt Lafer, orLdfeepitinm, care the uvula, orpalate of the mouth aswecallit, whenit is falne downe; or {wolne throughrheunte : oras Nigella feede being fryed, and bound in athinne watme linen cloathy doth dry upthe. thinne and troublefome deitillations ofrhenmes, bythe hot breath thereof nifing through thenoitrils s, as alfo if divers threds dyed inthe purple fith colour,be bound about a V iper or Adders necke,,-andit thereby ftrangted, and theyafterwards bound about theirneckes that have {wellings or other difeafes in their neckés and thtoatés, doe marvailonfly Te 1BE 15. | The Theater o Plants, Batratas de Canada, -Cuar,ag, Battatas Virginiana, ‘The Frenches Battatas,or Hierwfalem Artichokes. Potatocsof Virginia, _ a helpe them = thefe be Galens words: but our age hath ‘nor onely found Galens experiments true on children, theroote ¢ of the male rather chen the female, yeathe malenot thé female,and thar freth and not dry,if you meantit fhould doe good J’ isto be hanged abont heir neckes, arid that the decoction thereofis tobetakeninwardly, tomake it the méreqvaileable, and that alfoin older perfons,if the difeafe be notgrowne too old and patticure, for wiom the route 6fthe maie kinde wafhed cleane,ftamped foméwhat fill, and Taid to infufe ina fiificient proportion of Sacke for twentyf ore houres atthe leaft, afterftrained, and piven laft, a good draught for fundry dayes together, beforearid firlt after a full moone, cuteth that fickenefle; ifthereand be a due and orderly preparation of the body afoehand with poet drinke made of Betony, &¢. as thic learned fitian can beft appoint: théraore alfo 1s cffectuall Phy. for women that are not tufficiently clearifed afrer and for fuch alfo asare tconbied withthe mother, child-birth for givenin Wine, thered feedegbsino.taken for fluxes whica likewile the blacke (eed being beaten to powder is : the blacke alfo taken before bedtime, aH@in the alfo is very effectuall for fechias are in their fleepe troubled with the difeafe called Ephialees, or Incubvs,morning which Pliny calleth (uppcffio nofturna, we ufnallycall it the night mare,whichis a fupprefling both of voice and breath and oppreffing the body as it were, with fome heavyburthen, {trivingto be eafed thereof, but feeming not to be able nor tocall for helpe, Melancholly perfons being for the moft part fubject to this difeale: gaintt melancholly dreames, 2/atthiolus donbteth whether it is alfo good aour Peony, bethat which Galen tifed becaufe man Phyfitians as he faith in his tia efailed'in the tryall thereof on young children, and I am in doubethat male Peony fpoken of here before, was that which Trane hie they nfed, and thennomarvaile ifit proved horeffeGuall they expected, yer faith Matthiolus our Peony feedes as is availeable to re{tore {peechto thofe that have loft ie,if thirty graines husked be made into powder and given in Wine: itisalfofaithhe, good again{t pents not onely tobe drunke bur tobe laid onthe bitten Place, the of Serwhich thing Tragusfaith of his male bitings Peony,which fhewed you before, is the Fraxinella, The deftilled water or Syrupe made of the flowers, worketh Cts that the roote and ieede is applyed before, to the although more weakely. The male kinde plant and pofleffed bur by 2 few,and thofe great lovers of rarity inthis kinde, and the Female being {fo fcarfe being morefre. qaent, the One is ufually pur inftead of the other. Cuap. XXIX, Pappasfive Battatas, Potatoes, SY Here are divers forts of rootes that are called then for medicine. whereof all that are truely Potatoes yrith us, ferving for foode or delight, moré knowne tous, what face or forme of leaves ers they beare aveexprefled in my former booke: and flowthere are many more ofthe fame quality ; befides Sew others that {erve in fiead of bread, familia r to the Natives both ofthe Eaft and Welt Indies, whofe . _ , hamés onely are extanc in thofe clarationeither of forme ora nyproperty, Authours Workes that have written of them, without anyfurther dethers & longe; laltirg, among whomas but that the rootes are eaten by them, fome being of better rafte then oI take it the Igname or Inhame,isa principa li one, whereof Scaliger firft and Clufiws afterwards, have given us the belt information. Clufus fayingit is alfo called by 1 and Aies, All he faich ofit is fome Camores. Athis,that tome Portugall Ships that were oe in oti — bigger then others: taken Hol/andeys, had divers of for fomeas he faith were as bigge asbythe ones arme, and of a beet tio Ic f PF thickeand fhore having fome {mall tubers thrufting out at thé lowerpa foose long within bar Succes os io = rugged barke, with manyfibres at them : the fubftan rtsof them, forte lahat ms ty appy.ten retene ce of the roote cutee ia the a e uta ie it were kernelly, and ofno unpleafant tafte (that is the raw roote little rough and (harpe afterwards : bucbeing rofted under the cold oebseaed a any 09 Aa: embers and formewhat like a Peare, but faith he what ftalke or leafe it bore hee wage et Soe Pons hes “a oe one that wasfent him that had afprout at the head ofir, he underftood that thofe rootes of the Ibeter ,Bint eoeea “esis pa ee Mi 3 eine ha a leaves. differet lichlig(and h fromth n lie ofe of Spaine, d oe aoe he Canary ee ane Paine, and and the ec are Mflands, . gaie'?, which bore are eng Millow our ordinar dibie. Capaale oe - ts y great Potatoe s -like )and a om plant called Hetich whofe roote is fomewhat like ir and ePortugals Pnhame asthe fortes oT “4 ee ure Inhames, which ashefaith fome called Ycam Peru, but thé air ects foe atieoie ee w a asd eenlbihee ah toe oe oe t hog vit were like the other, yet the barké was more uneven,and fome mall fibres going from them, and from the head of the roote, went but » and Lygannenfes faith tome did the Manihot, and that this Pabasme was referred Potatoestothe Arachidna Theophrafi,andLodostoe ae, Cio Meenmetto referre the Virgin om i 7% i CX ei ON a EC Nee SAGON XN PattatasOccidentalis Indie (7 Tnhame Orientalis Lufitanortim, The Weft Indian; and the Negros Potatoe s, referred to Theophraftus his Arace mils, But Banbhinushis Ovingum, ot Vingum, and Octum by Pliny, fo variable are mens conccites, efpecially in things ob{cure orunknowne, ot when they doe raptim with out duc confideration (eatentiamproferre, But Scaljger Exercitat, 181. 17, féeméth to knowthree other forts,befides the ordinary, whichwill abide good without perifhing fora whole ycare, andtherefore the Spaniards ufe to bring them to Sea with chem,and call it Fgname cicorero: the other will lat nothing {> long,»whereof that which growethinthe Country of Benim, is ofan excellent réllith, but that of ALiniz congo isthe worlt, and that of Saint Thom:, whichis as yellow as a Catrot,is of oft efteeme : the planting hereoffaith he,is wonderfiit, fot it isnot done by put= tingtherootes into the ground, but a ftalke caken therefrom cut in long peeces, and holding fome barke thercon, and fothrult into the ground, will infive moneths be good to be gathered: it hath faith he, a leafe fomewhatlike unto that of the Citron tree,both in forme andlufter,but {maller and thinner: it rannech on poles thatare fet for it like Hoppes : the roote like the Reede or Dragons hathfoureor five fuckers joyfied toes ¢his'ttanner of planting this Znbame {avonreth fomething of that ofthe AZanihor or Iucca,wherof the Caffavi is made: ifchere be nota miftake, it is wonderfull chat two rootes fhould be fo propagated. 38 |