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Show Trine 19. oe tae The Theater of ‘Plants, 1565 Cuar,2, esi e Calambac: yeas Garcias faith, that that fort of (weet woodthat b commeth from Comorin, and Zcilan, and there called Aguila brava, thatist o fay, Lignum Alves [ylviftre,is not true Lignam Alves, which true {ort as all the Auncient Authours doefet it downe,is a blackifh wood in peeces, better, but yet fomewhatdifcoloured with veinesj- (fome Authou fome accounting the greater peeces to be the rs layingitisfo weighty and heavy, tharit will finke and not'fwimme being puc into water: but others doe not allowof thar note, faying chat the belt that is will {wimme) and full ofan oyleons fubftance, of a fine (weete and aromaticke fent, which it will (wea forth; Whenit is burned : Now to cometo our later times and fhew you, that for manyyeares together (as many other fuch like rare drogues,) true Lignwns Aloes was not knowneto the ons or Apothecaries of Europe, for they ufed inftead thercofakinde of Ligaum Rhodium, which Ruellins Phyfiti tooke robe 4/palathus, and bat that the Cenetians of late dayesby their travell andfearch, bothin Cairo and the Eaft Indies, caufed fome of the true fort tobe fent unto Venice, and was uponview and tryall approved, the Partuga ls Sea voyages tothe Eaft Indies, did firtt make it knowne PEREGRIN& PLANTA, STRANGE AND OVTLANDISH PLANTES. CEASSTS V LTIMA, THE LAST TRIBE. in thefe later times to Chriftcndome: but now in our Droguil t and Apothecaries fhops there is muchvariety and counterfeit ftnffe obtrude d on theignorane, divers forts being tobe feene, and yet{carce onc of them true Liguum Alves, having thofe markes and notes formcrly fet downe, and acknowledged by the Ancients, which are the onely true notes whereb fort, which are knobbed or uneven peeces, very brittle, y to know the bell - and fuch no donbt is our beft and breaking fhort, fomewhat blacke on the outfide, and more gray and difcoloured within, ofa very fmallfenc, uneillic be burned; yet 1 have feene with Mafter Trade/cant the elder before he dyed,a great peece of true Liguum Alses,and ofthe belt fort, as bigge andas long as amanslegee, withoutany knottherein, whichas he faid oar King Charles gave him with his cwne hands, bur was here keptbefore, and accounted by Many,as a great religiou s rellicke, even tobe a peece of the wood ofthat Croffe, whercon our Saviour was crucified, and therefore was ferched away againe from his Sonne, to be Kepr 28a monumentor rellicke (till : but thisislike all che other rellickes in the world, even meere Impoftures, for aflaredly if all thofe peeces ofwood,that are or were tobe found in the world, faid tobe parts of that C roffe, Were all fer rogether,they would goe neere to make One,yea many cart loads full: yet fo fond and fuperfitions are men to Leleeve lies rather then truthes, that they will rather kill the ga inefayers,and thinke that therein they doc God goad fervice, then be wife tofeetheirerrours, The other forn which are {mooth and plaine, with long eraines,are no true Lignum Aloes,. although {o called, being ineffect, The propertyes whereof are Very cordiall for the heart,a neither of thac worth in ptice, nor goodnefle nd comfortable for the head and braine, helping the memory, and warming and drying upthedefluxion s of rheumaticke humours on thofe parts, for it is hot and dryin the fecond degree,a little altringe nt and bitrer, and of fubtill parts, it much conducerh to weake liversand fainting fpirits, and ftrengtheneth alfoa languif hing ftomacke, helpcth difentries or laskes, and the CHAPS I. Pleurefie. Agallochumfive Lignum, Alots ANT RING now into my laft quartér, foto confummate this révolution, I mutt ufe another manner of Method,then formerly I have done in the precedent Tribes; forintending to thew you aswell thofe Out-landith Plants, that are called {pices Although the fabje& matter ofthis whole worke is the defcripti on of Plants, and of no other things, yet I thinke it material to this Claffis and among the other Phyficall Drogues,to create of a fewothers that are not fo; elpecially fuchas are belt knowne. and drogues in our Apothecaries fhoppes, asother fruites and ftrange trees,crow-= ing in the Eatt or Welt Indies,I would firlt perfeé the more ufuall Phyfical part of Cuap. them in an Alphabetical order and with cheminfert afew other, the more princi- pall things, although not plants, or taken from them that are for the moft part in y our fhops ufed in medicines, fhewing the place and names of them all in a continued {tile,and notin fractions, as in the foregoing parts, ‘ Lignum Aloes, or the wood ot the Aloetree. 4 ' Ajanrongn ii Zvrcanen Agallochnm and Xyloaloe in Grecke, is called alo, Agalie- chum five Lignum Aloes in Latine, and fo in Englifh,or the woodofthe Aloetree, is adrogue rare . marie ms of much worth: but (as icis with many other things that come out of the Eaft Indies untous) of foal now - ledge whatit is,and where and how it groweth. For but that Garcias ab Orta faith, that aS is like unto an Ollie ee,of theandtreeTommie. arenes branches brought him to fee,BAUS but neither flow- fg“estefotCicmenat gnaw Aloes. er norfruice, the places being very dangerous by ae haune of Tigers therein, we fhould not know we ic bore; none of the Ancients either Greekes or Arabians has ving fet downe any thing thereof, although they haveall mentionedit, and the choyce of the beft,with theVertues: onely Serapio in the 1.97-Chapter of his Booke of Simples, faithit beareth fmall berries like unto Pepper, but red : yet Garcias maketh fome doubt thereof, as he doth of fundry other his relations in that Chaptef. For although Serapio intharplgce reckgnethup divers forts, and Ruellius {peaketh of foure;yer Garcias faith, he knew but one true fore ofLignum Aloes,which grewin India, and that the other forts that were fo called, were but {weete woods affimula- ting it, bur were notthe crue and right wood, which the Arabians call eAgalugin and Hand, and they of Surrat and Decan,Vd, as itis likely from the Avabians Hand, which word with them properly fignifieth but Liguum wood, and yartox 20, preftantiffimum; but they of Malacca ane Sumatra where the true groweth,call it Garre,and the belt : Calambag Ambra Citriva, TT. ¥ low Amber? Bea tliow Amber is called #7 by the Greekes, Siccinum 570 27and in the Apothecaries hops, andis of fundry bythe Latines, and Carabe by the Arabic being whitifh, tome PS) (=~ yellow,paler, or deeperjand fomeofa very deepe red colours, {ome peeces colour,and ag ae prand cran{parent,buc much more being polifhed : Teis generally dar raken rob 5 men, whofe Springs and Foyntaines are in the Gerasane Seas, and running into I a * ter and lefler then others, andistaken up withiton in the aire likeCorall : that whichis white, as being accounted hookes, being-fott under water, burhardning the lighter and {weeter is the beft for medicine, asthe yellow for mechanicke ufes, and being rubbed’a lictle while; willthen draw unto ir {trawes, and orher fuch like {mall things, asthe Loadftonedoth iron, it willalfab dy fent, and the pouther thereof catt into the flame ofa candle urnelike Roffin or Bitwmen, witha {trong heaor other light, will make a fudden flath like ligh= tening, andbeing fo bituminons it yeeldeth anoyle, being deftilled ina retort; which although at the firlt icis very red;and fmelleth very fierce’and {trong of the firé,almoft odions,. yet by being fundry times re-diftilled, ic becomm:thfor ectifyed,that bothfen and colour is fo farre amended, thatiristhenficto beufed. The Phyficall properties of Ambcr are many, forbeing moderately hovanddr y, being burned on quicke coales, the fumes feceivedito rhe head,doe much helpe the moift deftillations thereofonthe eyes,teeth,nofe,or ftomacke, and is ve= tyeonvenient for thofe tharhave the falling fickeneffe, toleffen their fits,and coreftorerhem: it is good to provoke womens courfes, and fingalar good to helpethe ftrangling of the mother,. and helpcth women with child; both to goe our their full time with cafe,and to hinder their mifcarrying that are fubjett thereunco, to take halfe adratme of the pouther ina reare egge,orin Wine three or foure that have the whites, and men that have the gonorrhea orranning mornings together,and this alfo helpeth them ’ ofthe reines, con{traineth the flux, and ftrengthning the parts very much,and isaicertaine remedy for thofe that have theirurine {topped manydayes together, caufing ictoavoid plentifully, being taken in Saxifrage water; it isalfo very good for old coughes, and thofe that arefallen intoa confamption, to takethe pouther thereof mixed with Conferve of red Rofes inthe Mornings falting, andis very availeable for joyntiaches, and the running gout. The Chimicall oyle of Amber being taken inwardly, three or foure drops in alittle Mufcadin e doth Wonderfully eafethe{tone, and the ftop< Ping of urine;or ftrangury making itbydroppes: two or three dropsufed outwardly on the remples, the nape ofthe necke;or behind the eares,doe warme and dry.acoldimoilt bratne, difcufiech winde inthe earesand head, and ftrengtheneth the memory,andisafingular helpe inall cephalicall difeates, |