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Show 180 Trin Prisepak Theatrum Botanicum. Cu ar.13. eeu i th branches, leaves,flowers and rootes; butlefferin and the roote Inevery particular, br i i rats eichdiferere) being fharpe andJoathfome procuring votniting and troubling the ftomacke, es di Bryonie can doe: whenit istaken,as — TMbencithatfeo five Talapinm. Leyai Mechoacanor aT dis el be eine: ; i i rd itto growin an : > ad >eeeres Sriete mil coe by con seineahh fight of the dryed rootes, eean eatin feae pinaterrsoes being fomewhatlike in vertue and in forme unto the -oe ee e dhe sareewt yet ] thought good to make mention ofit in this ee) as nn i ni . . . . ens let it be knowne to the world, and to excite fome one or other to getthe feede, or ee ‘ok cin crowing frefh, we may knowto whattribeor family it doth belong : It com= greene roote, rolaond oefme pies fonie {maller, yet nothing fo largeas the greater, but nie as the ee a ata ff a brownith blacke colour, fomewhat more folid, hard, compact, and gummie i Seanak it will rife 4 black gum,being layd ona quick * — aonae a ae in any that I have jhe i talte;; but paige fticking a little,in the teeth whenit is chewed. feene or tryed) and of no unpleafant Place, : as aes : = under hedges, throughout this whole Kingdome. : : The fecond groweth in fom Thefirkt anion pci : ec, where the pase white doth not. The third groweth plentifullyin — ee Bellus fent the feed thereofto Clufius and others. The fourth Gerard faith growetht agate ne Imoft every where, but herein] am fure he is much miftaken, thinking that our ordinary eile oteike 7 fD iofcorides for Thave neitherfoundit my felfe in any place, nor underftoodofa cer= Serebealechart thatthey have found any with blacke berries and a blacke roote; and I findefome ped . abies bt, whether the rightbe to be found orno. The fift Banhinws {aith was found inthe woods by a “il “ ne Cred The is found as wild infaith. many places of our owne Countrie as wells in Italy: ee Orin rae andfixt Germanie Lobel The feaventh as Monardus faith, groweth in the wa see of Machoncan 40 miles beyond Mexico , fromwhenceit was firft brought into Spaine 2 but afterwards, aaie lentifully,better conditioned and of more effet, was brought: fromthefirme or maine land of Wica= a naand Dito Theeight Afonardus (aith was brought from the promontory of $, He/ez,which is on the fame rove with Nicaragua. Thelat is likewife brought froma place inthe Jnaies, called ((helapa or Calapa, from whencealfo it tooke thename. The Time, Sa , They doe all flower in the monthes of Ju/y and August, fome earlyer senieiescot- po original] is from colder or warmer countries, and their feede ifsad= any, ripe with us; is pe - pe INAmes, Itiscalled in Greeke duxa@ acuxi Vitis alba & Vitalba fc ditta non or Vitis - aes hie ae Bpvavia agora forte quod eft pullulo, extollo, exalto, quod in vicinos Frutices{can lens fe extollat atg, late pu - : Le islikewife called vinwlgsr, pftlotrumquod exejus acinis coria depilari ac confickpoffunt, in Latine of fomeVitirella, of others Roraitrum,of Apuleius Apiaftellum & VuaTaminia, but of molt Vitis alba, Bryonia, and Bryonia alba, The fecond is called Bryonia nigra, Vitis nigra, & Vitis albabaccis wigrts, and onely diftinguithedfrom thefit, bythe colour, of the fruite and roote, for that itis but one kind, differing by the nature of the climate where it gtoweth, Thethird is called Bryonia'Dicoccos of Honorins Bellus, whoas I fayd before, firft{entit from Candy. Bauhinus callethit Bryonia Cretica maculata, The fourthis called in Greeke &urn@- wededva , in Latine Vitis nigra, (ita dittaab acinis radiceque migris > quod vitisfinslitudinem haber ) Bryonia nigra c Vitis Chironia, the true kinde of D io/corides, whofe branches havi ng tendrels,, whofe leaves being Ivye like, the berries and roote blacke, isknowne to very few. The fift is called by Bawhinws in his Pirodromus Bryoniafyl, baccifera,in his Pinax, Bryonia lavis five nigrabaccifera, The fixt is taken-of molt writers to: be Vitis nigra,or Bryonia nigra of Diolcorides, as Matthiolus, Anguillara, Lacuna, Gefnar, CaftorDurantes, Lugdunenfis, Tabermontants, and Lobel, Dodoneus calleth it Tamus & Vitis [j lveftris, but faith it differeth from that Vitis Jylveftris thatis called Labru/ca,which differethlittle from the true manured Vine; butthatit groweth wild and-beareth few or no grapes : Some as odonaws call it Vitis T:aminia, and the berries va Taminia,yet fome would appropriate that name to the Bryonia alba: itisin molt ofthe Apothecaries fhoppes in Italy, France, and Germanye called Sigillum Sanihe (Marieor Beate Maria: Some likewife would have it to bethe Cyclaminus Ciffanthemos of Diofcorides, which it cannot be, for hefaith the raoteis unprofitable, whichthis is not, and others to be Pliny his SalicaStrum; both whichare more truely referred to theDu/camara or Solanum fignofum, Gerard is much deceived in thinking Cyclaminus altera Diofcoridis, to be akinde of (yclamen, The feaventh is called of moft men Mechoacan, from the place w here it stew, yet Monardus faith the Spaviards that wfedit, called it, called it Afechoacannm Indicum, & album Rhabarbarum, it Rhabarbarum from the eftects, and to diftinguifh and Rhabarbarum Mechoacanum : Banhinus faith it doth neereft refemble the 2:ryonia(ylveftris, and therefore calleth it Bryonia Afechoacana ditta, Dodoneus rather taketh it to be a kinde ofScammonye calling it Scammoninm Americanumbut not rightly. choacanafjlveftris,as a wild and worfe kind of the former,and as Afonardus faith,they The eightis called At ver ufe it againe,in regard ofthe violent paines and {ymptomes it doth procure, and that do once ufeit, will netherefore Azonardus thought it to berather a Scammonye, andis called of Banhinus Bryonia Mechoacana (ylveStris, The laft is called lalapium, Talap, and Gelapo, in different places. Bauhinus calleth it Bryonia Mechoacana nigricans. The Arabians call the white Englifh Alfefera, the Italsans Vite bianco & Zucca falvatica, the Spaniardes Nuexa Blanca Bryonia and Nerea blance,the French Coleurees and Fenardent, the Germanes Stickwurtz Hands raben & Teufels Kirfche, the Dutch Witte Bryonieand we in Englifs Bryonie White Bryonic, White wild Vineyand Tetter berries. The Vertues. _ The roote of the whité Bryonie purgeth the belly, with great violence, troubling the ftomacke and hurting the liver, whereforeit is not rathly tobetaken, butas AZe/ues advifeth , fome {pice is to bee added to it, or fome Mafticke, Quinces or other fitch like aftringent and ftrengthening thing. The firft and tender fhootes, as D jofco- rides and Galenfay, were ufed in their timesto be eaten in the {pring, both to purge the belly and to provoke urine, andis fayd tobe alfo ufed in our times in other TRIBE.2. The Theater ofPlants. but in more pleafant fallets: By the ftrong purging quality of the roote, it may bee profitable for the difeafes of the head, as the falling fickneffe, the diffineffe and {wimmings inthe flegme and rheumatick humors,opprefling thofe parts, as alfo the joyntshead andbraine, by drawing away intich and finews,and is therefore good for palfies, convulfions, crampes,and ftitches in the fides : in purging the belly of waterith humors itis good alfo, ag famefay ,againft the dropfic,and in provoking Vrine:it alfo clenfeth the raines and kidneyes from gravell and the ftone,by opening the obltruCtions ofthe fpleerie, and wafteth and confummeth the clenfeth the mother wonderfully, in helping thofe thatare troubled, with the fwellings é& hardnes thereof.It rifing and fuffocation thereof, by drinking once a weeke, of the wine wherein the roote was boyled,going to bed, and expelleth the dead childe, and afterbirthin thofe thofe that are delivered, but is not to beufed by women with childe; for feare of abortioriz it bringeth downealfotheir courfes whenthey are ftopped, by taking a dram ofthe roote in powderin wine,or fittingin the decottion ofthe rootes; it clenfeththe cheft ofrotten flegme mightily, and therefore an Elettuary madeofthe rootes and honey, doth wonderfully helpe them that have anold and {trong cough,or thatare’ reqs dy to be ftrangled with flegme oppreffing them, and that are troubled with fhortneffe of breath: the fame alfo is very good for themthatare bruifed inwardly,to helpe to expeli theclotted or congealed blood,Dio/corides alfo faith that the roote being taken,helpeth thofethatare bitten witha viper or nedjuyce, is often ufed to be taken to the weight of two or three graines an adder; the Fecula or white hardurpofes of purging aforefayd, For outward applications, Diofcorides atthe moft, in wine or broth, roall the faith, that the leaves, fruite, and roote, By the fharpe quality that isin them,doe clenfe old and filthy fores, are good againft all fretting and running cankets; gangrenes andtetters, and therefore the berries ufually with goodfucceffe,and often experience applyedtothem : thecalled of the Country. people, Tetter berries, are roote alfo clenfeth the skinne wonderfully, from all blacke and blewfpots, freckles, morphew, leprie, foule {earres, or any other deformity of the skinne whatfoever, as alfo allrunning fcabbes and manginefle, either the powdero f the dryed roote, or the juyce thereof rudely taken, but efpecially thefacu/a,orfine depurate and hardened yeare. The diftilled water ofthe rootes worketh the fame effec, white juyce, tobe ufed at all times of the but more weakely; yet the water is often ufed to cleere the skinne from {pottes, &c. the rvote being bruifed the bonesare broken, helpeth to draw them forth, as alfo {plinters and applyedof it felfe to any place, wh¢re witha little wine mixed therewith, it breaketh byles and helpeth or thornes in the flefh:. and being applyed whitlowes on the joynts : itis fayd that Anguftus Cafar, was wont to weare it with bayes, made into a roule or ning. The rootes ofthe blacke Bryonie are ofthe fame efe@ with garland, thereby to be fecured. from light= ler and flegme and other humors, and provoking Vrine,in helping the white, but much weakerin purging chothefalling fickeneffe,the palfic,the paffions of the mother, and the otherdifeafes before mentioned: it doth in fome fort clenfe the skinneof {pots and markes, but the whiteis both more ufed, and more effe@uall 3 the juycehereofor therooteit felfe, boyled with. wine; and honey,and drunke, and the roote alfo bruifed and applyed with honey, to the Kings Evill, is very effe@uall to heale it, andall other kernels, knots, or hard {wellings, orinother parts: being applyedalfo in the fame manner, either in or about the necke and throate efpecially, paines; and to confolidate and {trengthen the finewes, that toany place out of joynt, is good both to eafe the often ufed alfo with good fucceffe, being freth, bruifed they he not eafily againe put out oftheir placé: it is and applyed to the fhoulders ot armés, that are full paine and ach,as alfo to furch hippes or hucklebones,as have of the Sciatica, or paines therein:the leaves bruifed with wine and layde uponthefore neckes of Oxen,that are wring with the yoake helpeth them, AZatthiolus faith, it was reported unto him,that the roote of our fixt Bryonie Maria, our Ladies feale orfignet, and which he thinketh (which I fay is called beyond Sea, Sigillum Beata to be the blacke Brycnie of Diofcorides) being roafted in the embers andeaten, isa powcrfull medecine, to helpe itexcelleth all other medecines, taken for that purpofe; forward the acts of Venerie, and addeth Withall, that yerke him for that report. The A4echoacan isa familiar which yet he {faith he can hardly beleeve; yet Lobe/ doth medecineufed of many, efpecially when we firft hadir, as all newthingsare, but nowis much neglected, although given to allages young andold, and to young children, itbe the fame, and worketh the fame effects ; itis as alfo at all times ofthe yeare,for being without any yea women with childe without any harme or danger, evilltafte or {mell,it may be the better taken of the molt licate, and tender ftomacke, that doth loath all other medecines de: itis moft ufually being made into powder taken in wine,or if any refafe that manner,the roote may be boyled either ina little broth, (as it was to Queenie Eli. zabeth in herlat fickeneffe, without her confent or fence in powder, is ftom halfe a dramme to a whole dramme, in the tafte) or wine, and fo taken : the dofé whereof or adramme and ahalfe or two drammes, as there is caufe, refpect beinghad to theage and ftrength ofthe It purgeth cholericke and flegmaticke, yea groffe vifcous and putride humors, whatfoever in the body, patient: .asalfothe yellow waterifh humorsof the dropfie, with mitch eafeandfacility : ir clenfethal{o the liver and fpleene, and like the true Rubarbe ftrengtheneth the ftomacke, corroborating thé inward parts, after purging and opening the obftru@tion s of them, it helpeth alfo all difeafes that comefrom them, as the dropfie: the Iaundife, &c. forit rectifieth the evill conftitution of the Liver, byopening and diffolving the hardneffe thereof, as alfo of the {pleene and ftomacke, diffolveth alfo the Windijneffe and expelleth it ; ittaketh away alfoall old, or inveterate paines of the head, by clenfing the braine and the nerves, and purging thofe rheumaticke diftillations , and humors that are in them ; it helpeth alfo all paines whatfoeverin the joynts, in particular or general, in procuring on€ to make water, and thecollicke as the joynt aches or gout,and thofe of the bladder and raines, alfo, by expelling the wind wonderfully, it helpeth the paines of the mother, by tempering the cold humour, andexpelling the windineffle which are the caufes thereof: it helpeth the fhortnefle of breath, andthe old cough: Itisalfo availeable inthe French oftenas there is caufe, and purging theold peccant difeafe, by taking it humors, efpecially if the difeafe be not of ance. It taketh awayalfo the caufe of oldand longlingring agues, whether they betertian any long continuantermittive agues, caufed by obftruction or quotidian oy other s. The Talapis in working and purging fomewhatlike unto the Ae. choacan, but exceedeth it,in working more ftrongly, and little more chorlifhly upon both flegmaticke arid yyatery humors, yet ftrengthening both the liver to drinkeit in white wine fafting, yet fome and {tomacke : the manner to take itis, being made into powder, takeit in the diftill made with cold herbes, ed water of Cichorie or Borrage, or elfe in broth 8 ate parts, but notin our conntrie, whodelight notin fo oS ut R /Cuapy |