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Show THE v7 SECOND BOOKE OF THE HIST ORTE the turning ficknes,the megrim,continuall headach,the apoplexie the falling ficknes, the ftuffing of the lungs,the gnawings andgripings of the guts and entfailes, and othermoft dangerous difea. {es,butal{oit doh dutwardly worke his operations,whicharenot altogither to be reiedted, PM, TheMuske Melon. > peaef\soot Common oile wherein the fame is boiled, is goodagainft the finging in the eares and deafenes; the fame killeth:and dtiuethfoorthall maner of wormesof the belly, and doth:oftentimes prouoke e quell and bottome of the belly5 be therewith annointed. to the ftoole,ifthen K Being boiledin vineger.andthe teeth wafhed therewith, > it isa remedie for the toothac yas Me.' aa _fuesteacheth, L The feedeis veryprofitable to keepe andpreferue deadbodies with sefpecially iftAloes and M Myrthe be mixedwith it. ‘Thewhite pulpe or fpungiouis pith takenin thewaightof a (cruple, openeththe belly: mightily, and purgethgrofle fegme,and cholericke humours. -Ithath the like force ifit be boiled and laide tolinfufe in wineoralejand given to drinke, Being taken afterthe fame maner it profiteth the difeafes before remembred, that, istlie apoplexie, falling ficknes,giddines of the head,the colicke;loofenes of finewes, andplacesout ofioint, andalldifeafes proceeding ofcolde. P Forthe fame purpofes it may bevfed inglifters; u SSre ae ee I ARSE N O Seee —" Q- The fame boiledin oile and applied with cotton or wooll, taketh:away the paine of the He. morrhoides. R- The deco@ion made in wine,and vied as afomeitation orbathe, bringeth downe the defired ficknes. Of Muske Melon,or «Million. Chap.329. 3 Pyromelp, :! Péaré fathic kindes S» The The rinses. Here be dinetsforts of Melons found at this day, differing very notablie in fhape and propor tion,as alfo intafte,according to the climate and countrie where they growe: but of the ancl ents there was onely one and nomore,which is that AZe/opepo called of Galen Cucumts, ot Calews vnder thekindsof CCucimber; notwith ftanding fome haue comprehended the Muske Melons truls,wherein theyhaue greatly erred: for doubtleffe the Muske Melonisakinde of Cucumber, according to the beft approoued authors. % The defcription. Hat which the later Herbarifts do call Muske Melons, is like tothe common Caeambe in ftalkes,lying flat vpon the grounde, long, branched,andrough. The Teanes bemuch# like,yet are they leffer,rounder,andnotfo corneréd:the flowers in like manet be ye Ww the fruite is bigger,at the firit fomewhathairie,fomthing long,nowandthen fomew haere tentimes greater, and manytimes leffer: the barke or rinde is of an oucrworne ruflet gt colour, ribbed and furrowedvery deepely , hauing often chappes or chinkes, and a conlil!’ roughnes: the pulpe or innerfubftance whichis to be eaten 5 is ofa faint yellow colour. Then 4 die part whereof isfull of aflimie moifture , among whichis conteined the fede, likevn®™”™ of the Cucumber;butlefler and of a browner colour. 2 ford The figar Melonhathlong trailing {talkes lying vpon the grounde, whereon ate Oe clafping tendrels like thofe of the Vine, and alfo leans like vnto the common Cucuinbet ofagreener colour; the fruite commeth foorth among thofe leaues, ftanding vpo? flendet elit ftalkes, rounde as the fruite of Cologuintidz, and of the fame bigneffe, ofa moft pleafant @" Sugar,whereofit tookethe firname Saccharatue. |
