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Show 1574 Cuaris, Theatrum Botanicam. quality,of thin parts &did participate of a kind of {weethes, and is good in the difeafes and weakenes of the {tomacke, theill difpofition ofthe Liver, the fainting of the heart, and the rifing of the mother in women, and Trisx17. Trese1y ‘TheTheater ofPlanis, Blatta Byzantia five unguis odoratus, ‘Thefweete Indian Sea fith thell. ‘ theirfits, and that none of thefe qualities were ever attributedto the purple Periwinckle hell. Dio/corides writeth thatthe beft come from the red fea, and are white and fat, that is, will eafily burne ( but fuch did never fee) and that thofe that come from Babylox are blacke, but the fumes of both are like unto Ca/fereum, which argues thofenot to be right that are in our fhops, although fome doe differ from others in the fife, as is expreffed inthe table. Yer ¢Watrhiolus {etteth forth in his Commentaries on Diofcorides, a certaine {mall long hollow fhell, almoft like a tooth, which Irather take tobe the Dentali of the ancients for Ungwis odora- Borax. Borace; ORO"4* OF Borrax called by the Greckes Chry/acolla from the propérty of fodoring of gold: and Tincar; AMM or Tincal by the Arabians, is {aid by Garcias tobe a Mineral] matter, gotten out ofa Mine of eartli; vA in a mountaine,about an hundred miles off from Cambayette,but this is not the Chryfocolla of the AunSY cients, Dio/corides,Galenand Pliny, which in their times was of agreene colour, found in Mines of fundry mettals,made into pouther and wafhed often, and prepared for the purpofe; but ours is made by many in our owne land as wellas in others, by art as Allomeis, into {mall pure white peeces. of no tafte or bur wal- Jowith; and iseafily beaten into pouther; the fabftance whereof itismade, being brought us ont of the Ealt Indies, and no place elfe that I know, and is certaine white {tones, put into,or wrappedin fat or greafe, which iscalled unrefined Borace, and fo brought tous, untill irbe refined, as. we have ittoufe: the properties where- of befides the fodering of gold, filver,copper, &c. isof good efficacy,not onely inwardly taken tobinde fluxes of thebelly, aslaskes andthe like, but the gonorrhea paffio,or running of the reines, but outwardly to foder up any cut or freth woundin the fleth,andis oftenufed alfo with other things as a facus for the face,&c. twe, being likely {uch as were ufed in his time, which I have here exprefled , inthe fame table with thofe forts that our Drugifts impofe onus, being of two forts, of broad and fomwhat bollow brown fhels,the one {mooth, and the other rugged,and the one fmaller then theother. Cuap, XVII: Cambugio guibafdam Catharticum anrenm, Thégolden yellow Indian purgers A His Cambugioasit isoflate importation, fo itis likewife of {mall knowledgé unto us; whereof it is made, for but onely what wefee of it to be a folid peece of fubftance, made up into wreathes or roules, yellow both within and without, and giving a yellow colour upon the moiftening of it, we B know notas yet, neither can welearne truely, whether itbe a gum or hardned jayce, which itis the morelikely to be ofthe two, becaufeit will fo eafily diffolve in water, although fome fuppofe ittobé the juyce ofExphorbinm, others of the purging Thorne: fome thinke it tobe made of Scammony;, or Tithymall, others of Spurge, and fomeof the greater Celandine,other of the middle rinde of the Aldartree, and lattly Bawhenus, becaufe he would fay {omewhat, makerh a quid(iforte, what it icbe nowthe juyce of the flowers of Ricinus dryed, and I fay it is moft likely tobe the juyce of a peculiar herbe ofthat Country, that giveth fuchi a yellow juyce as Aloes. Ithath gained a number of names, partly from the fundry nations languages,and part= ly from the miftakings and ignorances ofpeople: as Ghittajamaa, or Guttagemon, or Gama gitta, or Gutta ga~ wmandra,or Cattaganma,or Cambici, or Crambici or Cambugio, and fome otlters alfo, which I willingly omit : itis brought unto us out of the Haft Indies, and fome fay from China, Theproperties hereof areto purge both byftoole and by vomit, and is ofmuch ufe with divers perfons of good judgement and quality, who give from Cuwar. XV. Bolus Armenius: —Bolarmoniacké. He feverall forts of Bole or Bolarmoniacke that aré to be feéné at fundry times with us, doé teltifie that we fcarce know which to accept for the right, for Galen {aith itis ofa pale colour, and Pliny A making three forts, red, andleflered, andamiddle fore, fheweth that both red and pale were fo Q called, and ufed alike,and moft ofthe forts that we have, have the notes and markes ofthe true, that is, it isa firme or clofe earth,heavy without gravell or {tone, and for the moft part wholly of one colour, withcut difcoloured parts, which doth fhew that not onely that Bolus Armenius which fome call Orientalis, but many other of the finer forts, found in other places, not oncly as a mine of it felfc, but in thé mines chiefly ofiron, and fomein thofe both of gold,filver,and copper,may fafely be ufed for fomeof the fame purpo- fes : but becaufe they all or moft of them doecolourthe handsor fingers of them thattouch them, many have fuppofed thatit may not unfitly be referred to Galens Rubica Lemnia,which wasdiffering from the Terra Lemnia, becanfe it coloured the touchers hands,which Terra Lemnia did not : or may be the Rabrica Sinopica of Diofcerides, which wasof aliver colour, although peradventure inhis time the Alexipharmicall qualities weré not knowne tohimorinhistime; ashis Rwbrica Fabrili, {ocalled becaufe Carpenters did ufe to ftrike their lines therewith, as we doe now with chalke, may be our common Bolarmontacke, whichis courfer,more brittlé,and ufed onely outwardly toftanchbleedings, All thebeft forts of Bole with us, have fach a clammy or fticking quality, which the ancients mention not, that is,if it be touched with the tippe of the tongue it will cleave very faftthereto, and the {trongerit cleaveth,and the harder it commeth from the tongue, the betrer is the Bole ac- counted of, Andis ufed as'a {peciall remedyin all contagious difeafes of the peftilence, {mall poxe or the like, and in peltilent feavers,and again{t poyfons,and the venome ofSerpents: ithath alfoa binding property to ree ftraine all fluxes ofthe belly or of the fperme,or ofwomens courfes, patting see ; 15 CuHar. XVI, as Diofcorides faithis good alfo for the falling fickneffe, to burne them ander their nofes, that rhe fumes may eafe Cwarié, three or foure graines unto ten ot rwelve,orto a {cruple or halfe adramme, according to the age and ftrength of their bodyes, and worketh gently with fome, evacuating forth crude flegmaticke humours from the ftomacke, and wheyifh from the bowels without any trouble: but contrarily with othersit worketh very churlifhly, and with much perturbation of theftomacke : Some alfo ufe to make {mall pilles ofitjand give it in that forme, efpecially ifthe humoursbe {tiffe,and not eafie to be avoyded, and for thateaufe fome will addea little Scammony Unto it co helpe the flow working in fome bodyes, {ome alfo to correét for the tenderer bodies will give ic in the pulpe extracted from Currans in white Wine,as a corrector of the quallities,and fomein the infufionof Rofes. Cuar, Champhora. XVIII, Camfiré, Amfire,called Caphura from thé Arabians Cafar, is {ach a fabile thing, both in fubltance and naz ture, that although it is the gum orliquour of a great vaft tree, ( like roa Wallnnttree, whofe wood ¥2 is fomewhat folid and firme,and of an afhco!our like unto Beech,or fomewhat blacker, the leaves are whitith like unto Willow leaves, but neither flower nor fruite have beene oblerved, yet is likely to beare both ) partly diftilling forth of it owne accord, but chiefly by incifion, which commethforth cleare and white, and bath no {pot therein, but whatit acquireth from their foule hands that touchit, yet what wehave and ufe, feemeth plainely to be fo made by art,being caft as it were or fublimed into broad round pannes or dithes, and little above the thickeneffe of ones thumbe,cleere,white and tran{parent, but not to be made into powthet of it felfe, (although it is fomewhat brittle,and will breake into many {mall peeces) without the helpe of a blanched Allmond,or fomeother fuch like un@tuous thing, which herebywill reduceit into fine pouthers neither will itbe eafily diffolved in cold water, but by warmthwill be refolved like unto fat, being eafily {et off fire, and will burnein the water,ferving for wildfire with the other things, andisof a very {trong fierce fent, both fent and fubltance vanifhing away, if itbe expofed fora while ro the open aire; yet the wood being madeinto feverall workes, will{mell thereofalongtime: Sometakeittobehot, becaufe it is of fach tenuity of parts, Rhafis faithitiscoldand moitt, but Avicena faith itis cold and dry,and that it caufeth watchings and wakefullnefle, and quieteth the fen{és of thofe thatare hor, whicharecontrary one tothe other, as Garciassand Scaliger upon Garcias hotethit. Camfire doth coole the heatc of the liver and backe,and all hot inflammations and diftempers of heate inany place of the body, eafing the paines in the head,and reflraining fluxes,either of blood out of the head and noftrils, being applyed to the forehead with the juyce of Houfeleeke or with Plantaine water, and fome Nettle fee f,or the fluxe of {perme in man or woman,ufing it tothe reines orprivy parts, and extinguifheth Venery, of thelaft ofthsbody: Icis apreferver from putrefaCtion,and thereforeis put into divers compoficions wie i ores |