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Show AeBLSOAS EeeeeOe 68: "OftheHiftorie of Plants, LAtonitim byemale, “Winter Woolfes-bane, Lis. 2 | The Place, It groweth vponthe mountaines of Germa. ny:we haue great quantitie of it inom Lop. i Ofthe Hiftory of Plants, 989A draw vntoit felfthe maligne and venomou poifon ofthe Aconite, whereby it will be come ofthelike qualitie,that is, to become poifonous likewife : but being kept faroff,ir retaineth his owne natural! qualitie ftill. Anthorafive Aconitumfalutiferums Wholfome VVolfes: bane. { dongardens, | The Time, q The, Time. It floureth in lanuarie,the feed isripe in the end of| March. | The Names, It flourethin Auguft, the feed is ripe in the end of September, Itiscalled Aconitum hyemale, or Hibernum,or winter Aconite: thatitisakinde of the Piemontoife docall it Axthora, and the common people Aatharo. Auicea calleth a certaine herbe whichis like to Monks hood, asaremedy againft the poifon thercof, by the nameof Napellus Moyfis,in the 500 chap, of his fecond booke,andin the 745.chap.he faith, that Zedoaria doth grow with N, The Names; The inhabitants of the lake of Gencua,& Aconite or Woolfs-bane,both theformof the leaues and cods,, andalfo the dangerous faculties of the herbeit felfe do declare. Itis much, liketo Aconitum Theophrafii: whichhe defcribethin his ninth booke,laying,it is a (hort herbe hauing no <ew,or fu. perfluous thing growing onit, and is without branches as this plant is: rheroor,faith he, is liketo wpsor toa nut, orels towt2 t Monkes hood, and that byreafonof t neerenefle ofthe fame,the force and ttrer thereof is dulled and made weaker, and that itis atreacle,that is, a counterpoifon acainft the Viper, Monks hood, & all other poifons: dryfig, onely the leafefcemeth tomakes. and hereupon it followeth, that it isnot on- gainft itwhichis nothing arall liketo that of Succorie, which he comparethitvato, | The Temperature andVertuts. ThisHerbe: is counted tobe very dangeyous and deadly, hotand dricin the fourth degree,as Theoph: iniplaine words oth ee ly Napellus Moy(is, but allfo Zedparia Auicenve : notwithftanding the Apothecarics do fellanother Zedoaria differing from 4athora, which is aroor ofa longer forme,which nor without caufe is thought tobe 4aicens and Serapio’s Zerumbah, ot Zurambeth, Ivis called 4athora,as thoughthey fhould fieconcetning his owne Aconite; 101 which Ap. be fairh thar there was neuer found his tidote ot temedie : whereof wArhinams “a Theopompus write,that this plantis the moft poifonous herb of all/others,which moued pextraiey Bue quianafcuntur dura vivacia caute: notwithf{tanding itis not without his peculiat baci . chineus Camerarius now \iuing in Noremberg faith,the water dropped into the eies ceafeth t ie 4 ahd burning: it is reported to preuaile. mightily againft the bitings of fcorpions . ane” 0 es force,that if the feorpion paffe by where it groweth and touchthe fame, prefently heberom sae dull heauy,and fenceleffe,and if the fame {corpion by chance touch the white Hellebor, hets ps ¢ fently deliuered from his drowfineffe. : poe Cuar.374. Be ra, and acounterpoifon tothe fame: Thor ind Anthoraor Tura and Antiira,feemie to be new words,but yet they are vied in Marcellus Enspericas: anold writer, who teacheth a’ medicine robe made of Turaand’ Antura,againkt the pin'and webin teeies: in Englith, yellow Monks-hood,yéllow Helmet floure; and Aconites Mithridare, @ TheVerines. Theroot of Anthora is wonderfull bitter; itis anénemie toall poifons ; itis good for pirgati- A ons ; for it voidethibythe ftoole both waterie and flimie humours, killech and drincth forth ail manner ofwormes of the belly: Hugo Solerias {aith,that the roots of A#thora do largely purge, not onely by bys Omite : and that the meafiire thercofis taken to the quantitic of called'a beane)it broth or wine,and is giuen to ftrong bodies. ole; butalfe B (which is commonly Antonias Guamerivs doth thew in his tréatie of the plague , the feconddiiference,the third chap: © Of Mithridate Woolfes-bane. ter, that Anthorais of steat foreeyyeaand that againft the plague: and the rooris of like ver q The Defcription. » ofGe WOES ora, Acomse 7 plantcalled 4zthora, being the antidote againft the poifon of Th ith fine cutorla bane,hathflender hollowftalkes, very brittle, a, cubit high, garnifhed Ww fay Antithorabecaufe it is anenemie to Tho- ‘ig Rega 38 leaues, verylike to Nigella Romana,or thé common Larkes fpurre, called Confalt ace yello top ofthe ftalkes doe growfaire flowers, fafhioned like alittle helmet , ofan as ing fe d Is colour ; afterwhich come {mall blackifh cods, wherein is conteined blacke we woreof 4 thofe of Onions: the root confifteth of diuers knobs or tuberous fumpes, of, fee NY mans thumbe . 5 ed q The Place. Alps,cali e This plant which in Greekewe may terme srmsee: groweth abundant lyinthe e the lake Le #ci,in Sauoy,and in Liguria, The Ligurians of Turi, and thofe that dwell neerherb hore 08 haue found this herbe to be a prefent remedy'againft the deadly poifon febuet + for Phyl reft of the Aconités,prouided that whenitis brought into the gardenthere 0 Ae wit vic,it muft not be planted neere ro any of the Aconites:for through his attra tine q 8 giuen with Dittaniewhich That feene, faith he, by experience : and he furcher faith, itis an Heri that sroweth hard by that herbe Thora, of which there is made apoifon,wherewith they of Sauoy hol parts adiacent doeniuetiome their arrowes,the more fpecdily to kill the wilde Goats,and twildebeafts of the Alpith mountaines. And this root Aathorais the BeXoar or counterpoiPune Thora whichis offo great avenome,as thatit killeth all liuing creatures with his poi- ME qualitie:and thus mutch Guanerius: ; _ en Tanuentis hath alfo made mention of Asthora, and Arndldus Villanovanys in his treatie of D potfons: but their writings do declare that they did notwell know dathora, cites loon Cua. 375. a nseantaa Of yellow Wolfes-bane: | The Defeription. we t € yellow kinde of Wolfes-bane called Aconitum luteumPonticum, or accotain Aconitum Lycottonon luteum mains : in Englith,ycllow Wolfes-bane,whescof th found out fundry forts not knowne to Diofcorides,although fome oftheforts fe ; Mmmm 3 |
