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Show 1622 Cap. a7, Theatrum Botanicum. Trize 17. it with the Oyle of the Indian Nut, they rowle icin the leaves thereof, and roft ir under the horembers, which being growne'foft,they beate it and then apply it to all fuch wounds.and fores aforefaid, which are perfedy cured within a few dayes, without inflammations or Impoftumes, tothe wonder of all that knewit. not before tie like wife eafeth all paines, and ftayeth all fluxes of blood, and is afingular-helpe to the joynts thac are prickedog wounded,and briefly ferveth the people that ufe no other remedy tohelpethe mfelves in any cafe of neceflity, Withoutthe ule of a Chirurgion, and eruft thereto asuntoan undoubted remedy; the oyntmentis carryed into furidry other Countryes alfo. Another herbe called Gentela growethiin the Weft Indies, mentioned by age. wa'dus out of Petrus de Ofmahis Letter tohim, who without any defcriptio n thereof, faith that the Indians doe familiarly-ule it, and the Spaniards from them, bruifed and Jaid to any tumour, in the legges or thighes, comtning from a cold caufe, would cure them by being raifingblifters that the humours might be let out, and the {wel. _. ling affwaged.° Another herbe alfo AZonardus there remembreth from him likewife, that would flanch the blood Herefolia oFahy wound fuddenly,feene, and tryed certaine captive Indians, thatthtough hunger cut off the calyes Seles their owne legges and did cate them, andbyprefently of applyedthe leaves*to. them, which ftanched the bloodto Gramen the greatadmiration ofall that faw it, The fame de O/mafaith there, he ufeda kinde of herbe Btowing like guodadpi- grate, which of himfelfe tookethe name, which being chewed wouid draw downemuch fleeme, and there. *4itams fore goodfor rheumesin the head, and defluxions thereof, ; Cuarp. into the throate, and to make lotions to helpe thofe difeafes LXXVI, Tree17. The Theater ofPlants, Cuar.8o, then an Hazell Nut and longer, roundalfo, and pointed atthe one end, furrowed alfo on both fides, yeton onefide more confpicuous thea the other,thar it might be parted into two, in cach fide whereof lyeth a {mall - Arbor Bon cum fratiu fus Buns. Turkes berry drinke, Jong whiteKernell, flat on that fide they joyne together, coveted with a yellowifh'skinrie, of an acide talte, and fomewhat bitter withall and contained ina thinne fhell, of adarkith afh-colour : with rhefe berries generally in Arabia andeEgipt, and in other places ofthe Trkes Dominions, they. make a deco@ion or drinke, whichis in the ead of Wine ro them, and ge- nerally fold in all their tappe hoiifes,called by the frame of Caovas Paladamus {aith Choava, and Ranwolfius Chante, This deinke’ hath many-good FPhyficall properties thercin: for it firengthenetha weake ftomacke, helping digeftion, and the tumours and obftru@ions of the liver and {pleene, being drunke fafting for fome time together, The Egiptian, and Arabian women ule it familiarly white their courfes hold, to caufe them to paffe away with che moreeafe, as.allato caufethofe to How that are ftayed, their bodies being prepared: and purged aforeliand, Herba Ioannis Infants. Tahu the Infants herbe. His isa fmall herbe growing in thé Welt Indies having leaves unto Sorrell, but foméwhat rough and hairy, and tcookethename from one Juan Infanta an Indian,likethe fonneofa Spaniard, who ufed S itto cure wounds, and to ftanch their bleedings,helping all hurte,pr ickes, ard woundsin the finews, 8 or in any other partof the body, digefting.clenfing, and healing ~ herbe bruifed thereunto: or elfethe poutherof thedryed herbethem by laying fome of the greene ftrowed thereon, which is thought to be better then the greene herbe, a ee Guar, LXXVII, SS Lattucafyluefris pumila. A Lettice for the tooth aché: X32 Nother hetbe wasfentunto Afomardys out of Pern, that was liké unto Letticé leaves; but of adarke %) greene colour, and very bitter in tafte, he eAWaNs fide thatthe tooth doth ake, will eafe and decoction whereof kept a good while in the mouth,on thac take away the paine: the juyce ofthe gtecne leaves s put into an hollow tooth will doé the fame. Cuap, LXXX, Cuap, LXXVIIL Curcus, White Nats; M€ungo. Indian Corianderlike feed for an Agué: matic Indians of the Eaft have a {mall round feed very like unto Corianderfe fy fore, but blacke whenit is ripe, being ich is greene be: fodder given to horfes,and men e i of Guztrateand Decan,ule the decoétion e eae thereof againft agues,and Siving, araneo the feed alfo being husked, and boyle fmili a8 . d like Rice, unto their aguifh patients aer a caufing them to abltaine from either meate, of bread of Wheate,for many f dayes together = Ie is held that of his fecond Booke, by thénameof Meffe Avicen mentioneth this in the 481, Chapter , Bellunenfis his interpreter hath ic Afens bur a ea fhould be Afea, and fo in anoth er place he nameth ir. : there hath beenefentalfoanotherfmall crefte d erain e or feed, of the bignef fe per cornes, fo like unto Corianderfeed, . that at. the frit fight, one might be ash Ken, butthat it is greater and blacke, es this might be thought robe the fofmer Aungo,but that this is hot,and the Mungo is cold,as itis thought ft for fuch patients, ve Sn eeeh Cuarp. Ss. the fruite thereofhanging downefrom the branches that are like unto Hazell Nuts, but not fo round, and white of colour, whofe kernelis £weetfomewhat like unto Mufhromes, or Spanife puffs, when they are boyled and dreffed: they call it Quiviguilenga in fome places ( which fignifyethfaith Garctas a {mall Inhame,. but Claus faith he knoweth it not, except it be the Traf dolce, or Funciaavellanada) and in Adalavar (urcas, and in Cambaya (arpata : thefe faith he, are not pur to any ufe in phyficke that he knew : he doth conje@ure that Serapia meaneththis fruite by the name of Habacoulcewl,which faith he,breedeth abundanceof{perme,but bringech the paffionofthe chollicke therewith, ee @ 8 ® Cuarp. CacerasIndoruw. LXXXI. Indian Trafirootés, a His roote groweth within the ground like as Trafis doe, fhooting forth ftalkes inthe dry time of the TS)af itt)elsoy as yeate, haying leaves like the water Flagge, or Corne Flagge, one foulded within another's thefe i roores being drycdtafte like unto Chefnuts : but while they be greene or before they be dryed, they oy areunpleafant. C%ufews chinketh that thefe rootes be the AZalinathalla of Theophraftus Jib.a.¢s10; or LXXEX, Arbor Bon cumfruttufio Buna, Here groweth faith Garcéas in divers places of Afalavar, a certaine Plant which is fowen and hath the Anthalinm of Pliny, About the River Maragnon in Pera,grow certaine fruits under the ground Frobtis (ub The Tarkes berry drinke} Epirus in bis Booke ofgiptian plants, giveth us the defcription of this tree, which as hee faith, hee faw in the garden ofa certaine Captaine of the Janiffar ies, which was brought out of Arabiafelix, eo and there planted as ararity, never {eene growin } fomewhat likeunto the Evonjmus Pricketimber g in thofe places before. The tree faith Alpinus, is tree, whofe leaves were thicker, harder,and "ner, andalwayes abiding greene on the tree gree3 the fruite is called Buna, and is fomew hat bigsee then liké Spanift balles,of the length and bigneffe of hatfe ones fingers, round and fomewhat writhed, of a terrana/ce~ colour, having within ita {mall nut like an Allmond, whichwill rattle being fhaked when itisdry,brownith browne «..Quere : Without and white within, parting in twoparts as an Allmond, of as good a talte as a Filberd, both raw and joa Foafted, but procuring headacheif roo liberally eaten: they dry and ftrengthenthe omacke, and areefteemed ; as junkets wath the Indians and Spaniards, Ciarz |