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TRipey6 ling the purer fpirits,- and by the heate caufeth the other to growacide, and is of great ufe, both in health and fickenefle,both in meate and medicine: burnow adayes we have {uch a baftardizing, and. falfification. thereof Sapa Cure that we {earfe can get anyright toufe, The Sapa and Defretumdiffering but onely in the manner of boyling i may compreh-nd them both under Cwte, and was deviled toferye inftead of hony, as Pliny faith, ithelpeththe cough and fhortneffe of breath, and to expectorate toughfleg me from the chelt and lunges, it alfo cafily pafleth wm throughthebelly, and makethitfoluble, Vinegar contrariw ife cooling and drying, as the Cute is heating and + moifteni nd therefore ferveth to correé heate in feavers, and to refift ‘putrefaction, It cuteeth rovehi fle rd baked, and not eafily up and {pit forth: itis fharpe and penetrating, andvery abbes,itches,tetters, ringwormes,and brought ufetull fret ing and creeping ulcers, to.correct their malignity, and extirpate their corroding quality, butis offenfive to the finewes, byits pierfing and drying property, caufing them to inke. But the deftilicd vinegar is of a more fiery and penetrating quality, whichit gaineth by the deltillati on thereof, the manner and order in thisbe 1g quite differing from the deftilling of Wine, wherein the pureft and illatam ftrongelt {pirits doe firft rife and come forth, whenasinv gar almolt two third partsare. taken fromit, which are the weakelt, before the laft and frongeft rifech, burt laft which isthe Empyreuma, and ferveth cven asthe vinegarit felfe doth, but with more force, and as the Uchit tlem, wherein the tind and {pirits ofimple medicine arereferved: Butto {peake of Wine, from alittle feas of matter : forto fhew you ail the feverall whence all thefe are made and derived is toenter up colours, fents, ftrength,ages, and tallesof fimple wine om- Were too tedious and needleffe aifo, and fois it likewife to thew youall the forts of compound orartificial! w ve Whichare as infinite as the herb E Fthemare , and take l ingredients their: names fromthe. € that compound t wood wine, Eyebright wine, Scamm * in infinite t fay, each whereofhath the property 5 that w t it The Theater of Planis, 1559 that is calcined untill ic be white, hath then put of all purging quallity,an d bath gained a caufticke burning property,thar will corrhode and eate away feabbed nailes and w atts, and foone be brought into a faltyand willalfo foone be refolvedinto an oyle or liquour,, if it be either laid upon a ftone, or hung up in alinnen bagge, ina moift feller to be received as it droppeth downe, and is the molt admirable opifex in Alchimy that ever was knowne, and notto be paralleld with any orher thing, that I know + but tofhewthe operation of it in feverall medicines byprecipitation or otherwife,is not for this Worke, it mult be fought ont of thole profefled Authours of the Spagyricke Art,to whom I mult referte yous There is another kinde ofoyleot Tartar, of a farre milder temper and is morelike onto acleare water, whichis very effectual to clen‘¢ the skinne fromall manner of {potr, {carres, morphew, or difcolourings whatfoever, and maketh it {mooth andamiabl e, and whiere there is canfe to apply it, will helpe to bring on haire on the placesdecayed. The wild Vines are in property noleffe ¢ but more binding then the branches of the manured, ftaying the laske and {pitting ofblood, pr pleafing to an hot {tomacke,or that loatheth meat: the leaves hereof are as good tor lotions, as of t fores in the mouth the privy-parts and the fundament; the afhes of the branches are likewile uf<d to cleay ¢ the eyefight offilmes,and what elfe may offend them,toclen(e fores andulcers; and to take away the over growing skinnesof the nailes ofthe hands or toes, they might worke cogether,buc fimp leld almoft Cwa Ps105, wheyifh watery humours thereof,and applyed co womens brefts that are over full of milke, doch dry. them up, but the Cremor Tartavi whichis the purer part thereof, and cipecially it it be made as cleare as Criftall, (the highelt worke of art in that kinde) doth werke more fafely and more effectually then the Crude Tartar candoe: but this T¢rtar . Cuap. CY, into our Zerberm, The Barbery bush ortree, ese He Barberry bufh fhootethforth manyflender ftemmes or ftalkes from the roote, fometimes to a grear Ss heighth, covered with a {moorth whitifh rinde or barke,and yellow next the Wood, which is whire eaeS fie to breake, and pithy inthe middle,fet fult of iar pe {mall white thornes, and three ar every leafe all- 5 Apper moft, which are fomewhat {mall es of wine it fe or to abide e) it encreaf erhto d being taken at meate, it provol and driveth forth raw-t 1g th the'vitall fpirits, and procu goodcolour in thofe chat want it, orare maci= to aconfumption, fo as it be not accompany itexpelleth feares, cares, and i crity mirth, and bodily:pleafure, dand ficke that lacke its itlikey liver, {pleene, and wombe, and help v hereof, the erce é I inthe body Fs, caufeth qui i <enefle, and the dropfie,. and the over travelled, over w ainft Hemlock¢, Coriander, Poppy. and Opium, Wolfebane,Muit {on or dangerous herbe,or roote is taken ; Thefe be the effects of the mi 14s on the contrary fide, , the ¢Xceffe thereof brecdetha diftraétion in the fenfes, i¢evill, the trembling of the joyxts, the palfie,and the dropfié, bu re being admitted in the cure, pirit of Wi re difference y of Wine o be the milde ng led againe witha few outany other {pice, commeth es; O farre fhort of which was good and whofefe toteil you the the nature or quality of wine, but of Barleya r youthe properties of the {pirit of Wire, ] iransferte to Agua vit ker effeéts: for hereby fhall_you knowth ad firength, byfettingit on fre, witl its burning fiercely, and will confamed : the other burning i infipide and much watery partbehind it: th purer therefore that itis, the {tronger it 8 be taken at atime, and that notof it fel infome Wiveor other liquonr, for feare of 1 fj and chiefly upon fymptomes I \ pect and good ¢ ah much more effect i aforefaid ¢ the natu: emory,and the co tha cold and moilt ft ng outwardly appl 14 cicatrifeth all fores, i edeth of heate, or is acceflary d f{pleene, andr x cl <¢ perfons the more enflamed: Thef Wine tt felfe,. ferves as.a Vehiculuntc menflrné, to drawout the tin@ure of diver {peake-of the Lees of Wine,. which being hatdned is called Tartarum, Tartaror Ar fromthe whitelt. Winesis accounted the principallbeft for any medicine: bne the red and orhers, to pollith theirfilver, and Dyers in fe they being made pee CRB and taken,the ting their dyes: the belt white 7 quantity ofa dramme ata time in fome ! JFotu,tor tome time together in dropfies or evill difpofitions of the body, toexpell both by u anid fong,finely deyted about the edges, and of a frefh greene colour: thé Aowers come forth at the joynts with the leaves, many tanding on a long clutter, yellow while they are fret, which turne into fmall long and roundberryes, hanging downe in bunches, npona fmall ftalke white at the firft,bat very red when theyare throughripe, ofa fharpe fowre tafte, able to fertheir teeth on edge that fhall eate them,the roote is yellow and fpteading. There'is another fort, whofe berryesare thrice fo bigge as the former, not differing in any otherthing. There is another alfo, whofe berryesfor the molt ; pare are without any {tonesor kernelsin them, or but Berber, The Barberry bufh or tree, here and there fome. The Place and Time, OO Acctam Trepe 16, It groweth in many ofthe woods in Aufria, HuxS4ria, and in Francealfo, the bloflomes come forth in 44ay, and the fruiteis ripe ity Septemibers and. O doer, The Names. Tt hath formerly beene held by very g6od anid learned Authours, tharrhisbufh is the Oxyacantha of ‘Diofeor'des,and hath continued tothis day, elpecielly aeng the Apothecaries;. yet Corduf accounted it an €rrour, and therefore would rather call it the Oxyacanthes of Galen, then the Oxycanrba-of Diolcorides, and fo doch Cumerarias allo, bur we have thewed here what the true Oxyacantha of Dis(corides is, eventhe Pyracantha which hath ever green& leaves, friable berryes, neither of which can agree ary bufh. Others againe Hive takenic a appendive Pliny, but Chu/ihath thewnefle of char Ppinion, AZatthiolus and it Crespinws, becaule the vulgar Ira Wit Crejpizo, and {ome thereafter in Latine pind, which fome) attribute’ to the Goole, but manyochers doc call it Berber#y and fo the ail yore goethnow adayes. The: French call ic Ejpine vinette, the Germanes Erbfel, Sawracke, and Verfiag the Dutch Sawerboom, and we in Englife Barberryes, The Vertues. e leaves of Barberries make a fine cart fawle like fe of Sorrell, and ferve to coole and refrefh 2faintinghot {tomacke andliver,and fepreffing fowre belchings ef choller, and is therefore good for aguifh people : but the fruite is muchimore cooling and bin- ding quenching thirft,andreftrayning chollericke and peltilentiall vapours, and is of very good ufe in cither Rreere 2 j V4) y) \ SN Ay Yey < a7 9 OV, ‘ Ze is = <| nNi |