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Show 716 THE SECOND BOOKE OF THE Of Scammonie,orpurging Bindweed.: ium HISTOR 717 places, rather tobe called I feareinfetted Scammonie orpoifoned Scammonie, then confected, But to auoide the inconueniences heereof , by 1 1 of the.counterfaiting andill mixing thereof: Thane therefore thought good to fet downe what I haue taken outof thediligent and no Ieflelearned obferuations of Pena, concerning this plant, ammo s6r.or1s62, Chi 2 Scammoninm Mon/pellien{e, ‘ Syriacwm. ee Syrian Scammonie. : French Scammonie. Sequins Martinelli, an apothecarie of Venice, being amoft diligent fearcher ofSymples,to the endhemighthaue theright Scamiionic of Antioche,trauelled into Syria; wherefiom the Citic of Alepo,. he fent an hundreth waight of theiuiceof Scammonie of Antioche, prepared and hadnedintoa lumpe, at the making whereof he was prefent hinsfelfe. This man fent al ofthe feedesthereof,which in all points anfivered the cornered {eed of Volubilis: which being fowen-in thebeginning ofthe {pring at Padua,and Venice.o vp to the forme ofabraue and goodly wiluulusin.leaues,fowers and fhewelikevnto Con. our ¢ fampelos , that a man woulde hauetaken it fc thefame without controuerfie, fauing thatthe roote was great, andin bignefle equall tothe; Brionie,asalfo in tenderneflc. The outwarde barke oftheroote was of af 2 within: the innerpith being taken foorth feemeth in all tens iudgements to be the beltallowed Turbsth officimarnm sand yetitdiffereth from Tusbith, in that yth andwhit adwillmore eafily be broken sthough the pith in Scammonie be no leffeg milkie ihice then Tutbith. Further Pexa reporteth that afterward hefent ofthis feede vAto wetpe,where it grewe very brauely,the climing ftrings and braunches growing vpto the height of fiieor fixe cubics, not differing fromthat which was fowen in Italie. Alf Willm Dries ofAnt. werpeyamoft excellent apothecary;did cutoffthe branches of this Ant erpian Scammonie from the toote, and dried them, planted the feedes inhis garden, andconferred the fuperfluousbranchedtootes with the Turbith of Alexandria, and coulde not finde them tod or di the oneffom the other inany point, But he that will knowe more concerning Sc; whatapothecarié oeuer,vnto whom efpecially it belongeth ) either concerning tl thereof,his difference-from Opium,and how the coun rfaiting thereof may be know the vie ofScattmoniejand the reafon thatthe dofes which are given in thefe daies , will notanfwerthe quantitié which was prefcribed to begiuen in Gaéezhis time,and how Scammonieis to be correc. tedand mixed with other purging medicines, as'Diaphenicon, Catholicon, Succus rofarum , mrimand Tithynale: let him read Pera his learnedobferuations in his chapterof Sca mere thall finde manyexcellent fecrets woorthiethe noting ofthofe, as know how to vie Tartand firch excellent Medicines, 2 Scammonie ofMontpellier(whereof Ihaue plentiein my garden)is alfo akinde ofBindwe: srowng naturally by the fea fide vponthe grauelyfhore, aha Aqus marianas where the apothecaries by the mouth of the rier Rhodan of Msnpenes gatherofit in gre tachThe eae to hardenthe milkie inice thereof,to vie itinfteede of Scammonic mina pola buingeth foorth manie {lender branches, which will climbe and verie well ru heat vei oe lupported therewith,and mounteth to the height of fiue or She cubits, c % The defcription. r wt fot5. flente one |roote, which are Cammonieof Syria hath many ftalkes rifing fr omnone andlike the clafping tendrels of the vine , by which itclJimetht ‘andtaketh ho mab chofe of theme things as arenextvntoit. The leaues be broade,fharpe pointec like nate to abluth ; ng hedge Bindweed :among which comefoosth very fairewhite ae -geathered@ juice, ¢ bell fafhion. The roote is long, thicke, andwhite within; out ee i e otaiiyt Jant tH ing hardned, is greatly vfed in Phificke : for which confideration ea oth fior his {ape weth onthe earth, the knowledge whereof more concerneth a P ni are vault, at 1S ' properties, then this Scammonie, which Penacalleth Ladtaria foanforiagt ke, Ihave placed ac Tas yi teeisa kinde : for diftinét diftin@tion fa ”neatEstee and climbing Windweed,whereofit ; althoughh for fomele as twofundrie kinds. And althoughthis herbe be fufpectedjand halfe wie? me itIdo men, yet there isnot any other herbetobe founde , whereof Seue finde good :neither could thofe which haue carpedatit,and warecerr t ae blameto all refpe& ofhis vertues to be put in his roome: and heereof infuet 1 or Stelvio quold who haue fot indevoredto bee better acquaintedwith this herbe, : ee 4ought ofthe craftiedrugfeller and medicine makerofthis confected Scammonic, DIN" fl, : Ping like the firftkinde of Scammonie. The leaues are greene,fnooth, plaine, Pe Potnted, which being broken do yeelde abundance ofmilke: the flowers are white, {mall, and{ i Ii b wpluyiancnteniafonsthe tootes white and manie, fhooting foorth {u ndrie other rootes, whereby ic eth, zn 3 This : % The defeription. - : feainthe Bae kinde of Scammonie, which Clufiwe founde in the marfhie groundsneere yntothe tcsneuerthelge of Valentia,being one ofthe Bindweeds,as are likewife all the reft of Scammobinge be ae hemaketh this tobe Periplece (pecies, making Perzploca and Scammonieto be of tte ty - anthath averie long branch ramping,andtaking hold vponfuch things as do growe Poit ed cro is Garke ruffet colour which we call ath colour , whereupondogrowleaues fharpe Colour fe “% = atthe fetting onof the ftalklike thofe ofthe blacke Brionie,andlikewife ofan ath iane? X ay rDYy couples: 7i = & Eplac 3 wheteon eee edfa all ll white fromthe bofome thrittethfoorth {mall tender* flowers ftar re fathwherof ion, The root¢ hath notas yet beenefoote ftalks, difcouered PMAtHath written heereof, 3 Stammones |