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Show 1542 CHar.97 ° Theatrum Botanicum. Tripe 16; onrintodrops,fo likeuntoThms or Olibanum, chat many did counterfeitit therewith,as Galen faithisb, 2, decomp: meds fecrndgener.c.2, and tib,3.c, 2, whocallethit mor gionue Picee balla, and this petadventure may be that Roffin of the pitch tree, made in Afi, and called there Sphagas as Pliny faith, who alfo in: another place faith hereofthat the pitch tree giveth a great deale of Roffin folikeunto Thra, chat being mingled together, they can fearfe be difcerned tobe feverall: this Roffin alfo is ufed to be mixed with the pine tree Roffin before {poken of, whichis likely to be Galen his vrxeuisi, and with them the Refina ftrobilina mixed all together : out of this tree likewife being woundedasin other trees for that purpofe, is drawne forth a liquid Roffin, like unto thar of the Firre tree, called by Pliny Pix Brutia,as U takeit, whichis redder then the ordinary Roflins and perads ventiite maybe alfo the Co/ophony of the ancients, which was like Refinafrid?a, and brought from Colophony, tout mofe tenacions,as betweene Roffin and pitch, which Ltaketobethat whichis ofually called with us now adayes Burgony pitch, which while it is frethis fomewhat foft in working,and fharpe in fent, but afterward grow. ing asdry asa dry Roflin, that wi'l eafily be made into pouther, cither together orfeparate is madepitch, as is before fhewed. 6. Refina eAbiegna, i Ofthe wood and ftickes hereof as of the pine, Hi The Firretree Roffin or Turpintine, Some doe fay that there is gathered from the Firre tree, a dry kinde of Roffin paffing out thereof voluntarily as is before faid of the pine and pitch trees, and put altogether to make our commonF rancumfence, which How true or falfeicis, I cannot either maintaine or difprove.the knowledge of many {uch things, althoughof dailyule is not eafily attained, by themthat dwell farre from the naturall places of their growing, F roithis Firre tree being bored to the heart,as is done in.other the like; and {omefay out of the pitch tree as well, iffueth forth in the youngertrees acleere yellowifh Turpintine or thinne Roffin, bat fromthe elder fomewhat thicker, .Which bes ing put into great cau!drons is boyled with a double quantity of water, but I thinke twice double will notferve, fo long even two or three dayes continually night and day, untill it become fo throughly boyled and dryed, that it will not yeeldtoathrult, when it iscold, bur will be hard and dry, atid then is called yellow Roffin, and being molten a newis cat into greatcakes, of an hundred weighta peece more or lefle, arid according as the Turpin- T rise 16. is made the Printers Incke where with they print Bookes, but not our ordinary Incke now adayes, howfoever it clenfing heating drawing, and mollefying as well, and drying more then pitch: the pouther of Roffinisalmo ft as effectuallas Amber pouther in the running of the reines, experimented by fundry Chirurgions, who haveufed it inftead of the beft fort ofdryed Turpintine, whichis for the {ame purpote,eithe r to try conclufions or to faye charges: itis ufed with pitch in manyfalves, or without it for all the purpofeés whereunto pitch ferveth forall them, incarnate and heale them up after. watds: itmay be ufed in fumes with Olibanum, Mafticke,and other things that are burned, and the headayred withtheir {mokesto helpe todry cold rhenmes,catarrhes, anddiltillati ons from the head. The Roffin of the Cypreffle tree is heating and binding, and fervetheff étually for all the purpofes that is {poken before of the nutg orleaves, or what elfe thereof isufed +s The Roffins of the {mall Cedars are neere the property ofthe prickely Cedar, althoughnot fo effectuall or violent, In the like manner whatfoever droppeth or runneth forth from the Sabinetrees is fharpe and hotlike the leaves, &c, of the tree: : and for the Arbor vite, although there hath been fometimes akinde of Roffinfotind fticking to the barke ofthe tree, yet ichath beene info little quantity, thar I have not learned whatnfe any hath made of it. The other Roffins of the Balme tree, Jurpintine, Lenciske and Storax treesare {pokenof fufficiently in their proper Ci apters,and need not repetition he « againe, of the fame things thete delivered: The Vertues of the 7 us or Olibanum, you fhall havein thenext Claffis with the relgtion thereof, . greene wounds to heale them, and forall old fores and ulcers to clenfe _ a Guar, fritta of the Latines. 7. RefinaCupreffina, The Roffin of the Cypreffetree, There is fometimes found on this tree, a cercaine kinde of dry Roffin, but fo little that we havelittle knows ledge thereof, and lefleule,Dio/corides and Plisy doe both make mention of a liquid Roffin, to be taken ont of it as ont of the Turpintine tree Larch tree and others. §. Fromthe Savine trees likewife of both forts, in thehot Countries istaken a dry Roftin, 12. Ofthedryor liquid Roffinstaken from the Léntiske or Maltické tree, from the Fal/amum or Balme tree) fromthe Styraxor Storax tree,andfrom the Turpintinetree, I have {poken {nfficiently before, faving onely thar ¥ would give you further to underftand that in Syria, and the parts neere thereunto they make pitch of the Turine in the fame manneras they doc of the Cedar, befides the cleere true Turpintine that is drawne forth by ing the tree,as in other Roffin bearing trees, The Vertnes of Roffin and Pitch, Roffin in generall as Galen faith, that is of all forts, is hot and dry, but they differ mach one from another, i 1g more or lefle fharpe and hot, and of thin parts: the Strdbcdina,that is, the Roffintaken from the nuts of the pines isthe hottelt, and that fromthe Turpintine tree the moft temperate, the dry white Roffin ofthe pitch tree ishotand dry, but yeris not fodrying as the Strobolina, although more heating: that of the Eirre tree is as a meane betweene them both, even asthatCo/ophony, which {melleth andis like Thus or Olibanumis temperatelikewife, the moiftelt of them all is that other fort of the Larch tree Roffin, which is the fharper, of the ftronger fent,and morebitter afte: The huile de Cade or ftinking Tarre, comming from the Oxycedrus or prickely Cedar whenicis burned, healeth all {cabbes and itchin manor beaft, and otherdeformityes in the skin, asthe Lepry morphew-and the like,and per formethin a manner what(oever the Cedria ic felfe can doe, The Venice Turpintine boyled to a dry Roffin, is farre better then any other ordinary boyled Roffin ‘to {tay the flux of Gonorrhea. The commonPrancumfence, Parroffin,or Roffin of the pine tree befides the ufes to buirne and perfume houfe as is before faid, it fervethin falves as a principall ingredient,to heale andfillup with flethhollow ulcers; and to warme and comfort any cold griefe or partof the body: The Roffin of the pitch tree, called Bargony pitch, in being harper and morehot, ismuchufed for fearcloathes againtt cold aches, and all forts of paines and grie¢fes proceeding of cold, and by reafon of the tharpe and quicke {ent, is the more piercing : The pitch it {elfe ishot and dry in the {econd- degree. yet mollefyeth hard knots tumours and {wellings, it bringeth boiles and foresto fupparation, and breakethcarbunckles; and blanes, difperfeth and fcattereth botches and empofthumes, draweth forth corruption in fores, and healeth them bycaufing fleth to grow upinthem, and is ufed in many falves, ‘both oyntments and plailters that ferveto draw and toheale: 1 he Tarre water that commethfirlt out and with the Tarre, doth kill any-Tetter or Ringworme being ufed thereon, and likewife any itch, and healeth up feabbes or {calles} inthe head, the Tarve it felfe is hotter then the pitch,’ andisufed faith Dio/torides, againtt poyfons,as alfo is good for thofe that have the Tiffick or cough,or rotten flegmeftuffing che lungs,and for hoarfenefi¢ ani tough flegme, thae will not eafily be expe@orated: being rubbed with falt on a place that is bitten bya Serpent helpethit,and being mixed with as much waxe‘ictakéch away the ruggedneffe of the nailes,it helpeth the hardnefie ofthe mother,” the rifts inthe fundament, the chapsonthe ulcers, it breaketh or diffolveth the kernels underthe eares and throate,handsor feete, it ftayeth alfo {preading calléd the Kings evill, being made up intoa pultis with Barley meale, and aboyes urine; and applyed warmes it is likewife dropped into with # little oyle of Rofes to cleanfethe matteringofthem: it ayeth creeping ulcers. applyed with the cares Brimftone or Cuar,98, might bein ufe in Diofcorides his time. The Turpincine that commeth out ofthe Firre tree is fharper and hotter thenthat ofthe Larchtree, and mote naufious to be taken inwardlyas I {aid before, and therefore shore nfuall; putincofalves, and for outward temedics : The Roffin that is made thereof is neere unto the propertyof Pitch tine ig in cleareneffe and goodnefle fo willthe Roffinbe, and this isthe euzirn ¢puxm of the Grecians; and Refina 9. From the Cedrus Lycia the Cyprefielike Cedars of bothforts,is taken fiach like dry Roflins as from the Oxycearus in {mall peeces falling to pouther in che chewinglike unto it. : 10: From the Arbor vite fometimesis takena dry Roffin in {mall peeces and {mall quantity. tr. Promthe Arbor Thurifera is gathered the Thus ot Olibanum, but what the tree is from whence it wasta. ken we knownot, nor they that have made mentionofit, for fomefay one thing and fomé ancther, fo that I dare fay no moreof it here,but in the next Claffis. : The Theater of Plants, or the barke of the pine tree,or with branne; The blacking that 1s made of the pitch whenit is burned, healeth wateringeyes, andthe fretting fores in the corners of chem: and withitand ordinary Turpintine well mixed, ae XCVITI; De Gummis arbornm & herbarum eavund 5 condenfatis, Of the Gummes of trees,and herbes,and of the dryedjuyces of them. a.) He Roffins of all forts being declared in the former Chapter, there remaineth to {peake of Gums iffuing both our of Herbs and Trees, and the condenfate juyces of plants, yet Z mutt except our +] of this number and Chapter the gummesand dryed juyces, whofe plants are nor kiiowne tous, B! from whence they proctede,and that are brought of old or of later dayes, from the Eaft or Welt k | Indies, whichare of ufein phyficke, for [determine to handle thei inthe next Cla isy with ——Snew2 SS the forraigne drugges in the Apothecaryes fhops, Ihaveas you{ce here joyned the condenfare juyces unto the gummes, becaufe to them that knownortheir manner and nature,theyf eeme to be gummés, one as wellas another: and that I may fhew you the difference betweene a gumme anda dryed juyce, and both of them from the Roffins before fpokenof, thus they are: Gummesare of two forts, one that isofa wateryor earthy fubftance, and will diffolve in warme or cold water, wine, or the like,and not inor With oyle, nor mele of themfelves, being fet to the fire, and willburne without flaming, and {uch arethe Gummes ofm ny tr The other is oylions or m@uous and in part tefinous, in that it cleaveth fo faft to any thing couchethit, andthac will not diffolve with cold water,wine,of vinegar, buc onely with warmed wine or vinegar, and will alfobee ter diffoive of themfelves being fet tothe fire, then the other gummes will, and will give 4 flame in the burning, yet nothing fo much asthe Roflins, whichas I (hew fore are wholly unctuous, melting with the heate of fire, and burning with aflame like oyle and {uch lil tuous matter being fer on fire; Another difference of a Roffin froma Gummeisthis, that all Roffins altho gh liquid({ome er then others, will be dryed tobe made into ponther; the juyces have (carfe any of them anyunctuous crin them, being onely compofed ofa watery andearthyfubftance, condenfatec gether, which wholly diffolveth with water and burneth like earth: to begin therefore. 1. Gummi Arabicum. Gumme Arabecke, Isa certaine cleare white Gumme that is br. ught from tle parts beyond the Seas,andis takente be the Gumme that commethout of the Acaciatree of Evipt »y many good Authours, Bellonivs alfo confirming it, who tvayailed through thofe parts, and obf “ wholived a while in Egipt,yet {ome have taken it to be the gumme of plumme trees,or of o nthofe parts: Ic is of fundry formes and colours, for fome are in found hard dry peeces, of the bigne fl is ball,or bigger, or not halfe fo great orleffe, all of them rugged and not {mooth onthe outfide, bur wl for the moft part, which beingbroken is cleare pure, white id tran{parent, yet fome more or Ieffe chen others, andfome are very {mall long peeces, and therefore called vermiculatum, andheld for the belt, being in fubltance like the other peeces of the fame greater fize, are teddifh, yet cleare and tranfparentalfo, which taketo be the gumme of {ome other tree, becanfe iris of (ucha dike ferentcolonr, ‘but that isno fufficient reafon to di(prov for we feein divers others forts of gummes, that the feverall peeces doe not all hold one forme orco! our, and yet are true = chis diffolveth of it felfe in water,and a glewto ftiffenbinde, or falten manythings + the tree hercotfhall bee declared the fecond Chapter after this, for the manner thereof, it diftilleth or droppethout of the tree in bigger or leffer peeces, as either nature liftto thraft icforth, or as itis helped bycutting k i giving it way to iflue forth,which ticking too,and not falling offor upon the ground, is fo gathered 2. Gummi Prunorum & Cerafornm, Plumme tree and Cherry tree Gumme: t The Gums ofboth thefe trees come forthin the fame manner that is {aid of the former, being of fevérall colours cach ofthem, that ofthe Plumme tree for the moft whiter then the other, which is redder : yet both of them cleere and more clammy then the form y,fomé of the Plumme trees being reddifh, and of the Cherrytrees white, 30 Gammi |