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Show 16c8 = Cuar.52: ont le FTheatrum Botanicum, Tr1pE17 Tatse 17. =a Guar. Tacamabaca, The Theater of Plants. “= _ = anataae tines Terra Lemaniaor Terrafigslata Thole rites ofGenrilifme being ceafed, others LI, The Gum Tacamahaca. ) HisGum, wh'chthe Welt Indians call Facamahaca, the Spaniards and all othér Nations retainin the fame name,is faid to-be gathered froma great tree like untoa Poplar,tha t is, very {weete hayine ared {ruite or berrylikeunto thofe of the Peony, more we cannotas yet learne ofit. The is of good and muchufe for outward remedies, not being knowne to be given inwardly Gumme for any in~ firmity; although I doubtnox bart that itmight fafely and to good purpofe,if judgement were joyned withthe triall thereof, but as it is nowgenerallyufed, ic ferveth much, yea and moft of all in womens difeales to retaine the Mother ia irs place, bylaying a plaifterthereofupon the navell : asalfo whenit rifeth upandis ready to {trangle them, and for the {trengthening thereof, fome put Muske and Ambertoit, oralittle Civetin the middle ofthe plailter: This Gumme being {pread on leatherand applyed tothefide or {pleene, that is growne hard and windy, diffolveth the tumours, difperfeth the winde and bringeth much eafe and helpe to thedi quieted parr, andis no leffe eff<@uall in all tumouts,gricfes, paines andtorment sin the body or joynts,pro ceeding ofcold.raw,and windy humours, applyed plafterwife thereon: to be applyed tothe witha third pare of Stora®, a lithe Ambergriefe, and {ome waxe, isa fingular helpe to {irengthen omacke, the weakenefle thereof to he!pe digeftion, to provoke the appetite, and to diffolve wind: iris of excellent nfe in the head-ache, and ro itrengthen the braine and memory, as alfoin alldefuxions from the head, into the face, eyes, eares teeth {wellings therein, withpaines,redneffe, and muchperp lexity, to be applyed tothe temples; or put into + tyed tn a littl: fine filke or cloath: ithelpeth alfo all running humours,and paines fines, ofr any other part of the body, che joynts Lkewife, goutes and Sciatica, thereby in the fhoulgiving befides the {cate f humours, much eafe of the paines, and bythe altri@ion whereof it partaketh nota little, {trengtheneth the parts wonderfully againft the virulency of the humours: it maryellonfl y helpeth all punétures io wounds in the joynts, and that {peedily,. healing themand hindering any {p:{me or convulfion thar may happen fo that this gumme feryeth as a remedyin molt outward griefes that doe not rife from muchheate, and j erein isnot defective, being warilya d, that is in the declination of the heate to difcuffe thofe humonrs thatremaine + forbeing hottothe entrance of the third degree and dryinthe fecond, with much aftri@ion alfo ic mott proper for thole before recited griefes, and others ofthe like property, The choyfe ofthe belt is that it be ptire and cleane without droffe, cleare alfo, in fome fort of a w hiti(h browne colour, and more whitith in 1hae of no flrong buta little quicke and fharpe fent, and quickely confuming into fmoake being caft on guicke coales, << : {ona PBD.. 1609 ¥ : Se were brought in anduled by the Chriftians, and when the Venetians were Lords ofthis-Ifle, as ofimany-other in thofe Seas, they impofed thigordery that butoncly one day ina yearethe earth thould.be,digged and carryed-away to bs ufed z Forbid, dirig any upon grtav’penalties'to take. any. privily withoutleave - which cuftomethe Turkes {tridtly.obferve.co thisday, butthehill) inthis Ifle is inuch:comtroverted, :being fufpeéted;, not.to, be,.the fame, from. whence the earth was-raken in’ Gadess time, -yet, the Greekes. of othe Ile afirme conftantly, they, neven heardor knew ofany other place: :Thesarthas Galen faith of it imhis time, .was called of jfome Akos Lemnia,Rabrica Lemnia:. becafeitwas:in'cotout reddifh like RvéricaRuddle, baethavit did not colour the fingers; as Rubrica, Ruddic doth, and this the Prieft onelyas is before faid fealed; Another fortis theRebrica which wee take te be our ordinary Bolearmoniackes and fome'thinke that our fineft.and beft.Qriencall Bole, is the true Terra Lemniay' beeaule it is of the fame reddifh colour, not taintingthe,fingers, and thatthe Terra Lemenia or fegillata,. tharwe havein thele times.much differeth from it, and very divers in itfelfe one untoanother, for forme is whitith or very pale red, and that inluinpes or-peeceanotfealed, othersthat are fealed now adayes with Arabian Cha= raters, which aréincerpiered Tix imachton, thar is Terra figitata, are nor without tome doubt of connterfet= ting, fo that oftwo andcwentyforts of thefe {mall cakes of fealed-carth, which Belonius faith he had fought out, and gortenin the fhopsof the Druggilts in Conftantinople, it. was hard to judge which of them, or whether any of them were tight or no, for ashe faith, (ome cakes were much greater then others, and fome. of a.pale brow. nifhcolour, ofafatty fubltance like tallow, eafie tobe chewed, and, withone any. grittineffe therein, which fomeothers have, that wete more red, and fomewhatacide in tafte x Some againe had divers red {pats in a whitith earth; and fome fuel] fo {weere chat it may be thought robe fo made ; Andfome, againe of a wan colour, tending toyellow, |atherswery gritty betweenethe teeth being chewed : thee and divers other varieties, doe thewthar covetoufneffe (this being ofmuch efteeme )- isthe caufe of »counterfecting, and befides experience fhewethts, that the earthes of fundry other Countries are fondo be of excellent. properties, both to provoke: fweate, co refit poyfon, and notably'to dry andibind fixes, catarrhes&c. all which-are attributed to the belt Terra Lemnia, but Galen imhistime had the tryall of the: Balas, or Terra, or Lapa, Armenius, ‘which. you pleafe toeallit, for fundiy e!peciall remedies whetein it was effeCuall, as alfo ina great Plaguc.time in Rome, which he compared to that, was-in Greecein T husydides.time, for ashesaith, wholoever tooke.of that Bolus, Armenius, .diffolvedin thinne wine or, water,were favedifthey were robe faved, foxne other ching could if char did not + and therefore feeing we have fo little right Terra Lemnia orfigilata wherein to troft, and {9 much counterfet, where of we have canfeto beware, my advife is ratherto ufe the/beft fine Bole (.whichboth in forme and quality com- meth neéreft rothe truelt Terra Lemnia,) then any other fubftitute or new found earth,going under the name of the right, although they have divers good properties inthem. Letno man impate chisas.a temerity ia me,’ for could I be affured that we could haVetrud Yjer7¢ Lemania, or that the true that nowsisto be had were of that. ex~ cellency that Die/corides, Galen and others report of that:in theirtimes,: I.would {pare.my advife. and {pcakeotherwife, Burfeeing | have commended the fine Bole for the bef} fubftirute unto, Terra Lemnia, let me alfo de- clareunto you, althouglt! Rave faid (omehat before of Bole, the {peciall ufes ofboth of them, that by compa- Cuar. LIT. Terra Lemnia velfigillate, Terrafigillata ox fealéd éarth. ¢ thisis, and hath béene a drugge ofmuch refpeéband ufe in Phyfické, although no herbe, I thing, and the many doubts and falfifications with theus thereof, thatmy Brethrenin profeffion, andallothersalfo that fhall haveoceafion to uleir, both knowthe right and refufe the counterfet and falfe : for that is the whole {cope of my laboursin this Wor! . toenforme all of the gennine andright things, thar they maydefire, and knowthem, and alfo the beft couldnstover paffeit, bur fhew yout! tainely screed by the Irad true ufes whereuntothey ferve, rat theIfle of Lemos {eated in the /Egean Sea,called ers in thefe dayes Sralimene, was in all former ages n i es th Ales : stime that the 5 Galexin’ s, the place where onelythis earth is to be had, which »f much eftimationin phyficke, for the excellent Ver- I the his time (w “ to es inall ocher places, and therefore the feve{ ) ennoble itthe more: Diofcorides {ai:h A ae mixethe blood es of aGoate wich earth,whic the earth,which th the long after Diofcerides), being defirous to know, and what proporticn ofblood was pucto the earth, hefailed twice to Lenmos for that purpote, bat miffing of the placethe firkt time, atthe {econd he came both to fier ¢ from whence it was taken; and the manrerofordering of it, whic liffering from Diofcorides his relation, for neither bloud norany thing ¢ xed therewith, and’ Galenas he faith him‘elfé, was laughediat by. ihe people of the better fort, who well underflood the coarfe oftheir Country. for many foregoing ages, for asking fuch a queftion of the mixing of Goates blood with it : but the Prie(t that was thenready prepared'to fetch homea cart full th sreof, uponhis arrivall there, aft a certaine number of Wheate and Bar cornes tothe earth,- as a ntherewith, and forte ceremonions rites, according to the ReCountry, caufedit to be carryed home, where, having put ic in- er, wat xed the pure earth from the{tones and fand, or anyother ing init, Which afterwards being dry againe, they make it into {mall akes; fomebigger or leffer thén others, and feale them: with the fig ofa Goate, the badge of Diana: and therefore they were called Sphragida agios that is figilum caprezor Sphragis Lemnia Gigillum Lemnine,and theLa- Firlt for the Place it is cere Terra Lewmia vel Sigillata, ting their properties, you may fee how little they differ-inquality : The chiefelt effet ofTerra Lemnia, accor, ding to Diefcorides, is torefill the vename of Serpents, and other deadly poyfons, for which can(e, it is, pac into the great Antidotesagain{t them, andis goedalfo again{t laskes andfluxes: but G¢/en{erteth-them. forth more largely, for as hefaith, having had a Booke given him when he wasintheIfle of Lempos, by one of the chiefelt men, containing all the properties ofTerra Lemnia, he fheweth that -befides the remedies of yenome and deadly poyfons, he had experience of the helpeit gave to thofethat had eatenof the Sea Hare,. or ofCautharides, des fending themfroinall the fits that doe accompany thofe'that have raken of them, ‘as. alfo che biting ofamad dog, and chat it wonderfully helpeth old fores that are hard tobe cured, and:frefh wounds allo to confolidate theme Thefine Bule of Armenia,Galen (heweth to be admirable effe€tuall in the plague, as is beforefaid, it alfo is fin; gular good inlaskes,blooddyflixes, and {pitting of blood, for the catarrhe,or defluxion of rheame and thinne hnmours uponthe breft and lungs,-and fhortnefle of breath,: marvelloufly drying and helping them, and likewile againft the fouleulcers inthe mouth, the olcers inthe lungs or other parts; and the filtula in any, without applying affy other thing that might clenfeit, ortake away the callous skinne therein, this onely dryed it, and healed itup, eh oa See Cuarp. LIT Turbith officinarum, The ufuall Turbith, Aving faid fointthing before in the Claffis of purging Plants, concerning the vations forts of Turbith, as divers did take themand account of them, whereof I meane not to {peake, againe in this place, but yet ! thought goodhere,to fay fomewhat more of the true Turbith, whichis aforcaigne Drugee, andufed inthe A pothecaries (hops,: not knowne to us or anyother céreainely, that hath writtenthereof, what formeor face the plant truely beareth, whofe roote itis : for although Garcias (aith,that he fawthe plant growing greene and in flower (yet he faith him felfe chat ic differeth from that Which we ufe in fhoppes) which he de teribeth to have no great or Jong roote, whofe ttalke is like unto Ivy; {preading onthe ground, of fingers thickeneffe or more, and two hands long, and fome times much longer: the leaves arelike untothofeofthe Alzhea, Marfh Mallow, and foare the flowers of a reddifh white, and fometimes all white, but not char ging three times aday, as {ome report of it: that Part of the ftalke that is next unto the roote and is gum onely ufed, the reft being too {mall is of no ules fometimes the rooteis gathered with the {talke,which is unprofitable, the ftalkeonely being of ufe in I arms} the whole is infipide without talte : fo that you mayperceive by this defcription, that chis Turbith of Garcias, is but the ftalke of an herbe as it feemeth (but our Turbith in hopsis plainely deferned to be aroote, yet fomewhat {mall, and of an ath-colour on the outfide, and white within; having a pithincthe middle, which is cut out and calt away as uns Rxxxux 3 profitable, |