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Show 854 Crar. 20, 2. Lberis Cardamantice latiore folio, Sciatica Creffes withlargerleaves, Cuar. XI. 1, Pipperitis five Lepidium vu'gare, Peppervvort or Dittandcr, > ‘heir likeneffe artd properties have obtained the fame fame, inm vulgare, x. Piperitis five Lepid SS = 5 Wi) V Ny) IX S NSH n\F, —S hyYZ he e\YZRSS (, SU a VES or Pepperworte. iG Kee Qi SS ie Cuap,21. Dittander. Lepidium five Piperitis, Péppetwort or ad Aving fhewed you in the laft Chapter that from A shere is another Lepedivm differing MS Iheris, 1 thinkeit meete to fhew you which and togeM itis,and place it next thereunto, for J ther with it exprefle fome others, that ey ian aay | BL Weris Wop are Theater of Plants. The er TRI q BE 7. LPheatrum Botanicum. Dittander nder, fendeth Our common Pepperworte called ,Ditta of a light blewith forth fomewhat long and broadleaves and pointed at greene colourfinely dented about the edges three or forire ftalkes hard round upon ng ftandi s, theend onall fides, and hafoote high, {preading many branches toppes of them, af= ving many {mall white flowersat the heads: the roote is ter whichfollow {mall feede in {mall hooting upagaine flender running much under ground, & roote are very hot in many places, and bothi leaves and pO ES aXCES Ke BY caufeit and fharpe in tafte like unto Peppers for which tooke the name. 2, Lepidium Monspeliacum Dentellaria dillum, French Dittander or Scarre-worte. etij This herbe whichis ufually called Dentetaria Rondel five Narbonen{um, tendeth forth a number of long and e limber talkes, reddifh atthe bottome, and lying down the uponthe ground,and not ftanding upright by reafon of Jeneth, which in my Garden becamefive orfixe foote fomewhat long fet with leavés onall fides ofthem, being r {malnarrow, long, and fmooth, of a fadde greene colou t ler atthe lower end, and compaffing the (talkes about,bu Creffes in the properties : andinhis third Booke and 77, Chapter, {peaking De Ichiadis cur atione, he faith, Ze totumifchiadicos [anitati reftitmit Iberidis herbe nfiis quam Lepidinm quog;vocuntithey therefore that {eparate them and make themdifferent herbs are in an errour,but the faid P als e£ginita in the {ame Booke and place fheweth 2 Lepidium Mon[peliacum Dentellaria dittuime French Dittander or Scarre-warte, 3. Lepidium annunm. Annuall Dittander or Scarre-worte thar there is another Iveris faying, ber fraticofa que apudnosnafcitur Lauri foliys fimilibus & multo amplioribus reSpongere multis teflimonia testantur, non felum in coxarum[ed in alijs quoque diuturnis affectibus ; whichIberis or Jherias alterais verylikely tobe the Lepidinm of Pliny in his 19. Booke and 8. Chapter,whereof he faith thus, Exit Lepidiumin eubitulemaltitudinem folys Laurinis, which Lepidinm, by the judgement of the belt of the later Writers ts that herbe which fome call Piperitis, and fome Raphanus/ylvefirs ; in Englifs Dittander, whereofI fhall fpeake in the next Chapter. Damocrates, as Galen fheweth firft, called it Jeri, becaule he cureda friend of his in Zberia with this herbe, which he learned of another who knew not rhe namethereof,and therefore Damocrates in a Booke of his called Clinicus fetteth downe in Iambicke Verfes both the forme of theherbe, and the place of growing, thatothers might know it, and the mannerof the cure alfo for others to follow, which here to recite wete too tedious. Pliny calleth it Hiberss miftaking the accent over the Iota, asit is likely. It isthought alfo by fomethat it is the Grias Apuleij. Aatthiolus giveththe figure of the firft in his greater figures, and of the “other inhis leffer : Agwilaracalleth the firlt Lepidium campeftre, Tabermontanus Lberis[ecunda, Darantes Iberis, and Gerard Pbers Cardamantica, but Bauhinus Iberis Nafturti folio : the other is called Teri by , Dodonaus, Lacuna, Gefnerin bortis and Ce{alpinus, whoyetfaith it is Lepidium forte Columella ; by Anguilara LeLobel Iberis Cardamantica Lepidium Iberias Panli ; and by Baubinus Iberis latiore folio: the aragi and Hanfab : the Italians Iberride and Lepidio; the Spaniards Maftuerfo montefino ; the andwe in Englifs ¢ and Naficort ; the Germanes Wilderkerff; the Dutch Sesatica Kerff; Crefles, The Vertues , The leaves, but efpecially the rootes while they are frefh taken in the Summertime; beaten and madeintoa pultis or falve withold Awagia or Swines greafe, and applied to the place pained withthe Sciatica, to continue thereonfor foure houresin men, and two houres in women, the place atterwards bathed with wine andoyle mixed together, and then wrapped with wooll or skinnesafterthey have {weatea little, will afluredlycue, faith Galea from Damocrates, not oncly the faid difeafe in the hippes and hucklebone, and others of the joyntss fuchasis the gout in the handsor feete, but all other old griefes of the head, as inveterate rheumes, orin any 0- ther part ofthe body that ishard tobe cured, and faith allo that Damocrates cuted herebyall thofe difeafes wherunto were Sinapi(mesiafed or Thapfia applied: P/iny reciteth the fame method and mannerthat Damecrates wfethin his Verfes, andfaith that ifany part ofthe griefe remaine, the {ame medicineafter 20. dayes, is to be applied againe : the fame alfois effeCtuall in the difeafes of the fpleene:and applied to the skinne it taketh awaythe blemifhes thereof, whether they be {carres, or leprofie,or feabbes, or {curfe, &c. which althoughit exulcerate the part, yet chatis to be helped afterwards witha falve made of oyle and waxe, Disfcorides, and Pliny trom him fay,thatifthe roote bé hung about the necke, or tied to the arme it will eafe che painesofthe tooth-ach. 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