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Show Cwar.35. Theatram Botanicum. Trips % The Theater of Plants. Cuap,36. 939 jquoti nulla cupido, yet to fatisfie thofe that are curious, thefe they are: the rote;faith he heateth, and is hardly di- ailine his erat fabian T rise 8. if it be made e (ted, it hurteth the bladderyand healeth knots and kernells of the throate, called the Kingsevill, by bruifes or ftrokes: aa cehat orplaifter, and laid to withoyle, taketh away blacke and blew {pots that come the ontgrowings about : it taketh away ic helpeth the Sciatica if it be made upwith Ceratum Trinum ox Cyprinum the force of deadly poifonfalt the fundament,ifit be boiled with vinegar in the rinde of a Pomegranat:it refifteth medicines, The Lafer of Media and Syria is weaker than that ofCyrene, & hatha loathfomer fent: it isa jaycethar with it W ine,Pepper,and Vineis windy and fharpe in tafte, and cureth the falling of the haire,if it be anointed gar, it (harpeneth the fight, and difeuffeth the:pinne and webbein the beginning, it is putinto hollow teeth being Figges in Vitied up ina Jittle linnen cloth, with fome white Francumfence, and being boiled with Hifope and to the negar and Water, it is good to wath the mouth ; it, helpeth the biting of mad dogges, if it be applied either drunke or outwounds, alfo the venome of any other creature, orenvenomed darts or arrowes, ifitbe , it-is put into thofe wardly applied +it cureth the wounds of Scorpions if it be relented in oyleand anointed ulcers that are ready to. runne into a Gangreeneif theybefirft {carified : itbreaketh carbuncles or plague fores and hard skinnes cornes, warts, away being applied byit felfe, or ufed with Rue, Niterand Honey it taketh Figge, and healeth growing in any place being firit pared, andit mollified withacerote, or the pulpe of a dried healeth the polypusin the nofe, which tetters and ring wormes while they are yong being applied with vinegar:it with Coperas or Vardiisa pecce of flefh growing there, if it be annointed for certaine dayes with it, madeup a continual hoarfecoe off: clipped firft being fleth the outgrowangsin or wens fuperfluous other greafe; or pe % waterand upped off: ne(fe inthe throate, and cleareth the voyce that is fuddenly growenhoarfe,being if itbe put besutnte it taieth the fallingofthe pallate of the mouth ; being applied with honey, and a into honied water, and the mouth gargled cherewith: beingtaken in meates, it pale etter colored zit isvery profitable helpeth the cough being taken inareare egge,and being put into broathes with dried Figges,it agues being taken with the fhaking fits of for thofe that have the dropfie or the yellow jaundifesic taketh away Pepper and white Francumfence in wine: itis given to thofe that hayé ftrong Regge or crickes in their out horfe-leeches that by chance dre neckes,halfe a feruple weight rowled up in waxe and {wallowed:it draweth thofe who have got into the throate and therefticke, ifthe mouth be gargledwith it and little vinegar,it helpeth or vinegar and honey: the milke curded in their breafts, and the falling ficknefle being taken with Oxymell, ic provoketh womens courfes being taken with Pepper and Myrrhe, and helpeth the chollicke beingeatenin a crampes or convulfons, | ard burftings: it isdiffolved Raifin, and being drunke in lye it fuddenly helpeth ftened with water quickly becommeth white ,if any fhall tafté the Cyrenian fort it will move and ftirré all the hue mours in the body toa fweate, with a moift fweet fent, fo that his breath fhall {mell well thathath tafted bur a lictle : that of Media and Syriais not fo forcible or good, and giveth a ftranger unwholfome feng, All the forts of Laferare adulterated with Sagapen, or with Beane flower before they are dried, the falfehood whereof may be fonnd oat by the tafte,by the {mell, by fight, ot by the wetting or wafhingit in water. Some doecall the flalke Silphium, the toote Magydaris,and the leaves AZajpetum ; che mofi effectuallis the Lafer, the next are the leaves and the ttalkes laft.. This 1s Dio/corides histext : but Theophraffus doth more largely expreffe it; and Pliay from him, which is too tedious to infert here :1 will therefore but onely mention a few of thofe things that are molt pettinent,and not expreffed before, whichare thefe : the feede is broad {pread likea leafe, and cailed _foliam and i low asgold; the ftalke is annuall asisthat of Perula; the fleth ofthe cattle that feede thereon doth talte oury, the ftalke is eaten by men fundry wayes drefled or boyledsit groweth wilde by nature, and will nor be manuredor tranfplanted. Péiny faith thatin his time it was notto be had butafter the weight offilver, it was fo much deftroyed, that onely one branch was brought unto the Emrperour Nero of all that could in his time ; and P/izy faith alfo that it groweth in plenty on mount Parnaffus, Thus farre Theephrajtus , wherebyit maybe feene what loffe there is of ic by the great efleeme wasmade ofit, andby the ver- d which they have exprefied, and how hard thing it is to find out the true plant of all thatare knowne nto us, althoughdivers have referred {andry herbes thereunto as is formerly fet downe, andyet ftilltis by ivers: for fome would make Benzoin the {weete gummeto be the Lafer, and called it A/aduscizz, which is a word but derived fromLafer as it is moftlikely, and is fo farre fromreafon, that I wonder how men could be drawen fo to thinke,the Benzoin being the gummeof a great tree in the Eaft Indies, as all may knowthat will en- with bitter Almonds or with Rue, or with hot bread, tobe givenin potions : the juyce of the leaves workech the butlefle powerfully this is eaten with Oxymell, to helpethe windepipe when the {peechis loft. Pliny li in his remedyforteeth-ach, for J cannot declareth many of thefe things out of Dio/coriaes, bat varieth from him teeth totake away the paine, whenas we hollow. thinke, faith he, that any author would appointit to be put into downe headlong from an high himfelfe threw fe cau fame the for man,that ina have feene the experience thereof and being mixed with wine, it burfteth thole Serpents pla forit infameth oxenif it be put into theirnofes: to be anointedtherewho aremoft greedy of wine,and therefore, faith he,I would perfwade mennot it, ; the juyce of Sipe vith, although they doe appoint it, Galen alfo lib, de fimpl. briefly {peaketh thereof thus heate any cold part, but they arcall of is very hot ({aith he ) the leavés flalkes, androotes, doe {ufficient ftoutly & the juyce is the flatulent windineflew hereby it is hard of concoétion,but applied outwardlyit is of more effect, take away excreflences eft of all other,having a mightie drawing facultie,yet it holdeth a certaine powerto likewife fpeaketh of the nthe fleth, by reafon ofthe temperatureis faid tobe init, thus farre Galen: Serapio one fincere Greekes Laferpitinm in this manner : Lafer, faith he is knowne to the Indians to be of two forts, the asit is thought from {hining andcleare, like to Eleétrum, ofa {tronger fent andgreaterprice, whichis brought, c,P atane, Mandon, Chitor and Dely, which isa cold countrey, and extending unto Chetvam: the other ; ((orafone to Oremus in Perfia, and from e and mnddy {melling leffe, which they fayis brought from of Cumbaya, is carried to Pegw Malaca, Taxafiris, and the countries next adjoyning: the Baneans hi of any living creature vho were in timespaft Phylofophers, and are now Merchants, andforbyare to cate put it intotheir which was the inftitution of Pythagoras doe buythis Lafer, accordingto their abilitie, and being pleafant to s, rubbing the veffells therewith firft, and ufeno other fawfe to their meates toits the tafie and fmell, yet doth it not breede anyloathing in any that are not accultomed pleafant, fomewhat bitter as pickled Olivés are, but being chewed a while longerit iswery Porters and others of meanequalitie that live on bread and water only doe buy,becanfe they of mer= kinde this in deale who Bazeans the effe ofthe price buy that whichis fincere,and clenfe the impure, and doe not fufter it ro be nfed in meates before they have cured it by ire after it, and is neither hot, fharpe, nor bitter as Laferis faid to be: butit isvery probable thatthe Apothe. aries, who had many of their names fromthe Arabian authors, had thefe likewife ofAfa dulcts,and Affe fati- da, and peradventure rofe from Serapiohis two forts of Lafer, one pure, and the other impure, but that he faith the pure is of a {tronger fent, and the impureof {mall fent, The Arabians call the plant Anjuden, the juyce Alsith and Avices Almarut, and the Indians Imgaand Imgara. The Place and Time. This former fort was found about Afar/elles in France, as Lobel in eAdverfaria faith, and adjudged the trueft by Rondeleteus of any other that he had feene before, flowring and feeding in the end of the yeare as Ferula doth, the other is exprefied inthe narration before, A/pivusfaith it was firt feene in Cardinall Bembo his Garden, andafterwards inthat of the Muffaros, The Names, Ithath not found any other namefince the firft invention, than La/erpivm and Silphixm which was givenit at the firft by Lobed, onely Bawhinus callech it Gallicum, and Tabermontanus Maffilioticum ; the other is declaredin the defcription fufficiently, The Vertues, Thereis not extant in any that hath written ofthe French kinde for whatdifeafe it is effe@uall, and therefore we can fay no more thereof : but of the true Lafer Dio/corides hath given avery ample recitall, which although ! thinke it almoft needleffe to fee downe the vertues ofan herbe whichis {0 little likely tobe had as thisis, for zrgnors CuaP. XXXVI, Angelica, Angelica, Lthough I have fpoken of Angelica in my former booke, yethaving tflore to fay thereof, and to fhew likewile {ome other forts thereof, I will here infert ic with the reft, 1, Angelica fativa, Garden Angellica, or better The Garden Angellica hathdiverslargeand faire {pread winged leaves, three foote long of manygreat and broad ones, fet ufually one againft another on a middle ribbe, of apale, but and dented about the edges, from among which nfually rifeth bat one round hollowftalke ,and fivé orfixe foote high, with divers great joynts and leaves fet on them,whofefoote ftalkes with he maine {talke at the bottome, and from thence alfo towards the toppe comeforth branches ut leffer leaves at them, and at their toppes, large round {pread umbells of white flowers, but Bran[ue ribethhis with yellow fowers, which I never faw after which commeththe feede whichis fomewhat flat, hicke, fhort, and white, two alwayes fectogether, andis neat in all thef umbelliferous plants, piel 2 |