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Show Gn aP.36, Tbeatrum Botanicum, Tr 1B E17 i Twi teoe that Bezar, {aid thacthey had on se se are ot2 ayeidiaeaerd Sedoeeae oe ae Beeae te cae aft, wherein wherei ttee vwholefome that theyad catenee are there, ina certeine purfe or itmin skinne in the maw offh the 5 beaft, mous herbes Cuda iv yrumination and chewing them anew, they paffe cheminto thei 2 ncaa foes He breede in the beatts thar feed on the aes ~ oe pieScpo Holerhierellion ¢ ines: thofe of the Eaft Indies as Garcias faith are had from thole that ee ae ei like in goodneffe unto thofe chat are brought fromMalacca, Perfia: The Moores he fibeefo eksblidartrivhe knowledge of them, that by fight they can tell of te ry pbs baBont Redes they be orno, by crafhing them in their hand a while, and then reath’on them, a re, seats Baca thetn falfe The {tone is called as Garcias faith Pazar ee ASwe Perfisns from Pafan w hich fignifieth aGoate, bur we ee corruptly Bezar, abton nae (our Scalizer corretteth this errour inhim, and fheweth that the Arabians unanimontly ca i ; Zi an a Alexi hermacum, for they tooke the wordfromthe Perfian word Bedexabar, becaufe ic refilteth poy nt = ios a dae call all thofe things Besardicathat are refifters of poyfon, as Antidotes and the like. But ee gee bakiats had aminerall Bezar of divers colours, which they Sa sirhcndien Sette cacy then this{tone, the true knowledge whereof as I thinkeis either utterly . , oO ; Sacto Sameaee wae experience ofno worth. «This Bezar {tone is not onely ufedagainft poyfons an t deo : efi ; : and contagious diteafes, in malignant feavers alfo, and in many other difeafes to provoke febaclk Geeecpel evill vapoursfromthe heart and vitall{pirits, and for oe and loree T rise 17. The heater of Plants, Cwar.37, and large {pread tree, (the barke onely of wholefaotes they feven inches long,and twoinches broad, i59t ule) greater then Elme,leaves arefixe oF ofa pale greene colour onthe upperfide, and deeper greene on thé unheart fathion, tafting like an Allmondor Peach kernell, ‘covered with adonble thin tranfpa rent skin likea bladder, ‘clofe joyned togethe r, ‘and growing out of the middle of a leafe,’ which is as bigge as the refton the eee, burthaciris 4 little rounde r pointed, and narrower towards the flalke, “being ofa colonr betweene red and yellow, and crarnpled with divers veines therein, and likeuncothe bladders derfide, beating a {mall yellow fruite no bigger thena penny, of the Elmetree leaves’: every part of this tree givech milkeas the Malberry tree doth, and hath very great and faire {pread rootes like the [vex or Evergreene Oke; ‘Covered with a thicke, hard barke/of an ath colour on the outfide, and rbgged and white within, {all of milke while it is frefh, but turningyellowith when’it is dryed, very aftringent'anda little fharpe or biting withall,which vanifh eth quickely: irlovech to grow in moilt fandy grounds, and killeth all-the hei bes that would grow aboutit, and is found Cochin, Crangaror, and many other places and in Afalsbar Iflands in the Ealt Indjes’s the Portgads call it meras, “and fone Arbore de Santo Thome, and Atacru Arbore dela Cae yre, “The barke ofthe rhote ig afed muchin all the Holpitalls, and of great aceiint'with the Tiidians to cure laskes and flaxesofthe belly: or blood, and giveireither in Pouther mixed with fome fowre milkesor fteeped in whey ’all night and raken‘t n the morning, and tbe needfullias Acofta faith; they put fome Opinm toit'to make the medicine the ftronger, and the formetimes if both Opismand Nutmegstoit Arabians put the weake ftomacke:; and fo ctire themithefaid barke alfo (tayerh vomiti ngs or caltings,and flrenothnetli and che difeafes thatrife trom thence,andto preferve ftrength and youth, eae ee emepl os Mae : ther, ten graines or lefle at atime, after the evacuation of thebody: the eo va ath Speen bitten byany venemons creature; dothfree them fromdanger of death, and likewife m ide _ an is opened, itdoththe like, Afonerdis hath {etdowne many experiments of the Bezar one, up : i ‘ iva ‘ shee: infeéted with fandrydifeafes, as who will may read thea: at length in that treatife whic = ee eeeeee ony.of Rabbi C1 yptus, faith, thefe three are by ex f effe ° here fore — otesreLa ae, the Smaradge or ‘Emerald {tone, and this Bezar ftone. 1 a — I chin ce are fufficient to evince that opinion is held by manythat oe Beteen Jonata tue in the Bezar ftone as it isrelated, which they thinke by fome tryall that they have m . 2. dediand . : expectation ; confirme tthem the h more in sin : that tha opinior nion : but :iftheyey have orderly proceeded, f{wering their dothconfirme an j 7 one but many times,and i heedfully i many pertons,and obferved,nor for fc 7 ight in and good {tones have been fare of right and gos ae that have given, ha they he i ives and yethave done good, sn ! would ratheri fay there is: fome7 defect in. the pipeirnetee of our a Sat tio $' Secheautn: bodies, by the moifture,&c. of our climate,then ditable the verityof fuch reports of famous and worthy Cuar. XXXV. Liquid ambar, Liquid amber, Iquid Amberis a thicke Roffinlike Gumme, dropping of it owne accord ere me incon a certaine huge great trees in the Welt Indies that are full of branches, covered wit as ic e h coloured barke,having leaves like unto Ivyleaves, which gumme is ofa yerong weet ime > fomewhat like unto Storax liquids, and may wellbe ufed inftead thereof, me eecea 27) courter fort, made by boyling the branches, and {cumming ofthe uppermof ee # ve F Cra thered there, whichis thought tobe that Storaxliquide, that is hioally fold iat e raggi ang Apothecaries fhops: out ofthe firit fort while itis frefhandlaid in the Sunne, there droppett scone a e Midith y 1 te, called the oyle of Liquid Amber, and offome that know no other, Liquid Amber it felfe: ed steity he purer part is more effectuall and of the milder fent,fome ufing it with other {weetes to perZ| hoe ae vithall fin is of fingular good ufe,cither of it {elfe or mixed with other things,to comfort and watme a = Pe i nfed like unto an oy ntment, andeafethall paines and griefes chat rife of acoldcaufe, being sine ad ek wonderfully comforteth and ftrengthneth a weake ftomacke, helping digeftion and ae Se tie but more effectually if it be mixed with fome Storax, anda little Muske,and Amber,and laid a ite is di demacke 3 itlikewile is profitable in all cold griefes of the mother, | warming mollefying _ Silvie ilcami, and opening the obftruéctions and the courfes that are ftopped, it is hor almoft in the thir degree,and moift in the firft, Cuar, XXXVIL CMacer Grecorum, The Gracians Macer. 3 Any taking Afacer tobe Adacis, and both one thing have oreeen i agate if " desGalen, and Pliny, bave written and fhewedthefaculties; but of / he rece icine barkes or coverings of the fruite of the Nutmeggetree, they have a pay ai yo : ee ang 4 thing utterly unknowne untothem, forif they had knowne it, they muf ai nih ae ee ali knowneof the Nat or Nutmegge,* whole coveringitis; bat 4Zacer is ast ee ays } ets ifhbarke, which muft ncedes be underftood of fome tree, Galenfaith oe 4 eBot foe dearthly effence, and but little hot : but 4Zacis is of much heate aad no cold, And Péiny faith p a - a re é pedis feverali Chapterscalling thisThaler. ‘This Mtacer being called Afacreby the Indians as cf ait,isa vat isSeSarke ofa great roote,and Avicen and Serapic, both knew the difference, and entreate of them diftinclly Cuar, Mannagranata XX XVIT. liquids. Mannainhard gtaines andliquid or thin. Anna is eftwofundryforts, the one hard andin peeces,cicher greateror leffer, the other liquid or thir like the thinner or at lea(t leffe thicke hony, | that Manna that wasufed in fhops, but AZosard yet fome have thought that the Manna rhurj, was us in one of his Epiftles confuteth thar e€frour, fhewing that itis but the {mall pecces and duft of the Thus or Ohbannm, that became fo by the bruifin rubbing of one peece again{t another in g and the catriage. Ofthedryer.orhard-fort there is fome diverficy forthae which is gathered in Arabia differeth fromth atin Perfia, andcalled Tran{chibil,being in {mall graines fomewhag “4 like unto Corianderfeed, and isgathered as Ranwol fis faith, from thofe trees the Arabians call Agullo r Athagi, Another fort is reddifh and gathered from herbesand plants, That.of Perfia is called Xircaft, thavis, Lac arbos rvum,the milke of trees and is whicelike that of Calabria, whereoffome is.as {mall as Hempefeed, Alia ruby a, as Allmond Comfits, yet Garcias faith that the others as bie Perfiana, liquid fort is focalled by them.: Another fort is gathered in 4r*enia,in great lumpes as Raumolfivs faith ofa browni th colour. Another fortis affirmed. by Aphrodifeus, cited by 4rmetiaca: Niger, that falling as an honie dewon mount in Syria, isby the heat of the Sunne congeal Sugar which the Inhabitants call Sacchar, fromLibanus whencecame the Latine word Saccharum, ~All thefeed into-a hard corded by fundry Authours, fome contrarying forts are ye* one another asisaforefaid, and might be much more amplyfied, ifthis place were fit for it, and therefore as I take it 1 have taken the truer reports: but wherea have thought that fomeofchefe {maller whire s fome forts might be the Manna of the Ifraelites wherewith they were fed, andtherefore called bread, and thar from heayen , yea Angels food, _not-that Angels feed *87" <Eonsy,per excellentinm,the choyfe(tand chiefett, for forty yeares together inthe wilderneffe of thereon,» bne Sivai and-Aras Sia, it fheweth that {ach have had lictle converf ation with theholy Scripmresy as.a learning not fit fos underftand, whichis flat again{t {ach conceites divers to wayea, Firlt that this of theirs had-no purging, but them anueris tive quality: €condly it wasnot fo Sug>r{weete as oursintaftes thirdly it fell not on certaine dayes, that their Sabbaths, although it did all the weeke afters, fourthlyit fell all the yeare long, and nor the Summe ison r onely 28 our Manna doth fifthlyit vanifhed awayas foonea s the Sunne grew hotupon it,bur ours iscondenfate thereby: fixthly it would putrefie if ic were kept bur two dayes except the Sabbath : And laltlyasicisin Fooua, the $+Chapter, and 22.verfe, That Manna ceafedto fallany more, after they had eaten the corne of the Land, which was the morrowafter the Paffeover, whereb y you of men are,about thofe things whereof they are ignorant, may {ce how vaine the conceites,and longaltercations or not fufficie ntly inftracted : this-is but obiter, and therefore to proceed. In Enrope wehave Manna, and called Calabrina, as being thought not to be foundi Countrybefides, but both AZarchiolus and Belloniu n any Owne fight and knowledge, as ALatthiolus thatin s, and {omeothers al\fo doe teltifie there againtt, upon their Goritenfi, and Tridentino agris, hee gathered it himfelf e and iué in Brianfon, and others in other places, but chereis agreat controverGe and contenfion amonglt many learned mens firlt whether it be onely a dew ofheaven condenfate by the cold of the night, or whether icbe as agumme iffuing fromtrees, being incifed or woundedas other trees are that yeeld gummes: The Monckes that commented on A4¢/ses, and to likewi(e divers others were confident that it iffued from woundedtreeslike gimme, and wasno dewfrom heaven, for proofe whereof theyal ge that he trees being over{pread or covered with anycloath or the like, there wouldnot be foundin the morning that any dew hadfalne thereonjand yet the trees yeelded the Manna, which Warthio lns thinkingto difprove, faichit cannot found to reafon or the courfeof nature, butrather that the matter happenerhin this fort, that the dewes falling on the dry barkes of thofe trees were drunke up by them, and was forced forth againe in fmall peeces like gumme in the heate of the yeare, not being the proper juyce of the trece, but what ithad gainedas aforefaid, and that this kinde of Manna Wasmore loofe and {pongy, and leffe operati ve then the other, and Property in nature, e{pecially of thofe trees to containe this dew thar this happeneth by the fecret and hidden inthemin lampes, and notto be liquid as onothers all about them : Afecond controverfic is whethe r Mannabe gathered from the manured or wilde Athorno, fomeaffirmingit ftrongly, and others denying icas ftoutly, as isonely before faid, that MZatthiolw and Bellonius doe declare : A third controverfieis, whethe r it be onely peculiar to Calabria, and Apulia, or not, Which althoughfome affirme for Calabria, yet ye heare as before, it is to be found in many other places, The Other fort that is liquid or thin, is gathered both in Afa and Europe alike, but that of the Levantis re ee plentifult |