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Show "3570 CHrarg, Tbeatrum Botanicam. TRiz217. times well knowne and ufed,is now adayes quite loft and forgotten, being not broughtinto thefe Parts, butthe Affefeiida hath a continual refidenee and recourfe unto us, and is as Garcias faith, the true and onely Lafer ot Laferpitinm ofthe ancients, and {0 accepted generally by the e4vabians in India, and fay they etre michtily that inake them differing. Trese 17. The Theater of Plants, ae hand,will finell egregioufly throughall the place, to rake away the loathing of the ftomacke to meate, and to ftrengthen the weakeneffe of italfo, andis muchufed by them to provoke unto Verrery, and caufeth onero expell winde mightily, which thing was tryed by a Portngall as Garcias relateth ituponan Horfe, whom the King of Bifnager would have bought, bur that he was OverfubjeG to bréake winde, but after that the Portugal had cured him thereofthe King bought how hecured him, he anfwered him, andaskin him with Afjafetida given in his provender, no méryaile faid the King,if he we cured withthe gods meate, yea rather with the devils faid the Portxgall, but foftly, and in his owne languagefor feare ofbeing overheard. a Cuar, Balfamum Peravianum, IX, The WeltIindian Balfamams, F the true Bad/arum Ihave entreatedin the laft foregoing Claffis or Tribe, divers other forts of liquours called Balfarimfor their excellent verthes,b but there havé béene rought out ofthe Wet Indies, every one of which for a time,after their firlt bringing were of great account with all men and bought at great prices, but as greater {tore was brought, fo did the prices diminith, and the A} ule decay, when as it was the fame thing and of the fame vertue it formerly was , fuch j the inconttant courfe of the world inall things, Onefort of Balfamum which is of moft fre ute ule withus, iscalled blacke ot browné Balfamum, becaufe the colouris blackiflyjand tending to browne being dropped forth, which as Afonardus faithis gathered from a tree, fomewhat bigger then a Pomegarnettree, (whofe fruite or long pod I here fhew you, a8 Ireceivedit, witha very browne almof blacke colour, and {melt folikethis Balfamum or Benxoin, q Fruélus five theea Baljami Occidentabs arboris. The fruite of the Welt Iudie Ballame tree, that I am cerrainely perfwaded it was gathtred fromthis tree ) not by incifion, as the juyces, liquours, and gummes of other trees ( which yet thie tree doth alfo in fmall quantity, yetbeing white, and {o precious with the Indians, that they Will not/part with any of ic) bat made after the manner that the Indiansufe'to drawforth che jayces and liquours out ofall their o- thertrees, whichis by eutting the btanches, arid the bodies alfo fometimes of trees into {mall peeces, whichafter the boyling in a great quantity of Water, the oyle {wimthing onthe roppe, ‘after it is cold is {cummed of by them and referved. This is of athicke, yet running confiftence, and of a fharpe and fomewhat bitter tafte, but ofan excellentfine fent, comming necreft unto Benzsin, but will not long endure, being rubbed on any thing that is kept in the ayre, but never lofeth it fent being kept elofe ina glaffe or the like. This is ufed inwardly and outwardly for divers good utes, and although in fome it canfeth a kinde of losthing to theftomacke, if it rouch the tongue, in drinking foure or five droppes in wine fafting, yet it helpe- eth the weakeneffe of the flomacke, the Tifficke, and fhortneffe of breath, thofe that are purfie and the paines anddifficultyin making water, it moveth alfo womens courfes, ahd caufetha good colour, anda fweete breath, rectificth the evill difpofition of the liver, openeth obftru@ions, and pre= ferveth youthfillneffe even in aged perfons that have much ufedit, and hel- peth the barrenneffe in Women: being eutwardly ufed, it is fingular good to heale anyfreth or greene wound,and old ulcers,and foresalfo: it eafeth paines in the head or necke, and {welling in any part ofthe body, the ora cloth wet therein and applyed: ithelpeth digettion, firengthe places thereof being annoyntéd therewith, neth the ftomacke, diffolveth winde, eaferh the {pleene, and Balfavtum album, the Sciatica,the ftrangury and ftone, and difcuffech all nodes hardneffe of tumours, being applyed warmetothe places pained: it warmeth and comforteth the finewes, and and Keepeth them from thinking) Another white and very cleere Balfame of avery {weet font CMonardu the continent of America in fome good quantity, which was taken byincifios faith, was brought likewife from n from very great treesfull ofbranches tothe bottome, whofe outer baike is thicke like Corke, under which there isa thinner, from whence being flit the Balfarsnm droppeth forth, the finite hereofis very{mall even no bigger then a Peafe, and of a bitter tafte, inclofed in the end of a longthinne whité cod, wherewith the Indians doe fmoake their beads againft the paines thereof, andrheumaticke deftillations : This liquout or Bal/amxm is accounted of much more vertue thenthe former, one dtoppebeing faid to be of moreforce and effeét then a greatdeale of the other. There is Balfanum another fort of precious Bulfamur faith Afonardus brought from To/#, which isa Province betweene deTo, Carthae geni'and Nombre de Dios, and is gathered by incifion fiom {mall low 'treés,like unto low Pinesfull of branches, but with the leaves of the Carobtree abiding greene al wayes, the manured ycelding moreliquour then the wild, and is ofgreat accountwiththe Indiatis and Spaniards, being taught by them : itis of a gold red col our,of a mid. dle confiltence and very clammy or glutinous, of a fweere and pleafant talte, nor forts of Balfamum will doe,and of an excellent fent like untoa Lemmon, whereof a provoking vomit, as other droppe being let fall into the hand 1571 Vntothis AZonardus attributeth vertues of the true 4° rabian Baltame,and much more then unto any of the former, whichbecaufeI wonldallnotthemake a double repetiti~ cnofthings,I referre you unto them. It is generally uf€d in our dayes for the rifing ofthe motherin Women, as all {trong jt and evill ented things be, whichdeprefieit, andis fingular good to be putinto hollow aking teeth, to cafeand take away the paines : Onefaith he tated of it for a ina cold timeof the yeare, andafter a litt walking he found himfelfe poffeffed witha gentle {weate,bothtryall head,armes,and bedy,and fhortly after found h le is ftomacke better difpofed tohis dinner then at other times before, and digefting itbetter. Gareias faith the Indians ufe it Cwar.to. Cav A Bdellinm, The Gumme called Bdeliium. Lthough‘Die/corides hath given no defcription of thé tree that béareth Baellizrs, nox any part thereof; yet Pismy in his twelfth Booke and ninth Chapter fecteth it downe, thatit is blacke or ofatad forme, and of the bigneffe ofthe white Olive tree, having leaveslikean Oke, and fruitelike the wild Fig tree, which how truely expreffed reftethdoubtfill, for Lobel fetceth forth alticke of ath my tree foundamong drugges, with divers peeces of gumme cleaving toit, moft likely to be Bdelinns oF Myrthe, whichare verylike one unto another, being both gathered from eruell thorny trees, and Thevet {aith that he faw in one wood of trees, two thoufand of thefe i forts prowing mixed together, and that in fuch countries Bilt) frutlusquibufdam acceptus quem potius ouciTveophvafti frutium opinatur, thar are fubjectto{now, yet the beft Authonrs fay that Arabia is the chiefe place where they grow, which thinke never faw orfelt {now, yetin Genefis 2, verfe 12, we read that Bdelliam, and the Onix{tone, befide Gold, grew in the Land of Havilah, whichis interpreted to be Eaftward from Perfias fothatboththe tree and the gum thereof arecalled by one name, for the choy fe wherof Di- WA SSNS = SSSS Tex ofcorides {eccethdowne that it fhould becleerelike glew, fat on the infide, eafily melting or diffolving, pure or cleane from drofle, {weere in theburning like unto Vagais odoratus, (for fol conftrue it althou thours doe diverfly interpret thofe words, fome making Vnguis tobe a note of whire peeces in the gumme, like the naile ofones hand, but in my judgement the Vagus is referred by Dio/corides to the {weete fumes of Bde in theburning, whereunto itistike, forhaving faid that ic was /uffite odoratum, he would rather fhew what fent ithad,namely of angus odoratus) and bitter intalte,which are fuch no.es as we can hardly find in any that is brought tous, for we find littie bitterneffe in any and leffe fweetneffe in the burning ofit or Vngwis cdoratws, bur rong andunpleafant rather, neither is it foft or eafie to be diffolved, but hard and not robe diffolved equally, bur into Staines or knocs without warmeh, yet is ours ofa fad brownecolour fomewhat like glew, ard muchlike unto Myrthe, fo that they are often miftaken one for another, bur that Bdellivm is harder,dryer, and browner: but there are{undryforts thereof as AZatthiolus (heweth, and Baibinus in hisnote upon him,that he hath {eene, for not onee ly in former times there was much adulterating ofdrogues,by thé Indiansas it was fuppofed, but molt probable ty the Arabians whowere the chiefe Merchants for thofe places, and for thofe things, and I thinke the lewes learned that art of them, and have exceeded them in cunning. The properties hereof are heating and mollefieth hard cumours, andthe nodes of the necKe, 2 throate, or finewes, or of other parts, any way applyed; it provoketh urine and womens courfes, andbreakeththe ftone: iris good forthe cough, and for thofe char are bitten orftung by Serpents: it helpethto difcuffe he windineffe of the {pleene,and the paines of the fidestit is good alfo for thofethat are bur(t en and havea rupture : it mollefieth the hardneffe of the mother, and dryeth up thé moiltneffe thereof,and drawethforth the deadbirth. : Cuap. XI, Beben albam & rubrum, White andred Ben: He ancient Authours have beene both verybriefein declaring thefe rwo forts of Drogues, and aré alld hot at one among themfelves what the true Ben album & rubram(hould be, for Atarius and Myrep/us § make the Hermodattillis tobe Ben, howthencan any of our Moderne Writers, find out the true Ben of the Ancients, yet divers have appropriated fandry herbes unto them; bur rhey have all come farre fhort thereof, not onclyin the ching, but efpecially in the properties, Clu/ius fettethfortha kinde of wild Campion, which as he faith the learned Profeffours at Salamanca in Spaine tooke tobe the Ben album of the ancients, but isnothing fo: Dodoneus {etteth downethe Papaver fpumeum which he calleth Polemonium tobe it, and fome takethe wild Parfneptobeic: forthe Benrubrum, they of Afompelier call finall fort of wild Campion, othere the red Valerian of Dodoneus, Matthiolus the Limomam, and others takethe Biffort roote for it; Garcias faith that fome tooke the Zedoaria tor one of them 5 — ne Camerarivs a\fo {uppofe that the garden red < S{(f{f{f{ 2 ree |