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Show 1594 ~Cri P»40, TFbeatrum Botanicum. Tripe17 rean( inedtig pee. meB Vehicithnal with {ane w difealout ihe we,thereof,chart be fome oo of wounding in goodneii¢ ey atingWe have manyforts , vpulverilentouslike, pale and morered all alike, ‘cr elfe difcoloured, are gotten. \Grae eaeAai se er aean is beft, for — Disfere See tics eaten g likely taat th Hs feene anyfuch} norread thatiany hath ever feene it, anditis very P : mn aay bewled pra colorepallescenre, as wellas /ubviridi, and fo Renacieti Corid MyrrheasI faid before Dee DAE caine ake be calc here in the former fence. hatlithefe notes ano . act : fag fon nm} that they are fooue'miltaken by thofe that are not expert,bnt qnicke Hie Tne bere he biter and fo is not Baellinm, ic is paler, fatter,caficrto be broken, and of amore ren wae hereby from Bdcllium, that it is of a purp it h , 7 belt Myrrhe; may be both knowne of it felfe and fle longer, and arid oan vA 36 ‘ ye e fatne their retaine peeces greater the for ( fattifh and great péeces bit = bitter in tafte,and fimelleth fomew : ee nd aire) with {ome whitith peeces or veines therein, extreame Bdellinm tobe T xepe 17. The Theater ofPlanis, 1595 ethto grow,.over and idulienthe\fithe, i helpech to breede flcthin deepe wounds, and to, cover naked. bones, «Matthiolus commendeth itas a fingular fucus for the face to take away wrinckles that, come by age,andtomake it {ooothand youthfall: to be made into an oylé asit is called, or rather the Iiquour of Myrrhe; which is made.with egges boyled hard,’ cut in the: middle, the yolkes taken forth andfilled up with pouther of Myrrhe,then putinto a elafleiand fet ina-Wine celleror moilt place,aod with th’s liquour to be bedewed: As alfo another way,thar is,by {princkling withwhite wine,a new ioncif or ge pa hor inte ie andtaking fir the fumesthereofunto the. face, beingcover ed over with a cloth, and then the fames of Myrthe in pouther, afterwards calt.on iz being heated av i as before, and this {till ro be ufed before bed time,for eight dayes toner re panini es Cuap, XLT, Myrrhe tobe Benzoin, and scevithall, Divers havediverfly thought of Myrihe, fome {uppofing Myrrbe truncus comGummi. Nardus Indicafive Spica Nardi, Spicknard, ¢ contrasthat we bad Rovere, aad that we had no true Myrrhe,@ good, Mirrhe and no true Baellivm, becaufe folittle that was brought to be ufed, that they might = a was formerlyed,) and_ the rather becanfe that Galen re ly diftinguith whicl Myrthe, will be fometimes changed into Opocalpafum, (CZ5 Arcias 46 Orta, intteatingof this Spik€nard teftifiech that chere is but.orie fort knowne, and ufed chy as well bythe Indian and Turkip, asthe Perfizn and Arabian Phyfitions,and although fome would intimate that thisis not thar was ufedby the Ancients,in that Bling. fettethiigdowne lib 1%, c, 12. that it was not to be hadbut at an'exceffive price, yet that hinderethnot,in s¢gatd bothall'the Counq tryes of the Indies are better husbanded then hererofore, and efpecially that fince:the! Portingalls had opened the way bySea, all forts of Drugges were provided better and better cheape-by mach, the «charge of Caravans Peing NS ee by their long journcy and travaile, but Ithinke both the Drugges and the fii v Chriftians other and Venetians by fought more being by Indies, Abaaat theLe Were che chieke MercHatc s Wasthe beginningof the:reformatio: ns,for wher,i 3 faith in his is venemous anddeadly, and is fo'like it,that as he time many wereKilled therewith,who yetfinding it to Bere ry effeGuuall for fiindry dileafes of theeyes, thought it might be as effectual fot inward difgafes: the notesof which Opo- calpafam (as Galen calleth it,o8 Opocarpa[nm the juyce oF (are pafums as ‘Dio/corides callcthiit imhis ixth Book and 1 3.Chapn rer among the venémous plants, but maketh no defcriptio thereof in anyof his former Bodkes)as 1 inde them fet down in Weekers. Avtidotarie in the examination of Myrthe ) are ay much bad Merchandize'was dearely fold, how{ce~ ver cheapely bought, and I thinke much more adul- Natdue Indica, Spicknard, terated both by them and fewes, and the Indians alfo were not behind to fophifticate whatfoever they ufually thefe : becanfefaich Wecker| true Opocalpafum is not perto be feeneto compare it with Myrrhe, yet if you fhall fene ceive in Myrthe lome peeces tobe mach differ ingbothin and talte from true Myrrhe,you may wel ¬ without good reafon judge that itis changed into Opocalpafum,tor although both in colourand fabfanceit be like to che belt My:rhe,with whitith véeines therein like iro thenailes of ones hand, yet contd, which the “Chriftians f verily fuppofé did Myrthe, and thatthere wall likewife fome reddifh e, {pots appeare therdin: it behoveth therefore to be caute og inthe choyfe of Myrrhe, that you be not deceived with the fhew orlikeneffey but obferve that ithave all the true notes of true Myrrhe, leaft while you thinke you have the Aes Myrrhe,youhave this poyfon, ifit be inwardlytaken, which 5 confumeth the corrupt ee and we Ciebeee, aa ; : ; ich metamorphofis 2 y were very ara eteretosechanged fi Sagapenum or Ca(fia into Cinamon toufneffe oftentimes letteth paffe the better totake the worfer at cheaper rates : but to the purpofe in hand. This Spicknard groweth not in manyplaces, and where it doth, it is not very plentifull;ic is a roore yet called a Spike,becaufe it fhooreth up hairy ftalkes fomewhat alter, when they became great Merchants for Exrop?, and fince is rectified” miore and moré, _ when onely thefincere and pure is bought, and the dtherleft on their hand to mendifthey‘can, but yet it falleth out that the blinde eateth manya flye,I meane tobe examining it more thoroughly’, it will be foundnot ns : sg ear Si old Authours are very frequent,but I thinke of thefe miracles, which are the converfio that Seats a fi wasdies of their tranfmigration of foules) Dio/corides maketh no mention of it,butfaith and to becure a t ‘ ae 8 ther herbe or tree)’ was venemous as Tex ,Cicntaand many other ae called Pediafimos being prefie ae aedied thar (icuta was, Diofcorides (aith that out of the fattelt Myrthe accotd before they be cut, * i a Pliny (aith that the trees doe fweate out Staéfe, of their owne writers as a io. or ig oo to be the Styrax liquids of out fhoppes,both by the Arabians and otherlater duely on md tr ee iis al(o being of that opitiion, whereof I cannot but mervaile that he or any other icto be pre - ont vf at da, both the forme and fent fo farre differing from Mirthe,fhould thinke Cwar4r ftayeth thetheddin gofthe haire, beingf uledwith Ladannm, andithegineof Mimlesac te F helpech aiceine yan t ’ cacy and watering eyes, and taketh away. the filme or skinne thatbeginn Be being a sais ai ibe offine a that pe bitver aromaticall (Ent; and theStyrax liquida, rather loathfomet Galen calleth Minen ( Matt a . aes Aeaap fe maketh mentionof one fort of Myrrhe called Aminneawhich called by the - Sri “am diversjand not ove fort of Myrrhe) which fome thinketo be the Gumme Anime, ee intreate eee 4 Anijmum, comming from Ethicpra, for there is another of the Welt Indies whereof in the fecond degree, < eae ha herein I thinke theyare deceived. Galen faith that Myrrhe is hot and dry the otaan Hy. ad good for wounds in the head: and by the bitterneffe which is not little,it killeth ae se A Sy the living childe, expelling the dead ichath init alfoa binding quality, whereby being to be put ipBo S z ‘es hae dicines it helpethulcers and great {carres, and for the fame caufe is good the = e ’ e. — — foranold cough and fhortnefle of breath, the bitternefle not harming pipe or t a ae ae pe but gently clenfing and heating, it helpeth the roughneffe of the winde © : a . ad des, and thofe thar are hoarfe,and have loft their tongueas we call its itis good alfo again procureth womens cout : ; ee 0 e fides, the laske and bloodyflix, and rheumaticke deltillations; it {peedily s of agues, being taken two houre — fee h the hardneffe of the matrix; italfo raketh away the fhiveringfit , ufing it nye omen sopaet itcome: but Afatrbiolws faich that by taking a dramme of Myrrhe in Mutcadize llprefently after the taking t ie bien before his fits, he was cured of a quartaine ague,but he did therewitha for be fame purpo oe : moderatelyin his bed:pilles like wife faith he made wich it and Treakle,is effeétuall ther : itisal‘o a great eS Oneata timeas biege asa peafe,an houré before the fits for many dayestoge tu pige harmefull aye tee the Plagueorpeftilence, and againft the vcnome or poyfon of Serpents and loofe te am is put into Antidotes and countet poyfonss it isa fingulac remedy fora ftinking breath, fafteneth the ignorantis often deluded, who. through cove- ofhairy like $pikes,many fet together,ofa brownifh colout, and whereas Diofcorides faith the rooteis of nonfe, yee muft underftand the word ina double fenfe: the rootes that Dio/corides meant,be the fhort fibres, whereby it draweth its nourifhment and encreafe from the earth, and thefe indeed be unprofitable and of no nfe ; but the rootes that Galen {peakethof, are the Spikes themf{elves or Spicknard, for fo he callech themboth, #4. 1, De Antidotis, thus’ faying ; lubet Andromachus adycere Nardum India cams, ea veroclt quam [picam vocant non quod.fpica fil radix enimejt, fed quod [pice formamreferat. And inlib.g. de tomp, med, fec, locos, He ufeth fomewhat neere the fame words : but in that fome objet, itis not of a {weet fent.fuch as Diofcorides recordeth of it, Garcias faith while itis frefth itis {weete, but time may decay fome part of the fenty.and befides iweere {mells were otherwife taken withthe Auncicients then with us, witnefle many things, as Galbanzm Allium, Gc, were reckoned {weere, much differing from the opinions nowreceived, but thus I have fhewed yuu the acception of the roore and Spike ofthis Nardus and thefweemefle : Both Diofcorides and Pena, have recorded that it doth beare a ftalke andleaves, yethave not mentioned what flowers it hath, neither is the other baftard or Fresch Spikenard of Zobel fhewedto have any, which I have exhibited in the firft Cleffis of this Worke, but the like was found in Virginia by Matter Iobn Tradefcant the younger, with fuch like long greene leavesas is defciphered in that, the rooze alfo anfwering fo heere unto the French Nardus, but ofa paler blackifh colour, and withouc any fent that I could perceive, and befides all this,he found ie with the fpike offlowers and feed at the toppes of theftalkes, which were turning or Winding, the fiead ftanding ona {mall naked ftalke, fomewhat like (I meane in the turning) unto the Score#2 prafjumanguinum , or Convolute capite, the great Turky Garlicke withatwined head, confifting of tWoor three rowesof {mall bright brownith chaffie huskes, hairy as it were attheirends, and {tanding all on. one fide ofthe ftalkes, for foure or five inches long. This baftard kinde bearing fuchan head,doth petfwade mic to thinke thig Vivvvy 4 |