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Show ne aehh ted 284 Cc THE SECOND BOOKE OF HISTORIE THE gout and the fwellings of the ftones,andthe tumours of womens brefts ; and are good to beputin. to thefame ointment,but in finall quantitie. pe : or giuenina glifteri cdoth te inthe decoction of Henbane caufet! To waththefeete fame;andalfo the often{melling to the flowers, — D Theleaues,{eed,and inice taken inwardly caufeth an ynquiet {leepe,like yntothe fleepeofdan, ; kennefle, which continueth long,andis deadlytothe partie. bE Thefeede ofwhite Henbane is goodagainft the cough, the falling of waterie humours intothe eies otbreft, againft the inordinate fluxe of womens iflues , andall other iffes ofblood,taken in the weight often graines with water wherein honie hath beene fodden. F The roote boiled in vineger andthe fame holden horin the mouth, eafeth the paine ofthe teeth, The feede is vfed of mountibancke toothdrawers whichrunne about the countrey , forte cau woorines come foorth of mens teeth by burning itin achafing difh with coles, the partie holdiy his mouth ouerthe fume thereof: but fome craftie companions to gaine moneyconuey{mall lite, ftringSinto the water , perfwading the patient that thofe fmall creeping beafts came outoflis mouthyor otherparts, which he intended toeafe. Ofvellow Henbane,or Englifh Tabaco. Chap.62. OF se The nature. ThiskindeofHenbane is thought of fometo be colde and moifts but heateth then. coolethat all,bicaufe ofthe biting tafte, as alfo that rofennes o felled ofwhich is euidently 5 erceiued Both in handlingand chewing it in t e 1 be vertues, Thisherbe preuaileth againft all apoftemes, tumours, inueterate vicers, botcl being madeinto an vaguent or falue as followeth., Take ofthe gteen halfe, {tampe themvery {mall in’a {tone morters ofoile olite one quarts fet t panorfiich like, vpon agentlefire, continually ftitring it vntill the herbes notbubblenor boile any more; then fhall you! : fromthe feces or drofi¢ , put the cleere and {trained oile to th waxe halfe a pounde, of rofen fower ounces,and of goodturpentine gither and. keepe it in pots for your vfé to cure inueterate vicers, ap wounds,and all cuts and hurts in che head wherewith I haue gotten both crowne Itis vied offome in fteede ofTabaco, but to fmall purpofe or profire , alth dullthe fences, and caufe that kinde of giddineffe that Tabaco dot! anyother herbe ofhot temperature will do,as rofematie andfucchlike,any ofthe whichI like better to be takenin fi Se eeDass bane, OfTabaco or. Henbane ofPeru. Chap.63. Hoftyamus luteus. Yellow Henbane. % Thedefeription. Ellow Henbane growethtothe heighte twocubits. The ftalke is thicke , fata greene ofcolour, full of a {pungiouispit andis deuided into fundrie braunches, fetwt fmooth and euenleaues, thicke, and full oft if The flowers. growe at the tops of the braunchts orderly placed, of apale yellowe colout, fom | thing leffer then thofe ofthe blacke Henbats The cups wherein the flowers do ftande arcli i butleffer, tenderer and without fharpe pom whereinis fet the huske or cod fomwhat a full of-very {mall feede like the feede of I icrome; Therooteis {malland threddi¢. “3 'The place. Yellow Henbaneis fowenin gardens where! wi doth profper exceedingly, infornuch that o not be deftéoied where it hath once fowen bot | andis difperfed into the moft parts ofEnglant x The time. F Tt dowreth in the fommer moneths,@: tentirnes till Autumnebe farrefpents 8 time the feede commerthto perfection: Pe die Reetee iha Ninei a %& The names. ts Yellow Henbaneis called. H/o a of{ome Petam; and Perum: of others AM? of Wycot French man that brought the ae Dubins Hyofejamus; or-doubrfull ftomthe Indies; as alfo the feedes of a Tabaco., whereof this hath beene ca Kinde, infomuch thar L’obelias hath © Henbane 348 aplant participating of Henbane and Tae is vfed of dwersin fteede of Tabaco andc from Trinidada,a place fo alledby the famename, for thavithath beene called in th he Indies as alfo from: Virginia -or Norembega fore whichdoubtléfle taken in imoke worketh the fame kind ofdrunkennes that thetight ee : % The kindes. Tr Herebetwoforts orkindes ofTabaco, one greater, the other leffers the greater wasb __ intoEutope out ofthe provinces of America; which we call the weft Indies Trinidadaan Handeneere vnto the continent of the fume Indies; fome hauead andothers making the yellowe Henbane for akinde thereof, although not pr I Hofiyamus Peruuianus. Tabaco or Henbaneof Peru, 2 Sana Santta Tabaco of |