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Show eS 1526 oar a ———_$_—— Curar.&8, . Theatrum Botanicum. a Tripei6, dented hathanendleafe, bigger and longer thenall the reft, which fheweth Iamperfwaded a manifeft diffe. Trise 16, The Theater of Plants, Canes rence in pecie,from this that is not dented, for cannot be perfwaded that any plant, fhould {6 muchdiffer jn forme from it felfe in the time of ageand youth. The laftisalfoas I fhewedcalled Mollebythe Indian Writers, whofe fent is like Fenyell, when as che other is not fo,and is for the likenefle referred to the Lentifcus Pervana by empty andidle : this beareth alfo certaine red hollow skinny bladders, like longhornes,full ofa clammy Plaka ith liquour,which breed {mall flyes or gnats in them: This being wonnded in fundryplaces yeeldeth forth a liquid Roffen or cleere Turpentine,but nothing fo thinne as that of the Larchtree, the Balfamiumevernm, making it toagree with the properties therof in many things, Baptifta Ferrarius alfo in his Flora mentioneth it by thename of The narrow leafed Turpintine tree. The Turpintine tree fowting and with tle horne thereof, This tree is in all thingslike the former, bucthat it never rifeth fo high, and the leaves are long and narrow, much {maller then the'former, the berryes are many ofthem red on the {talk=s at their fulltime, which declareth them to be empty haskes,and tiogood feed, and but fome that will be fulland good. Banbinus in his Matthiolus,ec, following Clafiys therein,to be both one, & by Lobe! joynéd with the former and Tereanithus angu/tifolia pag.37 2,citing the third Book,and.15 .Chapter of that great Book of the Welt Indian plants,bea{ts, c¢;begunto be Printed more thentwenty yeares ago atRome, whofe title is. 7 befasras reram medicarum hove Hispana, Gc, The Arabians call the Lentiske tree Darn, the Tealians Lentifeo, the Spaniards Mata and Arveria, the French Lentifque, and thofe of Narbone Reftincle, the Germanes Moafticbaum, the Dutch Maftickboom, and wein Englifo the Lentiske or Mafticke tree, The Vertues, The Lentiske tree is binding inthe feconddegree,or in the beginning of the third, and temperatély het : all the parts thereofiare binding, that is,both roote and branch, both barke andleafe,both fruite and gumme,anddce binde and topall fluxes, and {pittings or caltings of blood, andis good to {trengthen a weake ftomacke, and helpe the falling downe of the mother or fundament : the decoction fomented, healeth up hollow fores, and fodereth broken bones,faiteneth loofe teeth, and ftayeth creeping fores, and doth as muchas Acacia or Elypociflis, and even theyuyce of the leaves is as good afubfticute for Acacia asanyother: the oyle thatis prefled out of the berries, helpeth the itch,the leprofie andfeabbes, borhin men and beafts: the gumme Malticke doth binde and (tay faxes in like mhanner taken any wayin pouther ; or ifrhree or foure graines be {wallowed whole atnight wheny ou goeto bed, ic not onelyeafethall paines in the {tomacke, but keepethit fromthe like afterwards, the pouther of Maftiche with Amber and Turpinte-is good againft the running ofthe reines, and for both whites and redsin women : the pouther thereot mixed with Conferve of red Rofes, helpeth to ftay the deftillations of thinne rheume.on thé lungs, cauling a continuall cough and (pitting of blood, and if {ome white Francumfenfé in pouther be-mixed vith it alfo, it workeih the more efc@tually, the fame alfo comforteth the braine, procureth an appetite to meate in moilt fluxible ftomackes, ftayeth caftings, and maketh a fweete breath: thefame being heated in Wine; and the mouth,gummes,and reeth wathed therewith, clenfeth and faftcneth the corruption, and loofeneffe'bo:h of gummes and teeth : itis alfo much ufed in falves and plailters, to mundifie and heale ulcers, and fores,’ to ftaythe fretting fluxes of humours tothem, to dry them up, and to fill upthe hollowneffe: it {trengthneth and bindethalfo the parts, whereunto it is applyed, and comforteth the aking joynts and Gnews wonderfully. The oyle thatismade. of Malticke by infufion and ebullition, fecunduns artem Pharmacenticam, is fingular goodin all the aforefaid. difeafes, moderately comforting, mollifying and binding, and is effe@uall againit all the aforefaid difeafes ofthe mother, againft all paines in the belly, colonthe chollick,and the flomacke, the hardneffe oftumours,and the painesof the joynts and (inewes, itlikewife comforteth thebraine,andftreng- theneth both the liver and heart, but onedroppe of the pure Chymicall oyle drawne from Malticke is more ef- feGtuall then one ounce of the former oyle, for itdeferveth more commendationsthen is givenit. The effects of the Indian Molle is recorded by thofe have writtenof it firt, that of the berries, they make a wholefomekinde of Wine or drinke being boyled with water,and according to the boyling of them either vinegar or honey: the decottion of the leaves is good to helpe cold griefes, and applyed warme to weundes after cloathes be dipped therein helpeth eheir'cure more {pecdily, the pouther ofthe barke alfo of the tree,{trewed or caft into them doth clen{e, ingender flefh and heale them quickely and perfe@ly: with the decoétionalfo of the barke,the fwellings and paines of legges and thighs, are much comforted and helped ; the faid pontherof the barke doth helpeto fatten loofe teeth,and loofe gummes, aud of the woodis made fine and good toothpickes : the gummediflolyed in milke and dropped into nhe eyes taketh awaythe dimneffe or miftineffe of them. Thetrue Turpinétree, Me i Baukinus in his Pinax doth makethree forts of Turpintine trées, taking his ground from Rew= A wolfivs who maketh two forts befides the ordinary one, yet Lam of Clujiss his opinion thatthe greaise ter fort is the Terebinthus Indica of Theophraftus, which isthe Piflake tree mentioned before, {o that the aia other two forcs we hold well to be differing Turpintines with other good Authours, and to be here de{cribed unto you: yet wedoe notintend to diftinguifh them by mas andfemina, as Theophraftus doth, that the maleis barren,and the female fiuitefull, the one bearing red berryes which come not to tipeneffe, and the other greene atthefirft, red afterwards, and blacke, and of the bigneffe of a Beane when theyare ripe: but C/y, is faith, that enquiring diligentlythereafter, he could heare of no fuch differences,unleffe it maybe {aid to bea diffe rence when tome fruite trees bring their fruite to ripencffe, when others are emptyor idle, by fome cafualtyor ill ftanding : but by the leaves,the one bearing broader and the other narrower leaves, 1, Tercbinthus latifolia, The broader leafed Turpintinetree. This Turpintine tree in many places growethbut like a fhrubbe, yetin fome to bea greattreé, the barke of whofe body and greater branches,are of anafh colour, theleffer being greenifh, andred while they are young, fparingly fet with large wingedleaveslike untothePiftacke tree but larger, every leafe being as greatasa Bay Icafe, and pointed, not round which putteth the difference betweene them, and {melling fomewhat like a Bay, falling away,andnot holding onin Winter : the flowers ate moffie like the Ollive bloffomes, and grow onlong ftalkes comming out of certaine knots, fromthe ends of the branches, a number of them in {mall tufts {et ina clufter together, of a purplith browne colour, whichpaffe into {mall berryes, fomewhat bigger and longer then thofe ofthe Mafticke tree, and very likeunto the true Carpobal(amam, greeneat the firlt, reddifh after, and of ablewifh colour, tending to greene when theyare ripe, glutinous in handling andfticking to their fingers that touch them,having a ketnell within themsmoft of thofe berries that grow red before theyt€ sipe,fall away being : ae Sl a The P lace and Time, The Turpintine treegrowethin Warbone, and Provence in France, in fandry places of Italy, and Spaine, Cypros and Greece, where forthe moft part it abideth {mall, and low; but groweth very great and high, in Syria, Arabia, Cilicia, Armenia, and other thofe Levast Countries, as Fellonivs hath obferyed + the fecond a Lobelfaith, is much the more frequent in-all the places about Provete;: They flower-fomewhat earely in ‘the Spring>.ahd the fraite isripe in September and Oétober, _—~ The Names, Ic i¢called in- Greeke-794v9@-, and in Latine Terebinthu, andthe Turpintine) Pativy regusrSwh, refina tercbinthina, the true Turpinting cree was not knownc indivers of thefe later agesbefore Ours, for as AZatthiolus faith, the liquid Roffen of the Larch tree had by time obtained the name of Turpintine, and fo was ufed, no manthinking that there was any truer to behad; untill the fearch of diligent’men , had brought the true Turpintine to light againe; that fo long time had lyenhid from our Predecef. fors, The firftis the Lerebinthus of -Matthiolu, Lugdunenfis, and others, andthe Zerebinthus Lentifcifolio of Lobel. The o- chet is the PiPachie folio of Lobel, and the Terebinthus major of others, The efrabians callit Botin and Albotin, the Italians Terebinto, the Spansards Cornicabra, the French Tereminthe,thé Diitch Ternsentyn boom,and wein Englife the Turpintine tree, TheVertues : The léaves,the batke,and the fruite of the Turpintinetree are hot and dry in the fecond degree,and doe binde,{trengthen, and repell, bat the Turpintine dochheate, clenfe,and purge, drawerh, and mollefyeth and excellech all other Roffens, yer Galen for fome caufes preferreth Matticke,that is, in binding and freng: : thening the berryes being dryare very néereunto the third degree of drynefie fo that they provokeurine, and are goodfor the fpleene,and for the biting of the Spider PAalangium’s of the bertyes is made an oy le, asour of the berryes ofthe Lentiske tree, which heateth andbindeth, and is good in crampes, convulfions, hardneffe of the fi- newes, and to clofe wounds : theberryes them (elves are mucheaten by the people in T#rkie where they grow gonorrhea, with little dryed Rubarbe in pouther put thereto: it provokethurine, and helpeth to se and ex- Sy 3 Tercbinthas cam flare d.cbrniculo, and make them cheir daily food, warming, comforting, ‘and opening the uritory paflages, and withall: provoke luft: the Turpintine heateth; mollefyeth, refolveth, digefteth and clenfeth: ifa dramme ot twote takenina reare egge it wonderfully helpeth the cough, which commeth by flegme, ftopping the lungs, wheefings, and fhortnefle of breath,and-all imperfections of the chelt by Aegme : irclenfeth rhe backe and reines, and ttayeth the Caare LXXX VIM. Tere binthws, 2, Terebinthus anguftiorefolio Uulgatiere, ~—" "empty pell the ftoneand gravell, itripencth Impofthumes and helpeth roexpel! them, and mightily diffolveth winde inthe paines of the chollicke, of the Romackeor fides, and is good alfoagainit the gout, Sciatica,andall paines inthe joynts, as well totake it inwardly with fome Chamepitis Sage,and Stechas, as to be madeintoa {€arcloath and applyed thereto’: icisa {peciall ingredient into thofe Balfomes that are to heale any greene wounds, andis fingular effeétuall in all wounds,and fradtures in the head:all punétares in the flethor finewes, and all breakings out in the skinne,beit irch or {cab,be they piles, pufhes or wheales: icdrawethforth {plinters,thornes or the like out of the flefh, and healeth the chaps of the lips,hands,fundament or other parts: briefely it is put into all {alves, oyles,oyntments,or plailters,that (erve to clenfe ulcers,to draw and heale any fores,or to warme and comfort any. cold or weake parts ¢ thefe things the true Turpintine performeth better then anyother,which fromhence hath drawne boththe name'andufe: the Chymicall oyle of this Turpintine is wondrous effe@uall in manyof thefe difeafes, if it be carefully applyed, for iris by farre of morefubtill parts, being the purer and morefabrill fpirits, wherebythey heate and penetrate much more,and therefore inwardly or outwardly mult be ufed in leffer quantity, and asic were but by drops, Thére are in the Ealterne Countries of Terkie,as Bellonius recordeth, machufe madeofthe young hornes of the Turpintine tree, before they are growne grear,for he faith many thonfand Perna weight of them are gathered while they aré no bigger then Gaulles, to ferve the Dyers there to dye their filke, which fhall hold the colour frefher and firmct then any that is Dyed wirhout them, Cuas |