, LOY FVLLNEWES
[Outokthe N ew- found

11 prea are declated, the rare and
fi

ſinguler vertues of diuers Herbs, Trees, 8
J Plantes Oyles & St ones, with their ap-| (Ce
plications, af well tothe vſeof Phiſic cke,48 of a
Chirurgery,wbich beingwell applyed bring (s)\ «)
‘a prefent remedie 2254 diſcaſes ne 8
ſee me altogether incredible: norwitihſtan-
) Aing e e
28 2 BO Ree (a)
ff |Alfo the portrature of theſaid Hearbs (Cay

») Eneliſhed by John Frampton Marchant, Feed
Lig che olde copies may appeare. dA her 7
vnto are added ther other wokes fe
treating of the Be rar tone, the herb ¢
Efcuerconera, the pꝛoperties of Se
and Steele in Medicine, . al
nefit of Snow. WY

LONDON.
E. Allie, the allig ne
of Benham Norton. 1596.

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THISBOOKETREATETH'OF THE
shinges that are brought from the Occidentall Indias, which
ſerue for the vſe of Medicine, and of the order that muſt
be kept in taking the roote called Mechoacan, vhereit
are diſcouered great ſecretes of Nature, and great
experiences: made and compiled by Doc
tor Ad onardus, Phiſition of
6 Seuill.

N the veare of dur Loꝛd God, one

eur Spaniardes were gouerned by
ic Chzittopher Colen, being natu⸗
> G rally boꝛne in the country of Genxena

= to diſcauer the Occidentall Prdias,
. that are called at this day, the
aN Rnewe woꝛrlde: and they diſcouered
i 8 he urtt land thereof, the ri. day of
Ocdober, o the ſaid xere: ¢ from that time vnts this, they

THE FIR STP ART OF

Fol. ,

=. thoufad,foure hundꝛeth ninetie two,

haue difcoucred many € ſundꝛy Illandes, and much firme

land, alwel in that countrie, which they cal the new ſpaine,
as in that which is called the Peru, where there are many
| Prouinces, many BR ingdomes, and many Cities that haue

tantrarie and diuers cuftomes in them, in whiehthere haue

beene found out, thinges that neuer in thefe partes, no; in

any other partes of the woꝛlde haue beene ſeene, nor vnto

fhys day knowen: and other thynges which nowe are

„CCT N

Siluer, Pearles, Emeraldes, Curkeies, x

dl grrat value. Pet great is the erteſſe and quanti
hatz come: and euerꝑ day doeth come, and in efpeciail
dt Solde and iluer: Ae eee

y
8 a ae
on

2

| The fit part 1 dg es 5 se
29 on the great number of Melons, fast eas come from
tthentee, beſtdes the great quãtity ot pearles which haue ſto⸗
igs red the whole wild: allo they dad being from thofe parts,
Poping ties, Griffons, apes, Lions, Gerfaucons, ¢ other
8 kinds of Hautes, Tigers wool, Cotten woal, Gꝛaine to dp
colours withall, Bides, Dugars, Topper, Bꝛaſile the wood
Ebano A ail: And of al theſe, tere is fo great quantitie, that
there tommett euerie pare, one hundꝛed chips laden theres
with, that is a great thing, and an incredible riches.
8 And beſides theſe great riches our Occidentall Indias
5 5 doo ſend vnto vs many Trees, Plants, Wears, Rootes,
that our Oc. Suites Gummes FKruites. Licours ¢ Stones that are ot
cidentall In. Gr tat medicinall vertues, in the which there bee kound, and
4er doe fend haue been found in them, very great sffectes that do exceede
~~ ae much in value and price all the afozefapde thinges, by ſo
2 muche as the coꝛpoꝛall health is moo excellent, and neceſ⸗
farie then the tempozall goodes: the which thinges all
the wand dooth lacke the want wyercofis not a litle hurt⸗
kull, accoꝛding to the great profite which wee doo ſee, bx
flhe ve ok them to follow, not onelp in our Spayne, but alſo
in all the woꝛld.
Bie ea Andthis is not to bee maruelled at, that it is ſo:foʒ the
. Philolſapher daoth fay, that all Countries dad not peelde
5 Plantes and Fruites alike: faz one Region veeldeth inch
Fruites, Trees, and Plantes, as an other dooth not: wee
doe ſee that in Creta one ly groweth the Diptam o, and the b
IAntence onelp in the Region of 54 and the e A macig a,
nnelp in the Illande of Ch, and the Sinamoan, Cloues,
and Pepper, and ether ſpices only in the ill ands of the 4.
ua, and many other thinges you haue in Diners partes at
he woꝛlde, —— vntill our time, and
5 ä bt Tung durenen f

are brought fronk the Welt WN a Folz

And as there are diſtouered new Regions new king /
domes, and new Pꝛouinces by cur Spaniardes ſo they The diſcone.
haue bought ents vs nets Medicines, and newe Memes rie ofthe u-

dies, where with they do cure many infirnnties, which, if dar.
we did lacke them, woulde bee incurable, and without any
remedie: of which things although that ſome haue know⸗
ledge, vet they bee not common to all people, fo2 which
tàuſe 7 did pꝛetend to treate, and to wꝛite of all things that
they bring from our Indias, appertepning tothe arte and
vſe of Pedicine, andthe reme die of the hurtes and diſeaſes
that wee doo ſuffer and endure, whercof no ſmall pꝛofite
docth follow to thoſe ot᷑ our time, and alſo vnto them that
chall come after vs: in the bewꝛaying whereof, J ſhalbe the
ttt, that the rather the followers map adde bereunto,with
this beginning,that which they thal moze know, and by crs
rerience herealter finde out.
And as in this Citie of Scuill, which is the Poꝛte and
tale ofall the Occidental Indias, we doo knolec of them
moꝛe, then in any other partes ofall @payne, for becauſe
that all things come firſt hither, where by better intelligtce
and greater experience it is learned: ſu da , with pꝛadiſe
and vſe of them this foꝛtie peres, that which 3 doe cure in
this Citie , where 3 haue infoꝛmed my ſelfe of them, that
haus brought theſe thinges out of theſe partes with muche
«fare, and J haue made experience thereof with many and
diuers perſons with al . ee pee.
: 9 ſucce ſſe.

Oltbe —— 105 Copal .
— = ey bo tring bes bbs wege Speindls kina" oie
ane, that be both much alike one tothe other, the one

is called C p and the other Anime. eee sa a
8 W dightneſſe, it

The firſt part ofthe thing zes that

bꝛought incertepne great peetes, Which are like to pee⸗
regol Diacuros very cleere, it bath an indifferent ſmell,
ieee, but not f good as the Anime: with this (opall, the Indi⸗
Ans did make perfumesin their facrifices,z ſo the vle theres
ae eae ol was frequentedin the Cemples, by their Pꝛieſtes.
Hiſterir, And when the fir Spaniaraes went to thole partes,
oe the Pꝛieſts went out to reteiue them, wich little firepots,
burning in them this Copall, and giuing to them the ſmole
okit at their noles: wee dos bie heere to perfume with it in
diſeaſes riſing vppon coldneſſe of the heade, in the place of
Incente oꝛ Anime: it is hotte in the ſeconde degree, and
3 _ ‘mop in the firſt it is eldiuntine ann ſoltneth by ſome wa⸗
5 krich partes that it hath. -
What. The Anime is a Gumme 02 Koltne ofa great Tree,
pimeis, it is white it dꝛaweth neere to the collour of Incence, it ix
om moꝛs oply then the Copal! is, itcommeth in graines, as the
Intence sooth although ſome what greater, and being bꝛo⸗
ken, it hath a pellowe colour, as Koſine hath: it is ol a bes
ry acceptable and p eaſaunt ſmell, and put vppon burning
coales, it dooth conſume very quickly.
How it diffe It differeth from our Anime, that is bꝛought from
‘om Felante, which is not ſo white, noꝛ fe bꝛight, inſomiiche
urt. that ſome doo fay, that it is ſpice of Chaurabe 02 Succino,
of the con. Which is called Amber congeled, where with they do make
ted amber. Beads, but it is not fo, fo2 that the Coarabe is a kinde ol
: Pitche, that is found inthe Germayne Sea, and it isfa-
. ken out of the Sea in great peetes with a dꝛagge of ron,
ſothat it ſeemeth to come foo2th of fame Fountaines into
the Sea, after the maner of pitche, and beeing tome foozty
vnto the colde apꝛe it congeleth, fo: badet bee, 8

are brought n the weft Indias. rr
lenly learned dooth fave, that it is gathered about the place “4 Barbers
where Incence is founde, and that lande oꝛ ſoyle, is called eto
Amintin and therefo2e the thing is called Anime. 71 7 1
That which is brought from the newe Spaine, is ga. 4 2
thered from certepne Trees, of a reafonable greatneſle, by where
wapot inciſion, as the Intence and -/mafiga are gathe- . at
red we do bie thereoffo many infirmities, and pꝛincipallyx 3
forthe griefe of the head, and paines thereof, cauled of bus 80 „
mours, 02 of colde cauſes, and fo2 ſtuffyng in the head, that „, ee
thereof doath proceeds, after euatuation, perfuming there
with the chambers in the Minter ſeaſon: and whereas are
generall infirinifies, it dooth puriſte and coꝛrect the Ayꝛe,
and they doo perfume there with their head kerchers, when
that they doo goe to ſleepe: fo2 them that doo ſuffer paines
in the head, and occaſtons thereof, it dooth pꝛofite to per-
fume the head of him that is fo diſeaſed, it vooth comfoꝛte
the head vnto ſuch as haue it debilited, oꝛ weakened, and
dos fuffer paines by octaſion thereof: they doo put it alſod
inplaiſters, and in feere clothes, whereas is neede of tom ·
faꝛt, and to diſſalue eſpetiallp color bumours, oꝛ windines:
they doa vle it alſo in place of zncence, as well in the pets
fumes, as in the afoꝛeſaide. 5 5
t dooth comfort the bꝛaine, applied in the foynte ofa 5 8
plaiſter, and euen fo like wiſe the ſtomacke, and all partes i
being full of Sinewes, made alter the faſtziomoka Scere bath.
cloth with the third parte of Clare: it taketh out the cold of
any member, whatſoeuer, being applied.tyereunto fu: a
long time, with refrething it. .
i ire in the fick,
Ofthe Gumme called Taeamalaca.

: QD alto they doo bꝛing ent of the newe Spee, 7
inn other kinde of Gumme 02 Roline, .
3 Indians doo call Tacamabaca, ind the

= he firſt part of rhe thinges -
“taken out byincition ora trer, being as great, as a Milloiu
tre, and is ofa very ſweete fmell, it bringeth foosty a red
ee ees frutfe, asthe ſerde of Pionia.
How the In- This Roſtne o Gumme, the Indians dos much bf in
. fe it. their inũrmities, chiellp in ſwellings in any part of the bos
= die, wherefoeuer they bee ingendꝛed for that it diſſolueth,
ripeneth, and maruelouſlv deſolueth them. And euen fo, it
taketh away any manner of areefe. that is come ofa colds
cauſe: as humcurs, and windineſſe:this the Indians do vſe
verytommonlp, and familiarly, And ſoꝛ this effect the Spas
3 niardes bath bꝛaught it
The property The colour is as tbe colour ot Galeaxo, and fome doe
bar it bath. fay that it is the fame, it hath white partes like to Ai
: aco it is ofa god ſmel, and the taſt is like, inſomuch that be⸗
ing taſt vpon hotte burning coales, and giuing the fmoke
thereof at the noſe ofa woman that doth ſwone, oꝛ els hath
loſt her feeling by ſuffocation of the other, it dooth cauſe
Good for the her to come quickly, andeafily to her ſelfe and the KRoſine
e of putte to her nauell, after the manner of a plaiſter, cauſeth
Mot her. the Mother to kepe in her plate: and the vie ther cot, is fo
; much amongſt women, that the mof€ parte which is foent
thereof is foꝛ this effect, for that they deo finde themſelues
verie much eaſed by tt,tabing away from them all manner
ofch skin ges of the Mother, and comfozting te flomacke,
Dome that bee curious do adde thereunto Amber, and
Multke, and foitisbetterthenalone. it is alwaies fixed,
x ~ deere: vntill that it ber all whole twas

Wanner mo ptt is fo2 to take awag
m f grief 9 .

a are e welt ind. Pols:

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tonſumtth and deldlueth them, and ik there be any deſire to

ripen them. it dooth it, and that verie quickly. . a
It is alſa a remedie veriſted and erperimented, The vertue

that it doeth p2ofite muche! in Keumes, and Runnings, here,,

whereſocner they aoe, for it taketh them alway , pute

ting a fimall pecce of linnen cloath with this Kofine , be-

hinde both the eares, oz the eare on the parte which run⸗

neth, foꝛ that it doth reſtraine the running of them: and aps

plied vnto he temples of the head, in manner ofa plaiſter,

it dodth withholde the runnings and the flure, that runneth

ta the eyes, and to the partes of the fate:it taketh away the / tooth”

tooth ache, although that the tooth bee hollowe by putting N ache.

alittle ofthis iofine into the hollowe, and iftheretwith the

ratten tooth be burned, it maketh that the coꝛruption goeth

no further: and being laide in the manner ofa plaiſter in

the hollowneſſe of the necke, oꝛ gricfe of the ſhoulders, it
takethawaythe paines: mingled with the thirde parte tk
ſtoꝛar, and a littis Amber made in a plaiſter, fo2 the for i ‘Coforteth
macke, it dooth comfort it, and cauſeth appetite to meate: . lena.
it helpeth digell ion and deſolueth windines: after the fame

fo2t put vpon the moulde of the head, it tam fozteth and ta⸗ I he 67%
kethatoay the paines thereof. In the Sciatica, oz paint s of rhe hal
ofthe bippes pufthereunto, theeffedt thereof is greate: In the Seu.
and like wiſe it is ſo in all paines of the ioyntes: and in any tica. zi

papne ofthe body wherſoener it be, chielip if it tome of co ls 5
humaurs 02 mixt: Foꝛ betauſe wuth his reſdlution, it ath /n rhe grife :

partes ot binding which don gine a mairuellaus comfo2s of rbesorntes
fing in ioyntes, oꝛ in hurtes ol Sinewes; putting that a -

lone, it doath heale and cure thenr , for great is the erpes In phe hurres
rience that wer haue eit. 1 .

“The fie partofthe e A

The vat it bee not fntamentione wertet and alſo in them after

rin t bereef, the firſt furie is paſt, and the fearteneſſe thereof,it doth pꝛo⸗

i fite much fo2 to diſlolue the ret: it is hotte in the beginning
* third degree, and dꝛye in the ſecond.

Of the Gumme 2

Hep doe bing krom the firme Lande, by the wape
of Cartagena, and number de Dios, à Rolin of the
a coulour of Tacamahaca » ſomewhat cleare , and
came. thinne, called in the Indians language, Caranna,
and this wooꝛde and nante our Spanpardes haue ginen it,
and it hath in maner the ſmellotthe Tacamabaca, although
it bee ſame what moze ſtronge ok ſmell, it is verie oply, and
it cleaueth fat without melting, fo the clamminetie that it
bath. It is a newe Medicine, and bzeught hither about a
~~ fenne yeres paſt, and the Indians doe die it in their inür⸗
8 mities againſt ſwellings, and in all manner of griefes, and
TREE nom incur partes it is much efteemed,fo2 the great sffedes :
cee that it beth tuozke,
The vertues ¶ It doth profit and heale the fame infirmities,that the Tu-
„ r maze Speroely, fothat many
inſirm s, wherein theT acamabace doth not fo muche ef
fet the Caranniabatiyeatily beale. There was one that did
ſlutfer paines in his ſhoulders, p which paines he had ſuffe⸗
' hae red a long time, in ſuch ſoꝛt, j hee could not fir his armes,
¢ griefe of hauing bled a great time the Tacamahaca, pet hee was not
sider, healed vntill he had put thereunto the Car anna, and theres
. —

es

are brought from the Weft Indias. Fol. g.
ning ol cold hinneurs aꝛ mixed, it woꝛketh a maruellous ef-
fect: in all painesof the Sinelwes , and griefes ofthe head,
and griefes that thereof dae pꝛocs de, it pꝛeũtet; much. In griefet of -
Surelp, it is a meditine ts diffolue and ta take alway griets Sin, we.
of great effitacie, and Doth make his woꝛke with great cers
taintie in new griene woundes, eſpecially ofthe Sinewes
it doeth much pꝛaffit, and greatly in teintes,in the which J In vewe
haue ſcene done only there with very great woꝛkes: it is an waundii.
intercepting to fay the flure and running of the eyes, and
other partes applyed behinde the eares, and in thetemples Is iaierbthe
ofthe head. It is verie fattic and oplie, and hot maze then in ranning of |
the ſecond degree. the eyes.

And it is ts be noted that all theſe Koünes the Indians
doe gather by wapok znciſion, by giuing cuttes in the Nee.
Trees, of which foꝛchwith the licaur seth dꝛoppe aut, and
from thente they gather it.

Of the Oyle ol the Figge t tree of Fel

3 ae Hom Gel/ce,a pꝛouinte in the nets Spaine
tber bringan Oyle oꝛ Liccur, that the par
e niareeshanecalien,Dple ofthe Higge tric Oele
ot Hell, fo2 that it is taken froma tr that Fg tree.
is nomaꝛz no? leſſe then our Fig tree of Hel, ee
A alſwell in the Leafe, as in the Fruite: it is
the {ame that we doe commonly call C bat apucia, o/ Cherus,
3 8 — — it is maze burning in
the Indias nes of the earth.
The — —⅛ 25 Denen doeth Howshis o
che doe, in the frſt hocke, the rr. Chapter, that is, do pounde in made,
par lp ert st ey gp Ce

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| | the Girt part oftke thinges chat
o mern hob to doe it, fo: lacke of knowledge,
- > bis kind ofoyle p2incipalipis better dꝛawen out this wap,
| Thevertwes then by expꝛeſſion. This Ople hath great vertues as by
and effetles, the ofc thereof hath bene fene, as well inthe Indias , as
in due partes, and all that = will ſap, is of verie greats
eet exptrience, and much ble thereof in manp perlons: it docth
Cure in ge- heale and cure all infirmities cauſed of colde humours, ind
eral, windines: it Doth diſſolue al hardnes with molification,and
all taflamations being windie: it take th alway all manner
It taketh 4. ofpaine in what parte ſoeuer it bee, chiefly ifit come ot any
weñ paine. tolde cauſe oꝛ windines, foꝛ that in this it maketh a mare
es uellous woꝛke, diffoluing great windineſſe, where ſdeuer
5 it bee, and eſpetially in the bellye: and with this they do
_ fehealeth æ heale a windy Dꝛopſie, x like wife al kinds therot, annoyn⸗
Wwandydrop/y ting thall the Bellie and Stomacke, taking ſome
ee dꝛeppes the rok with wine, a other licour appꝛopꝛiated, that
it map ouoide the citrine water, and make the winde tobe
expelled: Ind iftbeꝝ doe put it in anymaner Glitter, oꝛ Me⸗
dicine, giuen ſo it doeth auoide out the titrine water, and
aie dotherpell ¶Aindes with moze alfuraunce then any ather
In griefes of Medicine. zn the gricfes ofthe Stomacke of cold humors,
eras and windes and Colicke, it wozketh great effi cd ansinting

isa certaine — purgeth atthe mouth. It doetg
In i es of auoyde fleame pꝛincipallp, in artefes of the Jointes certain
she joimtes. dꝛoppts ofthis sple taken with the bꝛoth of fome fat foulz,
+... ttdoetyentpt away the humour that tauſeth the payne, it
3 os agit eee mt much

are brought fromthe Weft Indias. Fol.é. ae

dꝛen and Boxes, that cannot gor to the Stele,annointing „ „e
the lower parte ef the Hauill with this ople, it Booth P20+ h goers.
udke them to the ſtocle: and if they haue woꝛmes, it dooth ,,, ffeole.
expell and killtzem, chiefly if they gine them a Djoppe

02 wog with milke, oꝛ with ſome fat grome thing. And faz For the that
thole that hane loft their hearing, it tauſeth it to be reſtoꝛed baue Loft

to them, with a maruellous woo2ke,as it hath bene ſeen by ‘beer bea-
many experientes. In gric les of Jointes, and in gricfeg of ing.
ſwellinges, ſo that they come not of a very hotte cauſe, it ta- In griefes of
keth them away and doth diſſolue them: any ot the mẽbers he teynter.
beeing dꝛawne together and annointed with this Dyle, Fer the mem
thep do extende and the S inewes are molliſi:d with it, tar bers ara we
king away the griefe if that there bee any: it taketh awaꝝ /¢erher.
any markeso2 ũgnes. where ſoeuer they bee in the face, 7er.
pꝛincipally, and the Pozphe we which warten many times e

bee troubled withall, the annopnting with this Oyle, dooth orphem,
take it awap, and conſume it, not with little contẽt to them w ket or
that vie it. atts bate inthe — fignes of she

8 it 2 caplexe”
Of the Bitumen —— a kinde of picch. sbereef

4 Bere is in the idande Cuba, certayng ue. oe
Fountaines at the Sea fpde, that do caſt
trom tbem a kinbe ofblacke Pitch, of a

ie rong ſmell, which the Indians boo ble

2 = bes it there to pitche tpeyz — 5 :
mwithall, fo2 it is well neere Ipte bats
rte er ing tect aloe s er .

The firſt part ofthe thinges that

atietes ofthe Mother, fo2 that it dooth reducen the Mother
o her plate. And it it rife on high, then put it to the Noſe⸗
thꝛilles, and it it conve do wne tothe lower partes, putting
| thereto a wet tent with this Pitche, it cauſeth it to goe bps

5 warde to her plate: and like wiſe it Dooth profite, being ap-
| plied to cold inũrmities, as the other Medicines dw which
inte thoken al It is dotte intye ſecond degrie, moyſt

Of Liquid Amber, and the Oyle thereof.

Kom the newe Spaine they doo bzing a Koſine that
F we call Liquid Amber and one like Ople that wee call
= — Dyleof Lipuid Amber, that is to ſap, à thing that wee
eS dos moſte fet by, and as precious as Amber, 82 Ople

cherrah boty of them being of werte ſmel r of good ſauour,

bot liquid andeſpetially the Oyle of Liquid Amber, which is ol ſa⸗
Amber in uour moꝛe delicate and ſweete then Aber. & Rolin taken

. out by ineiſton from certeine tres very great and faire, and
kull of leauss, which are like to Juie, and the Indians dos

call them Ococo . They carry a thicke rinde, of the colour
ol Aches, this rinde being cut, doth taſt out the Liquid Am-
ber thicke, and ſo they doo gather it, and becauſe the rinde
bath a finell very werte, they do bꝛeake and mingle it with
the Roſtne, and when it is burned, it bath a better ſmell, in
— — Of Deng weste

e ans ib fecle Gach ieee hes

are brought fromthe Weft Indias. Fol.7.

fmelics, walking it in place of Srorax, fo3 that the ſmoke

and ſmell Booth ſeeme to be the ſame: and alſo they do put it
into other confections of (weete ſmelles to burne, and fuche

like thinges. It cafteth from it fo much ſmell without bur⸗

ning of it that where euer it be, it cannot be hidden but

dooth penetrate many houſes and ſtreetes with the ſweete

ſmell, when there is quantitieokit.

It ſerueth much in medicine, doch therein great effed,
foz that it healeth, comloꝛteth, diſſolueth, and mittigateth The werbe
payne applied onto the Moulde ofthe heades by it ſelle, 02 an effectes
mingled with other thinges Aromaticall, it dooth comfozt it.
the bꝛaines, andtaketh away the paynes of anp manner of
griefe, proceeding ot a colde cauſe layed after the manner
ofa Plaiſter thereunto, it deoth alſo mittigate, and take as
way the paines, and griefes of the ſtomack, wherin it doth
à maruelous effec, applied after the manner of a Stoma- 4 ernelha⸗
cher. #92 that it dooth comfoꝛt the Stomack, and dooth vil ploifker.
folue windes, and helpe digeſtion, and take a wap rawnes
it cauſeth the meate to be well digeſted, it giueth luſt to eat:
it is made of Liquide Amber. ſpꝛead abꝛaade vpon a ſhepes
fkinne, in the fone ofa bꝛeaſtplate, mingled with a little
Storax, Amber and Muske, it is a Plaiſter which dooth
pꝛotite much in all that 3 haue ſaide. There is busine of
this plaiſter very great experience, inthys Cyttpe, fo2 the
good effect that it woꝛketh: it is het in the ende of the fecond
degree, and moiſt in the fürſt.

DODut ot this Liquide Amber is taken the Oyle that is cals
ledthe ople of Liquide Amber the which in his ſmel is moze Of the Oxle
wert, it is taken out ofthe Liguid Amber when it is newly Liquide
gathered putting it in partt tubere it map distill of it felfe, Aber, and
(the moze lubtill) is the perfecteſt and beſtof all. bow it ina
Others there be that da pꝛeſle it, becauſe the moꝛe quan- =
titie thereof may be taken aut. they bꝛing it fos merchaun⸗ 5
Bile, for that they bie to dꝛeſſe Glaues ther with ra the com ee
3233000 Big 4
2 3.

The firſt part of the thinges that
At is pied in Medicine for many diſeafes and it is of
The vfe of it great eras to heale colde diſeaſes, fo it healeth excellent ·
b well all partes wherſoeuer it be applied, it d ſſolueth and
molliſteth any maner of hardnes taking away the paynes:
iir diſſolurth the hardneſſe of the Mother, and openeth the o⸗
pilations thereof. t pꝛouaketh the Monthlie courſe in wo·
men, and it maketh foft any manner of hard thing. It is hot
Well nere in the thirde degree.
und it is to be noted that many doo bꝛing this Stor
. very thin from the indias, which is not fo good foꝛ betauſe
Note. that theꝝ make it of the bowes of the trees, cut in peeces,
. and ſodden, e they gather the fatnes that ſwimmeth vpon:
8 and the Indians da ſel the buddes of the trees whereout the
Ls quid Amber is taken, made in handfulles, & dos ſell it in
their market places, foʒ to put amongſt their clothes, which
caufeth them to ſmell, as of the water of Angels, t fo Chis.
eee e it.

Ofthe Balfamo.

AT Bey doa being fram the newe Spayne that ticour
* te ‘mot excellent, twbich fo2 his ercellencte and he
4 tes is called ame, an imitation of the
true Balfame that was in the land ol Egypt, and fo:

that it oooth fac great werkes am renten

muties there was giuen ta it ſuch a name. It is made ol a

kx greater then a Powngarnet Cre, it carrieth lraues
me to pretties: tye zndians do tall it Hils, and we do call
the tame Halit ia wo maner of waies. the one
= i pen ———

are brought fromthe Weft Indias, Folks.
the trees, which is a common bie amongſt them is this:they c
take the oo wes and the great peeces of the trees, and made
them as ſmall as thep tan, and then caſt them into a greate
Aa file, witz a good quantitie of water. < fo boile them vntil
they fe it ſulfitiently done, and aſterward they let it coole,
and gather vp the oyle that doeth ſwimme thereuppon with
certaine ſhelles, ans that is the B that comme th too
theſe parts and that commonly is vſed:the colour thereof is
Alboꝛne which is likenedtoblacke it is of moſt ſ wert ſmel,
and ver ie extellent. It is net conuenient no: it ouaht to ber
kept in anyother veſſel then in ũluer, Glaſſe o2 Linne, 02
any other thing glaffed , it doeth penitrate and doeth patie
thꝛough: the ble thereok is onelp in thinges appertaining
to Medicine, and it hath been bled of long time well nere
fince the ne w Spaine was diſconered, foꝛ that incontinent
the Spaniards had knomledge of it, betauſe they dio dealt
there with the wounds that they did receiue of the Indians,
deing aduiſed of the vertue therof by the fants Indians, and
they did fee the fapde Indians heale and cure themſelues
there with.

Apen it firk came into payne, in was eſtæmed as The eſt ima.

much as it had reaſon it ſhaulde be: fo2 that they dyd fie it en chat uit
make maruellous woꝛkes: one dwnce was worth tenne bad n.

Duccates end vpwardes, and now tis better cheape: the N
fir time that they carried it to Rome, it came to be worth

ene ounce, one hundꝛeth Duccats:t᷑ after that they becught

ſo much and ſuch great quantitic that it is now of mali va⸗
it was berie deere all men tooke pꝛofite of tye pꝛote ot itt.
and ſinte it came tu bee et ſo lome a Wyte , it is nat ſo Nore.
muche elttemed beeing the felfe ſame Baue, that it
was then wien it was worth aue hu wzeth Duttates
the sunce. Surely tf tye Indias has nat beene diſta
ere f but oni fos the effette ts fend vs his maruelion: 5 :

=

The firſt part of the thinges that
ar des haue taken, foꝛ that the Samo that was ofcd to bee
had in Egypt, itis many peeres ſince it failed, becauſe the
Aine from whence it came, dꝛied vp, wherby pon haue now
none in the wozlde. Dur i920 Gad did thinke itgood in
place of that to giue vs this Balſamo, ofthe newe Spaine,
the which in my iudgement in Medicinal vertue, is no whit
inferiour vnto that of C gipt, actoꝛding to the great efiedes
that we doe fee in it, and the great profit that it doeth, which
we doe foe in Pedicines, in thre waies: that is to fap, it is
The eſfectes taken at the mouth, oz it is applied outwardly, oꝛ it ſerueth
chat st bath inthinges of Qurgerie. Taken in the moꝛning falling, it
rabẽ in at the healeth the ſhoꝛneſſe of bꝛeath: it taketh away the diſeaſes
mouth. of the bladder: it pꝛauoketh the Menſtrues of women taken
and applyed with a Peſſarie: it taketh away the old paines
ofthe ktomacke, licking certaine dꝛappes therof in the moz⸗
ning faſting, lapde pon the palme of the hunde and fo con:
tinued, it doeth comloꝛt the ſtomacke: it doeth rectifpe the
Liver: it maketh a good coleur in the fate, it maketh a god
bꝛeathing, it openeth the Bꝛeſt, it vndoeth opilations, and
a conſerueth vouth: know a perſon of much eſtimation that
Fiferi. did bſe it, and beyng of great vcres, dis looke like a poung
man, and liued after he bled it without occaſion ot anꝝ euill.
They which haue beene troubled with a dꝛy cough haue v⸗
fed it, and to ſome it bath berne profitable , and ſome Gen⸗
tle women that haue not bꝛought foo2th Childꝛen, haue v⸗
ſedit in tentes koꝛ to purge the Pother and it hath doone

good.

The effet It bath beene allo applyed outwardly in all manner of
2 eb, rieten canteDst caloe humours, oz af windes. Foz that
peas beyng continued, it taketh amay very well any manner of
5 oa t- grief, applied hot, with à little fether, and laying there⸗
warey- ppon a cloth wet with the elfe fame Ba/fawo, it is diſſolua·
tiue, and (eit doett conſume and vndse lwellinges colde
8 and elde. It ſtrengtheneth any parte whers it is put onto,
‘ : Serene the heade it doeth comtoste .

are brought fromthe Welt Indias. Fol.g.

and taketh awapt the paines thereol, conſuming any mari?
ner ofhuntour oz colde that is in it: it taketh away the pale
fey by anneyntyng tze Koꝛeheade and Hecke, and the
partes that bee impotent, and it doeth pꝛote in all in-
firmities of Sinewes, and ſhzinkinges of them. Applyen
vnto the ſtamacke, it helpeth digeſtton, andcomfozteth if;
diſloluing windineſſe: and ik there be any opilat ion, it os:
peneth it. And alſo the opilations of the inner partes it
dieth, moliſie and ſotften: it taketh away the paine of the
Stone in ths Ridneies oꝛ Rapnes, bering lapve hot vppan
the greiued place: in the paines of the Bellie oꝛ Sto-
make cauſed of colde oꝛ windes, being put thereunto hotte, 5
oz laxed vppon hotte Bꝛeade taken out at the Ouen, it tas
keththem awap: it pꝛanoketh Urine, and them that cannot
piſſe . applying it autwardiy, and taking a fe we dꝛoppes
thereof , it doeth vnlooſe and expelle it: in the paines
of the ioyntes it hath maruellous effet, and in theſe it bath
a ſpetiall Pꝛerogatiue, and eſpecially in the Scarica, dil⸗
folueth any manner ofbardencde oꝛ ſwelling that remai⸗
nethin any ſuch griefe : in paines of the Sine wes it is a
metuellous remedie, and in all — of luxe, it aort
foppe and heals.
This B aſſamo being applyed inpractice of Sourgeriebaty
great effets ofit ſelfe, 02 mingled any other way with me⸗
icine, that bath vertue fo doe the effect wherſoeuer it is ap⸗
plied, and to fhe tw all the vertues thereof, it would be berie
long. I do remit it fo him that thal bie it that he may make
the mixture that ſhall be neceſlarie andconnenient. a
The Baſams is a verye common and vied remedie fu: 2, effet
woundes being newe, faz that it doth cure them by the fire 64
intention , glewing together the partes without making „ practice 7
mattet, and where there be brutes that cannot bee glemed 9% eri,
together, it vocth a berie good Woke , makyng diges a 5
tion with redineſſe, and in the reſt of the wozkes that
3 Durgerie, it dsth Ye which is n e

The firſt part of the thinges that

vntill the wounds be whole, and fo2 this caule the vie thers
ofis a tommon medicine in al ſurgerie for pooze folkes, {ees
ing that as with one meditine all effects are tozought thers
with, that are neceſarie:⁊᷑ it is a common thing to fay,that
when one is hurt, let Balſumo be put thereunto, and fo they
doe, g it doth heale them. In the woundes of Hine wes it
woꝛketh a meruellous effect, foz that it doeth bath cure and
heale. It healeth better then anyother medicine doeth it res
liſtethtolde the wounds of the head it healeth very wel, not
hauing the Skull bꝛoken noꝛ periſhed.

Any manner of woundes be yng kreſhe, it doeth heale in
any parte ofthe body whereſoeuer they bee, fo that there
be no moze in it but a imple wounde. In Joyntes what
manner of wounde ſoeuer it bee, it doeth make a meruel⸗
lous wozke: Che vſe thereot is very common in this Cy⸗
tie, in woundes . Foz that you haue ewe houſes, but vou
haue Balſams in them fo2 this effec, ſa that in wounding of
anp perfon foꝛthwith they goe to the Baſamo, foꝛ with lit⸗
tle quantitie thereof they doe cure and heale, and man
times with putting of it once euerie thirde dax, they finde,
the wounde Whole. In olde ſozes applyed by it (elfe,o2 with
any other oyntment, it doeth munditte, and fill them vppe
with Ack, sient ark

In large feuers P aroxifmales beyng lapde halfe an houre
befoze the tolde doeth come, vppon the moulde of the heade
very hat, the patient being verie well touered with clothes,
and taking ſozth with fine 02 fire dꝛoppes thereof in wine, it
taketh away the tolde, in thoce 02 foure times doing it. It is
ofa ſharpe ſauour and ſumwhat bitter, herby are ſeene the

doy partes and tamoꝛtatiue that it hath:it is hot and dꝛꝝ in

' the ſetond degree ; 27 11
Ofibe herbe Iwill not let to mite ofa certaine Hearbe, tobych the
Tan Jnfane Conguercurs ofthe nem Sopaine dae ble fus the remedie of
for wonnde:, tbeir wounds, and hottes of arrotwes , which onto the Was
a great remedie in their eee.

1 7 ö

—

are brought from the Welt Indias. Fol. 10.

an Indian, which was Seruaunt toa Spaniarde called
John Infant. Mee was the firſt that vſed it, they did call it,
and doo call it at this pꝛe ſent dap: The Hearbe of lohn In-
fant, This hearb is little, they gather it greene, and beate
it, and ſo they lay it imply vpon the wound: it doth reſtrain
and ſtoppe the blood, and it᷑ it bee a wound in the fleſhe, it
booth cauſs it to grow together, and healeth it by gle wing
the partes. The woundes of the Sine wes, and other parts
it dootg tomlozt, mundifie; and ingendzeth fleſhe in them
vntil they be whole, and becauſe they do not finde this hears
in all places, theꝝ bꝛing it made into powder, fo; that it
woozketh the fame effect as well as beeing greene, and the
pouder, as fome fay, doth it better then the hearbe.

As this bearbe, fo like wiſe haue vou manꝝ other in all
the other partes ofthe Indias, that haue the fame and other
properties, and doo woꝛke maruelous effeces: ⁊ to wʒite of
enerie one of them perticulerly, it were needfull to make a
greater volume, then we Boo pꝛetende of this that we Mall
entreate ol. :

Cher thinges they being frem our Decidentall Andi⸗
as, which at this day be celebzafed in all the woꝛlde, and
with them they haue made ¢ doo make the greateſt woꝛks
that euer were made in medicine, z there were neuer p like
made, by anyother medicine that vnto this day bath berne
known, fo that the nature of al thee is to cure infirmities
which without this remedy be incurable, and to wozke the
effectes that doo (ame to bee thinges of woonder, and theſe
are notoziens, not onsly in theſe parts, but in all the woʒld:
the which thinges are the wd that is called Guasscan, the
China undthe Sarcapariiia. And foꝛ that it ſetmeth that
the China death come from Peꝛtingall, and that the Poꝛtin⸗
gales do bꝛing it from the Oꝛientall Indias, and not from
surs,3 wil ap What is tu he ſaid heraſter whe we da ſpeak
thereof, And thereloꝛe let vs beginns with Gusiacan, as of
nm ee tat canes ne tbe ee,

2

The wood of |

the Indias.

: oink tees ought to be, it is terteine that it healetk it

The firſt part of the thinges that

bett of all as experience bath che wed, and the bie thereok in
e ae
Of the Guaiacan and of the

holy Wood,

_— ——, Pe Gusiscam, that is called the woode of
Peet the Indias was diſcouered foꝛthwittz whẽ
de är Indias was found, which was the
10 0 N Illande of Sancto Domingo, where is great
WAL) POM quantitie thereof, There was an Indian
that gaue knowledge thereof to his Wat
ifer in this maner. There was a Spaniard
that did fatter great paines of the Por, which he had taken
by the companp or an Indian woman, but his ſeruant being
one of the Phiũtions of the country, gaue vnto him the wa⸗
ter ot quaiacan, where with not onelp his greeuous paynes
were kaken away that he did ſuffer, but he was healed very
well or the euill: with the which many other Spaniardes,
that were infected with the fame euill were healed allo, the
which was tommunicated ime diatly, with them that came
framthence, hether to Sell, and from thence it was diuul⸗
gedthꝛoughout al payne, and from thence thꝛough all the
wonlde, foʒ that the infection was ſowen abꝛoad thaoughaut

dll partes there ot: and ſure ly fo; this erull it is the belt. z the

melt thiefremedy ol as manꝑ as hetherto haue bern foun’,
and with moſt alſuraunte, and moſt certeyntie, it bealeth
and tureth the ſaide diſeaſe, if they be well handied: e thes

zerfen * . —

ate brought fromthe Weft Indias. Fol. 11.

as, and fir ot all from Sancte Doming. Ihe Pore bee as
common amongſt the Indians, and as familiar, as the
Meaſelles bee vnto vs, and well neere the matt part ofthe
Indians, both men and Wome haue them, without making
thereof any ſcruple, and they came firſt in this ſoꝛte.

In the peare of our Lode God 1493. in the warres

That the Catholike Ring made in Maples, with yng
Charles of Fraunte, p was called Great head, inthis time
fir Chꝛiſtopher Colon, returned from the diſcousrie that he
had made of the Indias, which was Santo Domingo, und a⸗
ther Jlands, and he bꝛought with him from Santo Domingo,

a great numberof Indians, both men and women, which
he carried with him fo Naples, where the Catholike Bing
was at that time, who had then concluded the warres, foz
that there was peace betweene the twoo Ringes, and the
hoffes did communicate togeather, the one with the other.
And Colon being tome thether with his Indians, the moll
part of them bꝛought with them the fruite of their tauntrie,
which was the Pore. Andthe Spaniardes began te haue
fonuerfation with the Indian women, in ſuch fort. that the
men and women of the Indias, did infed the Campe of the
. Spantarves, Italians; and A lmaines at the Catholike

king hedthen of all theſe ations, and there were many

that were infected with that euilt And after the hoſtes com⸗

muned together, the fire did kindle in the campe er the king

af Fraunce,of which it ſollowed, that in ſhoꝛte time the one

and the other were infeded withthis einll ferde: eee l
thence: it hath ſpꝛed abꝛdad inta all the wozld-

At tge beginning it had diuers names: he — T he names

did thinke that it has beene ginen them by the French: chat bey
men, and they tallet it the Frenchs sail The Frenchmen gaue to the
thought that in Naples, and by them or the Cauntrie, the cuil tree.
twill had beene giuen them a thextalled it the eulber Na⸗

ples. Andtheyol Aluainefeing that by connerfation with
eset the x came by it, theꝝ called 3

3

-

Opizions of

this euill.

Cuaiacau an

Indian name

The deferipe
tion of the
uaiacan.

The firſt part of the thinges that

nithe, Skabbe s andother called it the Meaſelles of the In
dias, and that very truelx, ſceing that from thence came the
euill in the beginning.
Amongtt the great Phiſitions of that time, there wers
ſundꝛy great opinions of the cauſe, and oꝛiginall of the in
firmitic . Ths one forte faye that it came of the euill me⸗
lancholie meates, that the hoſtes of neceffitie had eaten, as
wilde hearbes, and many Gardein hearbes, and footes of
hearbes, Aſſes, and Bozſes, and ether lyke thinges, that
ingender ſuch like infirmities , coꝛrupting and burning
the blood. Others there were, that did attribute it to the
coniunctions of Saturne and Mars, and they did apply it
to the heaueniy influence, and gaue thereunts diuers and
ſundꝛx names. Same called it the Lepꝛoſte, others wine
Pore, other entegra, others the Deathlie enill, others
Elephanſta, without certeyne aſſuraunte what diſeale it
was. Fan theꝝ were ignozant that it was a ne we diſeaſe,
and they would redute it to ſome already knawn and wꝛit⸗
ten of. And nowe we come to our Gasiacan, Whole name
was giuenbythe Indians, and olthem very well knowne,
and fo they haue called it and do call it, in all the woꝛld, cal⸗
ling it alſo the woodde or the zndias. Ok this woodde mas
ny bane written much, one forte ſaving that it was Cb
no, Others that it was a kinde of Wore, with many other
names whereby they haue named it. at is a ne we tree ¢ ne
uet fens in sur partes, noꝛ inany other of the Difconeries,
and as the country is nets, fo is the tre a new thing alfo.

Wbatiseuer it be, it is a great tree, ot᷑ the greatneſſe ot
an Dke ; it caſteth out many bolwes, the rinde it dooth cat
from it being dꝛy, greate, and full of Summe, the heart
thereofis verie great, it is well neere like ta blacke, all is

very hard as much and moze then Ebanc is. It catketh forth
à little leafe and hard, and euerꝑ peere it bꝛingeth kozth pels

f af thetubich is ingendzed a rounde fruite

With litle kernells dorthin it,of the krratneffr ofa Werler

are broughit from the Weft Indias. Fol. 12.
of theſe Tres there is greate aboundance in Sancto Do-

mingo. . ih 2

And aſter this they haue founde an other Tre, of the
kinde ofthis Guaiecan,in Saint John de Puerto Rico, Which
is an other Zlanve nere to that of Sac Domingo, ſuch an
other tras that is, ſauing that it is leſle, ⁊ the bodye of the
tree and the bowes are ſmaller, t it hath ſcarſely any harte,
02 if it haue any,it is verie little, t that is in the body of the
tree, fo: that the bowes haue none at all: t is of moze ſwert
ſmel and moze bitter then the Guasacan,that is now vſed in
our time, à meane that of Sancte Domingo, and fo2 bis mar⸗
uellous etfettes, thepcall it the holie Moode, ⁊ ſurely with
reaſon: fo2 that it is oa better woꝛing then that of Sauct⸗
Doming o, Which is ſeene by experience, but euen aſwell the
one ⁊ the other is a maruellous reme die, to cure the diſeaſe
ofthe Poxe: ofthe which and of euerie one of them a twas
ter is made, and is taken fo2 this inũrmitie, and ſaʒ man
others in this forme, 5 4
They taketwelne ountes of the wood made imall, and How the
twoo ounces of the Rinde ol the fame woodde broken, and water of the
they caſt it toftcepe in three Pottels of Mater, in a newe woodde is
pot, that will holde ſome what moze 5 foz the (pate of rritit. made.
heures: and the pot being well ſtopt, they ſeeth it ouer a ſolt
fire ot kindled Coales, vntill the two Pottels bee ſedde a⸗
Wap, and one remaining. and this is to be nated at the time
the water is put to it, putting therein ane Bottle, they dig
in alittle Rodde, and doe marke howe highthe water of
one Pottle reacheth, and by that meaſure and marke, they
chall ſe when the tws are ſodde away, and the one Pottell
remaineth, after the water is ſadden they fet it ta cole and
ctraine it, and kæpit in a glaſſed veſſell, and fozthwith ops
pon the (aid ſodden wodde. theꝝ poure foure Pottels ot was
ter and fethit till one bee ſodden away, and this Mater
mut bee ſt᷑rained and kept apart, and it muſt be taken in

ott Atter

‘ 1
i

The firlt part of the thinges that

The manner Alter that the ficke man is purged by the counſell of a

of taking it.

Phiſition, let him be put into a warme Chamber, and kept
from the tolde and from apꝛe, and breing laid in his bedde,
let him take early in the moꝛning tenne ounces of Mater,
ofthat which was ſirſt made well warmed, and let him be
couered fo that ho map ſweat wel, E let him kepe his ſweat
at the leatt two houres, x afterhe bath ſwet, let him be made
cleane from bis ſweat, t take a warme ſhirt, and the reit ol
bis Linen cloathes, and foure houres after he hath ſwet, let
him eat Reaſings almonds and Wifket and that in reaſo⸗
nable quantitie. Then let him dzink ofthe water that was
made at the ſetond time, the quantitie that he hath need of,
and of the ſelle ſame let him dꝛinke in the dax time ¢ eight
houres after he bath eaten, let him returne to take the firſt
Water, and let him take other ten ounces well warmed.
and then ſweate other two haures, and after his ſweate let
him bee made cleane, and then bee couered againe wyth

warme cloathes, and one houre Aer be bath ſwet, let him

make his ſupper ofthe fame Realings almonds, and Biſ⸗
Ret, and dꝛinke of the ferond water. This oꝛder he muſt ob ⸗
ſerue the frſt fifteene dates, excep thee haue fome notable
weakneſſe, and in ſuch cate her mull ber ſuctoured with gi⸗
uing him to eat ofa young Chicken, iointlx, with the ref of
the diet: and in them that be leane, that cannst beare io pꝛe⸗
cife diet it is ſutficient that they take it ſoz nine daies, and
at the end of them they may eat a little Chicken rotted, e if
in cafe the ficke perſon be de bilited, and that he cannot ſul⸗
fer the diet, let him haue from the beginning a very ſmall
Chicken, going foꝛ warde increafing of the proces of time,
and beeing pak the 1 5. Bayes, let him returne to purge
himſe ile at the firteene daies end, let him take the waigt
of fius ſhillinges ofthe ſubſtaunte of Canaſſſtola, taken out
by Strapner oz ether thinae refpondent therennts, and
that day let him dʒinke no ſtronge Water, but of the fimpic,

and the next dap after the Purgation, let him returne —

are brought from the Weft Indias. Fol. 13.

the afozefaide oꝛder, taking in the moꝛning and euening
the ſtrong water with his ſweatinges, ¢ eating and dꝛin⸗
king the ſame . Sauing that in place ofa Chicken bee
map eate halfe a roſted ullet, o2 ſame what mee, and
this ſeconde time let him take it foꝛ other xx. daies, in the
which time hee may ryſe, and walke about his chamber,
being apparelled and kept warme. And at the end of them,
her hall returne to purge bimfelfe an other time, and muſt
haue a ſpecial care te kœpe good oꝛder, and after hee hath
taken the water fo2 other foztie dapes, muſt kepe him⸗
felfe from women and from wine efpecially sand in place
ol wine, hee muſt dꝛinke the ſimple water of the woodde,
which il he will not doe, then let him dꝛink of water ſodden
with Anife ſerde oz Fenell fede, upping little at night
and eating no fleſh. > hot

bis is the beſt way that the water of the woode ought
ta be taken, which doeth heale many infirmities incurable,
where other Medic ines could not woꝛke the fame effecte,¢
this water is the beſt remedy that is in the woꝛlde to beale
the dileaſe of the Pore, whatſoeuer oꝛ of what kinde foes
uer it bee, foz that it rooteth it out foz euer without any
moꝛe comming againe, and in this it bath his pꝛintipalpꝛe⸗ 5
rogatiue and extellentie . his water is alfo good fo2 the The dice.
Dꝛopſꝑ, fo the choztneſſe of bʒeath, foꝛ the Falling ficknes, e: bar thit
fo2 the difcates ef the Bladder, and of tze Raines, fa the water dati
paincs of the Joyntes , fo2 all euils canted of colve humoꝛs, heale.
fo2 ventaſitie, and other Dangerous and impoztunat diſea⸗
ſes, Where pᷣ oꝛdinarie benefites of Phiſitions haue not pꝛo⸗
fited. Chiellꝑ it ercelleth wher the euil difpofitions be that
haue proceeded at any time from the diſeaſe ot the Pore.
Ther be manp that with this wed haue made ſundꝛy mix⸗
tures, making Siropes therof, and ſurely with geod effec.
But mp iudgement and opinion is, that he which thal take
the water ofthe tomd ought ta take it in the maner as is a⸗
boue faid, without any — thereof, foz that by erpe-

riente

Se firltpart ofthe thingesthar
rience it hath beene feene fo to make the better woꝛke.
This water is good foꝛthe teeth, making them white, and
laſtning them, by continuall wafhing of them there with:it
is hat and bpp in the fecond degre,

Of the China.

He Secons Medicine that commeth fromm our In⸗
dias, it is a rte called the (H. It ſeemeth that ¥
chould flaunder it, to fap that the (hive groweth in
dur Occidentall Indias, fince commonly the Poz⸗
tingales doe bring it from the Oꝛientall Indias. 4
But this pou ſhall vnderſtand, that Hir Frauncis 4.
Mendo/i,a worthy night, when hee came from the ne we
Spaine and Peru, ſhewed to mer a great Noste, and
5 - pther little rotes, Who aſked me, what rootes they were?
China of ony J àunſweredthat they were rootes ofthe China, but that
1 they ſee med to mer tobe verie frethe . Hes ſapde to mee
~*~ that fo thep were, and that it was not lang fince that
they had bene gathered and brought fromthe new Spaine.
3 maruelled that thep had it there, for did beleeue that in
b ae 3 pu eta :

i

into Spaine great quantitie affoplceey. tithe A
; tote, andto pee anda ſawe w Ginger kanten tom

are brought from the WeftIndias. —_ Fol.14,

grote inthe China, which is the Oꝛientall Indias neere

to Siria AND Sircania. It groweth neere tothe Sea: onelx

with the roote they helpe themſelues, with the which the

Indians be healed of greeusus diſeaſes. And therefore they

haue it in great eſtimation:they do heale all maneroflargs

diſeaſes there with, and alſo the ſharpe diſeaſes: eſpetially

Agues, with the Mater ofit, pꝛouoking Sweates, and

by this way they heale many. It pꝛoudkethlweat maruel⸗ 2

5. 5 8 :
It is well nere ree. peares ſince that the Poꝛtingales -- e
bꝛought it totheſe parts with great eſtimation, foꝛ to heale ;
all maner ofsifeates,and eſpeciallp the diſeaſe ofthe Bore,
in the which it hath wꝛought great etfeds, and the Mater
is giuen in this forme. Hit! „„ Ie
The ſicke perſon being purges as is moſt conuenient, Te.
muſt take one ofthe Moctes and tut them ſmall vnts the ver how te
thickneſle and greatneſſe of a thꝛee penny peete, and fo bes ge be
ing cut, ſhall weigh one ounce, and caſt it into a newe Pot, Wer,
and thereuppen chall poure thꝛee Pottels of Water, and 0 Chins.
fo ſhall lxe a ſteeping there xxiii.houres, andthe Pot bee⸗
ing ſtopt, let it ſeethe at a foft fire of kindled coales, vntyll
halte be ſodden a wax, c one pottell and halfremaine, ⁊ this
is to be none by the oꝛder of the Meaſure, as is afoʒeſaid,
in the Mater of the Mood. And after that it is colde, letit
be ſtraigned and kept in a glaſſed Aeſſell. There muſt bee
tare takon, that it ſtand in ſome hotte 02 warm place nære
to the fire,fo2 that there with it dooth peferue the bertue the
better and dureth longer time, beldze it be coꝛrupteds.
The lick man being lodged in acloſe tonuenient cham- i
ber muſt take in the moꝛning fatting, tenne ounces ol the Hewi:
aid water, as hatte as he tan ſutter it and hee hall pꝛocure “e
fweat, æ keep it two houres at the leaſt. Aſterthe ſweat he e nu.
challbe made cleane, and (hall take a Shirte and cieane
clothes ¢ warme them, and ſhall lye do wne agayne two oz
thzee houres in the bed quictly 3 —
es eee : 3 : :

Nore,

The firſt part ofthe thin zes that

alter warde let him aparrell himſelfe, and beeing well

warmed remayne in his Chamber, in the which he ſhal be
kept from cold ¢ the open apꝛe, with al the pleaſure of good
company and conuerſation: he ſhaleate at a xi of the clock,
balfea Chicken ſodden, oz a quarter ofa Henne, with a
little Salt. At the beginning of dinner be thal dꝛinke a diſh
full of Bꝛoth, and foorth with cate of the Pullet, eating at
the beginning a little. and he ſhall ende with Marmelade.
His dꝛinke ſhall be of the water hee tooke in the mowing,
fo2 that here is no moꝛe then one water, hee map atthe be⸗
ginning after the Bꝛoth is taken, beginne to eate Rea⸗
finges, without their little Grapnes, 02 Pzunes withont
their ttones: their bꝛead mut be Cruſtie, well baked, 03
Biſket. Ik he will dzinke in the daye time, hee may doo
fo with taking of a little Conſerua, and dꝛinke of the fame
water and beeing eygbt howzes paſte his Dinner, let
him lye dowone in his Bedde and take other tenne ounces
ofthe ſame water, the which being bette hee map dꝛinke,
and pꝛacure ſweat:t wo houres after he hath ſweat, let hym
be made cleane, and take a cleane ſhirte, and cleane clothes
warm, and after one hours let him (up with Cõſerua, Rea⸗
finges and Almondes, with ſome Biſket and dꝛinke of the
felfe fame water, and laſt of alleate Marmelade, vpon the
which he may not dꝛinke. Thus he max continue xxx. daies
continually, without neede of any moze Purgation then the
firſt and he may fit vg, fo that he goe well clothed, bangin
this time all content and mirth, and keeping himſelfe from
all that may offend bint, |
‘After that he bath taken this water in this ſoꝛte, he muſt
keepe good ozver, and good gouernement ko fortie daves
continually. And he muſt drink no Mine, but water made
of the China, that was before ſadden, the Wpiche hee thall
Rep alter it is fanden, ſetting it todzy in a ſhadowie plate,
andthat Chine being dꝛꝝ mull be kept to make water fo20-

der 40, daies, to dʒinks alter the taking ofthe sai

cave bronshttiahn the welt Ini Fol. i;,
ſerthing one aunce thereokinthꝛee Pottells of water vntyll
one halle be ſodden awap, ¢ this water let him dꝛinke cons
tinually . And aboue all thinges let him kepe bimfelfe
from women: and be muſt alwaies haue care, that as well
in the water of xxx. daxes as in the water ol ö foꝛtie dapes,
3 China be ſteeped in the water xxiiii Heures be fad it
ſodden.
There be many diſeaſes healed with this witer ark The diſea-
of euill of the Wore, all olde Sozes, it reſolueth all wel er that be
linges and knobbes, it taketh awap the paynes of the bzaled by.
iopntes wohich they cal the Arthetica Gore, and any other this waer.
kinde of Goute that is in any pertculer member oz place, 5
and eſpecially the Sciatica, it taketh alway olde papnes of os
the head and the ſtomacke . It healeth all manner of runs ee
nings of Rewmes, it viffolueth Opilations, and healeth the 3
Dꝛopſie . It maketh a good tolour in the face, it taketh a 8
way the Jaundies, x all euill complerion of the Liuer and
reatũeth it. and in this it hatha great pꝛeragatiue. And be
this means thele infirmities are healed.it healeth the pa's
fey, t all inſtrmities of the eee
of Urine, it takethawayp e i |!
comming of cold diſeaſes. 3 — ede macke it
both diſlolue winds maruelloullv, and alſo 3 and
ſharp, as quatidians: the taking ot this water as it is cone
uenient, ſo dothit rate them out, and take them a ap. Lhe
e in this it peat

T. ie firſt part of the thin ges chat

Olthe Sareaparillia. :
Ge DE Sarcaparillia is a thing bꝛought

als into dur parts fnce the Chea.

The time
: fincethat
3 he Sarca-
poiliscone 9e
sz CHG US. 5

— It is xx. peares ſince that the bfe
thereof came to this cittie. It frit
/ a ame from the: new Spaine, ethe

man and diuers diſeaſes.

It is a plant which dath caſt ma⸗
ny tates vnder the ground, being ofa peardlong, E or the
colour of leere tawny, and ſometimes the rotes thootes

deepe, that to take them out all, it is nedfull to digge a
Pans! ength. It caſteth foozth certein bowes full of knots,
that quickly doe die, and we knew not that they haue cae
trlied flowers oz fruite at all.

Alter that the Sarcaparillia ofthe ne we Spaine was
found, there was alſo found in the Hunduras, an other ſoꝛt
that was better, and of better effedes: it is knowne to
be ol the Hunduras, betauſe that it is of colour Tawnie,
and groſſer then that ol the newe Spaine, p which is white
eee 2 .
— n N ‘ome eaten,
choo- gebenen ogi in ee mua

great ttkene: e
parts, Shue da io ee

, are ebreught boca che welt Indias, Fol. 16.
rete fpaine doth . it is like onto that of the Hunduras, but .

it is of a bitter taſt, and not serie ſharpe, andthe water that

it petideth hatkno moze ſauour then barley water bath.

The dle ot this hearbe at the ſirſt did differ much from How it Was

that which is now in experimẽt, foꝛ that they gaue it as the ved in te

Indians did, in the healing of their ficke follies , e ſurelꝑ it beg.

did woꝛke verie great effectes. But the delicateneſſe of dur

tine doth require that it oulde be died r giuen as the twas

ter of the wood is. at the beginning they tocke of the Sarca-

l a pound e

meat, ſauing one ly that thicks di |
ez ſtraining of the S arcaparillia: ay after this fox 3 on trikes bis fi
at the beginning many times, an ſurely it wꝛought great bree dase:
effcctes,andmtany ficke people did better tetouer, then ther

Bosuanin wich this other fathton. : 5

“Biter there twas inuented an other forme to
giue it, and is tgat which is note bled, in this ſoꝛte. T
take ties ounces Sarcaparilisa and twat it and cut it ſmal ufed
ndr 2 e ’

The Girtt partofthe thinzes that

che one remaine,the which may be knotone by the oꝛder of
the meafure, that we ſpake ol, and when it is cold, let it bee
ſcrained into a glaſſed veſſel, and vpon the ſelfs fame Sarca-
_ pursia that is ſodden, let there bee fo much water powꝛed in
againe that the pot be filled, x let it boyle a reaſonable time
and kept in a veſſel glaſſed.
The aner Maw the ſicke Man being purged, as it ſemeth motte
how to gine conuenient, and placed in a warme Chamber, he mull take
it, in the moꝛning ten ounces of fhe firſt water of the Sar cada.
rillia, ànd muſt ſ we ate at the leaſt two houres, and after
ſweate he muſt be made cleane from bis ſweat, and take a
warme ſhirt, and warme cloathes and the like he muſt doe
at night, eight houres after he bath eaten his dinner, chan⸗
ging his ſhirt and hot apparrell. Bee muſt dine at eleuen of
the clock, and ſuppe one boure after hee bath ſweat, at night
eating nothing but Reaſings, Almondes, and Biſket, and
: dzin king ofthe ſecond water. Ret him keepe this order Hh
tene daies, and if he be weake, gine him a litt le roſtedchic⸗
ken increafing it in procefic of time, ¢ at the leaſt hee mut
ktepe his bed nine daies at the firft beginning, andthe reit
of the time in his chamber, kept from cal de and from ayꝛe
and on the fiftene day he muſt be purged, with a ſolt and an
taſie medicine, and like wiſe on the thirty day, in ſuch fo2te,
that all the oꝛder that we haue p2elcribed,be kept. as in the
manner of the taking of the water ofthe tomd is already de
clared. and like wiſe aſter the 30. daies, he mult haue good
gouernment, foꝛ other foꝛtie daies, not dʒꝛinking any Wine,
but ſimple water made of the fain Sa caparillia, and keeping
himſelle fram women. This is the oꝛdinarie manner inta⸗
kingokthe water of ar caparillia, Which at this day is bfed,
And becauſe J haue experience of other waies that bee ol
great ſecret, and ot᷑ great etfectes, will wꝛite them heere,
to the ende that all the vertues which are in the Sar capi
lia, may bee (ef dane and declared, ſeeing it is the Me⸗
dicine that is malte vled, and that wie doe ſes in it 4
8 3 grea

are brought from the Weft Indits. Fol. ry.
greate effectes. . b
J doe make a Sirupe, that many peres hath bane tele / A frape or

bꝛated, and had in e ſtimation in this Citie and in al Spain, Ehe
for that it is xxvi. vrares that ̃ did bie it fo2 the diſcaſe of Sarg
the Pore, and ſdꝛ other infirmities: the wüypch vosethy not voſt execier
heate, noꝛ inflame, but with greate temperature, atco:ding oe
to his graduation, it woꝛketh his good effedes. The ſpette,
for wheme this thing was oꝛdained and deuiſed was fay
Pantelion de Negro lenoues hs was cured of many Piya:
tions, and hauing taken the water of the twoonde,and other
Medicines, der was well nere confined; and with a gree
uous ſwelling fore vpon his ſhinne bone, and great paines
in it, he took e it, and healed verie well. This ſtrupe J haue
vled to many people, foꝛ the infirmitic that the Sarcaparsiia
doeth profite foꝛ, and the woodde, and for many other, and
it hath a good working by degrees : fo: that the dʒineſſe of
the woode is taken away,and the heate ef the Sarcaparilla,
and it is made in this foꝛme. „ — .

There mull bee taken two ounces of Sarcaparilia, and =
fatite ounces of Palo Sancte, Whyche is the holy wocdde, T 5. Ker.
prepared as it is Myed, and three dozen of eLcofeifas , n of ehe fi
fruite of Spaine, Without their Kone, and todo dozen e er crit
of Pꝛunes, wit haut their ſtones and halfe an ounce of the 7
flowers of Burrage, and an other halfe ounce of Aiolettes
and ſome graines of Barleꝝ made cleane, that is to ſape:
the huſues taken away. All thefe thinges lette them ber
caſte inta thꝛe pottelles of water, and lette them bee fons
den on a fefte fire, vntill it come to one pottell, and then let
it bee ſtrained, and tu tenne ounces of this ſerthing, lette
there ber putte one ounce ofthe Sirupe at Wiolettes, Reet
ifbe taken hotte inte mozning and at night in the ober

ofthe Water, Kepyng werte if ahd 3

Si at d. In be = Pe had <3 5

be any anbaltbough there coe ite yet toes be
map cate a little Chicken fromthe irl dap, with the ret
of the diet, and dꝛinke the ümple water of the Sarcaparitas ⸗

The firſt part ofthe thinges that |
whiche is to bee made with halle aneunce of S r caparilla,
ſodden in foure pottels ot᷑ water, vntill one oꝛ ſome What

Hoe de ſoddenawap. 5
The thinges Chis oꝛder dooeth heale all kinde of euill of. the Wore,
| that this and all the infirmities that we haue ſpoken of, that the wa⸗
Linde dooth ter of the waodde doeth heale, and the ( ana, and the Sarca-
refte in. parilla. And to repeate it, it hall be too long and to pꝛolixi⸗

. - There is an other Sirnpe to bee made ofthe Sarcapa-
8 réla, Which is; taking eight ounces of Sarcaparsia beeyng
: — vntill tier be ſodden alway, and the one remaine: and in
| the water as tall remaine, putte to foure pounds of gous
| The shinges ger, and make it a perfecte Sirupe. And of this Sirupe,

e — teng good meates, and Suppe little, anddzinks one ly tue

aped,twithaut giuing any moleffation —

ate brought fromthe Weft Indias. Fol. 18.

kyng it in the Moꝛnyng, and at Might as muche when he
gecth to bedde. He muſte eate good meates, and dꝛinke no
Mine, but the ſimple water thereof, It ſhall doo well her
be purgedthat fhall begin to vie. ms

And although that this powder dosth heale many dev
fcafes large and tempoꝛall, one cure it dooth marueilouſly
whiche in the ſalte Fleume ofthe handes and fete, in thys
foʒzme. The ficke man beeyng purged, and alſo without
purgyng, it he can not other wiſe doo, he ſhall take the pens
der, as it is ſaped and in the ſalt Fleume, he hal put with a The Sale
Feather, a little ofthe water of Sah j,j, walered with py
Rote water, that it be very mple, and after it is put in all a
partes, Where the ſalte Kleume is, then let there bee put v⸗ nb
pon it a plaiſter, that is called of Sernents:, 03 Dia :
Palma ſpꝛead abjoad thinne vpon Sattin o2 Tatfeta, putte
in all partes tubcre the fimple water of H és put.
Chis mus bir doon euerie day, foʒ that in fſteene daies he
hall bee perfectly whole. T his dooth mundiſte and sooth
incarnate, and daoth fkinne without hauing nerde of ante
other edicine, iorntly with the Powder and the fimple
water of Sac parila whiche we haue ſpoken or. This is
or fe great effecte. and experunented, as they ſhall ſe by the
woꝛke that ſhall vie it foꝛ ſurei they fhall bee whole.
The vlc of the water of the S y caparulle is fo greate at The vertue
this dap in this foꝛme, as is ſayed that it is appliedto anpe ofthe water
deſeaſe, and it is tome to ſo much that in any manner of / Sarcapa-
Keumes o: Kunnings, oꝛ windinelſe, the euill of women,
of the Mother, oꝛ any other cauſe oꝛ occafion that ſoeuer,
fothat it hee not in Feuers oz other Harpe diſeaſes, fo2 the
whiche they take the fimple Nater of the Sarcaparula and
this is at this dap fo put in bie, that in like ſozte pou ſhall
finde ſodden water of Sarcapersiia becing fimply in mang
boufes; as oꝛdinarie water in earthen vedelles:anvfare-
ip it booth great etfeces, and dooth remedie large and ime
poztunate deſeaſes. Truth it is 2 —

2

4

The firſt part ofthe thinzes chat

bee bette of coutplerion, it dooth heate them moze then is ;
tanueniente, andfothepcan nat dꝛinke it, and moſte of all
ikthat the Liner be verie hotte, faꝛ that it heateth too much.
In womens diſeales, as well of the Mother, as of colde
humours, it dosth good effectes, and dooth maruelloullye
diſſolue windes, and in perſons that bee ſubieae fo muche
eullles, and efpecially of Retomes, and ol de grerfes and di⸗
ſeales cauſed of euill humours and it they run this courſe,
wit the continuaunce thereof, they (hall receiue manifeſt
pofite and benefite, and it vooth heale all diſeales tohiche
ey neuer thought to heale of. Wis complerion is hotte and

baie well nere in the ſecond degrar. All thete waters mutt
bee giuen in Sammer; oꝛ in the ende thereot:; it is Rete
that it ercéede in heate then iu cold.

i OF the blood Stone, and of the Stone for
a the deleafes of the Stope of the
Ki idneies and Raute

2 i
re Ned Let ones of

are brought from the weft Indias. Fol.19,
ter. In this (opt the Indians Bac vs them. And as touching
the Indians, they haue it ſoꝛ certaine, that touching the
fame ſtone, in ſome parte where the blood ruuneth, that it
booth reſtraine and in this they haue great truſte, {63 that
the effect hath beene feene, It dooth pꝛokpt alſo hauyng it
holden, banged, oz tied in the fame part where the bloud
runneth, fo that it touche on the fleſhe. Ok this fone we
haue fiene great effectes, in ſtaunchyng ol blood. And ſome
that doo ſuſfer the Hemeroidal luxe, haue remedied theme
ſelues with makyng Kynges of this ſtane, and wearing
them continually vpon thet — And l in the Pen ;
ruall fure of women.
The other Stone, which is for the Difeate ofthe done Tye Sen
in the ioncics oꝛ Reynes the nnen ot them are like onto ‘for she de-
Plafma Of Efmeraides, whiche is hihened to greene with a fg of rhe
Pukithe colour, the greateſt is the bet: they beyngthem grauell ſtane
made in diuers foꝛmes and faſhions fo2 f the Indians ban’, an the kidneis
them in olde time, ſome like to tyes, ather like tothe hed⸗ „eine,
des of birdes, other like to billes of Nopingaies, other like
ta raunde Beadſtonrs, but all pearſed though, ma that the
Indians doo vſe to weare them hangyng ſoz the cffede of
the grecfeafthe dene a: Gomacke: fozin thele twos Sicko
neſles it doth maruelous effects,
The chert vertue that it hath is in the paine of the gone
in the Ridneies and Reines, and in expelling ot Sands and
Gone. In ſomuch that a Gentleman whiche had one of tok
here, (the bet of them that 3 haue soe pee itts brs

Fp K vs ee as
es that haue es pe

The firſt part of the thin ges that
paines ofthe (aide dileaſe, and putting it to tem, they dos
forthwith expell the ſande and the little tones andremain
cleare there.
This one hath a pꝛopertie hidden, by the which mea⸗
A property nes he Booth great effectes,topretertic that they fall not in
en. tothe paine of the faivedifeate, andafter it is come it ta-
keth it away, oz diminicheth it. It dooth make the ſande to
ber expelled in great aboundauce, and likewile ſtones It
taketh awap tg hrate froin the taines of the backe, it pꝛo⸗
iteth in greeles of the Romacke, put to it: and abeue all it
preicruets from the laide gtiefe, f
Dy Lady the Ducheſle fo; that the had in chozte time
ther temes excerding paines of the ſtone che made a braces
let ot them that che vled to weare it at her arme, and fithece
he put them to her arme, che neuer had moze paines of the
Stone, and ſo it hath happened to many other that had the
uke beneũte, forthe whiche they are much etesmen, and
nelu theꝝ be not ſo ſone had, as at the beginning: for that
thele ones onelx the Oentlemen and richmen haue them,
and witz reaſon, becaufe they do ſuche maruelous etfectes.
An other fone there is that death heale the lalte Fleume,
= Foca 4 doo know by herelape, but 3 haue fene nene
0 A

Of the Wood for the euils ofthe Reines,
and ofthe Vrine. :

lc ther do bring from the neto Spaine, a
del crrte vne wad that is like vntu the wen of
oh E
e nee ot eat ee
BLN Y PALES fo the painesofthe Haines t ofthe —
Sue 1
bears pall) there was e Pülstthat was äche of the
e 3 2 ine,

ate b rouzht from che Welt Indias. Folic. a

Urine and of the Reines, and alter that he had vled it, he
was whole and derte well. And ſithence that time z haue
ſerne that many haus bꝛought it from the new Spaine, and
they doe ble it fo2 theſe rcemedies.

Foꝛ them that daeth not pile liberally , and to the pays For thé tha
nes of the Reines and ofthe fone, and to them that doeth it doeth yro-

pile with paine, and foꝛ them that doocth piſſe little. Bie.
now the thyng hath extẽded fo2 opilations, fo; that the wa ⸗
ter thereot doeth cure and beale them, and alſa of tze Lins
ges and the L iuer, and this bath beene founde. within theſe
te we peres and they do finde in it notable profit, The was
ter is made in this forme.

Shey dot take the adde, and due make it in mall pe; How the u
ces verit thinne, and ſmall asitis pocibie, and they putte 7 a
them ints cleare water of the Fountayne, whiche is berie 2
good and cleare, and they leansit fa bntill tbe water ber ſo⸗
kened inta it: and in putting the woodde into the Mater,
within halle an haure the water doeth beginne ta chaunge
ee ee een that

in the Vater. ſo muche the Blewer it by al-
though that the wondde ber afa 10 ¢ colat

water their Wine, and i ee ae
fectes, without any alteration, fo that itis needful but *
; ankle geak goacrnment e ttas Lee

th

me 1 a e |
be 24 lent, ora en in ral pete,

The Grttpartotthe thin ges taat
8 coat it bath plentie thereot in it, f the tatrenes of the kruite
‘a that it bꝛingeth forth.
ö The defrip It is a greate Plante, in fo muche that J haue ſeene in
tion of the this Citie ſome that was ecuall with ſome Trees. It doeth
Plate. date the leaues Greene after the fachen of Bafill of the
1 pon Ses And it taſteth out certaine White flowers, of
the whiche cammieth out of the fruite, the lohich is in di⸗
ers tone Depper be long other rounde, others
dot | of Cherties, tut all ber
eginning When they bee not ripe’ verie Greene,
ano fer verie redde, and with a gratious and g W d
taullour.
: The vj t ane e a en of meates and etages. fo2

the common er bath.
. excellent

+ it doseth heale and comfozte, Erengthenyng the
. atts P .

are brought from the Weft Indias. Fol. 21.

Bere dosth come from the Zlandes of Sancte Do- a
mingo, ànd from Sancte Iohn de Puerto Rico greate
quantitie of Cenafjtola, and it is ſo muche, that not Canaſſteli.
only all Spayne is pꝛouided of it, but all Europe,

and well neere all the woꝛlds: foꝛ that bute Leuant from

whence it was accuſtomably bꝛought, now there gocth moe

Shippes laden with it, then tome with Jron from Biſuep.

That which commeth from our Indias, is much better in

comparifon then that which is bꝛought from the Eaſt ane

dias to Aenis, and that which the Galleons dot carry from

thence to Senoua, and frem Genoua to Spapne, and when

the Berchantes brought it hither it could not bee good, fog

that it was verie ſmal, and alfo it was not ripe, and with fo

long time and cõtinuance it became fo coʒrupted, that it did

profite little.

This of ours that they bring from Santo Domingo and Thede
coainte goin inge, rate, fll, weightic, bange, and 2" er ·
frech. In ſo much that manp times it cammeth in Grtie u.
bayes after it is gathered, and beeing freſhe, it is ota gra⸗
tious and good taſte and not of fo hozri le ſmell, as that ot
Leuant is, and bit doetg his waz he fare better ann With”
moze falicitie. ae
This Corafifole, and the wohne theres is ot greate The vertue
ſecuritie, it purgeth gently , without any alteration. And ofthe Cana.
doeth auopde principaliy Choller, and after Fleume, and ola.
that which is in the waies and the Guttes. It doeth temper
them muche that take it, alfo it purifieth the blood, it
doetg many good workesin all kinde of Bifeates, in eſpe⸗
cially in the paines ofthe Reines, and of vꝛine being taaen
two heures before ſupper . And in reumes it doeth muche
pꝛefite being taken two houres aſter Supper, and eaſilie
it doeth cure theeutlles ofthe bꝛeaſt, which haue beene g
long continuance, x griefes of the ſide, being taken with
DOpꝛapes fez the bꝛeaſt: and being applyed outwardly with

e e alway the oo

The firſt part ofthe thin zes that
diſeaſes of tlie Lunges, and griefes of the Keines. It is
god in hotte Feuers, and fing it continually beſdꝛe ſupper
oz dinner, it ſtaieth the ingendzing of the ſtone, it taketha ⸗
way the dꝛieth: it is moiſt in the firſt degree, it declineth to
Heate, althoughit be little, it is diſloluatiue it clarifieth the
blood, and delapeth the ſharpneſle therof, and ofthe red tol
leur. There aue beene in the Indias ſince it was diſcoue⸗
red ſome thereof ſo weighty, that one codde waieth ſiue ſhil⸗
linges being taken aut by the Seeue, and foure ounces in
weight the whole tane.

1

—

Of the pare ,
Fl OS nay 5 0 :
Nis. _ “being thee copnered,twith the which the zndians did .

great ercede of cooles, vet vosth it al⸗
berie ſtrongly and wity muche vio⸗
te faintnefie and heauineſle. Afterwards

anbatter cholo2.¥ is an crcvileat mediane fo2 the Coke,

dur

i; 5

are brought from the weft Indias. Fol. 22.
hed ther with. The Phiſitions do call them commonly Ben, Ben.
of which there are two ſoztes, one they call greate, and the
other little. The great hen be theſe Purgatiue Ruttes the
little Ben bee as great as our eaſan, ofthe uh ch in talie
they make that ople of werte ſmell, which they call Oyle of
Ben, With the which thep deo annoint their heare, z beards
lo delicatenes The complexion is hotte inthe beginning
of the thirde degree, and dꝛy in the fecond. Their weight is
ok halle a dzamme vnto one, but they mult be toſledo,

Ok the purgatiue kinos. s

*

came We doo bꝛyng front the newe Spapne
8 terteyne Pinions oz Carnels, wherwirh! The defvips
e dde audians beo purge. tyemfelues: they vun A fle
7 ly bee like to our Pinions, whiche do Soe
AD CH out of our trees, beeing greate after the fas
— ſhion of the wheate of the Indias the ſhale

e ea regia near ene theyare —

— deen thep are moze eaſie How
Medicine, then the Nuts be they doo purge by ſtole, and by = they
vomit, and ifthey be toſtedthey doo not purge ſo muche, no: / So
with ſo much kaintnes. They do purge at their olun nature
groſſe Humoꝛs: it is a Purgation much vſed amongſt the as 1.
Indians, being 1 —. bey
uing firf taken pꝛeparatiues that do ate N

thateman do patenfaguacute and ving a conueni-
ake of them fiuc oꝛ fire mtoze 92 leſſe conta: ·
deten enero ge amc, of pe ö - |

ey do taſte them: fo2 fa they be no2e4 tie
„ ssa jatboe he iste

The firft part ofthe thinges that

them, be kept as one being purged. 1
They be giuen in large infirmities, and where theve be |
groſſe humours: they be hot in the thirddegra, and dʒye in
the fecond with ſome fatnes, which doothtake away ſome ⸗
what ofthe dꝛyneſſe.

Ofthe purgatiue Beanes.

Beanes lile Rom Cartagena, ans numbze de Dios, they boingt cers
to ours. tapne Beanes lyke to the fashion of ours, ſauing that
they be ſome what leſſe, andofthe colour and making
ofours, theꝝ haue in the middeſt of the Beane that
both deuide the two halues, one little thinne ſuinne, like ta
the ſkinne ol an oynion.
Hor they be They doo take them from their thale, and from the in⸗
talen. ner thinne ſkinne, and taſte them and make them into pou⸗
bans 38 der, and take them with Wine: aud being made into pour
der and mingled with Sugar,one ſponeful of the pouder is
f taken, and vppon that a little baught of Wine. They do
purge without moleſtation Choler and Fleame, and groſſe
mixt gumoꝛs. And amõgſt the Indians they are of great t⸗
timation, fo2 the eafinette that they haue in the taking of
them any Spantardes doe purge with them with muche
ſeturitie, en een man eaten gentle than
that alareſaide.

Z baus ene many that haue come from thoſe parts,
purgs them therewith, andit ſutcedeth with them verre
wien, and pur geth without griefe.

3 ut they mutt be aduiſe d that there be taken from them
tat ixttie Chinne thatis 2 twos halfes

are brought from the Welt Indias. Fol;
which is generall in this Medicine, and in all the reit, fo2
that to toſt them is the true preparation oł them. after p tas
king of anp ot the foꝛe ſaid Medicines, the Patient mutt not
fleepe at alat is nedful that he keep great watch being pur⸗
ged, and in all things, which in a man purged map be cons
uenient.

The Beanes be ginen pꝛepared, in Feuers being large
and impoꝛtunate, and in diſeaſes of mixt humours, becyng Their l
groſſe, and in the papnesofthe taints ¢ they are an vniuer⸗ and efe ctes.
fall Purgation: they be hatte in the fecend degree, 1 dz in
the firſt, there bes giuen of them from foure to ſpxe, toſted
moꝛe 02 leſſe as the obedience and ſufferance of the bell is
ol him that ſhall take them.

Ofthe milke Pinipinichi.

o Rall the Coatk ofthe firme Lande Of. he Pini.
Sa Gul they take outa certepne kinde of eh.
9 milke,from little tres. like to Ap⸗
yes pletrées;tobich the rnptans call r.
4 “bough, there commety foorth tober
: as it iseutte, a certepne kinde ok

A ape , and taking — 02 foluze
: en * ne Dakar;
eee mer in lle „

ssather dine — —
It is dꝛy in e third degrer.
—

The firſt part ofthe thinzes that :
Nore, and ol great force, ethephaue not bene much vled lithente
dhe Afechoacan hath tome, for that in it there is founde a
woꝛke moze ſure, ans vnto this not only we, but all the zn⸗
dians haue run, as bats a purge moll extellent, ofthe which
we will treate now. .

Ofthe Mechoacan.

% Be Mechoacan is a roote, that it
I mapbee about xxx. veares that it
was diſconered, in the Pꝛouines
g of the newe Spaine, in the Indi⸗
as, ol the Occean Seas, it is
dꝛought from a Country that is be⸗
onde the greate Cittye of Mexico,

Fernando Curtes did conquere, in the peere or dur Loꝛde, 4
= 1524. This is a countrie otmuch riches of Gold and chiel⸗
Theriche: I of luer, and it is vnderſtood that in all that Country, is

ere much ſiluer. Foz moze then 200. leagues, here thoſe Mpnes
5 be fo celebꝛated, and of ſa great riches that they bee called

ndante of bꝛead, wilde
8, and ſome of

are brought ſiom the Weft 'n dias. Fol. 24.
tall in their language Chuncilia, and the Spaniardes do tal
it as they tal that Kealme ec boacan, i it is a great tone
of Indians ſituated neare to a lake which is of ſw te was
ter, abounding with verie much Fiſh. The ſame Lake is in
lachion of the making ok an hoꝛſeſhoe, and in the midſt ther
of andeth a towne, the which at this dap bath greate
trade ot buping and ſeiling, forthe greate Pynes ol Plate
that are in all that country. 5
As ſaone as that Pꝛouite was gotten from the Indi ⸗Hiſtorie.
ans, there went thither certaine J riers ot Saint Frantts
oꝛder, as in a Countrie fo far diſtaunt from their naturall
ſoyle, ſome of them fel ficke amongeſt whom the Warden
who was the chief Frier of the houſe was one, with whom
Caconcim (afique an Indian Koꝛde, a man of greate power
inthat Countrie, had verie great fræendſhip, who was Loꝛd
ofall that country. L he father Marden had a long ücknes
and was bought in great danger of life:the Caſigue as hee
lawe his diſeaſe pꝛoctede foꝛwarde, fapde that hee woulde
bring him an Andian of his, which was a phifition , with
whom he did cure himſelt a it might be, that he would gine
dim remedie or his difeate. The which being heard ofthe
Frier, and (ring the little helpe that he had there, and the
want of a Phiſttion, with ether things of benelite, he than⸗
Hed him, and deſired him, that hee would bꝛing him vn⸗
to him: who being come, and fering his diſeaſe, ſuxde to
the Casque, that if he tooke a pouder, that he would gine
him ot a veote that it woulde heale him. Che which bee-
ing knowen to the Frier, with theselite that hee had ol
health, he accepted his offer, and take the pouder that
the Indian ohiſition gaue him the nerte Day ina little
wine, wyth the which he did purge lo muche, and with,
gut papnes, that the fame day he was much lightnes, and
much moze from that time ſoꝛ ward in ſuch ſozt that he was
bealed of his infirmitie. Che reſt ofthe Friers whit were
fiche, and ſome Spaniardes e

2 The firk part ofthethinges that
loto the father Mardens ture, x toke ofthe felfe ſame pon⸗
der onte oꝛ twiſe, x as oſt as they had neede of it, foꝛ to heale
them The ble of the which went ſo well with them, that
alt they being healed, the Friers did (end relation of this, ta
the father pꝛouincial to A xc tober he was, who did cõmu
nitate it with thoſe of the tauntry, giuing tothem o therdte
and conſtrming them that they ſhould take it, betauſc or the
cod relation, that hee had from thofe Friers of Mecha-

are brought from the Weft Indias. Fol. 25.

But tauſeꝭ him vtterl to foꝛſake the ble of ſuch like new
Medicines, of the which there was nothing written noz
Enon, And did perfivade with him ta purge with the me⸗
ditines that we had here, or the which there was fo great
experiente and knowledge, in wꝛitten Authoꝛs. And he dis
graunt to me woꝛdes, and purged himſelſe with a purgati⸗
on that] gaue him, cut as it was conue nient fo2 his diſeaſe.
Bythe which although that ther did follow vnto him nota⸗
ble lightneſſe and pꝛofite: pet hee was not cleare of the diſ⸗
eaſe in ſuch ſoꝛt, but that it was neteſſarie to purge him an
other time. And when we came to the ſecond purgation,be
would take none other but his otone Ruibarbe of Adechoa-
can, with the which he did purge fo well, that bee remained
whole, æ without any diſeaſe . And although that this effete
did like me well: neuertheleſſe J did not remaine ſatiſũed,
vntill many other that came at the ſame time, and fell fick,
did purge with the ſaide Aechoacan, and it went berie
well with them, betauſe they were actcuſtomed to purge
there with in the newe ? paine: and faing the good wozkes
and fo many thereot᷑. 3 began to conſider ot it, and fo purge
many there with, giuing credite to the good effectes that it

ꝛought. : ; 25 5 5

And fo with thefe that J did make experiente ofhere, as Te v/2 ofall
alfo with the relation, and great credite of them that came parses of the
out ofthe ne we payne in ſomuch that the ble therof bath Mechoacãi.
ſpꝛed abꝛoade that itis a common thinge in all the woꝛlde
and they doe purge there with not onelyin the new Spaine
and the Pꝛouintes of the Peru, tut alſo in our Spaine, all
Italie, Almaine and Flaunders) I haue ſent relation thers
of well neere ko all Europe, as well in Latine , as in our
aue ² öV 88
© Dhe dle thereof is ſo muche, chat they bꝛing it for chiele The ger
Merthaundile, in great quantitie, andit is ſolde fo2 greate quantssse of
ſummes of monp:3n fomuch that a feller of ODꝛugges tolde ¶lec hoacan
me, befines that which be * ſald fog the Citie, he had ſold char is v/ed.

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7

The fitſt part ofthe thinzes that
foarth ofthe citie the laſt yre, moʒe than ten kintalles ot it
which is a thouſand pound weight, fo that nowe they aſke
ko Rmbarb ofthe Indias, ſoꝛ that it is fo familiar, that ther
is no huſoand man that doeth not vſe it, as a molt ſure mes
dit ine, and at great eſfeaes, betauſe fa2 that kinde of pur⸗
gation, there is no nerde of a Phiſition, as being that, vnta
wich all men giue moll credite, zs a thing determined and
appꝛoued for good. i

A hane talked with many of them that haue come from
the ne we Spaine, and in efpecially with them that haue
bene in Mechonc an, tanterning the faſhion ef the plant that
this roete is af, and what ſoꝛme and Figure it bath, the
Which theydoe bzing feom the Country, within 40. leages
ol beyonde echoacan, from a countrie whichis called Ce-
ima, andthev haue fo little care therein, ſteing that their
pꝛincipall intent is onto their intereſt and gaine, that they
kno no moze thereof, but that the Indians in Mec ho ac an
doe fell it them the rotes being dꝛie and cleane , as hither
they dae bring them, and the S paniardes doe buy them, as
à kinde of Perthandiſe, and fo ſend th: m to ſpaine.

And ſure lx in this we are worthy of great repꝛehenſion,
that feepng that there are in the newe papne, fo manye
Dearbes,and Plantes, andotherthinges sPedicinable, of
la much impaztaunce, there is not any that wꝛiteth of thew
Nozisit onderſtoad, mhat vertues and fumes they haue, fa
to accord thé With durg: ſo that it men baba deſire to ſearch
datt and experiment fo many kinde of medicines as the n
Niang did fell intheir Parket places and Faires it would
be —— of great se tA viliti e to ſee and to kolos

oper ties and to experiment tye variable and greate
tifedtes, which the Indians doe —— with
_ State pooofeamongest themſelues, whych they haue &
dem we staur parte without ang confiveration doe re-
te it and luthe as dos knewe their ctf des, weill not sig

Se iy

arebrought from tlie weſt Indias. Fol.26.

ds relation, noꝛ knowledge what they are, noʒ wzite the et
ficacie and manner of them. £2
And going to fearche after the Place of the Roote Hiſtorie of
All ec hoacan, à Paſſenger that was come from that 3209s the plant of
uince, didaduertiſe mee that a Frauncis Frier, that was AAecbeacan
come fram the Countrep, had bꝛought in the ſhippe w here >
der came, the proper Hearbe of ¶ lecboac an greene; ina 8
great barrell, and with much care, which he bꝛought from
be onde Afecheacen, and that hee had it in the Frierie of
D. Francis ot the City. And hearing thereof J did recexue
great contentment, and fo 4 went foozthwith to the Fries
re, andat the dooze ot the Inſirmerie, oʒ honſe foꝛ the ficke
people of this Frierie, there was a thing like to halle a
Pipe, in the which there was an hearb berp greene, which
they ſaide was the Mec boacon, that the Frier had bꝛaught a
from the new Spapne, not with litle labour. It is an bear’ The deſcrip-
that grawethcrerping vp by certeyne litle Canes it hath a % of the
ſadde greene colour, it carriety certeyne leaues, that the Me choacan
greatneſſe of them map be of the greatneſſe ofa good No⸗ 5
renge diſh which are in compaſſe round, with a little point,
the leafe hath his little Sine wes, it is ſmall, well neere,
without moyſture, the Balke is of the colour of a cleere
Lawnie. .

Whey fap that it caſteth forth certeyne Cluſters
with little Grapes, of the greatneſſe ofa Coꝛiander ſœde
which are the fruite, and doo ware rype by the Poneth
ol September : it caſteth out many Bowes, which booth
ſcretche a long vppon the Earth, and if vou put any thing
neere toit, it goeth creeping vnpon it. Che Nocte of the
MAechoacam is vnſauerie, and without byting. oz anpe The manner
charpenes of tate. That which wee dos fee at this pꝛeſent of the roote.
ol dur Ac hoacas isa rote whichtheꝝ bung from the ne we
Spapne, from the Pꝛouinte ot ¶echoacan, made in greate
and litele pecces, of them cutte in pectes, of them bꝛoken
with their hendes. It is a luhite _ cme

* 2 g =

9

i The firſt part of the thinges that
and mighty, it appeareth that the ptetes be of a great rot,
without any hart. f
Che conditions, oʒ elections that it muſt haut, toʒ to ba

Theelettios gnod and perfertis: that it be ſreſhe? which may be knolwn
ofthe Me- tfthat it be not woꝛme taten, noz black and that it be ſame⸗

abaacan.

T bat it be
Seefh.

What white: but the very white is not fo good, ans ifit bes
fome what ruffet,fo that it be the vttermoſt part of the root,
fo2 that the inner parte is ſome what white In the taſting
ez chewing or it, it is without ſauour, oʒ any manner of bys
ting taſt. a
It impoꝛteth to make his woꝛke the better it ſo be that
it be frech, to that the frether it is, che better it is, and the
greater the paces are, the better theꝝ are tonſerued. And it
is true, that that which is bꝛought in pouder, is nat fo god,
to; that it dootꝭ putrific,t looſe much of the vertue, and ope⸗
ation. As alfo we doo fw, if we make ponder, and kæpe it,
nat make ſo good woorke , as when the roote is
ground, and then forthivith taken. The root being old doth
turne black, and it wil be warme eaten with holes, and bee
tome bery light. It will kæpe well rouled in Sere cloth.
ii 3 in the moneth of Oaaber, and it neuer loſeth
3 E.

Che contplerion thereof is hatte in the firft degree, and

T be comple. axe in the ſecande fa that it hath ſubtill partes, with fome
sion thereof. Bending, whereby it feemeth that his wooꝛke being deen,
f it leauettz the interiour

Members Urengthned, without

dedilation and weakened, which the other Purgatiue

medicines do leaue them in: but rather thoſe that boo purge.
themſe lues there with, das remayne after they be purged,
mate Grong and harde, then befoze they wert purger.
It bath na neee of reciũcation, foꝛ that wee dos nat ſes
in this roote an notable burte,oucly the Uline is vnto it a
coprebozation fo; the woazke, fo2 being taken with Mine,
it maketh a better woorke, then with any other Licaur o
that it dot nat cault tamite, and it e

are brought from the Weft Indias. Fotz7.
It is giuen at all times and in all Ages ; it vooth hes Ea rat!
wooꝛke without moleſtation, and without the acciventes and caſie te
that the other medicines ſoluatiue are woont to pꝛocure.⁊t wor ke.
is a Pedicine eaſle to bee taken ſoꝛ that it hath no euil taſt.
Onelp it bath the ſauour ofthat with the wohiche it is ta⸗
ken, toꝛ that it is of it (eife without ſauour, and ſo it is eaſit
for Childꝛen, fo2 that they map take it without feeling:
whatit is: itis fo lpke wiſe fo2 perſons that cannot take me-
dicines. foʒ it hath neyther ſmell noꝛ taſte 3 haue pur⸗
ged therewith many Childꝛen, and many very olde pers Ir is ginen i
fons ¢ haue giuen it to men ct moꝛe then 80. peares ot age, chslaren and
and it maketh in them very ſure and good wooꝛke with no 4e people.
maner ot alteration oꝛ chaunge ot᷑ body, and without being 25
debilited oꝛ weakened. é
Typis Roote deoth auopde tholerike humours, groſſe,
mixt, and alſo flegmatike humoꝛs, of what kind ſoeuer they
be and humozs putriũed and rotten, andot᷑ both colours: it The worker
dooth euatuate the Citrine water, of them that haue the and effecte
Dꝛopſie with much eaſines. Che pꝛincipall reſpea thereof be eruel-·
is ta the Liner, making it cleane, and tomfoꝛting it and lox: of rhis
the Members neere adioyning to it, as the ſtomacke and roore.
the inner partes. at dooth cure all Opilations of the fame
partes, andall diſeaſes cauſed of them: as the Dꝛopſpe,
the Jaundies, and iopntlie with his good woozke it res
giſieth the euill complerion of the Ryuer, it deffolueth
windineſle, and with eafineffe it expellethit, and deoty
open all the hardneſſe of the Liuer, anvof the Lunges,
and of the ſtomacke zt taketh awap olde greefes of the
deade, and munbdifieth the bꝛayne and the Bynewes,
and emptieth sut the humoꝛs that bee in the head, oꝛ partes
thereof. Inthe diſeaſe callenthe Lamparones, wpiche is
the hinges Cuil it maketh a good woch ke: in old greefrs
ofthe head called the egrim, and the Falling ſickneſſe,
and in all Diſtillations, oꝛ elde runninges in paincs ofthe =
Aoynts bath perticuler and vniuertall, as in the Gout are
Sagem ©; thetica,

. The firſt part ofthe thinges that
el »ftoetica, in paynes at the ſomacke,emptping the cauſe, and
18. , conſuming windines Allo in papnes of the Aꝛine E Blad⸗
deer, in papnes ofthe fone and Colicke, ot what kinde foes
uer it bee, it maketh a maruellaus weoake. it cureth the
paynes of women, and eſpetiallythe Mather, by emptying
and taking away the canfe, as namely thoſe cauſes which
come of cold humoꝛs t windineſſe, and in the ariefes of the
bꝛeſt as of an olde cough. € ſheꝛtnes of bꝛeath, toꝛ bang this
roofe attentimes ittaketh it awav, and healeth it. Allo in
Sretfes ofthe Reines canted of grofle Pumas, fo2 it docth
emptie and expell tem.
Eh f In griefes ofthe Pore it maketh a great woꝛke. And it
e lemeth that forthele grietes our L oꝛd did oꝛdeyne it, emp⸗
ring the humaꝛs okthem, Whiche for the moſte parte are
cold and eſpetiallx when they be waren olde of long time,
tt purgeth them andosotherpel them without any papnes,
by multypiping the taking thereof, as many times as is
* neteſſarie, for that in thefe infirmities that bee olde, and of
Neate, long continuaunce, one euacuation is not ſufficient, but it
is neceſlarꝝ to haue many euacuations, which may be done
without daunger with this Nocte: and it is nat to bee mars
veller at, it that with one euacuation there with sooth not
lolio w the health that is withen foꝛ, but that m inn times it
isnedful to make often repetition, ta the intent to roote vp
and expell the euil, and noughtic humaꝛs, that are the cauſt
ok the ſaide diſeaſe. 14 8 ;

This rest Daoth maruellouſiꝑ emptic footy the tauſe of
Igler, the large Feuers, and impoztunate, and all Feuers coms
«POUNDED, and chiefly in olde Feuers, as Tertians, Quotidi⸗

ans, flegmatike,and in ſuch diſeaſes as commonly come of
optlations, uſiag theresf at the time that is needefull, fa:
Note, dba in the like large and impoztunate dileaſes the Philiti⸗

on muſt not bet content witz one euacuation but with mas
hy, digeſting by little and little, and auoxding out by lyttle
and little, teeing that the auoiding ont is dane with inch ab
ig SP 48 : furauncs

5

are brought ſrom the Welt Indias. Folas.
ſuraunceby his Pedicine ſo bleſled.

Ve that hath neode ol it mull haue a good heart, witz
truſt that it will pꝛoite him much, which hetherunto Wes
haue experimented, in fo many,that with int title al credit
map be giuen to the good woꝛkes therot. Te fee with how
much eaũnes z without any accidẽts it woꝛxketh the etteas
that we haue ſpok en ol ¢ it is loked fo2, that euer day wil
bee diſcouered greater matters, that maꝝ bee added dato
the ſe. i 3 „ en 13
The rule and oꝛder that mutt be kept in the adminiſtra / 75 e,
tion, and giuing ofthe Bouders, made of the tante at A 1,5 oy be 10

ae

7d AWE ANE be or a
—— of, and ſinte it hath be ene ved in diuers and ſun dag ef.
tons. 5 bi 4
The firſt thing that is required of him that thal tale this 7, j, conueni-
onder is that he Da prepare himſelt᷑ with good diet, 4g / ht here
dꝛder, keeping him feife from all thinges that map offende „ 5 prepara=
dealth and te bfe theſe meates which are moſt conue nient 1e fer ban
fo2 bim, i to diſooſe then bina? § pꝛincipally hes pꝛetendetg 5 fall
to auaide out,¢ with fome Syꝛope, that max haut the (INE gabe ct.
refpeet that the humeꝛ is atfpofed vnta the way to be pre pas
red where he may go cut. and foꝛthis it is god that he take
the teun ſel ofa Phiſitiõ:⁊ be mull vſe gliſters ifthe Bell
be nat obedient at the leaſt the day beldze he ſhal tage it, and
ik by chaunce be ſhall neede litting blood he hall doe it ug
the iudgement and opinion ofa Mhiũtion. Che bod ſo pʒe⸗
pared and readie to be purged, he thal take this rette choſen
às we haue ſaid andit muſt be grounde, making ponder of Hou theſe
it, of an indifferent finenede , and wax ofit the quantitie powaers a
that mutt he taken, as wee ſhnit ſpcake ot, and put it inta besaken,
white Mine, which is Sac ke, ag much in quantiiie as w
nee dfull foz te dainke, andit muſt ve taken in moꝛning.
Vryne is the beſt lienur that it can bee taken witzall, ann
(itis bien general inthe Indias, forthe Myne as wess
baue ſaide, docth copabszate and gine 1 — ra

Er

Other wift
te gine it,

The firſt part of the thinges that
peuders, and betauſe there be ſame that can dꝛink ne wine,
in luch tale they map giue it in ſodden water, wherein di⸗
namon hath beene boyled, z Anis o2 Fenell ſerde, and if
the pure wine doe offend them, it maybe delaped with ane
manner of Mater, but the quantitie of the Mine that hall
be ‘or is ſo little that it cannot olfende oz moleſt anie
pe n.

It my be delaied with Endife, 07 Langdeberfe wa⸗

a a becaufe this medicine is not ginen in harp agues,

in large and temperate difeafes,it doth beare the wine

vs better then an other liconr,

Alſo they gine thefe Ponders with Conſerna of Aiolets,

8 and with S eope of Aiolets, and it is a good pꝛadiſe: fo3

There re

with bis colde and moiſlure, it doeth correct the little heate
and dꝛougght that the patient hath, and let them dꝛink vpon
it Wine watered, o: fome water as afo2efaid.

There is made or this Pouder Pilles formed with elecs

MN of tuary of Roles, and furely they make a very god worke ¢
kur ge wel

In wafer
- bread.

Motte.

Allo they doe put it in paſte of Mater bꝛead, oz in
Parchpaines, and as it hath no euill ſauour, ſo they doe not
keele it. It ſerneth much foꝛ childꝛen and oz them that cans
not take the like (hinges.

Che Pilles that muſt be made ofthis pouver mut be vee
ry little, ſomeu greater then Coziander ſeæde, that they

map diſlolue the rather and nat beat and fothep work moze
quickly and better.

When they They may be giuen in the moꝛning and at night: thefe
Hell be gran ponders be receiucs with — — „ beeing

*

What bu-™ kope;

made vp with Spyzope of Noles of mne infafions mingling
that therof thal be taken in twa ounces of ats
and furely this mixture dobeth maks a metuellous

oe „„

dari ee Raunt CS soe an enpmatt june 3

are brought from the Weft Indias. Fol. 29.

and permirt, and the fearcenes of the blood, and Mit is a

Greate medicine and ot meruellous woazke: It aueideth

alſu moſt ſtranglythe Citrine water of them that haue ths
Dꝛopſte, frequenting it many times, giuing betweene ens

purge and another, the which may coꝛroboꝛate awd make
ſtrongthe l iueran Bꝛoth it is taken many times, and mas

keth good wozke. es fl fof 206 Satie

T his medicine 03 purge mut bee taken in the mazning when it
earely: and after it is taken, they maꝝ ſleepe halle an hours fhould be ta.
vpon it, be foꝛe it doe purge , foꝛ that the llerpe dseth aye ben.
the Aomit, and the natural heate thal maks a better work

in the medicine. FCC

He that ſhall take theſe Pouders, it he doe feare them,. a: Ne.

‘Any other Medicine pur gatiue, and it he feare Monn ma
vſe this one remi dp, or the which J haue large experiente,

and is, when bee hath taken this purge oz anp other, let

him take the Polke ofan Egge roſted hot, hoken betweene

‘bis Fingers, and put it into a caurſe Linen Cieth, and ſo
rounde let him put it into a Thꝛaate Pit, and let him

olde it there, vntill that hee doe beginne to purge. fo2 that
ſurelp, it will ſtape the Vomiting and alſo the Fumes that

doe rife ofthe purge, and this is nu ſmall content. after

that hes hath ſome what llept, ic hee tan at the time that it
beginneth to wooꝛke, let him not lleepe noꝛ eate, noꝛ iR
anything but dee in place where the ayze doe not offenen
bim, noꝛ with much companie, for that all the intent hal
bee fo2 to purge, ſtaying all thinges that may let the auat-

ding out. And he ſhall be aduertiſed, that ane of the greateſt
extellencies that this purge bath, is, that it is in the
‘andes of the ſicke perſon to auoide out what quantitie a
humour hee will. tze which is a thing that they olold time
Adtonſider much of and waxing which was ſurẽ lt of pur

ging az the letting of biood, they dos not aleage any other
taufe moze pꝛintipall, than thatthe letting of bios is muse
ure. Iq; amuch e — way take

320

Note,

efter rat

The firſt part of the thinges that
‘ont what quantity ot blod boe liſt a not in the purge, which
once being taken it is not in the handes of the Phiſitiõ, noʒ
the ſicke perſon to let it to do his wooke: which quantity is
nat in this our purge of the roote of Mechoacan, {xing that
with taking ofa little bꝛoth, oꝛ eating any maner of thing,
the wozking ofit ceaſeth, andit woꝛketh no moze and fort
tannct excede noꝝ hurt the patient.
Surelp it is to be holden of much pꝛice, that there is foũds
à kinde of purge with ſo much aſſurante, and that ſo mighti⸗
lp doeth his woꝛke, and is at the will af him that doeth take
At. Alter it hath done what to the patient ſeemeth gaan, and
ſuffitient, then with a little Bꝛoth which he eateth, it hall
woꝛke and purge nomoꝛ e. 5822
After that the ſicke perſen oꝛ Phiſition perteiueth that

he bath pu- tthath made an ende of his woꝛking, and bath purged that

which is tonuenient, then they mult gine him ſome what to
eate, taking at the beginning of his Dinner a Dichetull of
Bꝛoth, and after a little while let him eate of a Hen, and
in the reſt let him gouerne himfelfas one that is pur ged, as
wel in his dꝛinkas in his meate as alſo inthe keping that
her chall haue ofbis perſon. $02 that day that he doeth take
u, let him take bade that her ſleepe nat in the day tyme noꝛ

are brought from the WeftIndias.

be diuers and variable diſeaſes, andit is needful for them to
haue diuers remedies, ⁊ my intent is no moze then to wꝛite
the vſe of the Roote of Mechoacan, as a thing of fo greate
impoꝛtante, and oa purge and remedie fo ercellent,as na⸗
ture hath giuen vnto vs. einn ee
And it pꝛoteſſe otime haue taken frõ bs the true Myꝛre,
andthe true Ballamo, and other medicines that they of old

Fol.3o.

A good di-

tyme bad, ofthe whiche in our tyme there tone meme, S, Ton.

and with the tyme are loſt: xet time it ſelfe in place of them
bath diſcauered and giuen fo many and fo ſundꝛy things as
wee haue ſpaken ot as cur Occidentall gndtas dos feud bs.
In eſpeciallß the Mechsacan, ũ purge moſt excellent and
gentle, which doth his woꝛke W ſuch affurance being white
in colour plealant in ſauour and in mel eaſie to take, with⸗
out any lothſomnes in working, and without that hoꝛrible⸗
nes, that other purges haue, without thofe actidents and
fayntnes that tome at the time, that they bee taken ¢ with⸗
out that diſquietnes which it maketh when it wooz⸗
Bo pee Io cats nt F ies 2
This woote hath ouer and aboue that. wihteh is ſapde, a⸗
ther pꝛaperties, and hidden wooꝛkes that we dos nat reach
vnto, which with the time and vle ol them Hat
and diſtouered euery dag.
The weight oꝛ quantitie that is giuen ofthe. Dak
made of the Note of Ae hogf an. it is conta mable to the o⸗

r The quantia
tie thatis 21

bedience of the bellp / ol him that chall take it. Seme tere ft.

de that doo purge with little quantity. J knawe a Gentle⸗
man of this Realme, that with the weight of halle a Kotal,
which is iu. d. dooth purge very woll e there are other that
haue neede ol the weight of rui v. and others ol the weight
ofr bili d. and in this euerie ane aught ta meaſure p quantis

tie, as he hathhis bellx in obediente, moze aꝛ leſſꝛ. Cuen ſa

they onght ta limit the quantitie tontozmably to the age of
the Patient. Foꝛtpat the Childe hath neede of lyttle⸗ the

Bope at nue; andthe ſtrong man of much moꝛe, and the
win n 92 Teane

The frit part of the thinzes that
Leane ofle fe, and {oz this tauſe the Whifition muſt meas
ſure the quantitis as hee ſeeth it tonuenient . Betauſe to
the Childe he all giue the weight of iii. d. and to the Box
the weight ol vi. 8. and to the Man the weight ot xii. d.
which is commonly ſo taken, but ta the Moman it is not

tcouuenient to giue leſle then d weight al twelue pence, and
ee in this there may be had a confiveration, fecing that it is in
the hand of the Phiſition to take away his woꝛke when he
deth fee that it exced th, it is better to gine a little ta much,
confidering that with taking ofa fewe ſuppinges of bꝛoth,
ikit doth excee de, the exceſle may be remedied.

This is the ſumme which J haue vnderſtodde vnto thys :
dap ot che Roote, which they bꝛing from the Pꝛauinte of
Mic hoac un, und when 3 hall know moze dit, 3 will —

5 ————

“Of . 0 a

qd Sep J fae |) anv in caret like bath
n not birne tene. ‘Feiwad wighe phe Ola, ofthe colour of
Asis fine gold taking a little of it, and cating it into the fyꝛe, it
“is po Ae le be air maton aoa eke to

are brought fromthe Weft Indias, Eats: a

filuer the matter, and the Sulphur the former and maker.
— obit eH law, was like to a pete ol Sold maſt
fines! cite

‘Chev being from 3 other Sulphur, but itis raf C SN.
fet, like to Aſhes, congealed without colour oz bꝛigbtnc ſſe, hu.
which is faund nigh bate the Uolcã of Nic araga, the which
being caſt into the fire doth cat from it the ſmell of Bum ·
fone, bitt it is a pte of earth, and in nothing is like to that
of the Pꝛauince at , moe then iu the ſmell, neyther
bath it that colour of Galde, no3 that bpightnetle that tye
other hath which is ol Quo.

Che ſame being applied in things, that are cennenient The shinges
for Prditine, woezketh maruellous tires chiefly being , ref
grounde, and diſſolued with wine, and applied in the nigyt b 77
to them, that haue their late redde inflamen that bee like to
Lepers bling it certepne nightes, after they haue beene at
the ſtosle, it taketh tte redneſſe away, and healeth it mar⸗
— ett J haus great experiente. It healeth

the Skabbes, beyng diſſoluen with ople of Roſes. Caking
the weight ef firepence in an Egge, it healettz tze Chalike,
and the Palſey. at is good fo the paine ofthe Stone, —
being taken, it healeth the zaundies. )

t is hotte and dꝛie exteſtiuely, which appearcty by the
—— it hath witz there. for being touched with The .

it, it intlaneth ⁊ maketh a flame. It is the pꝛintipal mat⸗ lion 12
— . inuention — ae

beene the tauſe ain eet

| Ofte Wood Aromat.

The firtt part ofthe thinges that

Being in the houle ct a principal Merchant ofthis city,

making a edicine in a Chimney, where they did burne
The mel of of that wood the ſmake that came out ot the wood did ſmiell
the wood. much, æ gaue a very ſwert ſauaur, of the which he maruelled
es much ¢ aſked from whence they bab caſt thither that good
ſmell. They of the houſe told him, that the good ſmel was of

the Wood that thay did there burns, andit was that which

did call that good ſmell. He tooke a ſticke e the MAdod, and

from it plucked a flip ot the fame, which had no ſmell noꝛ

ſauour, moꝛe than other tommon wood had, then he take as

way a little of the rinde, and ſmelled vnto it, and taſted it,

and he found a lweete ſmell maſt excellent in it; and a Sa⸗

udur no moze noꝛ leſſe then of paces, oꝛ Autmegges and

much moze ſharpe, aud mize ſweete, and of a moꝛe pleas

fant ſmell and taſt, then any C inamon that is in the woꝛld,

and with maze liuelineſſe, and ſharpenes oftatt then the pe⸗

per. A taſted it at the taking away ofthe rinde from the ſaid

wod, of the which he had a great pete oftimber, and ſurely

thereis not anything of fo wert ſmell and taſt, otany thing
which we haue that withſo much plsalantnes of ſmell, and

with ſuch liuelines ſendeth ſoozth a ſauour as this did peni⸗

tuate mer inſomuche that taſting a little ofit, ¢ carried all

that day the ſweete finell and ſauaur in my month, beeing
meruellaus, as though A had carried there a pete of Puts

Dithis toosd thee ayde, thata Paider ofa Suppe t
his, did cut a great quantitie, comming by the Zauns, and

oui,andthat which did remaine then carried to the Owners

are brought from the Weſt India. Fol. 37,
dane very great effects with it for comfoꝛting the heart and i
the ſtomack, and pꝛincipal members, without febing after
the ſpicerie af Malucs, and the Meditines ol Arabia,
and them of Verſia. Seeing that in the felors vntilled, and
in the Mountaines and Deſertes our Indias do peld them
vnto vs:the fault is ours that we do not follow alter them,
noz ſerke ts doe the diligence that is conuenient, foꝛ to pros
ite our ſelues in theſe meruellous etlects, the which 3 truſt

that time — diſcouerer ot all thinges, and
good diligence and experience withall
wdwill Difconer nfo vs to our

a

The ende of the lt parte.

Ged be praifed

en Se is ofthe things 2185 are
brought from bun Occidentall Indias ,

_ which ſerue for the vie of Medicine,whe rein is
treatedofthe Tabaco, and of the Saffafras , and of the
Carlo Sancto, and of many otber bearbes & plants,
_ feedes and licoures, that newly are

brought from thoſe partes,of great
vertues and meruellous
elfectes.

mike ritten b Deze alenarl

To bis Meaieftie.

g Hele dayes paftl wroteabookeof
= all thinges which come from your
Occidental Indias , feruing for the
g vieof Medicine, and furely it hath
A 2% beene taken in that eſtimation, that
the thinges which in it are intreated
ot doc deſerue. And ſeeing the pro-
ite that it hath done, and how ma-

5 ny haue beene remedyed and he-
led with thofe remedies, I dyd determine to proceede ae
for wardes, and to write of the thinges, which after that
_ the firftpare was written, haue come from thoſe countries
ofthe which I haue vndetſtood. that no leſſe vgilitie & RS
fite thal come, then of thofe whichare paſt, for there fhal-
be diſcouered ne we thinges and fecrets, which wülbring

admiration, neuer to this day ſeene nor knowne before.

And ſeeing that theſe medicinall thinges which We doe

treate of, and the Realmes, and Countries from whence
they come, belong vnto your Maicfti and he alſo that
writeth of them is your Maieſties ſubiect: doe de-

tre your Maieſtie, to receiue thistrauell into
our protection, and that the rewarde

ay be ſuch, as for the like vor

ee

Thet eee n { partofthethinges that
of the Chace and of bis
great vertues.

A ® FS Wearke which commonly
is called T<bsco, is an Bearbe
\i of much antiquitic, and hnower
3 amongſt the Indians, and ine ſpe⸗
tially among them of the ne we
SS Spaine, and after that thoſe
Wa Cou wet gotten by onr
Ws S paniardes, being taught of the
— Andians, they did profite thems
Eines ith thot thinges in the woundes which they re⸗
trined in their Narres, healing themſelues thert butt to
their great benefite,.

Mithin theſe ſe w pares there hath beene bzought into
Spaxne ofit moze ta adonate Gardens wich the faires
‘nett ee gine A pleaſaunt ſi ght, then that
is thought ta haue the meruelous medicinable vertues
Which it bats, but note fue doe biz it more fo: his bertues,
than faz his faireneſſe. 3702 ſurel they are ſuch which doe
: ee ot.
T but omi

The ſecond pait of the chin zes that

The Leasen. ee Bowes, ſtraight, that well neere they ber equal with

the pꝛintipall ſteame of the tree:his Leafe is wel nere like

to the Leafeof a Citron tree, they tome to bee berie greate,

and be of tolour greene, the Plant is beanie, they be in the

Garden as Cytrons and Oꝛ zenges are, faz that alt the

veere they are greene, and haue leaues, and if any whyter

they be thaſe that are lotuck. Inthe higheſt parte of oll the

be fo Plante, there doth growe ont the flower. the which is after

The fo er. the manner of white ( ampauillia, and in the middeſt of Cars

The (ed nation colour: it hath a good ſhew when ĩt is dꝛie, it is hke

Heede. to blacke Poppie ſeede, and in it is ſhut bp: the ſtede is very
ee ſmall, and ofthe colour of ad arke Tawnp.

The Woote is great, canſoꝛmable to the greatneſſe of the
Plante, deuided into many partes, and it is like to wood
in ſubſtaunce, the which beeing parted, it hath the hearte
within, line bute the colour of Saffron, and beeyng toſted,
it hath fome bitternes with it. The Kinde commeth away
eafilie; We knobos not that the roote hath any vertue at all:
Okthe Leaues onely we know the vertues, which we will
ſpeake of, althoughthat J belteue that the roote hath medi-
tinall vertues enough, the which time ſhall diſcouer. And
ſome will fay that it hath the vertue of Ranharbe, hut J haue
not experimented it as pet, theꝝ doo keepe the leauss after
they be dꝛie inthe havo, faz the eſfeus that we wil ſpeak

= ol and they be made into pauder ta be bled of them inplace
“Thecom: ofthe Leaues, fo; itis not inall partes. The one and the o⸗
i pei se ther. is to bee kept a great time, without cozrupting. The
tomplexion thereof is hot and dzis iu the ſecond degree, it
The vertney Nach vertus to heate and to diſſolue, with ome bynding and
general, somnforting,it gletweth togetzer r ſadereth the fi eih wounds

aa ndhealeth them: the filthy wounds z ſozetz it dath cleanſe

and reduee ta a perfect health as it thal be ſpoken ot hereat·
8 like wiſe wee will {peaks of the vertues oktheſe
dear bes, and 1

at

— me *

are brought fromthe Wet Indias. FOL F.
This hearbe Tabeco, bath perticuler bertue to heale 5
griefes of the heade. and in eſpecially comming of colde // paynes of
tauſes, aad ſu it tureth the headake when it commethoka hehe.
cold humoꝛ,oꝛ of a Windy cauſe. The leaues muſt be iayoe
hatte to the griefe, and mu tiplping them the tyme that is
needful vntill the grie ke be taken away. Some there be that
doo annopnt them with the Ople of Ozenges, and ſo they
perfoꝛme a berie good wooꝛke.
3fany manner of griefe that is in the bodp oz anyother „, in grießz
part thereof it helpeth, proceeding ofa cold cauſe, ⁊ applycd of the body.
thereunto, it taketh it away, not without great admiration, Gee?
In griefes ofthe back it waꝛketh a maruellousefiedand ; aricfes of
ine ſpetially in thole that doo caſt out matter and rettennes ,, Bret.
at the mouth, and in them that are ſhoꝛt bꝛeathed, z in anie =
other olde euilles making ofthe hearbea decoction,o2 with
Sugar a Spꝛope, and being taken in little quantity, it doth
expel the Matters, and rottennes of the bꝛeſt maruellouſip.
andthe ſmoke being taken in at the mouth, doth cauſe that e
the matter be expelled out of the bꝛeſt orthem that doo fetch 8
their bꝛeath ſhozt. , ore £3 haz 2
In the griefe of the ſtamack, cauſed of colde, oʒ winde, Pn griefes of
dhe leaues being put bery hot, it dosth take it awax and dec he ſfomacbe
folueth it by multiplying the bie, vntil it be take awap. and
ie is te be noted, that the leaues are tobe warmed better the VES
anp other, aniongſt Gihes.o2 Embers very hotte, thauſting
the hearbes into them. and lo to warme thé wel, z although 7° he
they be layde to with ſome alhes, they make the wage bet⸗ the bees
ter, and ot moꝛe ſtrong cffedeass. among ft
In Opilations ofthe ſtiomacke, and of the inner partes Afves.
pꝛincipalip: this hearbe is a great remedie: for that it daath /* n,
dilſolue, and conſume them and this ſame it toothinangos
dder maner of Opilatianaen bardnes that are in the bell, —
the cauſe being or a tolde humor, ox of windines. Teng f
They muſt take the hearb. greene, and ſtampe it, and „0 re apple
with chore ſtamped leaues rubbe the Wee es
8 43 nie me

VRE ; .
The ſecond part ofthe things that
and at the tyme as the hearbe is in the Poꝛter a famping,
let there be put to it a fe we dꝛoppes of Uinegar, that hys
woꝛke may be made the better:and after the place is rubbed
Where the paine is, then lay vpon it one leafe oz two leaues
of the T abaco being hotte, and fo let it alone til the next bay,
and then do the like againe, oꝛ in plate of the leaues vie a
Linnenclottz wet in the hotte inite, Some there bee, that
after they haue rubbed it with the ſtãped leaues, do annoint
it with oyntments, made foz the like euils, and vpon it they
lay the leaues fo2 the iuyce ofthe Tabac. And ſurelp with
this cure they haue deſolued great and hard opilattons and
2 vervold ſwellings. In the griefe of the tone of the kidneies
(athe gricfé and Reines this hearbe wooꝛketh great effects, by putting
Hebe fene. the Leaues into Alhes, 02 Embers, hotte, that they may
warme wel and then being laid open the griefe, multiply
ing the bfe of it as often as itis nerde full. It is netegarie in
To Te che leethinges that are ble to bee made fo2 Glitters to put
Giger. intothem with the other things, the Leaues of this hearbe,
4 los that they thal profit much: and like wiſe for Fomentatie
n ons and Plaiſters, that they ſhall make.
‘s 2 In grietes of windesthey wooꝛke the like effea, taking
ö a way the paines that come of the windinetſe, applying the
The exill of anes after the fame fo2t as is aboue ſaide.
the Mother. In the griete of women, Which is called the suill or the
5 Mother, laying too ene leafs ofthis hearbe Tabaco berp
batte. in the manner as it is laide, it Booth manifely profit
and it mut bee lapde vppon the Mauell. And onder it ſome
ds bie to put firſt ot all, thinges of good ſmell vppon the Na⸗
gel and then ups that tgey lap the leafe. In that which they
nde mot paßte is to lap the Tacamabaca, 92 the ople of li⸗
— — and Balſamo, and Car anua, 9} — —
vn Hauel, and to Beep it to it continuallp, that it may
cleaue untoit, and tis woꝛkettz manifeſt profit in grieles ol

* 1 5 Sey 8 f 3 5

E 42

3 i

are brought from the Weft Indias. Fol.36.

Inone thing, the women that dwel in the Indias dꝛte⸗ For an exill
lebzate this hearb, that is in the euil bzeathing at ᷣ mouth breath.
of childꝛen. when they are euer filled with meat, and alſo of
olde people, anoynting their bellies with lampe oyle, and
laping ſome of thofeleanes in aſhes hotte to their bellies,
talfo to their ſhoulders fo2 it doth take alway their naugh⸗
tie bꝛeathing, and maketh them go ts the ſtodle, applping it
vntothe fundement at what time it is needlull, and if che
leaues be ached it is the better. ö
Moꝛmes, of all kindes of them, it killeth, and expelleth g. worms
them marus llouſly, the fething ofthe hearbe made into a :
Sp2ope delicatelp, being taken in very litle quantitic „and
the iupte thereof put on the nauel. It is needful after this be
done to giue a Gliſter, that map auoide them, and expell
N cee guttes. e 2
n griefes of the Joyntes comming of a talde tauſs
taketh a maruellous wozke, the Leaues ot this I abaco bes W
ing laid hotte vpon the griefe:the like doth the Juyte laxd
dpon a little cloth hatte, da that it doeth diſſalue the bhunts:,
d taketh away the paines therof. At it come ofa hot caufe it
dath hurt, ſauing whenthe humaꝛ bath bene bot. a the tab,
till part is dinolued, and the groſte remaineth, then it doeth
ꝛafte as if the cauſe were colde, and it is to be vnderſtood,
that the le aues being lapde where as is griefeat᷑ the ſapde
—
ellings oz in cold zmpoſtumes, it ue and, ets.
vndde —— with the hot Jupte, and laping 15 Het
the beate n leaues,atter the be ſtampt, o the leaues being
whole ee ee eee „
Mthe Toothache, when the grirte tommeth ora co ne
af oof aloe Aue putting fait litle ball mabe of 3
the leale of te Tabac, walhing frſt the tooth with a mal
Cloth wet in the Juyte , it taketh away the paine, andltay⸗
eth it, that the putrifaaian goe not oz warde: in hot *

lings,

The fecond part ofthe thinges that
it doth not pꝛote, and this remedie is ſo tommon that it
hꝛaleth euerie one. rs
For Chil- This hearbe doth meruellonlly heale Chilblaines, rub⸗
blaynes. bing them with the amped leaues, and after putting the
hands and Fete in hot water, with Salt, and keping them
Warme: this is done with great experience in many.
In venom : zn venom and venomous wounds dur Tabac hath great
venomous conumendation, which hath bene knowne but a ſhoꝛt time
Wounds. ſince:foꝛ when the wilde people ofthe zudias, which cate
mans fleche doe Hoote their Arrowes, they annointe them
with an Heard oz Compoſition made ol many popſons, with
the which they ſhoote at al things that they would kill, and
this benom is fo ſrong, and pernitidus that it killeth with ·
out remedie, and they that ber hurte die with great paines
And accidents and with madnes, vnleſſe that there be found
Sublimatum rt me dꝑ fo fo great an tuill. a fe we pres pal they laid to
in venomed their wounds Se blinatun, and fo were remedied and ſurely
woundes. : pA they haue faffered much with this veration

Alittle whites patk certain wilde people going in their
Wastes to S. John De puerto Rico, to ſhoste at Indias,
Spaniards (it that they might ind the) came ta a plate and
killed certain Andians æ Spaniards, t did hurt many, 2 a8
by chaunee there was tie Sublimacum at that place ta heale
them: they remembꝛed to lap vpon the wounds the Juite of
the Tabaco,s the leaues ſtamped. And Gov would that laye
ing if vponthe hurts the griets, madnes, k actidents wher⸗
with they died, were mittigated, and in {uch forte they wen
delinered of that cuill, that the frength ofthe Aenam was
kaken a ways the wounds were healed, of the which there
tas greate admiration. Cabichthingbeing knowen to fhe
of the Zlande. they bie it alla in other hurtes and woundes,
Wpich they take when they fight with the wilde people,
Hole they land in ua feart orthem, by realan they haut

are brought from the Welt Indias: Fol. 37.

founde fo great a remedie, in a cafe ſo deſperate.
This Bearbe hath alſo vertue againſt the hearbe called Against the

of the Cromebotuetyooter, which our hunters doe vle ta kill bearbe of rhe

the wilde beates withall, which hearbe ts Aenom mol’ Crofebow-.

ſtronge, and doeth kill without reme die, which the Ringes ſoster.

pleaſure was to proone, and tcommaunded to make experi⸗

encetierof,and they wounded a little dogge in the thꝛoate,

and put fsꝛthwith into the wound the hearbe of the Croſſe⸗

boweſhooter, and after a little whele, they powꝛedinta the Hiſtorie.

felfe fame wound that they had annointed with the Crolle · i

boweſhosters hearbe, a good quantitie of the Juice of Ts-

baco, and Lavoe the ſtamped leaues vpon it, and they tied Bp

the dogge and he efcapsd , net Without great admiration ot

all men that ſaw him. Df the which, the excellent Phiſiti⸗

snofthe Chamber of his Maieſtie Doctor Barnarde in Doctor Bar-

the margent afthis booke,that ſawe it, by the commaun · nar de.

Dement of his Paieſtie, wꝛiteth tzeſe woꝛdes: 3 made this a

experience by the tommaundement of the kinges Paieſtp.

J wounded the dogge with aknife, e after J put the Croſſe⸗

doweſhooters hearbe into the wound, andthe hearbe was

cholen, and the dogge was taken ofthe hearbe, andthe 1

baco and his Juyce being put inte the wounde, the Boggs s⸗

ſcaped and remained whole. a 5
In the venemous Carbuncles, the T. bac being applied In ver

inmaner as is afoꝛeſaid doth extinguich p malice or the be⸗ Carbuncles

nom, doth that which all the woꝛkes of Sur gerte cen dae,

vntill it ve whole. The fame effet it wonzketh in bytings ol n bitings ef

benomdus beaſtes, for it killeth ⁊ extingniſheth the malice veomous

of the venom and healeth them. >. beaftes, *
an woundes ne wely hurt, andcuttes Mrokes pꝛickes, In woxndes

02. any other manner of waunde, our Ice Worketg mar- newly haste

uellaus effertes , fo that it doeth heale them and maketh

tzem ſaund. he wound muſt be walged with wine, k pe- The manner

cure to annoynt the fives ot it, taking alway that which is of healing.

luperũluous, i the pole into . 3

* 5

The fecond p patt ofthe thinges thar
ure ace Tamper — hall
. cétinute on until fhe next Bap that thou halt return to ope
tt. after the ſams fathion the pacientes thali kope good oꝛ⸗
der intheir meate bfing the diet neteſlarx, and it it be needs
ae ful ofany enacuation by ſtole, the cauſe being greate, let
Note. be done what ſhall be conuenient. And with this oꝛder they
: fhalbe healed without any need of any moze Surgerie then
a this hearbe only. Bere in this Country, t in this City they
3 Anow not what other to doe, hauing cut oꝛ hurt themſelues,
oe but to runne fo the T baco, as toa moſt ready remedie. It
‘Both meruellous woꝛkes, without any needokother Surges
‘rp but this only hearbe. In reſtraining the dure of blod of
the wounds it pꝛotureth moſt maruellous woꝛkesſ, fo2 that
dhe Jurte andthe Leaues being ſtamped, are ſuttitientta
8 reſtraine any fluxe of blood.
Pelee Inolde Soꝛes it it maruellous the wwoorkes and the efs
_.... fetts that this hearbe doeth, fo2 it healeththent wonderful⸗
ip, making cleane and mundifying them of al humoꝛs that
are ſupertluous, and of the rottennes, that they haue, x bꝛin⸗
geth vp the fleſh reducing them to perũte health the which
is ſo common in this Citie, that euery man daeth knowe it:
and J hauing miniſtred it tomany people as welt men as
women, in greate number, and being grieued often, and of
bwentie péeres,bauc peated olve rotten f3es in legges, and
d ther partes of the body, wi this remedie only to tye great
dàdmiration of all men.

$ be opher aftercare that ip obe tosonght with thes
: nite ‘es Ste ee e aur biene

818 arme enen — and hst er;

* are brought from the Weſt Indias. Fol. 38.
teeding in any diſoꝛder, foz other wiſe it will net profit. .
And doing this it wil make cleane the euil fe that is ret-

ten, and ſuperiuous, vntill it come to the whole fleſh r it is

not to be maruelled at, tfthe wounde be made very great.

Foꝛ the euil mut be eaten vp. vntil it come ta the god, and

in the lame cure putting in leſle quantitie of iupce, it wil ins
tarnate, and reduce it to perfit health, in ſuch ſoꝛt, that it ac⸗
tompliſheth all the weoꝛkes ol Burger, that all the Se di⸗

tines of the woꝛld are able to doo, without hauing neede of

un ather manner of Hedicine. 8

This wooꝛke dooth cure old Sazes, with verp creat ad. It cureth
miration: and nat only in men but in bzuite beattes alfo, As bef the

af this day in all partes of the Indias, where there are any Wounds that

kcattell hauing wounds az gaules: and the countrey being he rorten and

botte and moyſt ouer muthe, dooth foonerotte them, and canktred.
derp quickly they come to bee tankered, and foꝛ this caule 8
man pgreat cattel do die: To remedythis and the weꝛmes „ „
that doaincreate in the fo2e8, they had ws remeny to pat Sublimatum
into the ſozes S bl aum, fog that in this remedp the y dyd 4+ bee.
nde moze benefite then in any other that they had vled. terer,
Audio: that the Subimarum hearts there ſo high a pric beaſter that
manytimes it was maze woꝛththen the cattell that it hea· 2 earlier

ed. For this cauſe and for hauing founde in the Tabs- 5

co ſo muche vertue too heale netve woundes and rotten,
‘they did accopde anvagree togeatber to whe the { <baco, in
the healing of beattes, as they had done in the cure and re-

— — k laping bpon them

5

“The (econd patt ofthethinzes that

tammeth of the T abaco, as it is ſayde: althaughthey be tan ·

kered it doth make them cleane, and intarnate them, and
tureth and helpeth them. And ſo the indians dos carrie it.
when they tourney. fo2 this pur poſe and etfeu, and it pꝛocu⸗
reth the like p2ofite that the iuyte dooth.

I ſawe a man that had certeyne old ſoꝛes in his noſe,

wherby he did caſt aut from him much matter, which dayly

dyd rotte and canker inwarde, and cauſed him to take at
his noſe the tuyce of this = baco, and fo he did: and at the fe»
conde tym, he caffe out from him, moze then twenty litle
woꝛmes and afterwards a fewe moꝛe, vntyl that be remai⸗

ned cleane ofthem, and vſing it ſo certepne dapes, bee was

healed ofthe ſoꝛes, that he had in the inner part ol his note:
and if he hadtarried any longer, thinke that there had re⸗
mained nothing of his noſe, but all had been eaten away, as
it happenethto many, which we fie without them. And bee⸗

ing Wepting of teis,a daughter ofa Gentleman ofthis Cit⸗

tie, had many yeres a certeyne kinde oldꝛy ſkabbes, oꝛ wel

niere ſkuruie in her head. J had her in ture and did vnto her

many benifits vniuerſal, and perticuler:and alſo Maiſters
e e had done their diligence , and all did not pꝛo⸗

Aud a Sentiewoman, which had the charge of her, asthe

ſpeake one Day much goed ofthe Lahe, that it

was good, ¢ profitable,for fe many infirmities, che (ent o:

it, and did rubbe hard the diſeale that the wench bad; ⁊ that
Bay ſhee was verpeuill as though thee had beene ſooliſhe:

and ß gentle woman did not let (an ſeing her after that fo2t)
du tub de her harder, and then the wench did nat frele fo
wpite ſcurffe of her head in (uch ſoꝛte, that it made cleane

v ſaabbes began to fall, and the

as 7

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39
bꝛingethmoſt abmiration, is, the maner hewe the Pꝛieſts The mann
ot the indias did vſe it, which was in this manner: when how rhe
there was amongſt the Indians any manner of bulinelie, Ziel 2
of greate impaꝛtaunce, inthe which the chief e Gentlemen rh. ae
called Cafiqucs. oz anꝝ of the pꝛincipall poople of the Couns vſe his Ta-
trep, dad necediitie to conſult with their Bꝛieſtes in any bus baco.
ſineſſe of impoꝛtance:then they went and pꝛopoundedtheir
matter totheir chiete Pꝛieſt, fooꝛthwith in their piefence,
be tooke certeyne leaues of the abc. and taſt them into p
fire, and did receiue the ſmoke of themat his mouth, ans at

his noſe with a Cane, and in taking of it, hee fell downe
vppon the ground, as a Dead man, and remaynyng fo, acs
coꝛding tothe quantity ofthe ſmoke that he had taken wh
the hear be had done his woazke he did reuue and awake
and gaue them their aunſweares accoꝛding to the viſions,
and illuſions which he ſawe whiles hee was rapte in the
fame manner and he did interpꝛete tottzem, as to him fees
/ Med bell, oꝛ as the Dinell had counfelled him giuing them
tontinually doubtfull aunſwe res, in ſuch ſoꝛte, that ha wſoe⸗
uer it tell out, they might fap that it was the fame, which
was declared, and the anſwere that he made.
In like loꝛt the reſt ofthe Judians faz their kaſtime: do
take the ſmoke ofthe Tabac, to make themſelues
withall, and fo fe t vilions, and things that repꝛelent ba»
to them, that where in they do delight: and other times they
c cç—— ů ů :
mable to tgat which they haue ſeene, being dꝛunke theres
with, euen fo they iudge of their buũneſſe Andas the deuil
is a deceiuer, ⁊ bath the knowledge of the vertue of hearbs,
B ee
8 the y might viſtons,

The ed nak oft e i nes e

= mon thing, and in the booke ofthe Philition, Dioſcoride:
cane one * dooth fap, that one Dꝛamme ot the roote of Solatro, bteyng
i 7 taken in wine, which roote is very ſtraunge and furious,
: thee pꝛousketh Acepe greatlie, and maketh him that taketh it, to
e. dzeame okthinges variable, and daoth repzelent vnto hym
terrible imaginations, and viſtons. Others doe gine delec-
tation and pleafure.Dfthe Anis feed they fay, being eaten
at the houre, when that any Hal lleep, it maketh a pleafant,
and delectable dꝛeame. The Kadi doth make them grees
nous and verie heauie, ⁊ ſo likewiſe of many other hearbs,
Which would be ouer large to ſpeake sf, as ofthis matter,
9 auncient wziters repoꝛt.

= Ofthe 5 o Gratia de Guerta, in the booke that hee wꝛpteth of
5 ee ff erie and dꝛugs of the Oꝛientall Indias, repoꝛteth
: 8 ein that in thofe parts there is an hearb, which ts calles Bague,
5 Gee which being mingled with thinges of lweet ſmell, there is
a 2 made of it a confection of excellent ſmell ¢ taſte:æ when the
7 Indians of thoſe partes, will depꝛiue themſelues of iudge⸗
ment, and fee viſtons that giue them pleaſure, then ther
take a certepne quantitie ofthis confection, and in taking
of it, they remaine depꝛiued of all iudgement, and while
the vertue of theyꝛ Medicine dooth endure, they receiue
muche delight, and (ee thinges, whereby ther reteiue pleas
fare, and be glad glad of them. There was a nightie Emperoʒ,
ofinany es, ſapde vnto Martine Alfon-

Oar Sok. en tier e |
he woulde fee Mralmes, and Citties, and other thinges,of
a wen eee ae be would thentake

| fo, be si tecepue plealurs. ye ble ofthis confectionis te
3 ; ae ant ore —
2 é CCC

are brought from the Welt Indias. . Fol. 40
the Tbaco totake away wearineſſe, and foꝛ to make lights
fonmetic in their Labour, fozin their daunces they bee ſo TheT. 5
muche wearied, and they remaine fo wearie, that they can doth rake a.
ſcarſely ſtirre:⁊ betauſe that they may labour the next dap, wa werines
and returne to that fooliſh exerciſe, they receiue at p mouth rs
andnofe,the ſmoke of the Ja baco, nd remaine as dead pes⸗
ple: and being ſo, they be eaſed in ſuch ſoꝛte, tzat when they
be awakened out oftheir lleæpe, they remaine without wea⸗
rineſle, andmap returne to their labour as much as beloze,
and fo they dos al waies, when they haue nerd af it: fo with
ere eee anne ,

er.
Che blacke people that haue gone from thete partes to Tb. gros
the Indias, haue pꝛactiſed the fame maner ¢ ble otthe Ja- do vſe it af.
baco, that p Indians haue, foꝛ whẽ they {er theſelues teary, terthe mauer
they take it at the nole, and mouth, and it happeneth vnto of she Ind.
them, as vnto aur Indians, lying as though they were dead nn.
thꝛer oz ſoure houres, and after they remapne lightened,
without wearineſſe, fo2 to labour againe: and thep do this
with great pleaſure, that although they bee net weary. vet
they are verie Defirouste doe it: and the thinge is come to
luche effece . that their Paſterschs ten them foꝛ it and
doe burne the Txbaco, becanfe they ſhoulde not bſe it:wher ae
7 bppon they goe tothe vetertes, and ſecrete placesto Doe it, Le
. they may not be permitted, ta dꝛinke themſelues
dꝛunke with Mine and therfore they are gladde to make
theme lues dꝛunken with the make of Lace, haut 7
them doe it here, and it happened to them as is ſaide
ttzey fap, that vihen ther tome out ol the lame 5
dꝛeam they nde themlelues very luſty, andther reiopce tig
S ee
3 ‘wena at eta — Occidẽtal n dient
SS Anda, 5

22

The ſecond part ofthe thinges that 1
Indias but is alſs a common thing in the Oziental Indias.
Andale in the Poꝛtugall Indias, foꝛ this effecte, they doe
fell the Opis in their Shoppes, euen as they fell Conſer⸗
ua, with the which the Indians vle to eaſe themſelues, ot

their labour that theytake, and ta be merrie, and not to
- feele paines of any greate labour of the bodie, oꝛ mynde

that may tome vnta them, and they rall it there amongſt
themſelues Apbion. This Aphion the Curkes doe ble
fo2 this effete. The Souldiers and Captaines that gee ta
Marres, when they labour much, after the time that they
be lodged, that they may take their reſt they reteiue Ay.
on, and ſloepe with it, and remaine lightened of their tas
bour. The moſt principall pesple take Bague, and it bath
a better taſte, and a better ĩmel, fo3 there is put ta it much
Amber, and uſze and Cloues, and other ſpites. And ſure⸗
le it is athing ofadmiration, to ſee howe theſe Barbarous
people doe take ſuch Medicines, and how many of them da
take them, and that they doe not kill them, but rather they
take them fo2 health and remedie foz their neceliities.
Aae an Indian of thoſe partes, that in my prefence
did aſke an Apothecarie fo2 a quart of Opio, and q deman⸗
ded ol him wherfoꝛe he would haue it? and he tolde me that
be toke it to put away wearines, mhen hs felt himſelt ouer
much grieued, and afflitted with labour, andi he tooke the
halte ofthat which he caried, fo2 the Apothecary gaue hym
moze then a pinte fo2 twelue pence , and there with he llept
fo ſoundly, that when he awoke from ſleepe, hir founde him⸗
telfe verie much eaſed of his wearinelſs, in ſuche forte,

that he might continue his labour. J meruelles at it,

and it ſeemen ta ma a thing of ockerie, feing that fue
od ſire graines, bee the mot that wer can gine to a ſicke
Perſen, how e ſtronge ſoeuer hee bee, which beeing very
Well pzeparen, doeth cauſe many times Actidentes at

Deatz aun mne pores aher um gif tbe Shopz of

arebrought ſrom the Weſt Indias. Fol. Ar.

an other Apothecarp ot this Citic, there tame an ether In⸗

dian, or the ſame Oꝛzientali Indias, and he aſked of the As

pathetarie fez ſome Opis called Aphion, the which Apo⸗

thecarte vnderſtoode him not. and remembꝛing my ſelfe
of the other zndian, tauſed him to ſhewe onto the Indian

Opt à in ſhewing it ta him hee ſaid that it was that which
he alked oz, and he bought a quarter of a Pinte of u, and

Jaſked ofthe: Indian, wherefore he would haue it, and her
tolde me the ſame that tze other Indian did, that it was bes”
cauſe he migt labour: and cafe him ſelſe of his Wrarineſſe,
foz that hee did beare burdens, and fhoulde helpe ta
diſcharge a ſhippe: wherefore he ſayde hee woulde take the
one halfe, that be might ther with labour, and the other halfe
after he had laboured, that ther with be might take eaſe, and
reſt. Then J gaue credit to the fir Andian, of that he ſaxd
bato me and fince 3 haue betæued that which 4 haue fcene
and read, in thaſe partes ta bes a thing mtommon vſe for
the like effctes: Ana truely it is a thing woꝛthy of greate
conſideration, that ſiue graines of Op do kill vs, andthæ⸗

ſcoze doe giue them heuthanurſſfrt .

Loe Indians doe ble the 1 ahaco, forte fuffer dꝛieth, I aba.
and alſo to {utter hunger and ta patie dates without tauing er away
here to eate eꝛ danke, wgenthey thal trauel by any deſert 7H.

02 diſpeopled ronntric, where they ſhal ſtnde neither water,

noꝛ meate. They receiue thereof little balles, which they

make of the The. Foꝛ they take the leaues ot̃it, and che w

them, and as they goe chewing of them, they goe mingling

themcertaine pouder made of the ſhelles of Cockels Lale ballet

burned, they mingle it in the mouth altogether vntil they for hunger

Make it like dowe, of the which they frame certaine little au droughe,

Balles, little greater then Neaſon, and lap them to dꝛie in

the ſhadow, and after they keep them, and vie them in this The manner

forme following. bow to ufe
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I he ſecond part ofthe thinzes that

no water noꝛ meate, they take u little ball ofthefe,and put 5
it betwiene the lower lippe and the teeth, and goe chewing
it all the time that they ttauell, andthat which they chew,)
they lwallow dolune, aud in this fort they tourney thꝛæ o?
foure dayes, without hauing nerde ol meate ; oꝛ dzinke, fo;
they fieleno hunger dꝛieth noꝛ weakneſſe, noꝛ their trauel
doth trouble them. I thinke that to iaurnex after this ſoꝛt, is
the tauſe they gde chewing contimually the little balles: fa
they bing Fleume intothe mouth, and ſwallow it inta the
ſtomatke, the which doth retaine the naturall heate, which
it dothtõſume, and ſo they maintain themſelues ther by, the
like whereloꝛ mer fe to happen in mann beaſtes, for that a
great part etthe winter, they be ſhut bpintyetrCanes,and:
pollo we plates ofthe earth, and paſe their ti

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Heereaſter ſollowetha further addition of the Fol. 4:
Heatbe called Jabaco, otherwiſe called by the
Frenchmen Nicetiane. Which hearbe hath done great

cures in the Realme of Frauncs and Pertugall,

© ashereafter at large may appeare in tis 2
W A co Tei ee t e eee
IF in . aeiou i

ara LC OTLANE, although it bee Nscotsane
8 } W pI not long finceit bath been known be chaefeſt
CaaS 82 Im Kreunce, motwithitanping de- g eher
e frruethpalme and pꝛyce : and, ae ne dicmall
8 WI — mong all other medicinall hearbs, bearb.
tap N. 53" defernety to Candein the firkke
K ache, by reaton of bis finguler

: A (pe arne > AND as it were almoſt
ss dee bad in admezation aas
here atte: vou than vuderſtand. And foz that none ſuch as f
aunctent tyme, oꝛ oflate daxes haue wꝛitten the nature of
plantes, did n uer make mention thereof, 3 haue thertaze
learned the whole hiſtoꝛie touching the ſame, which A lear⸗

ned of a gentleman my verꝝ friend, q Gr authoꝛ, inue nter,

and bzinger of this bear’ ints France: wher tete J thought

good to publiſh it in wꝛiting for their fakes, that bane fo

often hrarde ſpeaking of this aide bearbe, and pet nepther
knetwethe bearbe noztheeffeasthereof, = ss: Nisotian
Tuyhys hearbe is called Necomane, ot the name of him ae e
that gaue the firite intelligence thereef vnto this Nealãme, W
as many other plantes haue taken their names ot terte nn
Oreekes and Ramaines, who hauyng beene in ſtraunge The Du
Countries (ws feruice of their’ conunenTAeales) haue % -—""*
banught inta thetrcoittrtes manyplants, wic a

vnkhnomne 3
Heatbe, becantett was frſte font vnto her, as beerraſter
Aeg wis to 10 NaN⁰ẽꝘyͤ̃ ie abe Bed? aphid SAA oon oe

The ſecond part ofthethinzes that

chalbe declared bythe Sentleman, that was the firfk inut⸗

ter of it and fince was by her giuen to diue rs toꝛ to ſow,
5 whereby it map bx planted in this lande. Dtbers haue na⸗
med it the great Pues hearbe, foꝛthat he cauſed it to mul

tiply in Fraunce, moꝛe then any other, for the great reue⸗
rence that he bare to this hearb, foꝛ the diuine e ffeues thers
in contayned. Many haue giuen the name, n Which
is indeede the proper name of the Hearbe, as they which
Petum. haue trauelled that Cauntrie can tell. Notwithſtanding,
it is better ta name it Nice, by the name ot him that
ſent it into Fraunce fir, to the ende that he may haut the

donour thereof. according to his deſert, fo2 that bee hath en

riched our Countrie, with ſo ſinguler an Bearbe , T bus

— fo the name, and now heart en further fo3 the whole

ONe. n ti . mx
„„ PMaiſter John Nicot, Counfeller tothe Bing being
alte Ni embaftadour fog his Maiente in Poztugall, in the verre
cet Erbaſe gt our Lowe. 1 5 5. 60,61, went one day to fee the Pav
fadeu for- (ons of the A ing of Poztugalt: and a Gentleman being the
egi, kæper ofthe (aid wrltonspreferiten him withtins heard, as
Portugal’: a ktrange plant bꝛonght om Flor da. The fame Paltter
Nreot hauing canted the land heard to be ſet in his Sar den.
Where it grewe and multiplxed marueltoufip,was pon a

teme aduertiſed by ona othis ages, that a rong man, of

kinne to that Page made a fap ofthat hearbe, uſed both

the hearbe and the Juyee together, von an vlter which he

had vpon tzis cherke mere vnto his noſe tammingaf a Voli

mne tanger which began to take Tate already at the griſtles

orkde Mole, wherewith he founde himſelſe marucliontiy

cated, Wherefore the fatoc Maiſter Nicac caulen the ficks

_ | YouRgmanto bee byoughtbetor hum , and caufing the
id heart to be continued totze oz eight aꝝ ten daies this

Priors hearb

.. this cure was a oozing to acete
tue. denne Phiũtton of the Ring of Poʒtugall one of the wan

are broucvhe‘rom the weft Indias. Fol.43"
time to examine the further working ¢ e ffea of p ſaid N.
cot ane AND fending faz the fame pong man at the end often
da pes, the ſayde Phiſttion feing the viſage of the laid ſicke
voung man, certified that the ſaide Noi we tangere Was vt:
terlp extinguiſhed, as in deed he neuer felt it ſince.
Waiaithin a while after one of the Cokes ot the ſayde
Cmbaladour hauing almoſt cutte of his thembe. with a
greate Chopping kupfe, the Steward ofthe houfe of the
ſapde Gentleman tanto the ſaide Nicotin, and dꝛeſſod
him therewith nue 92 fire tymes, and ſoin the ende thereof |
bee was heale d from that tyme tozwarde this hearb began ;
to bee famous thꝛoughont Lithcborn. where the court ofthe Liber.
king of Poꝛtugall was at that pyeſent, and the vertue of |
this {aide bearbe was extelled, and the people began ko The Ambaf-
name it the Ambaffadours hearbe. Aherefdzethere came fr,
certeine dapes after, a Gentleman ofthe Countrie, Father „r he.
to one ofthe Pages of the ambaffadour, who was tron oa
bled With an vlter in his Legge, having had the fame
fiwco peares, and demaunded of the ſayde Embaſſadeur foʒ
his hearbe, and bingthe fame in (uch oꝛder as is befoze Sei
witten, at the end of terne oꝛtwelue dates he was healed, Experience
From that tyme forth the kame of that fame hearbe increa⸗ on olde -
ſedin ſuch ſoꝛt that many came from al places to haue ſome vlcer.
ok it. Among al others there was a woman that had her face
couered with a Ringwoꝛme rocted, as though fhe had a vi⸗ Experience
four on her fate, to wyome the fatae A Embaſfadour canted for he Rg.
the dearbtobe giuen, and told how the chould ble it, and at war mes.
the ende ot eighẽ oꝛ ten dates, this woman was thꝛoughlx
Healed, who came and pꝛeſented her felfe te the Embaſſa⸗
dour, ſhewing him of her healing. anes 45
Atter there tame a Captayne to pꝛeſent᷑ bis forme ſieke Experience
or the kinges euill ta the aided, Embaffadcur, fo: f fende he pings
bin into Fraunce, Unto mbeme there wasn faye made cf,
e pear, dasein eee e ee ene,
b * 3 great

Experience
for woundes.

The fecond part of the thinges that

great ſignes of healing:and finally he was mitanetipe hea⸗
ded therbhyof the kinges cull,
The Lady of The L. Embaſſadour ſesing fa great effectes pꝛocceding
Montigue ok this hearbe, and hauing heard fay that the Lady Monti⸗
ded of a No- gue that was, died at Saint Germans, of an blcer bed in
li me tang ere her bꝛeſt, that didturne to a Noli wre tangere, fox the Which
in in ber Breft. there coulde neuer remedy be found: and lyke wile that the
Counteſſe of Ruffe had fought fo2 al the famous hiſttions
ofthat Realnie, foꝛ to heale her face, vnto whom they could
How ibe Ni give no remedy:he thought it god to communicate the ſams
ow the Ni into Frante and did ſende it to king Fraunris the ſaconde,
5 rae 5 and to the Queene Mother, and fo many ether Loꝛds af the
. bete Cgurt, with the maner of miniſtring the lame, and how to
ce. apply it vnto the fain diſeaſes, euen as he had lound it by exe
perience, and chis ly to the Loꝛde ot Iarnac. Gauernour of
Rogel, with whom the ſaid Loꝛde Embaladour had great
amitp fo2 the ſeruiee of the king. The which Loꝛd of larnac
Di ipilled wa told one day at the Rucenes table, j he had tauſed the ſaide
ter of Nico- Nescotsane tobe diſtilled, and the water te be dꝛunke, min
tiane, ſingu- gled with water of Eupbraſie, other wiſe called eiebꝛight, to
ler good for one that was ſhoꝛt bzeathed, who was there with healed.
fhort breaths... This hearbe hath the ſtalke greate, bearded and ſlimie,
The figure of the leafe large and long bearded ſlimye, it groweth in
Nicotianc. hꝛanches balfe fate tu balfe foote, and is ver ful ot leaues,
and groweth in height foure oz fue fost. in hot countries it
is nyne oꝛ tenne monethes in the peere laden, in one ſelle
teme, with leaues, flowers t Coddes, ful ot᷑ rype grapnes,
which is when thex are wared blacke and ta be ripe, which
is when they are vet greene. It ſpꝛoutes foozth neere the
roote muche, and reupueth by a great quantitie of huddes,
nat withſtanding the graine is the leat lerde in the worlde,
‘andthe cootes be like mall thzeeds.
97 „ Nena dothrequirg a fat grounde Anely digged; ans
Nicotiane. in colde Countreve bare ree dunged, that is to faye, a
Hert, ground’,

in coʒpoꝛated that it be altogether turnedinto eth, v that
there appeare na moze dung. 2

which map dete nds it againſt tye Moth winde reccuering f fer Nie-

the heat ofthe Sunne againt it, veing a warrant onto the „e.

laid bearbe againſt the tolling vp of the winde, betauſe of

the weaknes and highnes therec tk. „„
It groweth the better being often watered, and reuiueth 7, waer

Aud when the bearbe is aut sade Gramm, forſotnuebe 2e,
as cutrig gratneteteof milk bing font) dis Truigge, oe,

pou take them without byeaking, the ont after the other,

7 1 fa 2 22 Be st TF -
B e ge! Tang Grn i ngen. ae

en t
a oer db seu 1

The ſecond partofthe thinges that
and vou thal plant each of them again by themſelues, with
the felfe ſame earth, and thall fet them thoa foote from the
wall, leauing foure foote ſpace from one C wigge to ano⸗
ther, and it᷑ the earth which is neere onto the wall. be not fo
ae good as it ought to bee, vou ſhall prepare and amende it as
5 atoꝛeſaide, gelping the ſayd Z wigges ſo remaued by often

watering. mne sbs e 1. 2
The time to The time to ſawe it is inthe middeſt of Apꝛill, oꝛ at the
e Niecori. beginning: ãs touching the vertues, it will beater Na
ae,. eres all olde Sores andcankered Aicers, gurts, Kings:
Vertues Fr womes, great Scabbes, twhat euill ſoeuer be in them, in
Nicotiane. ſtamping the leaues of the ſaid hearbe in a tleane Bozter,
Nause and applving the bearbe and the Jnyce tagettzer vppan the
tangere, Tiefe, andttze parties mull abſtaine from meate that is
lalt, ſower, and ſpiced, and from ſtronge wine, except it be
well watere. 11827 f
i The leaſe of this hearbe being dꝛied in tze chadom, and
Perfume of banged vp in the hauſe fo that there come neither Sunne,
Nicotiene, Winds, naꝛ fire therunto, and being taſt an a Chaffyng diſg
good to make of Coales to bee burned; taking the ſmoke thereof at your
one void wa- Mouth thꝛough a fonnet oz cane, aur head being wel caue⸗
ter at the ded tauſeth to auoite at the mouth great quantitie of funy
mouth. and flegmatike water, wherby the body wil be ertenuated
and weakened, as though one had long faſted thereby it is
thought by fome, that the dꝛopſie not hauing taken reste,
will be healed by this Permmmnme ove
Poꝛeouer the inhabitantes of Florida dor neuriſh them ·
ſelnes certaine times, with the ſmoke ot this Beare,’
which they receiue at the mouth thꝛougz tertayne cotfins,
f uch as the Grocers due bie to put in theit fees . There
Ointment of beothex antmentespꝛeparenof the fave bearbe , 9.
Necotsane, ther futptes,but fea trntythis only ſampie hearue: tauen

fanvmg one map make therefan apntment , incl is ins
Gular,to cleanſe, incarnate, and knit togetber all meaner of

are brought from the Weft Indias.

woundes: the making of the ſayde Oyntmentes, is thus.
Take a pounde ofthe freche Leaues al the ſayde Hearbe,
ſcampe them, and mingle them with newe Maxe, Noſine,
common oyle, oteachthꝛæ sunces, let them boyle altoges
ther, vntill the Juice of Nicetiane be conſumed, then adde
therto thꝛeꝛ ounces of V enife Turpentine, ſtraine the fame
through a Linen cloth, and keepe it in Pottes to pour bie.

Los, here pou haue the true Hiſtaꝛte of Nane, of the
which the ſapde Lowe Nicot, one of the Hinges Couns

fellers kirk founder out ofthis rare bath mave mee

N ＋ The

Fol. 4j.

fthe chinges chat

parto

The Saffafras.

nd

£

Thef

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are brought fromthe Weſt Indias. Fol.
Of the tree which is brought from
the Florida, called Saflaftras,

Doe VIL Romthe Florina which is the Grin; E
hes 7 Lande of our Occidentall Indias. 1 8
E leing in xrv. degrees, they bꝛyng 5.
a Moodde and Roote of a Tree

a
*

ENE that groweth in thoſe partes, of
185 e areat vertues, and great ercellens a
ties, healing therewith greicuous
S and variable diſeaſſss.
0 At may bee thze peeres, paſt,
that J had knowledge ofthis Tree, à a Frenchman which
had beene in thoſe partes, ſhe wed me a peece of it, and told
me meruels of the vertue thereof, how many and variable
diſeaſes were healed with the water which was made okit.

A gaue at that tyme ns tredit to him foꝛ that in theſe things

ot Plantes, and hearbes, which are bꝛought from other plas
tes, they fap much, and knowe little, vnleſle it be by a man 5
that hath experience ofthem, with care and diligence . The
tree and the partes thereofipked mee well, and J indged
that, which now z doe finde to be true, and haue ſene by ers
perience. He told mar that the French men, which had been
in the Flozida at that time, wh theycame into thole parts,
bad bene ficke the moſt a them, of grieuous and variable
dileaſes, andthat the Indians did ewe them this tres, and

2

The fecond part ofthe things that
it to our Spaniardes, and howe they had cured themfelnes
with the water of this maruellous Tree, and the man er
which they obferucd in the vſing of it, ſhewed to them by the
Indians, who vies to cure themſelues ther with, whentgey
were ficke of anp griete.

Our Spaniards began to cure themſelues with the wa⸗
ter of this Tree, and it wꝛought in them great effedes, that
are almoſt incredible: fo2 with the noughtie meates ⁊ dꝛin⸗
king ofthe rawe waters, ſleeping in the dewes, the mot
parte of them fell into continuall Aques,of the which many
of them came into opilations, and from the opilations they
began to ſwell, and when the euill came firſt. immediatlp it
began to take away the luſt that they had to their meat and
then happened ta them other accidents, ¢ deſeaſes, as ſuche
like Feuers are actuſtomed to bꝛing: andhauing there no
reme die to bee healed, they did what the Frenchmen had
counſailed them, doing that which they had done which was
in this foꝛme.

They digged vp the roote of this tree, and tooke a perce
thereof, ſuct as it ſeemed to them belt, they cutte it bnall
into berp thin and little peeces, and caſt them into water,
at diſtretion, as much as they ſawe was needefull, Ipttle
moꝛe oz leſſe, and they ſodds it the tyme that formed. fat
dcient ſoʒ to remaine ofa good colour, and ſo they dꝛanke
in the moꝛning faſting, and in the dap time, and at dyn⸗
ner and ſupper, without keeping any moze weight, oꝛ mea⸗
fire, then J haue ſayde, nop moze keeping, noz oꝛder then
this, and by this they were hea led of ſa many griefes, and
sinil diſeaſes. that to heare of them what they ſuffred, and

They whieb bots ther were healed, it bpingethabdnuiration,e they Which
were whole were whole, danke it in place ol wine, faz it Death pꝛeſerue
duale iz, therm in healtd : asit appeared very well by them that
gaue came from thente this peare, fo theꝝ came all whole
and Grong, and with good colours , whiche dooth not
dappen to them that come from thefe partes, and es

—

arebroughtfrom the Weft Indias. Fol.47

other conqueftes, for they tome ficke andfiwalne, without
collour, and in fho2tfoace the moſt ofthem die. Anothefe
Souldiers doo truſt ſo much to this Mood. that J beeyng
one day amongſt many ofthem, infoꝛming mp ſelle of the
things ofthis: Tree, the moſte parte of them toake out of
their Pockets, a good peece of this Mood, and ſapde:
Maiſter, doo vou ſee heere the Mood, that euerie one of vs
dosth bing to heale vs withall, if we fall ſicke as we haue
been there? and they began to pꝛayſe it ſo much, and to ‘cons
firme the maru⸗ lious woꝛkes of it, with fo many examples
of them that were there. that ſurelx J gaue great credit vn ·
to it, and they tauſed me to beleeue all that thereof 3 had
hearde, and gaue me courage ta experiment it, as haue
Deane, and as we ſhall ſee in the meruelles which wier ſhall
toute oftt.dnd nowe we come to ſhe we the een ee
fozme of this tree.

Che Tree from whence they tut this wood, whiche The 22
they newly brought from the Klozida, called Safra, isa tion of shat
Tree that avotweth to bee very greate: there be ot a middie Tree.
ſoꝛt, and leffer fozte: The greater ſoꝛteis of the bigne ſſe ot a
Pine Tre, of a meane height and wel nerre ta the making
of it, foʒ it is ſtraigit. caſtetu out no moꝛe but one bꝛanche
of Bowes, after the manner ofa Palme Tree, onel in the
higheſt part, oꝛ ſendeth out bowes after the maner ora pine
Tree made cleane, making o tte Bowes which it caſteth
fort, a ſoꝛme ot raundnes. It bath a groſſe rinde uf a tatunꝝ
colour, ⁊ vps that an other tin rinde. ofthe colour of aſhes
and vpon the inner parts thereof, the Trees and bowes be
white, and neere like to Tawn. Che tree and bolwes are
very light the rinde being taſted, hath an extellent werte
Gell, andit is ſome what like ta the ſmeil af Fenell, with
muche ſwerteneſſe ot taſte, and of pleataunt imeltinſamuch
that a littie quantity of this Mood being in a chamber, fil:
—— !:. = atte

3 :

87 The ſecond patt ofthe thin ges that

The roote.

More. ott

T he bef is

the rote.

nelle of taſte, the inner part hath little ſmel, the higher part
that containeth the bowes bath leaues the which be griene
after the manner ofa Figge tree, with thꝛe poyntes: and
when they are little, they bee like to the leaues ofa Peare
tre, in onelp ſhe wing their poyntes. They bee ofcollour a
ſadde Grerne, and ota (weet ſmell, and muche moze when
they be dꝛy. The Indians bie to lay them beaté oꝛ amped
Spon bꝛuiſes, oꝛ when any man is beaten with dꝛy blowes:
and being died, they are vſed in medicinall thinges. They
laſe not their leaues, they are alwaies græne, any do dei
and fall, there ſpꝛingeth other, it is not knowen that it bath
any flowꝛe 02 fruitae. : |
The rootes ofthis T ret be groffe,o2 fender, confoꝛma⸗

blyto the greatneſſe ofthe Tree: they bee light, but not. ſa

much as the body ofthe Tree, and the bowes, but forthe
greatneffe it is notable light, 63s

The roote of this Cree is very faperficiall ſpꝛeading in
the vpper face ofthe faple oꝛ ground, and fe they dygge
them vp eaſtlie: and this is acommon thing in the Trees
ofthe Indias that moſt of them haue their rostes of ſmall
depth and it they carry anv plantes from Spaine to plante
els where if they do not fet them ofſmal depth in the ground
they beare no fruite.

Whe be of all the Tree is the roote, andthat wooꝛketh
the bell cffec,the which bath the rinde cleauing very fat to
the inner part, and it is of colour Cawnie, and muche moze
ofſweete ſmell. then all the tree, and his Bꝛaunches: the

rinde taſteth of a moze ſweete ſmell, tuen the tree, and the

water being ſodden with the reste, is or greater and better
effeds,then of any other parte of the trer, and it is of a moꝛe
Cweete ſmell, andtbherefore the Spaniardes bie it, foz
that it woozketh better and greater effects. It is a

kreethat growettz neere onto the Sea, and in temperate

pau bere. be

4771 b ee Mountaines

are brought from the Weft Indias. Fol.48.

Mountaines growing full ofthem, and they caſte fooꝛth a

moſt ſwertſme l, ſo that at the beginning when they ſaw thé

lirſt, they thought that they had bene trees of Cinamon,

and in part they were nat deceived, foz that the rinde of this

tree hath as ſ werte a ſmell as the Cinamon hath, and doth
imitate it in colour and ſharpnes of taſte and pleaſantneſſe I he Saſa-
of ſmel· and ſo the water that is made of it, is of moſt werte t a £004
ſmell andtaſte, as the Cinamon is, and pꝛocureth the fame be Sina.
woꝛke s and e ffedes as Cinamon doth. 5 on. ö
The tree groweth in ſome partes of the Floꝛida, and not

in others, toꝛ that it is in the poꝛte of Saint Elen, and in the
port of Saint Mathew, and not in any other partes: but

when the Sculdiers did ware ficke , in places where this

tree grew not, either thep carried them to bee healed to the

ſayde places, 0; they ſent them the Trees, oꝛ their Rootes
chieflꝑ, and there with did heale them. The beſt of the tres

isthe rote t after them the bowes, and nexts the tree, and Th j
the bett of all is the rindes Che contplecion and tempera-. .
ture of the trer and of his bowes is hot z dꝛie in the ſeconde ere
degrer the rinde is fomwhat moe hot ther the reft wr that 5, f
it entrethints the thirde degree, ol heats and dꝛieth, and
this is manifeſtiꝑ ſene in the water, and fo they that hall

neede of it muſt procure to haue the rootes oꝛ bowes, which

haue the rinde, foz that which is without it, doth not woꝛke

{9 good cffectes. lait Gd Sin
The name ofthis Tree as the Indians terme it, is cal The name.
led Pauame, and the Frenche Men call it S,
knawe not wherefoꝛe our Spaniardes call it after the

fame manner ; being taughte by the Frencte Men, al⸗

though that fome dos cozrupte it, and call it Sa agia,
— e- from thence, they of theſe parts

3: ame ne Gone wk eae

Type dle of the Rote, 03 of the Mood of this: Tree The v/e by
the which wee haus treated or beere, is be 9
S s 5 se

Varitie of
feeshiug.

The ſecond part ofthethinges that
ching, x in this loꝛme the Indians did ſhew it to the French

men, and they vnto vs: and as the Indians haue neither

weight noꝛ meaſure, they haue not kept in thoſe partes an
oꝛder in the making ofthe water of this waod, faz that they
do no moꝛe there than put a peece of the wood, dꝛefthe rate
at their diſcretion made in peeces into the water as they da
thinke beſt. And they ſeethit after their maner, without com
fuming maꝛe quantitie, then when they ſer that the ſerthing
is ſuſlicient: ſo that all they which haue come from thoſt
partes are very variable in their manner ot ſtething, which
is no ſmall confuſion to them that ſhall vſe it. and like wiſe
to the Phiſitiũ that hal miniſter it: That which J do heres

in, J will wute. 3 looke vpon the complection, andtempe⸗

Flow the au- kuture ofthe ſicke perſon that ſhal take and vſe this water
thour doth ds alls the maner and quality ot᷑ the diſeaſe, and conta ma⸗

order it.

bly J make the water, € gine it to the ũcke perſon, giuing
to the Cholerike leſle ſtething, and lee quantity of Mood,
and to the Flegmatike moze ſething, and moꝛe quanti⸗
tte of Mood and to the Sanguine meanably: and fo after
this forte too their inſtrmities, accozding to the qualities
ol them foꝛ that it᷑ it bee not dane acto:ding to this oꝛder,
they cannot chaſe but make many erraurs in the vie oftins
water. and alſo it is conuenient that foʒ the moſt parte thee
Repe the vſe ofthe met ¢. gouernment which is neteſlarie
fo2 the diſeaſe which they pretend to ture. Let none thinke,
that totake this water without oꝛder & good cunſideration,
as man doth, there halt fallawe health: but onte them ras
ther taking it without meſure t without oder it ſhal do vn⸗
ta them much hurt wer by it ſæmett to me that when this
water tal be miniſtred, afwel in the diſeales that it careth
As in an other whatioruer they beat is neceſſarie that theꝝ
goe to ſame learned P hiſition, that map diſpaſi che maner
and making ot the witer, and the oder which they chall

obſerue in taking of it, to thatin the Aater it chaulde bee

taken

are brought from the Weft Indias. Fol. 49.

taken otherwiſe then in the Sommer. And other wiſe it
muſt be giuen to the leane perſon, then to the ſtrong and in
an other manner it muſt be taken of the Cholerike then of
the fleugmatike, x one oꝛder is requires in the cold region /t
an other oꝛder in the hot. Aherby it appeareth that it is cõ⸗
uenient to keep oꝛder, meſure. ⁊ foꝛme in the taking of it fo2
that there gocth no lelle with it then health t lite, cõũde ring
that we fit haue na price in the woꝛld, x nat to let it alone
to the iudgement of him that kna weth it not.
It happened fo a gentle woman, onto wham fo2 certaine Hiſtorie.
indiſpoſitions of the Mother, pꝛocteding of greate tolde that
the had taken, à tounſelled ber » the ſhould take this water
of the wood of Safra. And J gaue her the oder that Hee
ſhould vſe, in making ⁊ taking of it, which was aſmuch as
was conuenient fo2 her diſeaſe, and (eming for her. But he
fooke muche ofthe wood, moꝛe then 3 willed her r ſething
the water moze then A cõmaunded her, the thought that he
ſhould heale the ſaoner. And as ſhee toe if certainedayes
with this ſtrẽgttz the was burdenedin ſuch fort with a very
great Ague that not onel it ſtod her bpon to leaue the twas
ter, but it was nadefull to let her blood fine times, and
put her life in aduenture, ¢ fo procured infamy fo the rente-
die. after fhe was whole, and had pꝛeuailed, the returned ¢
tooke the water with the oꝛder that 3 had firſt told her, and
the healed very well of her diſealſe. It is time nowe that we
come to the vertues of this wd ſo excellent, whereof let us
{peak particularly of euery one ofthem, as we haue knamn
and experimented them. a
In generall our Spaniardes in thoſe partes of the Flo- The vertues
rida, where they haue bene and naw are, doe ble this afore stbereof,
aide water ſodden at their difcretion, faz all manner ol diſ⸗
ſeaſes, without making exception ot ang. And beeing icke
ofanp manner of euil which commeth bite them, charpe, a:
long, hot, oz calde, greruous oꝛ other wiſe, theꝝ ture them all
vy one maner of fatbion,t they heale all with one maner of

The ſecond part ofthe chinzesthit

Waker, without making any Difference e the bol ts that all
be bealed therwith, z in this they repoſe fo much teuſt, that
they keare not the euils which are pꝛeſtt, noꝛ haue any care
ot them that de to come, and ſo theß vſe it fo an vniuerſall

: remedie, in all manner of diſeaſes.
r healeth In one of the thinges that they haue found make pꝛofite
5 opilasions inthis water, wis in Opilations, in the intertour parts,
ef the which thy came ta be lwalne, and to bee full of the
Dꝛopſie the moſt parte of them. Foꝛ of the long and
large heates which they had taken, they came wel neer gee
nerallꝑ to haue theſe diſeaſes. and with this water both tye
ſwelling and the opilation went awap, and there with they
came fo bee made whale of the Quotidian Agues, which
fhe mo part of them had. Sorin going thither the moſte
parte at them fell ficke, ofthefs long and impoꝛtunate Fer
uers, in the which J haue experience by this Mater, bes
ing taken as it ought too bee, faz it woozketh maruellaus
= as effectes,and haue healed many ther with Fo the principal
= ; . li. effect that it bath , is to comfozte the Hiner , and to diffolue
. Opilations, and tu comt̃aꝛt the ſtamatk which are the two
: ae pꝛincipal things, that are moſt conuenient fo2 the Phiũti⸗
. Ken. on to do, that the fick may be healed of the like diſeaſes. Foz
. euils it is not to be feared that the humoꝛs be coz

— peincipall members be hurt, one of the things
that thete medicines which are brought from our Indias
do principally, when the water of ang of them taken, is to
tomloꝛzte the Liuer and to amende it, that it map ingens
der good humaꝛs, foz is this be not done, the ture is in vaine
3 And ſo our S fra hat a maruellous pꝛaperty, ta comfort

tze Liuer, and to W RIE ſozt that it 8
r

5 — a hieb 8

are brought fromthe Weft W "Pole so. ;

bim many tymes oR Pilles of Ruibarbe, and by taking
of Dialaca amongſt the fap Purgations, and drinking the
water of this Sa//sfres, cõtinually without dzinking of any
other thing he came to be healed very wel, and was clere of
his ſwellinges, and opilations. And he did not let to dzink it
vntell he remained perfectly whole.
The manner of curing with this water made of the S
_ faffras,fo2the Lertian Agues ¢ long Feuers, ¥ will ſhe we
pou, and what hath paſſed in this peere, that I wꝛote this.
TC ptere bane been many people defeated with the tertian ar
| gelves, ſo impoztunatlie, that no manner of Medicine was
lurticient ta take them awap, ⁊ to rate them out, inſamuche
that we let manꝝ alone, with onely good oꝛder, and gud ger
uernment, without helping them any moꝛe. They were o⸗
pilated, and had euill colour ofthe face, and {eure of them
Andat t was, when Captayne general eter
Peter — . — the Florida, and bꝛought him lendin. =
in common, this wood ofthe S ⸗¶ Har and when everyman
did ſo much pꝛayſe it, manꝑ of them that had Tertians, took
water of the Saffafras beeping the ozder that the S vuldiers =
gaue them, and ſurely I ſaw in that great meruelles, fog oe
that they healed many with the bie thereof. Mot anely of the es
tertians that fo much did moleſt them. But alſo ofthe opila⸗ ae
tions and euill colour that they had And ſeeingthis, à caus =
ſed other to take it, and without caunſell durſt nat da it. And
it did very wel with them, but it muſt be wel feen unts hol
it ſhauld bee giuen, and ta .
— 9

The fecond part of the things that

3 this water that we thall ſpeake of. 8 |
Digrefiion, . And ſurelpit is a thing tgat ciucth great contentment to
heale onelp with the drinking ofa water, it being ofa fivet
finel,and good of fausur twbich is taken, and dꝛunk without
any maner of griete, and fo to do that wooꝛke, which ſharp
medicines and ſyꝛupes of cuill ſauour and taſte cannot do.
And ſuch as did dꝛinke wine, did water their wine with it,

and they found themſelues well with it.
1. gine appe In one thing it was ſeene greatlie to profite, which is in
| me le tate. the vſe ol this water, in them that haue loft the luſt ofthetr
mate inſomuch that i it is reſtoꝛed to them, ⁊ the lothfonmes
taken from them, by p vle of it, ſs that many did amend and
come to their health quickly. And the bie of this water Both
cauſe luſt to meate. The Souldiers do cõmend it with ſuch
àAdmiration, that ſome tame to leaue it, and nat to dꝛink it,
koꝛ betauſe that it cauſed them to haue fo great hunger, that
they toulde not withſtand it. and becauſe there was no ſuch
abundance of meats tuber with they might ſatiſfy their hun⸗
ger, which the water was cauſe of, they would not dꝛink it,
as not hauing fufficient fo2 their maintenaunce, foꝛ they did
all vſe it fo2 a dꝛinke inſteede of wine and it was a great re⸗
me die fo2 them, chat by it they became whole, as appeareth
88 front thoſe partes whereas they dod

a How a — Whomthep take
; tbe —————ů— in theſe tauſes, who dyd
ture many ofthem which came in the Fleete from the new
Spayne ficke, with onel the vie ol this water, wit haut gis
. Andit
di —— them, fo2 that many were healed theres
! beg —— —

are brought from the weft Indias. Fol. pr.
de gaue Medicines ofthis water only and Penp, tit made
à good woꝛke. I cured heere ſome that were in ture in tge
Hauana. And being oꝛdered in this maner, they which tame
not wel healed thence, were here fully healed.

In griefes ofthe head, and in paines thereot being verye „ 5%.
olde, which pꝛuteed of any cold cauſe, the taking of this was aaa *
ter hot in the moꝛning well ſodden, ¢ at dinner and ſupper,
and in the day time Gimple with good gouernment as well
in the meate that is eaten, as in the reft ofall other things,
and dooing this fo2 many daies, it cureth and healeth them
maruelloudp. It is couenient fo2 him that ſhall da this, that
be purge himſelfe firſt and in the tyme that he mutt take it,
that he receiue terteyne Pilles of era /implex.e he hath no
neede to keepe himſelfe cloſe neither in his chamber noꝛ in
his bed. Bee that thal take this it is enough that bee go wel
clothed, and that he keepe himſelſe from the tolde and ayꝛe, a
and that he bfe to eate good meates. | ae gebe of 8

In griefes ofthe bꝛeſt cauſed of colde humoꝛs, this was A * of —
fer doth pꝛofite much, and openeth the waies ofthe bꝛeſt. It PE
conſumeth moyſture and fleames, it ſtapeththe fluxe x the
running which cometh from the head to the bꝛeſt. It mull be
taken inthe maꝛning, and dꝛunze continually ſimple, fo:
belides the opdinary dꝛinking in the moꝛning, it matt bee
dꝛunke ũmplꝑ for a long tyme. Fo theſe ſimole waters as 123
ther doo their woꝛke by little and little, ſo it is nedful that Ny
they be continuedfoz a long ſeaſon. itis goodthat there bes N
put fome Sugar too it, that it map make the better
—— ane .

In griefesof the Dtomacke, the cate ic Is griefes of
» Suinbie, after eat the unierfall enacnations bee mane, tas /* gebe .
at ather tymes, it taketh them awan and healeth them,

The ſecond part ofthe thin ges that

the moꝛning hot foꝛ certeine daies, and continuing with the
fiutple witer foꝛ a long time, ind taking once euerp wee ke
pilles of Mera ſinopleæ many people were healed therot ve⸗
rp wel. And thus we haus declared how that the ble of thys
Sees water reſtoꝛeth the appetite loſt, and giueth luſt to meate.
For the wea- In the weakenes of the ſtomacke, and in the lack or na⸗
benes of the turall heate, where that which is eaten is not canlamed, it
Stomackof ‘woorketh great effeds, and belpeth digeſtion. zt canlumeth
them which windes, which are the cauſe ofindigeſtton. It kaketh away
donot dgeſt a ſtinking bꝛeath and from them that do vomit their meat,
. wecate, it taketh away that euil cuſtome, ſa that they cate litle, and
_ and for bem vſe tontinuallꝑ tu dꝛinke this water without wyne. And ae
whieh do uo. que al other thinges, it maketh a good bꝛeath and a good
i their mel at the mouth

. An the diſeaſe of the Lone ofthe Ridneis and reines, the

t, andſtaieth the ingendering ol them,
tonſumeth the fleames, of the which they be pꝛin⸗

To them which haue the buoning of the Wine, ete ſuch
water ss 48 haue great burning at the time that they make their was
bent ni ter, deo file great heate, vnta ſuch is not conuenient the bie

are brought from the Welt Indias. Fol.sz.
Bladder, from which place proceedeth the like burning, .
iz in ſuch a cafe none of thefe waters doe take effeu: but ons 3
letze Surgions Kaler when the Stone is greate, is that
which doeth pofite,as q haue fens in many. and While it
is ſapdit is a ſtone, it is no ſtone, death hath come vito them
that had it, whome il they had beene opened in time, might
haue lined many peares, as we haue ſerne in diuers of ixty
Peres and moꝛe Who haue bin opened, and liued vntil they =
caine ts eightie veares and moze, . =
And aduertiſe pou, that this wood, which 4 call of The wood of 5
the Azine, and the ſtone, doth make the water ble we, foꝛ ik rhe vrine WI
it doe net make the water ble we, it is not the right Ad. maketbe
And now they boing a wood, which maketh the water vel⸗ water blewe
lowe, and this is not it which doeth profite, but that whitechy ies
maketh the water blewe, and this haththe cometoutnefie of
them cauſed, that bꝛing it, becauſe they haue ſerne that it is
wel ſolde in this Citp, foꝛ the manifeſt profites that it doeth
in theſe griefes ofthe Aline, by tempering the Reines and
the Liuer, and precuring many other benefits, ethey boing”
ofall tze wood that they finde , and fell it faz wood of the
fone. The fame hath happened inthe Aechoacan > Which:
when it camete be wazth twentie Dutates the pound, thex
laded fo much from thence of it, ſame nat being ripe, other
not being right, that when it is come hither it woꝛketh not
the effecte, that the good and well feafoned was wont
do doe.

. Aherefaxe it is nadfull to fe to that which is taken, gag A.
that it bee the fame , and that it bee well ſeaſones. r
That which is verie whyte, is not ſuch as the vellowe

thatit maketh the better waozke: it maybe that the ver

die whrte is not of it, oz bath net the perfection that the

T end patt bkthe chinges es:
tin envio — tame in this fete from

J . Florida, who being in thoſe parts, did make water verx

euill, and caſt from him ſtones, ſometimes with verie much

griete, and ſome of them did put him in hazard or his life, .

when he was in the Floꝛida, as hee danke ol the water of
Saſſafras ozdinarilꝑ, as many other did in the place of wine,
her audided many great ¢ final ſtones, witheut any paines,
and after that hitherunto bee bath fonnde himſelfe whole,
and very well of this euill, by dꝛinking the ſimple water of
this wood oꝛdinarilp, and watering his wine there wyth.
Manx doe dꝛinke ol this water fo2 the fame purpoſe, and
they caſt out much Sande , and doe Ande themſclues cured
there with.

In them that bee lame oꝛ creeples, and in them that are

boek which nat able to goe, noꝛ to moue themſe lues, as fo2 the molt part

be lame.

— in anyother mane of Safafras was nat,
? — —— — eat:

thatinfirnutie commeth of colde bumours:but taking this
water hot in the mozning,and procuring ſweate all that be
tan, eating thinges ok diet, and drinking the ſimple water
continuallp, and vſing it many dapes: we haue fene man
healed. And it is to be noted that in taking —
there is nothing to bee obſerned, as in other waters, but

when they ſhall take it hotte, ifany lheate come, to keeps
it, andafter this they may rife and goe well clethes : it is

nat nesbefull of any thing els, but of thys and good ozder,
and to eate good meates, andifthey ſweate not, it maketh

no great matter, but it they ſweat not, they ſhall be healed:

5 Aknowea Captapne, one efthem which came from the

Saber, ano becertiien mee that bee waste wenn f. all

other maner be eoulde not ſtirre,

are brought fromthe Weſt Indis. Fol.s3.

In the tothache, this woo being broken and chewed / ehe tooth.
with the toth that is grieued, and leauing that which is r.
chewed in the bole of the tooth, which is grieued, if it haue
any gollownelle, and although that it haue none, vet it ta⸗
ke th awapthe paines merus louſlp, with experience done
pon many. it

In the euil of the Pore, it woꝛkeththe fame effectes that 7x the enslof
the reſt ofthe waters, ofthe holy wand the ( vine, andthe e Poxe.
Sarcaparillia Boeth : taking it as theſe waters ber taken
with ſweates, putting vp moze ox leſſe, the decoction of the
water, and the quantitie of the wond, as the complexion is
and the diſeaſe of him that ſhall take it Foz that in coulde
humours legmatike it maketh a better woꝛke, than in
them that bee Cholerike : and ſo in the Pore that bee at a
long time it maketh a better and greater woszke, than in
them that be of ſmal continuance:and moze where there be
knobhes, and moiſture of matter, t olde griefes ofthe head, i
with the oꝛder as is afozelayd. And in theſe euils the ſimple The ſfiple.
water is continuallytaken fo2 a great time, and it wozketh ter.
great effectes, chiefly in them that bee leane, which bee al⸗
together weakened r debilited, with the bie ol many edi⸗
cines.

Manx which haue the Saut, haue bled, and doe ble tu Inh whick
dꝛinke of the Mater of this tree, ſome of them taking it haue she
hot, as wee haue ſayde, and athers ũmple continually by g and the
it ſelfe, and watering their wine there with. Chat which J evil! of the
haue ſeene, is that which is in the olde kinde ol Goutes, dath fojnres,
neither good no2 euil, and if it dos anꝝ good it is to comfozte
the ſtomacke, and to diſſdlue windines, r to gine them ſome

—

eet | Thelécond part of the thinges that

Fer them In one thing J haue fee it in many people to being no⸗
that haue table profite with the tontinuall vſe ofthis water, x it is in
Soule han di. them which haue foule diſeaſed handes, which cannot exer⸗
tiſe them, as they were wontto doe. J healed a Gentleman
which could nat wꝛite, that we he went to weite his hand
fell dawne by little and little, and the penne alfa, after he
had begun to wꝛite not paſt flue oꝛ fire letters. And he toke
2 Cuppe full ot that, which was laſt ſodden in the mozuing,
and after he dꝛanke it, hee continued two houres in his
bedde, and after he role and Went avout bis buſines. and he
did eate at his dinner good meates, and at his ſupper vſed
diet, and dꝛanke the ſimple water of the (elf ſame Sfr at,
and he Was healed very wel:hauing (penta great ſomme of
money on Ppifitions and medicines, which did not profits
him any thing, vntil he came to be reme died inthe oder as
is atoꝛe aide. 5
The water Manp did certiũe me that, which rrotwe 3 finde by erpe⸗
hot makerh rience and learned of them that were ficke in the Hauana,
aman goe ic and coul de not go ta the Hool, thatthe Phiſition which
thefiecle. is there, did cauſe them to take in the mooning kaſting a
goed Cuppe full hatte of the water of the S4 frau, and
it did ſoſten the belly, and they went to the ſtodle very wel,
which we haue ſeene heere ta be true by experience . And
there was a Soldiour Which certified mæ, and pꝛooued it
Forthe 22 with others of his companie, that hauing fooles by indil⸗
sorkefecle gettion andrawnedle af ſtomacke, fo: want of heate, it tue
Hindgeſtiõ tzem awap, with taking of one gon cuppe ful of this water
euerie moꝛning faſting, and fo with dꝛinking it continually.
but that which he dꝛanke euery moꝛning, he dꝛanke it cold.
auoprtnicnerticlefic bee was heatro herr wel of the flure,
In the euilot WbICH he hat manꝝ veareg. 1 n ident ne
Women, An grietes of wamen the wat et or Sa aft an docth great
The cuil of l paaũt, and in eſpetiall inthat — —e—
the Aot her the ether: and where there is windineſſe, it canſumeth ¢
2 3 it, and alla ang man er of colde of the ö i.
&

are brouglit from the weſt Indias. Fol..
diſſolueth the ſwelling oft, curing any manner ol diſeaſe ae
which proceedeth ofthe Mother. And this is ſo experimen⸗ Ne
ted, and fo put in vie that many haue bene healed with this
water, that neuer thought to haue recouered health. And in
the withholding the Ponethly courte that commeth, not to oF;
women, this water maketh a maruellous woꝛke, by pꝛoua⸗ , flopping =
king and making it come in them that wholie doo lacke it, .) >. bs of
taking one Cuppe full ofthis water in the moꝛning E02M enn.
king it oꝛdinarilie at dinner, and at ſupper, and in the Bap
tyme beeing moze fimple, then that in the morning: ding
good regiment, and dosing other thinges which may helpe
the water, that it may be pꝛousked. And bute them alls to
whome it dooth not come well, it bzingeth manifeſt vꝛoũte,
taking the water in forme as is afoꝛeſayde, keeping them
the tyme that they take it, from ſuch thinges as maye of
fende them: and being vſed it dooth diſopilate, and make
a good colour in the fate, as it is ſeene by the experience
them that doo bie it, hauing neede or it. Let them beware if e,
they haus much beate,o2 bee of a hot complerion, in ſuche * nel
tale let them moderate the quantitie sf tze waad, and the . water it
ſeething of the water, as is conuenient, and this is caũie to eee
be done, vy ſeeing hom it goeth with them at the beginning ene
with the bie okit, and actoꝛding thereunto they map rile oꝛ
fall, as it ſeemeth to be neceſſarie. :
Some women doo dle of this water foz ta make them
with childe, andin ſome it hath wꝛought the etfece as it is

Note.

This water
dot h make
fatte.

_ Selour, to came foozth Grong and fatty 5 and gf a good

The ſecond part of the thinges that

that che was with childe, and bꝛeught faoꝛth a ſonne.

And vnderſtande that one ofthe pꝛintipall vertues
that this water hath, is to dꝛye away the other for thys
effect:faʒ the molt parte of women that haue no childzen, is
fo; the greate tolde that is ingendered within the Mother,
which doth hinder the cauſe of gener ation, and as the wa ·
ter ryſet, hit tonſumeth it, comfoꝛtyng the place and diſſol⸗
uing the windes, that are the let of it: J am ſure that it will
maniteſtly profite, as we haue feene in them which da not
boing fooꝛtij childꝛẽ fo2 hauing to much heate and dꝛieth, to
whome permit not the bie of this water, for becarife it will
not p2ofite them, and it they do take it and feele hurt therof,
let tem not put the fauit in the water, but in their complex⸗
ions, ſceing that it is not conuenient fo2 them.

‘Whe dle of this water doath make fatte, and this is cer⸗
fatnly knowne, fa we haue fence many leane and ſick, that
haue taken it, and haue healed ot their euils, and haue reco⸗
uered much moꝛe fleſh, ¢ better colour, as thoſe people that
come from the F loꝛida, doo pꝛaiſe it very much: they all
fay, that the vſe of this water doth maks fat, and it happe⸗
neth ſo to man, and not onel it healeth them oftheir dilea⸗
les but alſo maketh thé remaine with a good colour. And fo
it ſermeth by them that conte from that tountrx, foꝛ that they
tome all fatte, and ofa goed colour, who 3 beleeue as they
were very ſick, ſo that they were very leane ¢ veilow: ohr
they were healed of their inürmities which they had, they
gathered fleſhe, and betame ofa good colour, ingendering
in the Liuer good bloud, by the whiche the members wers
better maintained. than when they were ſick. And furely it
is à greate thing that this water ſhould wooꝛke this effet,

tonũidering that it is het and dꝛie, if it were not fp the cau-
es that are abeue ſaid. And J haue ſene man that entered

in, to take the water of the twond, leane, and with an euill

3

are brought from the Welt Indias. Fol. 55.
colour, eating no other thing then Reünges, Almondes,

In peſtilent and contagious deſeaſes, which we haue fen ag
in the time of the Wellitence pall,there were many that de / I= Veſtlent
fired to dꝛinke it, to pꝛeſerue them from that euill: And we h corrupb
did ſee that none of them which vſed it were wounded of p Hel
dileaſe that then raigned Many did dle to carry a piece ofp
Roote ot the Mod, with them to ſmell to it continuallp, as
to a Momander. oz with the ſmell fo acceptable it did re⸗
ctiſie the infected ayꝛe: i tarried with mer a peece a greate
tyme, and to my ſeeming J founve great pꝛofite in it. Aoꝛ
with it e with ỹ chewing of the rinde of the Caron, nuz of the
Lemmon in the moꝛning, and in the day time, to pꝛeſerue
health it hath a great ſtrength and pꝛoperty. And it ſermeth
to mer, that J was deliuered by the helpe of God from the
ire, in the which we that were Phiũtions went in, blocſed
bee our Loꝛd G O D that deliuered vs from ſo great enill,
and gaue vs this moſt excellent tree called Sac, which
bath fo great vertues, and woꝛketh ſuch maructions eſteds
as we haue ſpoken of, and moze which tyme will ſhewe bs,

Whiche is the diſtauerer ofall thinges. It fall doo well to
ſhewe the quantityof the wood and alſu the quantity of wa⸗
ter, wherein it ſhalbe ſodden , to pꝛeſtribe a rule in weight
and meaſure, in effets and temperatures, fet them that are
dot, and others that are calve, +

Z wilt tell pon the oꝛder that aught to bee kept in ta/ -- . .):.
king the water ut tis exrellent wont, gie mut he made .. .fr og be
tonfoʒmabꝭp to the diſealſe of him that ſhall take it, and ac⸗ to be walls
cooding tothe quaatitie and cousplerion of the ficke bodie.
Foz onto the Chaleritte Perfor the water ought to bee gi⸗
uen letze ſodden, and with lelle quantity of c aad, and to
the ſlegmatike moze ſuddert and with maze quantitye of
wood So the diſeaſes ſheuld be conſidered of. Anta them
that are verp cald the water ought to be giuen moꝛe ſodden.

and wu moze quantitie of Aa = them * es
3 *

n general.

The fecond part ofthe things that

8 bee nat fo colde, but da participate of fore heate: the water
ought to be giuen ſeſle ſodden, x with leſſe quantity of wood.
The like ſhal be done in the hot oꝛ told times r in the age of
the perſon, 03 the moſt tauſes making to this reſped ⁊᷑ pꝛa⸗
poztion. And foꝛ the moze light, 3 wil here fet down the ma⸗
ner haw this water oughtto be vled, che which will ſerue te
ſhe w hole that they map rife o2 laltherin, cõfoꝛmablip to the
opinion which that ſeeme geod to euerx one. Foz in theſe in
ürmities that be very cold they muſt fet vp p water in quil⸗
lates, both in fething and alls in quantitie ofthe wood. and
in the difcafes that are not fo tolde, 02 that doo participate
of any heate, they mutt ſet the water lower, in Quillats fee
thing it leſle, z putting in lelle wod:the maner and oder of
the preparing it is this. a 5

The maner Pu ſhall choofe the freſheſt wood that may be had, and
ro make it in that which hath a rinde. Foꝛ that wand which hath not the
perticuler, rinds is not good, noz taketh effect, you muſt pꝛocurs that
it be of the route, ſoʒ that is the belt ofthe tree fo2 the ſe cfs
fects and cures, and fo3 the diſeaſes which we haue (poke ok.
And it in cate there be no roote, then the bowes are the belt
that growe in the higher part of the Trees: and in caſethe
bowes lacke;tyen is the tre good, if ſu be that the one and
the other haue the rind ofthe rate, let there be taken leſſe in
quantity therat, ⁊ moze of the bowes, x much moze of ö tree,
which mul be double to the quantity of the roote. Powe let
vs ſpeake of the bowes as ofa thing in the middeſt, be⸗
tweene the roote and the tree, beeyng that which continu⸗
ally they das being, ofthe which you hall take halle an
The order Dunce, and cut it as imall as map be. And it mutt be put
balvto make into thꝛee Pottelles of water in a newe Carthen Pat, and
the ſereng there lxe a ſtesping tws howzes : and after it mult bee
water. ſodden at a tpꝛeof Coales, vntyll the two partes bee cons
ſumed, and the one remaine. And after it is colde, let it bee
The ſimple E᷑trapned, and kept in a glaſſed bedoll, and vpon thoſe ſmul
vate. e uttinges of wodd that haue beene already ſadden, let “er

re brought from the Weft Indias: —-- Folis6.
be poured other thee Pottelsof water, and let it Kieth vntil

balfe a Pottell be conſumed, and no moje; after that it is

colde,letit be ſtrained and kept in a glaſſed befell. Let the

firſt water be taken in the moꝛning faſting, half a pint hot,

and ten keepe your ſelfe warme, and pꝛoture ſweate, then +

change pour felfeinto hot clothing and wipe pour felf from

the lweate. And eate ofa Hen rotted i dꝛie fruite, and con⸗ aa

ferua and dꝛinke of the fecond water at Dinner and up-

per and in the day time. and then rife and goe well clothed

and Gp from al things which may offend you. Andat night:

make a light Supper, and eate dꝛie fruite and Conſerua,

but eate na fleſhe at might, and dꝛinke of the ſecond water.

Andthis you map doe fa as man dayes as you finde yout:

ſelle grieur dꝛand it vou finde pour ſelle well with the vie of

this water taken in this maner, proceed forward vntill you

be whole, zi not, then tõtinue in taking ofthe ſtrong water

cuerp third dap, dainkof the ſmple water cõtinuallꝑ.aſter

this oꝛder it may be giuen in al diſeaſes, that we haue treas

ted of, and it will pꝛoñte. But many will not ſubmit them⸗

flues to this labour which truelx is the belt of allsthers,

and that which is maſt conuenient They may make the

finple water in this forme, as
Let there be taken halfe aneunce ofthe wood, little moꝛe The inp le

02 leſſe with the conditions afozefaid,and let it be made in. water.

ta ſmall peetes, and ſerth it in three Pattels of water, vntill

halfe be ſodden away, rather maze then leſſe. And at this

Water you may dainkt continuallꝑ, at Dinner and at Supe

e

ane

2E MOM OMORO

he fecond patt of the thinges that

fo: it twill rather make it of a better taſte and ſwertneſſe: lu:
this waterbath a mot ſ wert ſmell, and taſte, : aboue all, it
woꝛketh maruellous etlecs, as we haue fiene and do fe in
diuers and ſundꝛy diſe aſes, in the which o2dinary remedies
of Phificke doe not profit, with the greate examples which
we haue heresl. 7

And it is to be conũdered that principally it dath profite
— — —v— and
other euils, that runthis which ſha lbe knotons forth
with by him that chal haue nad of itt vſe it. and ane thing
is to be vnderſtend, that ving it in the oꝛder as is afoꝛeſaid,
although that he which taketh it haue no nerd theres it can
do him no gurt but rather tf it be wel tanũdered it will ma⸗
mteſtly peofite him in the time that he chall take it, vea, al-
chougß he leaue the takingat it when he ſeeth that he

ndert nat the profite which bee deſtreth noꝛ

t gßat it hatt done him any hurt 03 harms
during .

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are brought Gem the Welt Indias.

| CARLO-SANCTO~

Fol.

— KEE 2 ee

q oF the Carlo Santlo a.roote brought

from the new Spaine.

‘ Bev bung from the netwe Spain 4
. — this t hee peares a marnels r „

laus roote and of greate vertues, 2, gee
& Be which i is called Carlo 8 the

The een peltof thetchinges that

The forme temperats, which be not dꝛie noꝛ verie moiſt. T he foꝛme
and figure. and figure therokis like to our wilde Hops of Spaine, foꝛ it
carrieth a leafe as they doe, and it runneth vp by any other
thing that is neere vuta it, and ikit haue nothing to leane
vnto, then it crerpeth all a long vppon the grounde: the co⸗
The coleur. lour is a ſad greene, it carrieth neither flewer noꝛ fruit, the
Thefmell, ſmell that it hath is little, and acceptable to ſome. Out of
the Roote ſpꝛingeth a grote Tree, and it caſteth ſooꝛth
The roote. other Rootes ofthe greatneſſe of a finger: it is white in
colour, and bath a Rinde which falleth from the inner
The heart ss parte, the hearte efit is maruelloully wꝛought:foꝛ it is coms
maruellous, Pounded of certaine ſmall booꝛdes verie thinne, and ther
i may be deuided by one and one, the reste bath a pleaſant
7 ber vert ue — — awe hath a notable n

— — 2
— —-—„-—
P
che wing — ——

are broughtfrom the weft Indias. Fol. 58.
With eh⸗ wing of it, x it cauſeth them fc cat out much Chee :
ler and feume.and much moze it maketh thé vomit, i ther
take the decoction of it, fa it maketh the humoꝛ to come vp.
whiche is in the ſtomack with much eaſineſſe · The roote f
tomfoꝛteth the Gomack, and alſo the Gummes by chew /. céfortetl
ing of if, and it foztieüth the teeth, and Dooth pꝛeſerue jp;
them from woꝛmes, and that they rotte not noꝛ coʒrupt. It ay ce keepe
maketh a good ſmell in the mouth, and becaufe it is better, en from
itis cõuenient after that vou haue che wed it. that vou Wal) v e eaten.
veur mouth with wine, that the bitternes may bes taken 7, 71/6/05 of

. aay. B 8 women it
In the infirmities ol weomen chiefly, where opilatians v, eeth
are, and lacke of Purgation, the pouder ofthe rinde or the Yun.
Roste dooth diſlolue them, and tazeth them awax, and mds p. Aſalueth
keth their purgation to come downe wel with the vie ther ⸗ windes and
of, it muſt be taken with wine, o with water ſodden with com fartet
Coꝛiander, and Cinamon, which they muſt dainke⸗ utiles e ſto male.
they dos take it: it diſſolueth windes, and comfozteth the :
ffomack, Whiles they ble it, they mull annoynt their Wels

lies with the opis of Liquide Amber, and Dsalees of equall

partes, and firſt thep muſt bee purged, and take heede that

The fecond part of the thinges that
What bitter, 02 without it as you plsaſe: it is to bee noted,
f that before pou be gin to vl? it pou mek make the vniuerſal
: enacuations, which halbe conuement.

In the euill bis Sentleman fayth which brought this rodte that
Eibe Po ue. it profitety muche, inthe diſeaſe of the Pore, taking it in
: Mowoer, o; in the ſeething of it: which J baue not ers —

perimented, fo ti it wee haue ſo many remedies foꝛ thys
euill, that wee haue made no experience thereof: hee ſayth
tyat it is to be taken without kæping, moꝛe, then when thex
bee taking the water, 02 powder, and that thenthey keepe

N good oꝛder and gosd gouernment in their meates, and in al
Seg other thinges.

“Tathefaling In the falling fickneffe, a rong diſeaſe, and well neers
fioknes, inturable, they fap that it bath a great pꝛoſperitie and woꝛ⸗
etz greate effectes : taking the powder of the rinde of the
roote, with wine oz with Water, as is mot conuenient fo2
him that ſhall take it. J counſelled one heere, who was
moꝛe then foztie veeres of age, and had hadit of long tyme,
to take it, and hitherto he bath not feltc moze then to vomit
with the pouder, whenhe taketh it, and he caſteth vp much
Choloz and his faintneſſe is not fo great as was wont to be.
It ſeemeth to me, that it cannot take it awap. Foz it ſhould
woꝛke that effect in them, that do not pafle twenty and ſiue
pꝛeres, whe Onto that time haue remedy. z will pꝛaue it vp⸗
8 pon ſuch: “it wong hem little good that it migzt work the
offer that is ſpoken ef it.
gif = In griefes of the Head, they vle this roote in thole
8 great and ſure remedie. J will tell what hath
paled. — eee was in the
1
sabe — ee

are broaght from the Weft Indias. l 9.

and J toũſelled bim that he ſhould vle it as ther had willed
bim to do in Ae ies and fo he did che we it in the moꝛning,
and it tooke away the paines of the head. Which a long time
had moleſted him.

After this, a paſſenger tolde mee, which came in the
Shippe, where the Gentleman was that bꝛought a quanti⸗
tie of this roote, and he chewed it wel, ⁊ did diſfleume theres
with, and immediatly it tooke a wap the pame, ¢ he ſhe wed
me a litle that remained therof, which was the fame that F
ſaw, and ſinte that, ſome haue vled it, andit bath done very
well with them.
J —·— A oo contested
do much eſteeme of it. And beeing inthe lodging where this 5
man was which bought the rote, tye holt of the houſe ter ⸗
tified me that hauing the toothache very grieuous, it tooke
it away from him with chewing the rinde ofthe Roste,
on the fame fide where the tooths was which grieued him,
diffeuming ther with as much as he cauld. and I being one
dap in the Cuſtome hauſe curing a Genaues which was
there an other of the lame Natisn complained onto mee ol
the toothache, and we cauled to be brought ſame of the ſaide
Koote, and in the pꝛeſence ofasmany as were there, hes
che wed the rinde of this roate. hauins berp greate paynes,
and he auoid d much Kleume, z in diſeuming it began to
take away the paynes, and befoze hee went from thence be
was thꝛoughly cured, erteine daies paſt J had a grieſe in
one tooth, fo thatit papned me all one Might, and parte of
dne dap, and gathered in a garden which J haue to me
douſe, certeine leauesof Tabac, and alſo the aſoꝛeſaid roots,
and z chewed bath together and dildleume d. andthe paines
went e ee uasietoe
lire monethes after 3 w. as pained therewith. Thi sis the
VVV
being folittle tym knobone is luft ent, The Lyme wil
R

The fecond part al the a i
we toll git nace therot

Of Beades, which be called

the Beades of Saint Elen.

1 Rom the Florida they bꝛing terteine round
N cootes Which are called the Beades of 2.
eien and they take this name by realon 5
‘ate N they grote in a place of § country that is fa
l «aalled: they are great large rootes, deuides
F ſeuerall peects, and cuttinges, every
ee remaine 5
„ Beads foꝛ to pꝛaꝝ
pa the Souldiers .
thing of great ettima dꝛie them, and they are as
in r
within white, and the rinde is ioyned in ſuch ſozte, that the
5 is made all one, they are wꝛought after they bes
dep, andtht 5 Roste beeing tafted,hath a lwarte ſmell with

goed taſte. And it ſeemeth by the taſte that it is a kinde ol
pptce, du itis like to Galen, 8 1

are brought from the Weft Indias, Fol. So.
temmonly in moiſt places, the complerion thercof is hot in
the ende ol the (cond degrer, and moꝛe dzie then in the fire,
the vertues thereofare theſe. l
The Indians ble the hearbe beaten betweene twoo % e
fones when thep pretend to waſhthemſelues , rubbing all flampeds i
their bodie with it: moꝛ they fay that it knitteth their flech tos
gither, and comfoateth them with his good ſmell. And this
they do foz the moft part euerie dap, foꝛ the great pꝛoũt that
they finde in it. hee
In grices ofthe Stomacke,the Indians doe ble it by 57 oricfes of
taking the Z ˙— el imemlnaeng the ftomake.

the fame purpofe,recetuing it in wine, being ground ir

of the which J haue ſeene notable experiente in ſome.

In the griefe of the Stone of the Nidneis az Keines, the /n the gricfe
Bauder of this Weote woorketh a knowen effect. Foz that of she Stone
fome haue taken this roote made into Pouder in wine, has i shekidness
uing the griel, and it hath taken it away. And J maruel not or Reine,
at al that his manilett quãtitie is ſufficient, to woꝛ the like .
effectes.

The facond) part ofthe tht wes chat

— — — to their tachion, and
— muncby that. nina had coe arte

Of the ¶uacatane.

Mey haue brought in theſe Shippes an
i Bearbe from the news Spaine that the
i 5

— ar
vim

Indians call Guacatanc,and it is lpke to
. 2 ſauyng that it 155 no

WII
CaS t carry r 05
Ye the earbe 4 bane iwithont the roote; the
name fhatit bath amongft the 3ndians,ie as afozetaib.ano
the fame name the Spaniardes alſo haue giuen it, Lhe In⸗
dians doe bie it fo: thetr inũrmities, wherof we wil ſpeake,
ö the fame the Spaniards doe bie it likewite there in
the andias,and they alla which haue bꝛought it hi r, wit

notable.
ale, In griete ofthe Wyles they bie it in this manner: thex
ve Poles gande 93 Kampe the bearbe beris mall, and wach the
„ vhich ther eee

ee Sa

are brought from the Weſt Indias. Fol.o1
and ifthere be heate in them, they ſeeth it in water, x with
that hat ſerthing they wach them, and then they dzy them ae
ſoftly, and caſt the pouver of thishearbe vpon them, x ſure⸗ age
ly the cffect that it wooꝛketh is maruellous. thus after J ee
ſaw the good effects thereof, J much efteemed the hearbe. i +
Mdenſoeuer vou haue any griefe of colde 02 of windineſſe „, grie fes of
in any parte ofthe body whereſoeuer it be, apply Turpen⸗ cg
tine vnto all partes, whereſoeuer the griefe is, and caſt the % es.
pouder of this hearbe being (mal ground vpon it, and laꝝ a i
Linnen cloth vpon that, that it map cleaue faſt as a Plai⸗
ter in ſuch ſoꝛte, that it be not taken a wap, vntill the grie fe
bee gone. And ofthis there is maniteſt experience, vy
them ofthe IAndias, and alſo by vs of Spaine.
The pouder of this hearbe caſt vpon lit⸗
fle ſoꝛes, and eſpectallp in the ſe⸗
cret places Boethmundific,
le them.

5 i ö 1

patt ofthe

hat

ingest

ne kinde of Barly :

ge
1

* .

1

er

Of 4 ce

are brought from the Welt luden Fol. E. , : | :

an

ber bang liketwife from p new Spaine,
a kindof Barly which they cal ſmal Bar⸗
RT| HAGA lev:they giue it this name, foꝛ the likneſſe
N bs which it bath vnto our Barly:foꝛ it caſteth
4 | sutaneare like vnto it, and in the vapnes,

Sablnu atum dooth. And whereſdeuer it is needfull to bucne,
oꝛ eate alway dead oꝛ rotten leſh, putting the pouder ot thys Je killeth the
terde thereto, it will doo the like wooꝛzke that an burning Center.
Iron ſhall dee. It extinguiſheth and killeth any Canker, J¢ lulleth
howe ſtrong ſoeuer it be, it killetʒ and erpelleth Meꝛmes, wor mes.
Wherfocuer they be, it eateth fleſh which is nought and r ⸗⸗
ten, taking it from the loꝛes, and making them cleane from It eateiß
ſuch euill lech. 1655 tt co. 5 rosten feu.
The Indians fo2 that they had no Sahlimat wor o- te
ther remedies Whiche wee haue, when ther Would ble the a
Ipke,they had and haue this ſeede moſt ſtrong, and ſurelie om it muſt
ſo it is, and they doo bie it as a remedꝝ moſt ſtrang, and of be minsftred
great etficatie. Thys powder muſt bee lapde too, by lyttle ee
and little, moze 02 leſſe, confozmably tothe greatneſſe of the
euil, applying things defenfiue, whichis vled to be laid too,

1 2 as ta
212 SRE

The ſecond part ofthe chin res that

bee, it leauetꝭ it cleane, and heing laide tothe lleſh, it booth
fader and heale them, and after this is done, you mul vſe >
Medicines which h me vertue to ingender fleſh. and the efs
fect of this fede is no moze then to mundiſte z make cleane,
and to fake alway the ſuperfluitie of the wound.

In ete it Che (elf fame effeathat this ſeede woꝛketh in vs, it woꝛ⸗

oor keth the ſoz

85 fame Fett

. and Bae

kia

keth in beaſtes allo, which foꝛ the moſt part haue vary euill
es, that bee cankered, and full of Nozmes, the ſeede

beeing laide vnto them, it the cauſe bee fo great, that it doth

require it: 03 the water of it, as it is ſapde maketh the lyke
Woozke, as we haue ſpoken of, and better, vſing alwaies
the de fenſiues as is conuenient. where ſuch Medicines bee
applyed, foꝛ that it is a Medicine moſt ſtrong, andit hath

neede ofthem all.

Z will che w van what happened to me with it. An Indi⸗
an bꝛought me this ſeede with many other hearbes, and gos
ing about to diſcouer them and being come to this ſeede, 1
toke a graine and put it into my mouth ta pꝛoue it He that
bꝛought it as one which knew it wel, kept back my hand, e
would not fuffer me to pꝛaue it: ¢fo2 all that % parted with
my teeth one graine, which is no great r then one graine of
hempe fede, but ſomedeale leſſer, and beareth ſome likenes
ot it: at the tyme that it came to the point of the tongue, the
feede being parted, made mea bliſter vpon if, which sured
With me certe yne dayes: J commended it to the Deuil, and
then 4 belieued what they had certifien me of it. began to
ma ke experience of it,andit wꝛought moze effectually then

= was fpoken ofit. ee e

there be any moze degrees.

Abel. ile 3 bau an Weacor tobi being fone ane tater

if taken bet tze euils of the beſt: q know nat the
tame ot it, but T

are brought fromthe Wek Indias. Fol 63. 0

on once in tele dies, it hat) „eh wo.
pꝛofited. ; man ts caſte
) Shep brought me thos dꝛy hearbes, wich Unto baue e from ibs
biene glad to baue l de grœne: the one of thele being in the 4 chulde.
fie ld in all his oꝛce, it a man o woman do put their hands T arne.
byon him, foꝛthwith he falleth down dead vpon the ground. laus bear bets
And the other lying abꝛaade vpon the ground, in touching ay
it to gather it, it hutteth it ſolfe together as a Cabadg ofthe :
Country of Aan cis, Thinges maruellaus, and ofmuchcons é
ſideration. , E

A baueblacke Clebar;bronghe fom the prangert 1
Mechoacan, Whe to that of Spapne, and woczking the bere.
lpke effen. i.

Certcpne dayes pack, a young man which tone comifel Haſtorl.
er me that came from the Pꝛouinte ol Quo and beepng
with me, there cams vnto me a neighbour of mine, ſax iag
that his Daughter was verte ſicke ofthe Flire, and 3 had
ber in cure, andher difeate increaſed with blod requeſting
— chould goe to viſtte her. Che indian which was

with me alked me iftyep were ſtooles of bioud. 4 ſaid yea:
Bad he ſaide vata mer that he would gine her a thing that
being made inte pander andtaken, wuld take them away
forth with, ꝛ tt it in the Pꝛouince af Q. it had been expe⸗
rimented many times. T he father of the fick maden. went
with him ta his haule, and he gaue him certe yne peetes ol
a fruite, — ſeemed ta — — A of ——

————ů—— Uœ—44
and ge gaue the pouder to aer a 8
f acetate an
— — in the

Dreien.

The ſecond part ofthe thinges that
altheugh J procured it with greate diligence. J know net
what it was noꝛ what be was that gaue the fruite, and in

this ſoꝛte there bee many other thinges in our Occidentall

Indias, which haue great vertues, and great Hedicinall
ſecretes, which chall ber knowne euerp day moze, and cons

tinually be diſcouered, that we may profit our ſelues by the.

Ok all thelethinges we haue ſeene manifellly the profit
that they haue done, and what by them hetherto bath been
wꝛdugbt. Sting then that theſe maruellous wooꝛks al the
woꝛld bath pꝛoued, healing with them difeates which all o⸗
ther Phiſick could not heale, as it is mauiteſtly ſtene, im ali
p do ble thé with great vtilitꝑ ⁊ profit, foꝛ the which al men
are behol ding to my diligẽce t care. And foꝛ that as A haue

kitten of then in the ũrſt part of this medicinall hiſtazie,

which hath biene well noted in the woꝛlde, faz the things p
are treated ot᷑therin, and faz that you may ſœ the fruite that
this my labour bath bꝛaught faazth, 3 will fet do wne here a
letter which a gentleman of the Peru ſent me wel ner two
monettes ſinte, vy the which von ſhal ſ⸗ by reaſon ofthat 4
wꝛote in the fick part. how they haue diſcauered the Bezaar
tones in the Peru which with ſuche great eſtimation thee
boing trum the India of Id aztugall, and hol by the relation
and ozder whiche J wꝛate, they came to the knowledge of
them . Athing truely of greate pꝛice, and wooꝛthy to bee

muthe made of it, ſeeing that it is a thing fo marue llaus

and at fo greate value, and are faunde in aur Indias,
and are fo caſie to be had and ſo true, that we haue nat any
nesbe fo doubte of their effectes and vertues, whiche is not
fe olthem that they bꝛing tram the Drientatl Andias. Koz

it tzere came tenne that are true, there come from thence

an zundzetu that art tale. TUgerefore they that bup them
ought ta lonke well vnto it, that they are nat decetucd. nt
thofe wo iche are brought from our Indias; are all of one

Sept oz they ditter nat, but anty in gteatnes o imalnies. be

pea eſteds

| are brought from the Welt Indias.

effectes which ther e worke be admirable, foꝛ that their bers
tues are mightie againſt all benome and Peftilent Agues,
and venomous humoꝛs , asin the thirde parte, SOD
willing, wee willtreate of the maner ofthem. The cific ot
the letter was this. There came a Paket or letters rolled in
a ſeare cloth, ſo well o:dered that they myght patie to anie
part being neuer ſo farre. LAhich being opened, J funde
a mall Cheſt made ofa litle pee of Coꝛke, of a good thick⸗
neſſe, ioined together, which was woꝛthyto be (enc, and in
the holotunefie ofit tame the hearbs, and the ſerdes that the
letter ſpeaketh ol euerie thing wꝛitten what it was, and in

one five of the Coꝛk, in a hollow place, therꝭ came that ge-

aay frones,cloafed with a Parchment and Mare. in god
der. Es letter wan litten ina bers ku dan
and {onetobat barde to rear, and the Sete:
; wee Seem eorsiten Gas ne 08
followeth,

Fol. 4. ;

ke ſecond partofthiethingesthat
0 2 the right werfhipfull, AL after

Doctor Monardus, ole ition of Scuill.

HI ght worthipfull and famous Docs
cor, it will ſeeme a newe thing to
e your worthip, that [being not lear·
ned, norof your profeſsion, doe
vryteto you in thinges of yout fa-
cultie, being a Soul dier that haue
4 followed:the warres in theſe Couns
C tries all my life > I haue done this,
becauſe I am affectioned to your
3 due of a booke whych you haue compiled
ofthe Medicines which are in theſe partes, and of thever-
tues and beneſites, that by them haue beene receiued,
which are fo great that I’ cannot declare them, as they de-
ferued. And by meanes of your booke we haue order how
wefhouldev{e the remedies which wee haue here, for be-
fore we did vſe them without rule or meaſure, ſo that nei-
ther they did work effect. nor with them the people were
well remedied, which now is to . by meanes
of your bookes, there hath been people remedied,that ne-
uer thought to haue had remedie nor health. It is ne
then 28, yeares vnto this day, that I haue gone wandrin
by all thefe Indias, where ate many of thofe, which
8 doth write of in your booke, & other aig
8 ee eee. thither, for becauſe
that come to theſe partes, are nothing curious.
ply eee

= ow nis pled: 83
Ss ee ffoctions

Four

‘to men of learning. and lo lam to

A Letter. | Fol. Sy.

your worſhip, for that I vnde ſtoode of your bookes, and

forthe fame that you haue in theſe partes, which is greate,

although Lk no e you not, yet I was willing to take theſe

paines, vhich is acontentment to mee. You write in your

book, giuing knowledge of the Bezaar ſtone, & ſet downe

the ſignes of the beafts which haue them: which being cõ-
ſidere d. we haue happened vpon a kind of beaftes that liue
in the mountaines of this countrie;whichare much like to
theepe or kiddes which your worship ſpeaketh of, which
are inthe Indias of Portugall, which breede and haue theſe
ſtones, ofthe which there are many in this countrie, in the
mountaines, and colde countries. They are for the moſte
ofa darke red colour, they are fed with healthfull hearbes
whereof is greate plentie in the Mountaines here theſe

beaſts do feede: they be verie ſwift, inſomuch that they can-

not bee hunted. but with the hande Gunne : they hauen

* hornes; and in that onely they doe differ from them of

che Eaſt India, for inall the reſtthey are the ſanme.
The 15-day of Iune in this yere of 1568-1 & certain gene For they
tlemen my friends went to the mountaines, to hunt. & we paye fourde
were a hunting fiue daies, and we killed ſome of thoſe he Bex ar
beaſtes, which I haue ſpoken of And as wee went for this fene.
purpoſe, thinking that they were ofthe kind. of them of the
Faft India: we caried your book with vs, and wee opened

one of them, the greateſt that wee hunted, and oldeſt wee
coulde finde, & we found no ſtones in his bellie, nor in any
other parte ot him, nor any other thing, whereby we belee-
ued that they were not the ſame kinde of beaſis with thoſe
of the Eaſt India · And wee asked of certaine Indians that
went to ferue vs, here theſe beaſtes had their ſtones, & as
they are our enemies, and would not that we ſhould know
their ſecretes, theyanſwered vs that they knew 2 of
thefe ftanes,vosill aise boy-whish-was amongft hem dee

et

4

ing an Indian of the age of 12.yeares,feeing that wee were :
fo deſirous to kno we the ſa 3 ing vs the ſecret eee 5
Sty e ee pie ENS! Dats Sit ee 1 „ r

Letter.

~ eaufe and where the beaſt had the ſtones, that we had there

oe

dead, and they were ina certane little purfe that the Maw
of the beafté hath , which is where the Hearbes that they
feede onare when they returne to chew ther Cudde. And
foorthwiththe Indian wou!de haue killed the Boy, for the
aduife that he had giuenvnto vs, becauſe the Indians doe

efteeme much of theſe ſtones; & they offer thé vuto their
Gods, or to their praying places here their Idols are, vn-
to whom they offer the things that are moſt precious. And
fo they do offer theſe ſtones a; a thing of great eftimation;
and aſſo gold, ſiluer and precious ſtones, beaſts & children,
And after warde wee vnderſtood that thofe Indians which
went with vs had facrifized the boy, whom with our hun
e, had forgotten, and they carried him away from
ys by thofe Mountaines, where we neuer more ſawe him.
And it it a thing tobeconfidered that in all partes of the
Indias, there haue not byn founde any of theſe beaſtes, vn-
les it were in the high lulles & mountaines of this realmof
the Peru. For I haue gone ouer all the countries of Mexico,
and by al the prouinces & realms of the Pera, & Iflands of
Marenon,and by the Florida, and by many other partes of
our Occidentall Indias, & I neuer faw any of thofe beaftes,
but in thofe mountaines of the Peru. Sir, with all diligence
in the world as much as I coul de obtaine, & know of Indi ·
ans beeing friendes concerning the ſtones which they take
out of thofe beaſtes, is that they are maruellous good a-
gainſt all venime, and againſt all fortes of poyfon, as well in

meates as in any other fort. & in the euils of the heart, & to

expell and to kil wormes, & in woundspoifoned,w hichare

made with mortall hearbes, which the wilde Indian peaple

finding or knowing anye remedie. It is true that in Subli-
niatum, ſome haue founde remedy, by putting it into the
woũd · Zut itthe heath he freſh & laid netvly wato it, it pro-
fitetli little. and they die without remedy. We toole out ol
the firft beaft which we killed, from that little purſe wher-
vnto he doth returne to chew his Cudde, when helieth on
the grounde, nine ſtones, andit ſeemeth that by reaſon the
hearbes which they feede vpon be of fo great vertue, the
iuyce of them going to that place by the order of Nature,
cheſe flories ate ingendered, which haue ſo great vertues.
We opened others of them that were dead, & in euery one
of them wee founde ſtones, mote or leſſe, as they were of
age, andit is to bee noted, that theſe hich do feede in the
high hils bee thoſe which-do ingender the flonesithat laue
ver tue. Forthey which feede in the plaine countries, as they
date not, nor are maintained by the good hearbes of the
high Hylles, fo the ſlones that they haue, althoughthat
they tecey ue ſome vertues, yet they are not fo good as of
thofe which are fed in the moũtaine:. We haue begũ to vie.
theſe ſtones conformably to the order which your or ſhip
doth giue in your booke, miniftring the quantitie that you
command, & for the diſeaſes which you ſpeake of, and wee
haue ſeene ſuche effectes in them, that haue made vs to
meruell, and they haue healed ſuch diſcaſes, that itis won-
derfull to be ſpoken. Vato the Lady Kacherin Deuera, the
ſiſter of the Lord Preſident, & to the Lady Mary de Ribera

& to Diego de Andrada, &to Diego Dela Iſla, & to Mari-
ana wife to Maiſter Iohn Plutino, and to the father Ioſepfm
Martines, and to the father Diego Fernandes, Prieſtes, and

to manye others, thefe ſtones haue brought great profite
helping them of euill dileaſes , whicheit woulde bee too
long to write of. It is fufficient to fay that they bee ſtones
of great vertue,andasanewe thing they take them in pou -
der: all ſuch as haue diſeaſes whiche cannot bee healed by.
Medicine, and manye thereby are recouered : Wherefore

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haue beene vſed fince that hunting, that I haue ſpoken of
which were the firit that haue bin diſcouered in the world,
for the vſe to heale diſeaſes: and we do truſt that with them
will bee done maruellouswoorkes, according as they haue
begun to do them, & al this isowing to your worfhip,feing |
that by your booke we had knowledge to ſeek them, & to
difcouer them, and to take them out ofthefe beaſtes which
had them fo hidden within them, that ſurely goes much
owing to your worfhip rſhip, for diſcouering vnro ys fo great a
; . is the — hath bin found
in theſe parts, whereby our nation is much bounde to you,
and like wiſe all the world, becauſe al men fhal profit by the
and the reſt of the ſecrets which you haue ſet don in your
booke;which bringeth vnto vs great profit. And in recom-·
penee ofthe benefit which I haue receiued, | fend heere to
your woorfhip a dozen of ſtones, by the returneof lohn
Anthonie Corfo, the rich Marehaunt, which if they come
thither, your worfhippe may make experience of them, in
many infirmities, for you ſhall finde great effectes in them.
By the ſame returne alſo your woorfhip may aduiſe mee of
them, and any thing that ſhall pleaſe you to commaund me,
Iwill do it, as one that is moſt affectioned to you, becauſe
you are curious and learned, and for dooing fo much good
to the world, in thofe thinges which you baue written and
publithed. Heerewithall I ſende you a ſmall Cheſt, in the
which eome certeyne Friſoles, which you may commaund
to bee fowen in the begynning of Marche, that the cold
doo not hurt them, which ſende foortha plant like vnto
beanes, but ſome what leſſe, which haue certeyne vaines
here the feed is. Halfe a dozen ofthem eaten with ſa t, and

f a ethe water of him which haththe Dropſie, with-

dur paynes, The felfe fame effect it vort ech if that they be
Arx, making thé into pouder & taking thé with wine, & it

hould be, with eating

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any thine incontinent, the worke wil ceſe.

Allo l ſende you an hearbe which groweth in theſe An hearbe
plaine Countries, elounge to the grounde like vnto graſſe, for the
which is of great Vertues for many infirmities, cheefelie Reumes.
for chez Which are greeued with Reumes and Fleumes
in the throate, taking them away eafilye with great bene-
fite, and in this, and griefes of the headand Remes che w-

ing it, they do disfleume verie much: they call this hearbe
after my name, beeauſe I vſe it for the lyke euilles for that
an Indian did teachit mee, whichknewe muchof the ver-
tue of hearbes. „ FFC 5
Alſo I ſend your worſhip a fruite a of a tree which is of A fraite ef a
n be not founde in any Countrey tree of great
ö ut in this, they are ol the greatneſſe of an Oke, er ede ver tue.
in Spaine: it hath many vertues, for the rinde beeing made oe
in pouder and caſt into any fore whichis needefulſto bee
made cleane, it makethit eleane, and after ward cauſeth the
fleſh to grow and healethit. Andrubbingtheteethwith

this pouder,it maketh them cleane very wel, and being laid
vppon the Gummes if the flefh be taken away it dooth in-
carnate them, and if the teeth be looſe, it maketh them faſt:
Seething the leaues of this tree well in water, and wafhing
with the water thereof any manner of fwelling , which
hath any fore, or that is thereof cankered, it taketh away
the fwelling, and impoſtume. And making fome {mall li-
nen cloathes vet in this ſeething, and laying them warme
vpon the Medicine, which is lade vpon the ſore, or vppon
the pouder that is made of the tinde: it maketh the fores
do heale more quickly, cauſing that there come no hu-
mour to them. Out of the ſaide tree commeth a Rofine
which is of ſ e te fmell, and ſerueth to perfume in many
difeafes of the head, and to make plaiſters for many euilles:
and heere I fend it to your worſſnppe. Of the fruite the In-
dians make a certeyne drinke, which is for them verye

healthfull. Your worlhippemay commaunde them to bee
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willbeea thing of muche delight, fortheprofite that it.

bringeth in Phificke, and for the noueltie of the tree, for

ar all tymes it hath averye good ſmell. brought into thys
Countrey ablacke woman, vrhich L bought in Xerez de le:
Frontera, and there did appeare yppon her when ſhee came

hether certeine olde fores in her legs, which were of long
continuaunce, and comming to the Ilande of the Marga-

reta, and beeing verye forrowefull for the ſores which my
blacke woman had, an Indian tolde mee that hee woulde

heale her, and ſeeing that fhee had no other remedy, I de-
liuered her to the culſodie of the Indian, that hee mygie
heale her for mee and immediately hee tookea fruite which

is common in that Countrey, and all people ingenerall doe
eate it, which is of the greatneſſe of an Orenge, and it hath

cure with

a ſtone like vnto a Peache. This ſtone the Indian did burne,
and made it into pouder, for the ſtone is harde, and cannot
bee grounde, without burning of it: and hee caſte the pow-
der of it into the fores, which thee had full of much rotten

fleſn, and very filthy, which withthe pouder, were made

cleane and verye well, and it tooke outall the rotten fleſn
to the bone, and after it was cleane with lynte anda
lyttle powder layde too it, they began to be filled withnew
efh,vntill they were full of fleſhe, and fhe was healed very
well. And it is to bee conſidered, that the little kernell of
the ſtone hath fo much venom, and malice im it, that if anie
perſon or beaite doo eateit, hee dieth foorthwith without
remedye, as though hee had eaten anye manner of venom
corſiue, as Sublimatum, or any other poyſon.
la the Towne of Poſco where I dwelt certeyne yeres,

be fweate of there was an Indian, which did cure the Indians, andthe

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cleane the blood with a Linen cloth, vntill hee perceyued
that they had fweat fufficiently,and with this he healed ma-
ny diſeales that were incurabſe. And Lamabieto fay,that
many did thinke that they had waxed young agayne, and
were more ſtronge and young than they were before. Hee
fell ficke,and for all that we could not with giftes and faire
wordes, and fierce wordes,and theatnings, hee woulde ne-
uer tell vs whathearbe it was, nor ſliewe it to any manin
this countrie. There is founde a kinde of tree, that is of ſofte a
Timberzthe Indians will make no fire ofit, although you =
killthem. For that they faye,ifany ofthem come neere to
the fire thut is made of this tree, or receiue the ſmooke
of it he remaineth impotent, for women . And they haue
this ſo certaine in perfuafion, andit is fo verified, that you

ſhall not make them to come neare the fire, that is made
of that tree, for any thing in the worlde, for they are fo
carnall chat they will none of this. : | :
They hen le in theſe countries any fwellinges which are G telle an
inthe feete or legges ; cauſed of colde humours. with an 5 he Bit:
hearbe called (tntella, which beeing ſtamped and laide to fer the fuels a
the fwelling, there ariſe certaine Bliſters, by the which ling ofthe
there commeth foorth greate quantitie of water & humors, fecte or (gt. 5
vntill it leaue the Foote, or the Legge drye · I haue ſeene eS
greate expericnce by thefeeuacuations , amongett the In-
dians, for they vſe them much, and I haue feene ſome Spa-
niardes vſe it and were healed of chelike diſeaſes.

In the yere 1568. in the Prouince of Chile, they dyd cut
off from certain Iadians being priſoners the calues of their
legs to eate them and they rotted them for that purpoſe,
and that which is of more admiration, they applyed vato
the place where they were cut, leaues of certaine hearbes,
and there came not out a drop of blood, and many did ſee
it. And this was done in the Citie of S. lames, in the pre-
ſence ofthe Lord Don Gracta de Alendeſa, which was a thing

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There are tobe found here verie few hearbes and trees
lyke vnto thoſe of Spayne , for that the earth doeth not
beare them: but in the newe Spayne there are more of
them than in any other parte of theIndias . For when it
was conquered, they foun de many trees aud hearbes and

Plantes lyke vnto thoſe of Caſtile, and birdes and beaſtes
likewiſe . Wee haue heere Snakes whichbringadmiration _
to ſuch as fee them. for they be as greate as men, which are
for the moſt parte tame, and do no hurt. Here are Spiders
as great as Oranges, and verie venomous. It raineth Todes
as greate as thoſe of Spaine , which the Indians doe eate

roſted, for they are a people which eate all Kinde of vend-
mous beaftes. There be fo many buyttes, which breede
in many Llandes, that are in the fea, neere to the lande,
that they eate vp the Cartel , and ſuche numbers of them
chat it is wonderful. andas the keepers of them bee blacke
fo they care little for them. One thing doeth make mee
maruel, that the kine which are bread in the mountaines,
being brought to the plaine grounde, doe all dye. Iſawe a
friende of mine that brought 300. Kine to bee wayed, and
they ſtaid a tyme before they were wayed, and by litle and
litle, in one moneth there remained not one, but all dyed,

And that which is more to bee maruelledat, is, that they
died all trembling, and conſumed. Some there be that doe
attribute it to the mountaines which is a countrie moſte
colde andit raineth euery day, and in the plaine Countries
here there is no rayne, but it is hotte, and as they moue
from one extremiticto an other they die, that truely is
athynge worthieof conſideration, to fee howe that in the

{pace of eight Leagues, little more orleſſe, which are of

Plaine grounde from the coaſt to the Mountayne, bya

long valeof more thenone thouſande Leagues, it neuer
raynethin them, and in the mountaynes it rayneth euerie

5 deve: =o vb ees ee ke x
a. ae Vanes erflande, that the eight day of

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October in this yeare, there came hithera Cofen of mine, A gainft the
called Alonſo Garcia, a good Souldiour , who telleth vs boob web.
that he hath founde an hearbe whichis good agaynſte the a
venomous hearbe, which the wilde edoevfe. Which des wes *
hearbe doeth kill withoutremedie, and theſe valiant peox
ple of the Indiis doe vſe it in their warres. And lykewyfe
thoſe that dwell from the Charcas to wardes Chile, and
luue like vnto wilde people, maintayning tliemſelues one-
y by hunting, and fleſhe of mankinde, who hatte kylled
with their arrowes which are poyſoned with theſe vene-
mous hearbes, an infinite number of Spaniardes, whyche
they ſaye bee not good to eate, for that their flefhe is
har de, ſo chat when they kill them, they keepe them to wax
tender, three dayes or fouredayes. But with this hearbe
that is noi founde, the kurt ſhall bee muchremedied, that
they doe make. Howbeit our people doe not much feare
them, but onely the heatbe which they ſlioote withall , for
that it maketh themtodye by madneſſe, without any re-
medie. And nowe with the reeéuering hearbe which they
haue founde,they are all gladed. They fay it is an hearbe
that carrieth verie broade leaues, which are like to the
Leaues of Planten of Spaine: which being beaten and layd
to the wounde that is poyſoned, kyll the venome and im-
mediatlye take away the accidentes, which the venome of
the hearbe procureth +. They, take it for a great matter in
that Countrie, that they haue founde ſucha remedie. And
you ſtrall yn der ſtand that the counter hearbe was found in
the fame Couũttie, where the hearbe of poyſon was: and l
_ thinke it be alſo in other partes; but there where the hurt
is done, our Lords wil was to diſcouer the remedie.
Inote vnto your worfhip theſe thinges, to the ende by
them yee may conſider, how many more hearbes, and
Plamtes of greate vertues lyke to thofe, this our Indias
e which we haue not yet attained vnto, for as the In-
dians are anaughtiekinde of 22 and our .

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they will not diſcouer one ſecrete, nor one vertue of any
oachearbe,althoughthey fhouldefee vs dye, and although
youthouid plucke them in peeces: for if wee dacknowe
any thinge concerning theſe, which I haue ſpoken of, or
ofothers, they are knowen ofthe Indians, as they bee aca
companied with Spaniardes, to whome they doe diſcouer
them and vtter all that they kno we. I will write no more,
becauſe ] knowe not if this letter ſhall come to the handes
of your worthippe, which if it do, and that it pleaſe you to
aduertfe mee thereof, I will write vnto you more at lar
and of more particularities of this countrie, and of the
vertue of other hearbes, and beaſtes, and other th nges,
which I knowe will giue contentment to your worfhuppe,
_ Ageing that you are fo curious to know thele thinges. »

Our Lorde keepe you · From Lyma iu the Peru

wdaꝛee xxi. day of December, in the yeare
5 of our Lorde. 1568, 1 kiſſe

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are broughtftom the wel Indias. sis fol. 8

dim in greate eftimation . And
Sy that the Dffice of a Souldiour
eee: is to handle Weapons , and to
wbdahedde blood, and to Doo other er-
erciſes apperteining to ſouldiours: Hee is much to be eſtee⸗
med, that be luil enquire alter ¢ ſearch out hearbs,¢ plants,
and ſtudy to knowtheir pꝛoperties ¢ vertue, wherin he may
well beclikened te Dioſcorides. who went ta exertiſe wea⸗
pons in the hoſtes of Antony ¢ Cleopatra, à whether ſoeuer
be went, did ſeeke theſe hearbs, trees, plantes, beaſtes and
Pineralles, and manyother things, ol the which he wꝛote
theſe fire books, which are fo celebꝛated auer al the weꝛld.
wherby he got the glory ¢ fame, which we fee her bath:ans
there hath remained moꝛe fame of him by waiting th then
ifbe had gotten many citties by his warlike acts. andther⸗
fore J eſteeme muche of this Gentleman, fo2 the labour
which he taketh, in learning ¢ enquiring after thefe natu⸗
ral things · and i am bounden much vnto him, fo the good
opinion which he hath of me: and alſo foz that hee bath ſent
me. Foz ſurelpit is to be taken in very good part, and 3 wil

vtter ſhawe they bee darke Cawaie and gliſtering, vder⸗
neath two Shictes oz Capes, 5 haue a worte “pr .
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ce Gentleman of the Peru, which The cõmen⸗
J wꝛote to mee fhys Letter, ale dan.

thougb J knowe him nat, ſesmeth of bine that

a p hee is a man curious, and affedt> wrote ths
oned tothe like thinges , & J haue Letter.

The ſecond part ofthe things that
and beeing taſted and died between the teeth they are pure
Earth The ſtone hath neither ſauour noz taſt, rather it doth
coole then heate, and they be oꝛdinarily as great as beanes,
oꝛ bigger. $02 the mat part there are both great and little
okthem, and it ſeemeth well by them that they haue mediti⸗
nal vertues:manꝑ perſons bring them, whichare now come
in this Fleete, who came to mee as though ¥ were the firtt
diſcouerer of them They declare maruellous effects of thé,
that it ſdemettz wonderful. A bake one and gaue it made in
to pouder, to a boxe, ot tubonte it was ſayde that venom had
bene giuen to him J cannot tel whether any other benefits
done vnto him, oꝛ that healed him, but he was well retoue⸗
red. wil vſe it in other infirmities, ⁊ what J finde of their
dperation, and the reſt of the medicines, which ſhalbe netns
lo diſcouered, wil ſhew in the third volume, which J will
Write ofthis Medicinal Hiſtozie, wherein ſhalbe expꝛeſſed
thinges maruellous, and great feeretes of Phiſicke, that
map giue contentatið to al men, and much moꝛe to the fick,
that Halve healed with them. Ok one thing vou mult be ads
uertiſed, that which is here wꝛitten, part okit we haue lear⸗
ned ol them that haue come from thoſe partes, and brought
knowledge efthem hittzer: and parte is attributed to theyꝛ
es ec qualities, inal ane ts conte. este wee

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qualitie, in all tauſes wherein they chalbe nerd⸗
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. 0 ſeeondl part ofthe thinges that

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Of thofe SOR Set {Had witten the vitcourte aforetain,
things which | TeV) the two flats returned, the enc, frö ß rm
badbeene 1 lande the other from the new Spain: and
brought from ; in v which came from firme lana came $
the newe { ( KAY Biſhop of Cartagena à man moſt religious
Speyne s AN and learned ¢ very curious in theſe things,

thetwo Who fought me foꝛthwith when he Was come, foz h he was
eetes which affedtioned ta the bake I made of theſe matters. 4 went to
nome are viſtt him, where ſpeaking many things ofherbes, ⁊ plants,
eme, and al- Which be in his Distes, we came to treat of the blood of Dra.
from the go, which is taken out becte ſine, and in al perfection in that
fre lande. Cauntrep, and hee ſaide unte mee: J bing the fruite of
The Biſhop the tree wheredut th ex take the blood of Drage, which is a
_ of Cartagena maruellous thing to fee,fa2 that it is of likenes ofa beat.
Of the blood Was veficons tafe it. we opened a leafe where the ſide
Drago &. was, and the leafe being opened, there appeared a Dꝛagon
thefruste made with ſo muche Arte, that it ſeemed as though it had
thereof beene aliue, hauing a necke long, the mauth opened, the bꝛi⸗
Kels ſtanding vp like thoꝛns, the taile long, and ſtanding bs
pon his feete, that ſurely there is nu man that thall ſee
him that wil not maruel te behold the figure, made with fo

ge dk caufe itis called the blood of Drazo. One

ago that canfeitise fapthat it

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are brouzht from the Weft Indias. Fol.zz.
Others that it is a kinde or red Oker: others, that it is the
iupte of dA, an hearbe verie little, and his iuyce very 5
greene: others that it is the iuice of the rote ofan herb cal⸗ N
led Dracunto, and fo2 that canfe they cal it the bloodof Dr
geꝛthis doe the auncient wꝛiters fay with manp other vani⸗
ties moe, which are large to write. f
The new wꝛiters following the ſame ignoꝛancs that ther „% -
ate wont to doe in thinges which be doubtfull, becauſe the h boodof
_ property ot him that is doubttul, is to fay nothing a new vn⸗ Draga be-
leffe it be that which is cleare and manifelt, fo: in doubtfull (oF he
and hard things they leaue them as they Gude them t haue e heb
varied al ane frõ another, as the antient weiters .

: tsa Dragan.
time which is the diſcouerer of al thingsbath reuealed vnto *
vs, and taught bs, that it is the blood ot Drage, Andthe 2
tauſe why it ts ſa called, is for the truite ol the tree, which g
taſteth from it: after the manner of blood, which

is the fruite that wee haue ſpoken of, a foꝛmed Dꝛagon in
thape as nature would bʒing forth, ſo that it tw ver plain-
lythe name of that tree. Fon it is a common thing, that tres
beare the name of their truits, by meanes wherof this mars
uellous tre reteiueth his name. and ſæing the fruit which
it carried was made fo perfea a Dꝛagon it toe from vs fo
many doubts ⁊confuſions as we fee the old wꝛiters to haue
wꝛitten ot, ætize late wꝛiters alſu. and from hence foꝛwarde
we ſhall be tertiſied that itis the vlood of Da ſœing that
the fruite dath giue name ta the tre, tu the Summe. ¢ to
the dꝛop that commeth out, winch is bought mol excel⸗
lent from Cartagena, and is made by intiũon giuing cers
taine cuts in the fame Cree. MAhich being a tree of much
greatneſſe it hathtte rinde verie thinne, that with any ma⸗
ner or thing it is opened and like wilt there is another tote
made, hut it is not fo good, hut afier the maner as the Tur⸗
entine is made, in Caitile,foz that it is ſolde in Loancs,
one is called the blood of Orgy , of r ,

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ag the other the blood or Drago, in bꝛend. E te
Tie vertue The one andthe other haue vertus toretaine anꝝ maner
E the blood olthe fluxe ofthe bellie, lapde vppon the bellie, 0} giuen in
of Drago, Sliſters, a: taken bythe mauth. Made into pouder, ik ſtateth

. the running of the head, and ta the lower parts applied, in
ang maner of dure of blond, it Doth retam and ſtanch it. It

ſodereth and gleweth wounds together, which be freſh and

new made. At letteth that the teeth fall not out, ⁊ it maketh

dhe lech to grow on the bare gums. It is a meruelleus cos

lour fo2 Painters. and beſides this it bath many other vers
penn fues. I do meane fo fot ſome of the (ced, to fit it wrt grow
_Pristiperate in thele partes. it is thought that the blood of Or ego is tems

g Gumme to 1
ee 1 tram the firme Lande of the Tera, wher they purge

All the night to ſteepe, and in the maꝛning they ſtraine and
wing it, and take the water, which mut bee the quantitic

a two Ounces: and the patient muſt remaine without
nieate, till the middeſt of the day and thert with they purge
the humour, which cauſeth the Soute. 3 ſaw a Gentleman
Wwhetame in this laſt Fleete, vſe it, which hee brought faz
the Soute voseth nat tome ta him, as it was Want ta doe,
fo2 that it came to hym veris cruelly and often: and he
Taue mee as muche as a ſmall Putte , and would giue

me ns moꝛe, and J gaue it in the oꝛder afoꝛeſaide, to one
Which ban the Saute, and he had thax ſtaoles loyth it.
J knom nat hom it wil pꝛaue it we re necdfull to haue mae

: Sane mai ether Sige bah a po dab in the
Rt = = = a aking

| are brou aht ror the Welt Indias:
taking o that it = aco fisvel! nos ſauaur, it maketh |
his woꝛke without paines. It is bet in mp opinion, in pir * oe
degree. J know not what maner or thing the tree is wherr2s2s
—— bee which Srougit it, eee 8

= atone |
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wer:

. uture 3 tocke out of an
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ofthe frme

ate brought from the Weft Indias. rolß
entrie thereof. The are at a maruellous greatnes. There .
: be ſoms of them which are in length two andthirty fot: they

kill them with lich hooks, fo; with a handgun it is verp dik⸗

ſtculte, becauſe of the hard ſkin which they haue:they lie al⸗

wayes with their mouthes open. There is founde in their

mawes, woht᷑ that they kil them, the quantity of a great bas

(eet full of ſmoath ſtones, and it is not knowne to what ens

they eate them, bohether it be to haue their maw oꝛ ſtemack
occupied, oʒ for balleſt as a ſhip hath. The Indians keepe

theſe ſtones, t the Spaniardes alſo, foꝛ ſuch as haue Quar-
kee enn domatbe Fine
tt᷑plas ot ths head, the quartern ken away, ts
beate is notable liabtened,and of this tyep haue ertence
inthofe partes: and in the thip where ane came, wha gane

met {woof them, 3 learned that he put them ta a bop, being
a little Page of a ſhip, who had the Quarterne Age w, and
it was taken away therby z pꝛoceding fozward he lightned
himſelle thꝛee oꝛ foure fits aſter that the ſtones were laid to
him. 3 alfo haue experimented it, ⁊ haue applied it twice to

à litle girle that bath a quarterne ague, and it ſeemeth that
the feeleth not fo much heate, when the hath them laid vnte
ber, but they haue not taken away the quarter though 1
n due ple derm onto ber toie 3 Knot nat hom ital

= ae Seas ofthe Indias, oꝛ in the mot of them, ü 5
atte, bes Terenten 2 Ste 2 rete arn sales base fons |

ee land,
— tl see » and cute Chemise

I !be ſecond part ofthe thinges that
Pee waight then two poundthollowe in ſame partes, and verie
eke erie white:they are al ſomwhat heauy. Ofthele ones they haue
EE the ſlone in the Indias great erperiẽte: giuing them made into pou⸗
i the ksdneis der? Bato thoſe that ſuffer the griefe of the ſtone in the Ryd⸗
1 nevs, and to them that cannot pille, and ta them that cannot
: caſt ont the Gone ofthe Reynes and ste Bladder, beeing
/ ol ſuch greatneſſe that it may not paffe out. ¶ his is a thing
. a mongſt the jndians very common, and well knowne:and
ee likewife amongeſt the Spaniardes, which dwell in thoſe
f partes: and they which come hither auerre it plainly andat⸗
kirme it to bee fo, q haue taſted it a it ſeemeth a thing vnla⸗
uerie, but haue not pꝛoued it, noꝛ applied hitherto, in tuns
<3 if ſhal be done, and we wil gine fome reafon thereof.
Turpentine They bring alſo fromthe ne we u ingdeme and from the
Cartage- pꝛouinte of Cartagena acertein < urpétine,verpclere,and
dlktweet ſmel, much better then that they cal 4e Here. which
Better then they being from V cnice-it hatt all the vertues that the gad
ND Turpentine hath, z it woꝛketh the lelfe fame etfrues, ¢ det ⸗
ter, and with great eſficatie and readineſſe. 5
Hheere hath beene ved of it in woundes, and it is a thing
‘nellous maruellous to fee the good wozke which it deoth, eſpeciallx
woundes. in wounds of ioyntes and Sine wes, z ol Legges herein
Z baue ſeene great woꝛks done with it. And it doth mundifx
veing mingled with other things, all kinde of old foxes, and

taveng, I Cartagena puriſied fo clare that it is like te Criſtal and

—

Ofthe Flower of Mechoacan.

my F the firme
2 Spare. gathered in the Coaſte Lande.

ante the Mechoscan was ditcours
E red, in the newe Spapne, they

I Thefecond part ofthe thinges that
the accidents afozeſaid. It carrieth a leafe lpke the AZechos-
can it (elf,although femtobat leſſe, and mingleth it feifruns
ning vp by whatſdener it cõmeth vnto. And it carrieth a leſ⸗
fer rate with ſome ſharpnes of taſt, wherby it is maniteſtly
ſeene how much diſputation booth ſerue to the purpofe, fo3
the plate where it groweth. herby it is prooued that this
roote maꝝ woozke moze oꝛʒ leſſe.

Andz beleeue that the fir Adechoucan that tame ints
theſe partes, was gathered in a good plate, and that whiche
they now being, they gather it in other places moze moyſt,
which take away from it the vertue z woꝛke. They ſo w it
no in the Coaſt ofthe firme lande in their Gardeines and
Dichardes:they make conſerua of the roste, in man mans
ner of waves; ſoꝛ the taſte is (weete,andit fay be eaten fo2
g erna ef daintineſſe And as the roote is without taſte, fo it taketh
— VV conũted
cc ee
a dgerip- Chen da bꝛing hither the fruite and the flower, as whole
of e- 48 it is in the plant, and the leaues ¢ botves. Che flower is
an. like tothe flower of Ozenge trees, of fiuc leaues, ſume what
greater, they be in colour tawnp, thep caſt foo2th in p midſt

a bliſter ot the greatneſſe of a Nut, with a litle baine, mall
Ans ſame hat white in colour, which is deuided into tives

| co 8 , byanothe aie el mem gg
Fy part it bath tive graines, like ta peafon,verp little, an
when they be dꝛie, the p be hlacke. Chere is nat in tho taſt ot
them anp ſauour, and being ſawen in a (oft moyſt grounde
bey grow very wal. and it is an hearb waꝛzthp to be ſæne,
sx that it runneth vp, ioyning to any maner of thing that it
leanetg vnto. It beareth the leaf al the pere long, the reſt of

ne arebrouzht from the 5 Indias. Fools.
Ofte fruit of Balfano, ee

ga e ee pst pening of

aC. er | Jamo , Woe faid that it thoulo be made OF Pn
a) 4] | (eo) twomanner of wapes, the ons by 440

O incifion,, and of this there „ :
8 meth little intotheſe partes: and
8 = the other, by Decodton , and this is

43] commmice in lach plenty:

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ä Dates ie bippes :
quantiti cof be be made by ineifion.anbis made bras a
tas are in the newe Spaine » sbeeot the Balms Tae 7
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: are brought from the Weft Indias. ? Pol
dꝛoppe, and the Indians gather them with great beliberas
tion, and they receiue the fame dꝛoppes which bee in the
bladder into a ſhell, and alwaies haue chelles lying vnder
the bladders, whereout they diſtill, and it is a thing done
with ſuch leaſure, that many Audians doe gather very litle ;
all the whole dan.
The Locour ſerueth fo all things that the Balſamo Both, The vertue
ithealeth verie wel woundes, it taketh alway cold griefes, ibereof. |
and windie. Some do take it fo3 the griets of the ſtomacke,
cauſed of colde humoꝛs, oz „with a little white
wyne. And it is to be vnderſtoade that the B alſame 8 is Note.
made by ſeething, 02 that which is made by inũtion, and
this oꝛ any ather manner ol Kiccur of theſe of the Indias,
which is to be taken by the month, ought to ber taken but oe
in litle quantitie, which mult not be mozethenfouressfine
dꝛoppes, and it muſt not be taken in the Palme ofthe hand .
as it is ſapde, hut putting a little wine oꝛ Koſe water int ag
ſpoone, and pouring vpon that the dꝛoppes of Baſamo, and
putting the ſpoone well into your mouth, and letting the li⸗
cour fal in, ſo that it touch not the tungue. Foz takt with it,
oz touching it the fauour and taſt is nat remoued a wax in a
long time: t it pꝛecurett an euil taſte, in fuck ſoꝛt, that
dz this one lx tauſe many doe abhosre it, ann wil :
a it, and kram others it hath tagen
amar tee luſt oltheir meate, by re⸗
“ceining it and touching it i

77.

Wie 4 they bꝛing rom 1 and from
the coaſte of the firme Lande, from Vata

8 i neere to Vergga, a tertaine kinde of Peper
e =< which they tall long Peper, which hatha
L Xs I tharper tatke, then the Peper which is

— 8 brought from tye Oꝛtentall Indias, and
7 _ ttt meet ann iste cet ae and of a bet
ee n that of Aſia, o the Peper of the Caſt India:
ae alta enen fo mad mecter witzall, an fo this

are brou

they bie it in place 8 they take it ts be or
a better taſt and moze healthfull. A haue taſted it, and it bys
teth moꝛe thenthe blacke Pepper doth, and it hath a moze

ſwecte taſte then it hath. I haue cauſed it tu be put into dꝛeſt
meates, in place of the Datental Pepper, ⁊ it giueth a moꝛe
gentle taſte vnto the meates that are dꝛeſt there with.

It is a fruite that caſteth aut a high plante, ofthe great⸗ The ak.
neſſe ata groſſe Packethꝛeed and the lawer parte neere to it.
the roote, is as great as a litle ſticke, that is very ſmall:and
vpon it are iopned the little graines, verꝝ ncere together, as
though they were wꝛeſted one within the ather, which cans
ſeth the greatneſſe tohereof wee ſpake: and beeyng ta⸗
ken away from the lite ſtick, the ſtick remaineth bare and
whole:and it is areene being kreſh, but the Sunne ripeneth
it, and dooth turne it blacke, and fo they bꝛing it into theſe
partes. It groweth in the Coatk ot the firmte lande in Nes
and in Cartagena, and in the newe kingdome: in all thels
partes they bie it, as J haue ſaide. at bath the Medicinall
vertues, which the Oꝛiental Pepper hath that we die. T he :
complerion thereof ts hot in the third degra. 2

And going to vilite a Childe, the Sonne ofthis Sentle · kite: =
man, which gaus me this pepper, being diſeaſed in the fire “a
in the face, 3 commaunded him fo bee let blood, and that to
bis face they ſhould apply ſome litie cloth with Role water,
andthe hearbe Mora: her ſaide to me that hee liked the let⸗
ting or blond well, becanfe the boxe was of Sanguine com
plexion, but as foꝛ that which ſhould be laide to his face, hes
had where with to heale it in thozt time:and he cemmanded
ta bee bought fooath, a thing like vnto a cake, as grrate as
a meane platter, the outũde was blacke, and within veal⸗
3 ‘brought well nere two thouſand leagues,
it was moyſte, 38 viffolued a lyttle of it with Kole

Wafer, and layde ifte the boxes face, J was defirous to

now What it was, x he ſaid, that when the waꝛk was fens

W
2

The ſecond part ofthethinges

> 15

den. Che nert day A returned ta the ficke, and his face was

fo amended, that v maruelled at it, andimmediatly he was

waſhed with Role water, a little warme, and he remained

5 of what ie The take was made of terteyne Moꝛmes, Which the

vas made. Indians take out of the ground, and they make them latte,

This Roote beeing taken, cauſeth the venome to bee
taf aut which is eaten oʒ dꝛunken, oꝛ anꝝ manner of vene⸗
mous humput, tamming of any eutll degree, oꝛ cauſe what
ſdeuer, which is as wel done by vomit, is by ſweat. Ithere
5 bee any ſmall Moꝛmes, oꝛ long Gomes in the bodpe, it
EkRilleth, and erpelleth them: and it pou haue any ſuſpition,
atthere bane been giuen vou any venomous mozfel, whe⸗
ter it bes venome oz witchcraft, it erpelleth it: in
Wdiche there is fo muche tint in thole partes, that ther
take it fo a maruellousremedie, for the thinges afoze-

. 8 5

broughtfrom che weft Indias. Fol. 79

i Tone ſharpnes. it feemethto be hat in the ſetond degree.

| Feo the caaſt of Nicaraga. and of Nera. they which
come in thele laſt ſhips, from the firme land, bꝛing a certain
kind of purge with them, that ſurelx bp the taſt is eaſꝑ tu be
taken, and it woꝛketh wel, and without any paine, z pzinci⸗
pallpit purgeth Choloz. itis the fruite of a tree very great,
after the maner of Thozniſh Chellnuts which haue within
them Cheſtnuts, ſauing that they pꝛicke not but be plaine,
within thole pꝛickles, ther be ſome like ta Cheſtnuts, made
cleane without ſhale, wel neere ſquare which deuide them ·
ſelues aſunder by means ofa little ſxin, euerꝝ one intotios
partes, and fo thep are couered withit, and when they be tas
ken, z occupied, that little ſkin is plucked away ¢they are
made cleane frõ it, foꝛ that beyng taken with it, it pꝛocureth
moſt dangerous attidentes, and vomites, ⁊ much faintneſſe
and infinit ſtosles: and without it the Cheſtnut is a purga⸗
tian very gentle, and they purge ealily and without paines:
if they be toſted, then they will purge leſſe: if they be grerne
they eate them oꝛ being beaten in a oꝛter, they take them
with Mine, o witz the bꝛoth ola Benne, ik they bee die,
they make polwder ofthemt, anp manner eka: Eper
oꝛder that ought to be kept bp themt which bee purged, the
humos being pꝛepared, as is conuenient. yey are hat in

n 3 9 Sa
GPA 9 bꝛought Sar caparillia from Pers: Which wee caparillsa of
Kis de in fome perſons, eit workety great ef- qi

V2! bas Amn becaute there was but litle ttt,
Ewes Ay t ſon done we returned ta h of the lendu⸗
2 e toe pas ea pipects, Som And

: Wherein
8 grewet h.

een The ſecond part Sehe thinges that Se a ea ee

nobo they bring it nat onely from the Peru, but alſo from the
Pꝛouince of Quito, and from all that coaſt: and the beſt and
that which woꝛketh great effectes, is that which they bꝛing
krom G waequill, from whence that came, which J haue
declared, that they bꝛought, and that nowe they bꝛyng,
acon it be but litle, fo? that they bzing it fo far; as from
e fern. ver 5 Fr

This Sarcaparillia, graweth at the fide, of a Riuer which
commeth from the Mountaines of the Peru, which is nerc
to a plate calleaChimbo, andthe Indians of that plate call
it Mayca. It is a Riuer in the which runneth much water,
ſumtimes it ſwelleth with great increaſe of waters, and fils
leth all the Galleies neere vntoit with water, they call it
Guaiequsl $03 that in the playne Countries, it paſſeth by a
place called Saint James of Guaraqnil/, and runneth front
the Caſt vnto the Well, and falleth into the Sea, by a
place topning to the olde pozte, by the place which they call
Guainacana. On the banckes ofthis Riuer, there groweth
great quantitie ef Sarcapariliia, and alſs in the GWalleies of
that Pꝛouince: and that which groweth on the Bancks, is
Watered with the Kiuer, and that like wile in the Ualleies,
which are neer to it, with the comming dolon of the freches,
the waters when they ſpꝛing of the increale of much rain.

of They call the zndians af thoſe partes G uaincauilcat, where

they haue a cuſtame to plucke out their teethe by way of fas

trafice, and offer them to their Zdals : foꝛ they fay that

they ſhould offer the belt thing that a man bath, and that in

3 better thing, noꝛmoꝛe neteſlarp then
e teeth.

leut okit they beale great diſeales, and foz this cauſe the people

Se
a
e

ere brought from the Weft Indias. Fol. 8.
ſelues with it. Some there be which ars healed by waching
themſelues in it, and dzinking of the water: others there be

which are healed by taking of the Sarcaparillic, which grow

eth there, it is vnderſtode that the vertue which it hath is —

taken of the water of the riuer: it is much bfed by the Indi⸗

ans, and by many Spaniardes, which waſhe themſelues

many times therin, taking in the moꝛning as much therof,

as they can man times dꝛink, they both piſſe much ¢ weat

much, and with this they be healed:and it is very much like

to the bathes of Luca and of Pucol, manꝝ other which are

in Italie. And as they bie the water of the fountaine of L:-

cia, that healeth fo many diuers diſeaſes, in like maner they

bfe the water ofthe Riner ol Guasiaquill, and with bathing

1 it, and dꝛinking muche ofthe water they bee

The other manner ofcuring, which vou haue in that ri⸗ 2 6e,

uer. is the ble ofthe Sarcaparilsa, Which groweth there, and e Sarca.
is like too Bꝛiers of Spayne , greate and thicke : the parillid. —

rootes otthem are the S acaparilha , which ts fometobat iat

‘Qroffer then that or the Hunduras , and is ofcoloura Lion as

tawnx, and ſome what fad, there be ſome ofthe rates falarg

and deep that it is needfull to digge the length dt a man to

get them out:this Sarcaparil ia, they vſe in that Riuer tw oo

manner of wapxes, the one is as the Indians doe bie it, and 8

as they vied it of olde time. Mhen is was diſcouered and 8 ene

firtte died asthe Andlans pid fir bicit ,they taught it to e

dur Spaniardes, whith is ta take the Rinde of the Ser- Fs.

caparillia, Without the heart, and if̃it be greene, it is neen⁊᷑⁊⸗ñ

fall to lapit in water, but ifit be die, it is needefull to lap “ee

it in water a long time as it requireth to bee made fofte.

And then there muſt bee taken a good quantitic ok it, and Howebe

after warde this Ronde of the S rc parulla bee ng greene, make it,

oz watered, muſt be cut in ſmall peeces, and beaten in a v

Poꝛter, putting ts it water in ſuche forte, thatthe iuice Sai

man be taken ont of it, ET cae

neg

©. Thefecondpartofthe thingesthae
ning as much as they can dꝛink at once, oz af diners times;

whole of all the diſeaſes, that are bealed with the S caps ·
Lilia, and ot manp others which choulde bee verie large to

mmothen iede, fog tha there ther vie neither toapgbte
‘ae rde rye trom tbe Sepenines aon berg

5 fis to

are brought from the Weft 'ndizs.

it it be die, then they bꝛeake it t put it in water, untill it be
made ſoſt this rinde being without the heart, the y ſteth in 4
Pottels ot᷑ water, little mose oꝛ li ſſe, and they (eeth it vntil
halle the water be deminiſhed, rather moꝛe oz leſſe: and
of that Mater they dꝛinke as muche as they can in many
times, oꝛ at one time, and foꝛthwith they betake themſelues
to ſweat, z althoughtt be ſweat net fo much, as they ſweate
with the ſirſt water, pet they will heale, they moue their
clothes, they cat of a Nullet thep keep themſslues from the
tolde and apꝛe, and at Dinner and Supper, the vſe the (elf
fame water, ſo that in one Dap they conſume one ſœthing:
this people take it in this manner fiſtene 52 twentp daies,
t inthis fot alſo thep are healed of al their euils ⁊ diſeaſes,
to the great admiration of the people. and fo2 the vſe of this
Sarc aparilla, theꝝ do not except any diſeaſe, vnles it be fer
ters oꝛ (harp diſeaſes: theſe pesple purge not at the begins
ning, as we do hrere, noz in the middeſt noz in the end ar the
cute, fo thereis no other Phiſition noꝛ edicine, but cer-
fapne women which be there, that giue the water: they are
wom n Phiſitions, and therefoze they take a wap, and put
fo as it femet good vnto them.

Chat which 3 doe note in this buſtneſſe, is that they ſeeth
the Sarcaparilia without the heart: ¢ that theꝝ bie not but of
the rinde, which ſeemeth to be very well done, ¢ verie cone
fozmable to good Phiſicke, foʒ the partes of the rotes which
bee harde, ſhould be taken awap, as things ſuperfluous ans
without vertue ¢ profit which rather do let and diſturb, that
it cannot work that effec which is deũred in it, z the vertut
is in the rinde:and this is that which we doe commonly ble
when we wil pꝛoũte our ſelues by it. and ſo from hencefoꝛ⸗

ward, when J ſhall oꝛdaine this water foz any that haut = manner
o % make |
And this 3 oꝛdaine it attizis pꝛeſent Whichistotake the water of

foure ounces of Sarcaparsiic«, andtotake alway the hearte, the rinde of —
2 and e

need of it, ¥ will vie ther nde onelp.

Fol.sr.

The ſecond part ofthe chinges that

and the rinde being wached , to caſt it to ffeep in foute Pot;
tels of water, ſoꝛ the ſpate of one natural dap ⁊᷑ after to ſteth
it till halte be tconſumed: and it vou keare heate inthe ficke
bodp, to put to it anounce of Barley, with the huſnes taken
a wap, that it map {eth with it, and i there be much heat in
place of cõmon water let it be made with the water of Sack-
1 the Barley and it will be a thing moſt temperate, ein
this ſoꝛt it will wozke mar uellous effeus, as we haue erpe⸗
rimented in many.

Note, | What which is this canſe J haue confivered,and where⸗
: : with J haue profited my ſelte, is that they dꝛinke as muthe
as they t at one time, oꝛ at many times, which ſurely woꝛ⸗
eth great eff ea in pꝛouocation of ſweate. Foz they ſweate
much by drinking ol much water, and theyheale better, and
moe quickly, ⁊ that which other wiſe ſhould be done in mas
ny daies, is done in fewe, æ with moze certainty to remaine
whole. Surelp theſe be two thinges which do impoꝛt much,
the one to Ofc the rind without the heart, x the other todzink
much water in the moꝛning, at once oz at many times, that

therebyit might prouske much ſweat.
In the reff, let euerie one ble the diet that he tan ſuffer,
Keeping the vertue, for that is it which healeth the diſeaſes.
Mee fee howe that in the Bathes of Italie, and Almaine,
etude en do take ofthat inerall water, twenty 02
thirtie little Cupfuls before thep eate,and he mingleth all
ogether with the humour which is the caule ofthe diſeaſe,
be the which be doeth heale epther by fivette , oz by Uꝛine
and with this they be healedoffemanp infirmities , as we
fee wꝛitten by graue Authours. And ſo 3 beleene, that
this newe vie will doe to them, that take it and bre it to
their great benefit, and p2ofit,¢ that they thal be better bea,
| —̃ — by vũng it in the oꝛ ·
ae e

‘

are brought from the Welt Indias. Fol. S2.
they fapis of a tree very greate, which carrieth leaues after d
the loꝛme ofa Harte, and bear th io kruite. T bps tree hath a
groſſe Rynde, very dꝛie and harde, wherein and in the coloz
it is berp much like to the Guaiacan. In the biter partes it
bath a little thin ſkin whitiſh beyng bꝛoken tiaoughaut, the
rynde is thicker then afinger, dꝛyand weight, which being
taken, hath a notable bitterneſle, like to Gevt:ana wilh fome
ſweet taſt foʒ at the end of the chewing ok it, there commeth
krom it a geod fmell, The Indians dos greatly effeeme of
thys rynde, and they vie it in all kindes of luxe ofbload, oz
other wiſe: the S paniardes bes ingn
infirmitie , by the aduiſe of the Indians ede
ö unde, and manpaf them haut been healed. see
: HX hey take of it as much as the quantitie ofa litle ane
made into powder, and they take it in red wine, oz in water
made fo2 the purpoſe, as the beate and diſeaſe is. r e
taken in the mozning kaſting, thꝛee 02 foure ti:
the ret, } goaerament that cOuenicrt fe the, that baus
the lure. And it is fo good, that they wwhichcome from:
e ee, and they bying it as a thing

The aſẽ oy .

The fecond part of thethinges which

Eing in company with John G
Herres Teis, a Gentleman very ercel-
ent, and Treaſurer ef the Contras
I tation houſe, a paſſẽ ger which came
24 from p Floꝛida. gaue him a pæte of
Ambar riſt very excellent ſaying p
be bꝛought it from p Floꝛida. took
it, and bꝛake it, it was perfect griſe
* of a verpe good colour , and in the

vttermalt part it was blacke,and J aſued him that brought.

it, where be had it:he ſayd, that he gathered it in the coat of
Floꝛida, and that thep haue it cõmanlp of the indians, that

gather it in that Coaſt, andthex take much pleaſure in it

with great delight, and contentment annoynting their fas

ces with it, and other partes, foʒ the gaod ſmell which it

bath . And ſurelpe it maketh mee maruell to ſee, that in

dur Decidentall Indias, there is fo excellent Ambar,

and that the time hath diſcouered it unto vs, and that there

hatt come from thofe partes not onelp ſo greate riches, of

Siluer and Golde, Nearles, and other precious ſtones, but

that alſo nowe they bꝛing bs ſuche extellent Ambar Griſe. a

thing fo eſtrmed in the wozld z fo muche vſed fo2 the health

ofthe body, and ſo neceflarpfocure and to beale withall, fo
Many and diners innrmities, as we will ſpeake of being a
3 thing which fo2 the delitacy of mankind is an oznament, ¢
tõtentment which very much ſerueth loꝛ vie. J do vnderſtãd
alfo that other paſſengers bought ofthe like Abe: ¢ ſume
ö in muche quantitie, of which 4 was very glad and the firſt

; pPeatethpat à ſawe was very ſuſpiciaus vnto me, i; after that
nen Aba ſæne moze, then 3 belaued that there was of it, in
nas the feede thaſe parts which is found caſt vp bate the coat.

:
:

the Whale Some there bee which thinke that it is the leede o a
aGum, F :

4

are brought from the weft Indias. Fol. 83.

as Simeon » rchiatrosa Oreeke autho2 doth ſhe w, ſaying 5 n
that the An ban in diuers vlaces dooth ſpꝛing. they bee bys Grecke au-
fountaines from whence it deoth zung as thot: of Pitch .
Litour: the woꝛzſt is that whiche theſe ſiſhes doo taſte, and
ſwaliowe downe, xc. The fame it femet erapio Doty vn⸗
derſtande, and beftdes this Simeon a Gceke, and Acho, 1
finde no other Oreekes that make mention therof, but it is

treated of by the Arabies with as great ignoꝛance and con⸗

fulton as map bee ſeene. Mhoſoeuer by them will verikxe

What “mb is, it is to bee determined vppon, that it is a
kinde of Pitch that tommeth foozth of ſpꝛings r fountaines, |

that are made in the depth ofthe Sea, and comming footy

tothe apꝛe the Licour being groffe doth congeale,and ware

hard, and is made the Hu bar which we ſer, as many things

ells which are in the lower parte ofthe Sea, are foft ¢ tens

der but being brought out into the aire are made harde. As

we fx in the Coꝛal, which in the lower partes ofthe ea is Coral.

ſolt and tender, and by bringing it into the aire is turned ine ⸗

to a ſtons: and the abr whertorthe Beads are made, in 5

the lo we partes ofthe Sea is white, and being come ſdozth Ambar con-
intothe aire, turneth hard and ſkonp, and is pitch, which chs £eled.
Meth foo2thof a ſountaine, which is inthe Germaine Sea,

Wherbp the barbarons opinions are tonſounded that fay the

Amba is the ſeede of the Mhale. And the cauſe whereof

this ignoꝛante came, was this, fo2 that Anbar was found? Amber
inthe NAhales, and other fithes, and therfoze men laid that found in the
if grewe ofit one nature in their mawes, and as this Pitch Whales mam
riſetz vp to the higheſt partes of tze Sea by reaſon of the

lightnes thereof the Ubales do deudure it, thinking that it

is a thing to bee eaten, and fo men finde it in their Pawes.

Foꝛ itit were ſerd, it would be found in other parts of their

bodies. where itis natural toal beats. In my time was tas

ken a MAhale, inthe cosit ofthe Canaria that had moze thé

ons hundzed pound weight of dabar within him, and *

3 that

Thefecond part ofthe thinges that
Whalesof that they killed many and found nene. N
The Cosſt ef, They that come fram the Flozida fay, that there bes
the Ambar, Albales by thoſe coaſtes, and that they haue killed ſome of
them. and fonnde neyther Ambar noz other thing in their
Mawes, moꝛe then ſiches: z alſo in the pong Whales which
are very greate, although they haue killed them, that they
found nothing in them, foz that the zndians dos fith fo2 thé,
and take them with the greateſt cunning that may be ima⸗
gined, Which is after this maner. One Indian taketh a long
toꝛd, and ſtrong, made with certeine ginnes, and ſhippeth
buntelfe in a little Boate, and maketh toward the Ahale
wers he ſeeth him comming with his pong Mhales, and
Socth to ane ofthem and leapeth vppon him, and caſteth his
mare vpon his ſnowt. The ſtrong young Mhale when he
keeleth this, he goeth downe to the depth ofthe Sea, and the
Indian hamperes fall with him, for they are greate ſwim⸗
mers, and can abide long in the water: and the yong Mhale
as bee bath neve fo breath returneth vp to the height of the
Sea. And in the tyne that he cometh vpwarde, the Indian
carrying with him a ſharpe wedge, and putting it thzough
his nofe where he bꝛeatheth, he ſtrikeththe wedge into him
With his fit, in ſuch ſoꝛt, that the pong Mhale cannat cat it
krom him, and when hee commeth vp on high the Indian
giveth him coꝛde and taketh his beate, and goeth after the
pong WHhale,and as he cannet bꝛeath, he choketh him calls
ip, and he commeth to the lande. It is ſurelpa delicate and
maruellous hunting, wherein they haue ſo much cunning,
that a great Liardoꝛ Crotodillot᷑ xxiiii. foote, the moſt hoʒ⸗
rible andernell Beaſt that is in the Sea, one Indian dooth
kill. Some fay, that the Amber is made of certeine fruite
growing by the Sea fide, where Mhales bee, and in the
Horeth of Apꝛil and Pax, when it is in ſeaſon, ⁊ of werte
fmell , the Vlhales das cate it, and of thatthe Ab is
mabe, as tithe fruite o eaten, mould be canuerted ints pe

are broiiglit from the Welt Indais.

Fol sa.

ther thing then into dlood and ſeſh There be manp other
opinions, concerning this matter what Ain ban ſhoulde bee

made of, Which are tonfuted all:and it is to be vnderſtoode,

that it is a kinde of Pitehe which ſpꝛingeth from sours
taines that there are in the deapth ol the Sea, in partitu ·

lar partes of it, as wee fee there be of Petro. of Napta. of
Su phuñ and ol manp other things as in our Dectdental Jr
dias, of diuers other licous:the beſt Ambar is that which
is moſt like to a red colour, the white is not fo good, and the
Werk of all is the blacke. 3
Ambar bath great vertues, and ſerueth in the world foz
many thinges, and ſo it is a ſubſtance of great price: fo that
which is good is worth at this day twite moze the the mot
fine gold. $02 the tontentment of man, and foꝛ the delicates
nelſe of the woꝛlde it ſerueth fozmany thinges:with it they
make beades, and fine perfumes and odoꝛous finelles,and
water of Angels of mot wert imell, in diuers fozmes and
kachions: with it they dꝛelle glaues ol diuers ſoꝛtes z make
Diles and lit ours dt moſt ſ wert and delectable ſmelles: it
ſerueth for meates t dꝛinkes, in diuers and fandzy fomes,
which to repoꝛt, would be a lerge pꝛateſſme.
In medieinall things the vertue thereotis greate, and it
pꝛoftteth Serie much in our medicines , fo2 it entreth into
the mott pꝛintipall matters of Phiſicke, which are coms
pounded in the Pothetcaries Shoppes, as wel Eleauaries,
as confcuids, pouders, æ pilles, Pꝛeparatiues, Dintments,
plaiſters ¢ many other thinges, that rectius great bertwes
therbyꝛt of the name of it, there is made a confecion called
Dia eAnobar, The vertues which it hath in particular are
great and ot great effects, for that with it ars healed diuers
and ſundzie diſeales. And this the Arabiens did teach bs:fo2
ofthe Greekes onely Simeon, and Adio wrote a fewe
waoꝛdes of it, and alſo acuaris made the like mention of
it: Chete thꝛce autbours beeing Greekes, liued one

whichis
beft Amber °

The vertues
of the ed n

bar.
The medici
nal vertnes

thereof.

The fecond part ofthe thinges that
tyme that tye Arabiens did wꝛite, and they made ſome res
coꝛde of tze Medicines, andthinges which they wrote of,
iberofthe ancient writers made no mention: one of them
18 Ambar , which the olde Phiſitians xnewe not befoze the
Arabiens, foʒ they made no mention of it.

Thesomple. The vertue therofis to heale, diſſolue ⁊ tõloꝛt any maner
xion therof. ol wap, wherin it is applied: $02 that the complcrion therof

te cẽforteth
the braine
cr Sinowes.

What ehe

is hot and due, with ſome latnes and it hath vertue to mols
liße, and make ſoft, with other vertues that it hath beũides.
And being applyed tothe Bꝛaines, in the manner ok an
oyntment, and melting it with the eſtel of a moꝛter being
hot, and mingled with the oyle of the flowers ez Dꝛenges,
in this ſoꝛt it taketh away the griefe of the bead, it comłoꝛ⸗
teth the Sine wes, it diſſolueth anx maner of cold. which it
in them, with a great pꝛerogatiue and help, aſwel in it own
tozme, as in making a plaiffer of Alpta Afu/cara, which is
made of certaine campoundes, that it bee applied centinu⸗
allp to that parte. 8 |
Smelling to it in the psece , a making a Pomander

forelofthe fit mingled with Mulke, and Lign ale, i comfoztethths —
Amber doth baaines, and apeneth the vnderſtandinge, in the one

lezte, ox the other, being appiped bnto it, it maketh a
Good memoꝛis, ans helpeth the vnderſtanding that it may

better and moze perfite, and it is conuenient that wee
bf it moze then women, forthe hurte which the goed
ſmell doeth vnto them, which bee grieued with the Po⸗
ther, foz they ought nat to vle it, it there be not a deſtending
of the other te the lower partes: foꝛ in ſuch cafe it were
conuenient to ſmell muche to it, fo2 it tauſeth the Bother

to ryſe vp to his plate, withthe good ſmell, taking ſame

euill ſauour by the inferioz partes. And like wiſe by {mel-
ling vnts it, it comtfozteth the heart, and maketh the Spt

rites valiant and ſtrong: and fo2 this pur poſe it pꝛafiteth, be⸗

ing carried abaut ſmelling ta it e time of the
8121 sts * .

are are brought from the Welt Indias. Fol. 85. s

peſtilence, and in coꝛrupt avꝛes, to reſiſt the coꝛruption and
malice ok them, with the vertue and ſweet ſmell thereof. -

It is a maruellous thing to vnderſtande howe muche The Ambar
the Ambar doeth pꝛofite and ſugcour them, which bee olde, great re-
in what maner oꝛ ſoꝛt ſoeuer they bie it: € although with it wech for the
excellent ſmel it comfozteth the ſpirits, and the bꝛaines of that be olde
the head, yet it makeththinne alſo Fleugmatike humours, a
which do continually abounde. and ſome ſay, that the bie ol f
itholdeth back age, and tonſerueth that it goe not forward, 1
and it is good that ſuch doe ble it in their meates, and in ed

ſweet ſmelles fo2 their apparell and Chambers, and appli⸗

ed to the bꝛaine and heart, and that they holde it to ſmell in
their handes continually: and that it bee put into the wine,
where with they hall waſh their handes and face: faz it is
à maruellous thing how much it comfozteth, and giueth
ſtrength, wherein J haue ſeene maruellous effedes, they
which are old and crooked, and do ble it, ſhal perceiue what
great good it wil doe them. f

An paines of women, it is a maruellous remedie, min / In paines ff
gled with the Lade fone, and Galaano, made in little plats women.
‘fiers layd vpon the nauil, to kcpe the Mother in his place,

and fox the reſt af the paines of it . Chiefly by ſmelling to it
B ˙³˙¹.ꝛ w]! mother may come

And if it rife vppe putting into it a Lente of Cotten
wWooll, diſſslued with ople of Liguid Ambar, it maketh it
’ come dolone. And being put into the mouth of the mother in

women which doe not bꝛing foꝛth childzen, foꝛ the coldneſſe
that is in them it is moſt excellent. J ble to take this conle⸗
ction:which is compounded with Ambar two partes, and
the ſcraping of zuaꝛꝝ, one part grounde ſmall, halfe a parte
ol Lign aloe made into pouder, and a little Muſke: of the
which make pilles / they mull take thꝛæ that may weigh
thꝛee pence, fram thzeets thre dapes: applying mozeouer
N 1 which is 5 nauill, *

©. c̃ be ſecond part ofthe thinges that
bee dech seg hu ſurelp it death pꝛofite
much, the vniuerſal euacuations, beeing made, and it muſt
5 be vled many daies.
N Forthe eri The: Amber pꝛofiteth much in the deſeaſes ofthe ſta⸗
Fthe ſto- macke, and forthe coldnes ol it, it there bee a plaiſter mads
Ke. thereof, and ol Alepta Muſcata 5 and ol Stozacke ey after
the maner of a bꝛeſtplate, and laid tothe ſtomacke:and likes
wife of the felffame thing Pilles being made and mingled
with wine, of weete ſmell, and taken in the moaning fas
Ging, Foz it diſſolueth windes, it taketh alway any maner of
tolde which is in the ſtomacke, it helpeth digeſtion, it gy⸗
neth appetite, and luſt to meate , and this is conuenient
for him that is colde ofcomplexion , oꝛ foꝛ that which cau⸗
lieththe hurte of the ſkomacke, that commethokcolde: and
5 _ therefore tt ſhould bee conuenient foꝛ them that bee old, and

cold ot ſtomacke.
It comfo3teth the heart, and healeth the diſeales thereof,
For the eull principally ikthey come of windineſſe, oꝛ of colde humours,
1 heart. being taken by it ſelfe oz mingled with Lignaloe ¢ Puſke,
in maner of pauders, oꝛ pilles. oꝛ that the Muſke, as Aue-
rois ſapeth, comt̃oꝛteth moze then all other ſweete ſmelles
that are in the wold, fo2 that the ſweete ſausur, and com
fosting ſmell therof pꝛeuaileth moꝛe, then all other ſmelles.
In what manner of way ſoeuer the Ambar is applyed, by it
lt cp Leith other —— » f ef the barte, it pꝛo⸗
fiteth much, applyed therunto dutwardly, and in any maner
‘of foxte taken, it dsoth comfort and ſtrengthen, and diſſolue
anꝝ humoꝛ that is in the body.
3 daa cauſe Ambar to be ground, which beeing wel mins
OF tht that Sled with peallaine Max maulted, and made into a thynne
8 cake, and layde ta the hearte, doath profite much in the e⸗
Ia uilles ol the hearte, chiefly it they come rſt of windineſſe,
3 05 of any other caule whatloeuer, fo chat it

8 e eee sorypohtable bande moan

are brought from the Weſt Indias. Fol.86.

cholikesfo2 it maketh them verie merie, taking awape the N

cauſes ofthe euill, and diſſoluing the windineſſe thereof

which there are verie many grieued with all: vnto ſuch it

is good to bee miniſtred, and to vſe it after the manner of

Medicine, mingled as we haue ſaide, in the moꝛninges:and

alfo to vſe it laide vpon the heart, and vpon the bꝛaines, and

in meates, foꝛ ſurely J haue ſeene great effects wꝛought in f

them that haue frequented it. a
here there is cozruption ofayze , the Ambar doeth I rectiſeth

reite it by it felfe,oz mingled with things of ſweet ſmell. he re.

the place beetag perfumed with it, where men ſhoulde re⸗

maine principally in the time at winter, and vnto ſuche as

doe fuffer colde Rewmes, in told times: chiefiy perkuming

a

And like wile it doeth good to them, which haue the pals For the that

at their noſes, when they be in their traunce 03 Parext/nves, that haue
the fmoke thereof, it maketh to awake: and wearing it a rhefaling —
bout them, z melling to it continually,the traunte doth not fel es.
tome fo quickly. no ſoſtrang. And vnta thale Which ſutker
the bifeate of the Palſex by annointing their heade with it,
and all the vpper part of the chull, it bꝛeingetg manifell peo»
fite: oꝛ that the Ambar is a thinge that comfozteth the Si⸗
5 bꝛaine, moze then any thenge that wee i
ie . hy PP 1
One pꝛopertie the Ambar bath, that bꝛingeth admiratiõ The Ambar
and Simeon Sedoa Greeke authour doseth report, that auth make
it an finell to it betoze he dzinke wine, it maketh Hert dramke,
tand as if he wert dꝛunken: and if it bee put into the wine,
eet inn daunte neve » v8 luche forte that a lite

The fecond part ofthe thinges that
wyne mingled with Amber, cauſeth dꝛunkenneſſe, which
3 haue feene by experiente, in the houſe of a great Loꝛde of
this Realme, where foz delitateneſſe, and daintineſſe, they
had a Salte feller of Ambar, as alſo Salte to caſte into
meates: and to a Jeſter there was Ambar caſte into bps
wyne, and he was made very Bounke with it. any other
things there were to treate of Ambar, hut becauſe 3 would
not paſſe the limites of my purpoſe, I leaue to wꝛyte
of them, and the rather, fo that in the thyzde,
parte wee will declare that which
we meane farther to ſaꝝ
ofthem.

The ende of the ſe-

conde part.

THE THIRD ~

PARTE OF THE ME.
dicinall Hiſtorie, which trea-
teth of the thinges that are brought

from our Occidentall Indias,
feruing fo tye vie of Spee

Wherein there is mention made ol many things
Pedicinall, that haue great tecretes
and 3 f

7 e 5

fayde Doctor Monardus, after that
dehadmadetbefrſtandlreend

partes.

arebroughtfrom the Welt Indias. Fol. 88.

Olthe Cinamon of our Indias.

a BZ Pte peere of our L028 1 5 4.0.
Ge Frauncis Piſſarro pꝛouided ta make
Ytowarde his bꝛother Gonfalo Piſlar-

SL roGouernour of the Pꝛouinte of
Quito, andthe Spaniardes went
thither witha god wil and they wet
allo vnto the Country that was cal-
A led the Countrey of the Cinamon,
whiche is an other Pꝛouince be⸗
vond Quito and the Cinamon was much ſpokenof amõgſt
the Spaniardes, foꝛ it was vnderſtono᷑ the Indians that it Z
was a thing of great riches. 3
Gonfalo Piflarro departed with 200. Spaniardes, and it cee
happened tohim euil inbisiournsy, tor it was a Sharp coun, Th b
key x without bittiale,e with great travel they tame to that Heese
prouinee called of the Indians Somocs,tobere the Cinamon e ee.
groweth, which is right vnder the Equinactiall line.
Thetrees which beare it, are ofreatonable greates c es
neſſe, they „ — a: + ue
greene, and they neuer looſe 3 Isa thing com⸗ _, i
mon to all the res of the Judas. They bearethei Tee fr
mute onto the likenetTe ofa little Watte, that bath bis Cup e.,

and ſydes as greate as a peece of eight Kialles of Siluer,
whiche is foure Sbyllinges, and ſome greater, it is ofthe
colour ofadarke Tawnpe, as well without as within, it
is{moath in the inner parte, and ſharpe in the veter, in
in the highest part ofthe Cup it bath a ffalke , wherby it
hangeth in the tree, it is as thicke in the inlide, as a peece of

eight Rialles ot Siluer, and the vppermoſt parte is ful er
ok bodie, and beeing taſted, it hath the fame pleafauntnette
of taſt that the fame Cinamon bath, which they bꝛing from x
India ol Poʒtugalhand in like ſozte thers remaineth in the

4 Ih fece th part ofthe thinges unges that
mouth the fame fleet ſmel, and taſte, that the fame Cinas
mon ofthe Eaſt India hath:t there remaineth in the mouth
the ſame ſ wert finel and taſte, with ſome dꝛines: the ſelle⸗
4 fame it deeth being ground, refpiring out from it the fame
f fmel which the moſt fine Cinamon bath, And in the meats
4 wherin it is put, it giueththefame fall t ſauonr that the Cis
Ramon ot the Eaſt India hath. The trees haue a groffe rind
but without taſte, ſauour oꝛ ſmel ofthe Cinamon. J cannot
: tell tf the little inner rind haue anx, onely the rinde J haue
3 feen with the fruit,as it is deſcribed they fay that the leaues
veing beatẽ, giue out fome ſmel ol Cinamon oneip the vere
tue, wert ſmel and tat, is in the fruit, which is contrary to
the Cinamon that is bꝛought from the Oꝛiental Indias, foꝛ
onelp the rinde of the tree is that which bath the lweete ſa⸗
udur and pleaſant ſmell, as we doe all ſee. And true itis,
that ſome it better and of moze werte ſmell and talk e, then
other ſome is. Foz although that they are all one forte of
trees, which bring forth the tinamon pet ſome haue the rind
thinne and that is the be Cinamon, and others haue it
Grodle and this is not fo good:and thereof it bath come, that
there bee ſome which doe diſtinguich the Cinamon into di⸗
uers kindes. $02 one fort they call Caſia, and an other Cis
namon, and an other Caſſia lig nea and it is all one kinde of
tree, that bringets them foozth:but that the dinerfitie of the
place bzingeth fosth one moze fine than another, ¢ fo Caja
are al ane, fa that they differ nat, but only in
mamon, thinne, and ſine and wheras

finde written ( aſſie, map be put Cinamon, and where

del e tothe be —— meates
is vled euen as Cinamon is, becauſe it woꝛketh the like el⸗ 4
feet, that it doeth: by taking the Pouder of this fruite wyth *
wie, oz water made ſoꝛ P nonce, it pꝛauoketh the pur ation
of women. It is hot in the third degree, and dꝛie in the firſt,
but with notable contoztutg,by — Mite dep parts that

it Hath.
Ofche ‘ones

rom —— On Francis de Nl endoſa Sonne nto the Don Era,
N W vite Roy Don Anthony de Miendola, did de Mendeſa.
W ſow in the new Spaine Eicaues,

ginger and other fptces,of thole Which are

i tought kram the Drientall gndias, and
* = that Which by him was begun, was lofte,
by reafon of his death, onely the Ginger did remaine , fo2 it

grew bers well in thoſe partes, and fa they bring it greene
from the new ſpaine, andother partes af our gndias , and
fome fer bꝛing dꝛie, after the manner of that ofthe Cat

a Tbe Ginger is a Plant which carrieth bis Leafe Ipke The deli
fo Lirio ſomi what moze narrewe, with the fame greenes: ti6 of Gi :
the Roste is as it feemeth,fome greater than ether , and 5
When it is greene it burneth nat in the mouth. wherefore 5
beeyng made ſmall into peeces it is put ints Sallettes, fo:
becaufe it giveth them bott taſte and ell. Thepf
the ſerde that it bꝛingeth fooꝛth a2 of ne little Reste,
ae 5
after — sean a ino

t ofthe thinges that
w/ fa there it wareth foft,o2 waching it many
. Con = tied wis tiet water, and fo leauing it in the water vntil it
Se 5 1 be ſolt, and after putting to it Dugar, it is made in Conferua

a as Well asthe crane, .

Sen This Roste hath greate vertue of Arromaticall ſniell
and kaſt, and with a notable ſharpneſſe: it heateth notablp,
it is good for the ſtomacke, and fe it taketh away the grieſe
ok it, When it commeth ok a colde canfe oꝛ windprit woꝛketh
the like effectes that the Peper doeth, it giutth lauour, and
werte ſmell, and good taſt vnto dꝛeſt meates, wherein it is
put: it is a coꝛrectiue vnto many medicines, fo2 becauſe it
doeth coꝛrett, and d2e fle thẽ, and taketh away their malice,
and fo they doe mingle it with Tardith and with A arico,

fon it coprecteth the wherby they work the better, it helpeth
digeſtion and ſtrengtheneththe ſtomack, it doth coꝛroboꝛate
the natural heat, it giueth luſt ta meate where it lacketh in

cold tauſes. This the Conterua doth very wol, which being
taken in the moꝛning weꝛketh theſe eltectes z alfo makety
à good colour in the face, and doth all fhe woꝛkes which the
Peper doth, r fo it is wel neere of the complecion and tem⸗
ee

A

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pee Ore the e of the Indias.
? ease firme Landa —

0 —— 6
| bias he ine parte i rep, en us :

are brought fromthe Weft Indias.

ofit fo3 the feconde ſozte Booty carrie a red roote: the leaues
of this Roste which I take to bee Komar, dos purge be-
png ſodden natably, muche moꝛe then the Noote, and ſo
ſapeth Dioſcorides that all kinde of Romaza dooth foften the
belly notably,

The Rutbarbe is an ercellent medicine, and wonzthie Note.
ta be much eſtermed, and very highly. They haue pꝛaiſed it, :
al ſuch as haue weste of it. J ſpeake of the purgatine Nui⸗
barb, which we do vie to purge withall, faz it was an ether
ſoꝛte, which the Greekes did known.

The Kuibarde is an excellent medicine, becaute it is ges 1 a
uen with all aſſurance, in all times ¢in all ages. at purgeth a0 T .
Choloꝛ pꝛintipally, and S leume, it comfozteth the Liuer, ⁊ of the Rui.
it is his lite, it vndoeth opilations, it taketh awaꝑ the Zaun⸗ be. 8
dies, and clariſieth the blood, and the vſe or it Booth cozro⸗ a
boꝛate, and ſtrengthen the ſpirituall members, z therfoꝛe it
is giuen with al alſurance, to them that haue any griefe of p f
heart: ſome ofit beeing cho wed inthe moꝛning healeth anx
lang ¢ impoꝛtunate dileaſes ofthe Liner, t of the same,
and of {he inner members: and like wife the D 525
panꝑ, and maketh a god colour in the .
in the feconde . 0

dexneſle and comſozt. a

Ofthe Pinnas.

| LER al the Indias, t
ad pa eae ma tai a
OF Alben eat at fh ae

ae

of *

U, beyng 63

derbe meuthefthem there groweth ont certeyne Buddes,
Whiche are his Leaues „ which cau e him to ſhew verye
faire, and theſe Buddes are ſowen, and of them grow the
Plantes, whiche carrp the Pn and sne Plant carrieth
not moꝛe then one Pana, in the higheſt part therofut grow⸗
eth greene, and as it rigeneth, it turneth peallowe. They
fake from it the Rinde whiche is very thinne, foꝛ to eate,
that which it hath within it is white, and ſolte, and melteth
in the mouth, with a very good taſte, and weete ſauour:ſa⸗
uing that it hath many iin il Kernels rounde about it, which
it is needefull far vou taſte from pou when vou eate them,
which are ok a Purple colour. The ſ nell thereof is like to
à kinde of Quinte, and where there is a Vun ripe hee
fmielteth Une to a Quimce auer all the boule where he is.

They take them to be good fo2 the ſtomacke, and likes
wile fo the hearte, and ta reſtoꝛe the appetite lok: it is a
generall fruite in all partes of the Indias, and much eſter⸗
med. They are to be eaten at the beginning of meate, they

ble to eate them in the hot after Noones: lo thepfay tyat

they dos refreſtthey are cold in my iudgment:they bꝛought
two ſoꝛts or̃them, the one dꝛie, ⁊ the other in Conſerua. The
Dap did ſerue for no other purpoſe, but to ſee the figure € the

a | Sr although

pe eee ee e
then are greens. 8

Ofthe Guaiauas.

— fom te firme Bante the feos
: fa ed by the

i ebene aisles like isis manner as Laurel,
the flower of it is worte, accozding tothe ſaſhon ofthe
lower of Drenges, lauing that it is ſume what greater, it

- isofa werte ſmell. This tree peeldeth much feuite where
ſoeuer it be la wen. and dooth multiply an ſpꝛed fo much ae

bꝛcade, that they take it to bee cuill fo: the ground wher he

groweth foꝛ that in many paſtures the people doo looſe the
feeding of their cattell by reaſon ol them. And they weaue
themſelues one togeather with an other lyke Bʒers: the
fruite which they carrie is like to our Apples, ofthe great⸗
neſſe ofa Pyppin, it is greene when it beginnet) ürſt ts
appeare, and as it ripeneth, it turneti peallowe, In the in⸗
ner parte it is white and in colour ruſſet, and beeyng cut,

_ bath foure places deuided, where it hath the teede, which is

ipke to the ſeede of hedlers, being very hard, and ofcslour
tawap, al p ſtones within haue no kernel, they are without
any ſaucur. And to eate theſe —— pare | Soom fens
the Rind the frurte is holeſome, and digeſtton woher
thep br greene then ber minen kochem that Sane the Kaige,
fo2 they reſtraine and binde much and when they bee very
Type, cher make the belly verie laratine uber then bee ee
good ſea ſonable age. They are good roſted cepa Ri; di}; bee
whole, and for the ficke,fo2 bectng fo roſted they are moze
bealthlul: and better and of pleaſanter tate. And the beſt of
them growe in in trees which are tiled, The Indians ble the
ieaues in ſeething de een ae 5
are ſwollen, they cauſe him toaba .
3 tpe-peny vecing Rat — ilatet nS ED:
: otf state ee tt
WLS, gewes. — — ane

23 1

Okibe Cachos.

„ „ FEES Db they dpe fend me the lerde ofa plante az
le- bearb, which the Indians da mucheleme,
don ofthe SANE whiche they call Cache. The Cachosisan
Caches, PAIRS DN] bearbe very reddich in colour, it carrieth a
8 ddund leale ¢ thin, it caſteth out a fruit like
3 doa Berengenanf Spapne, where the ſeede
dooth grob: it is very ſmall.and of a ruſlet colour, it hath a
tae without any ſharpneſle, enelp in the Mountaines of
The vertu: The Indians doo much eſterme it, foꝛ the medicinal bers
thereof, tues that it hatt it maketh one to piſſe well where tye lacke
> of Aꝛyne is, it dooth expell the Sande and Stones, whiche
Lrewe in the repnes. And mozeouer they fay,that the bſe o
bee loft chat ther map bee didolued, with taking very little
quantitie of this, ¢ ofthis they haue fo many examples, that
they cauſe mee to maruell at it, becaule 3 thinks that the
fone in the bladder cannot bee expelled, but onely ts cut it

aut is the remedie, foꝛ that no Phiſickt can diſſolue him.
They ſapthat taking the ſeede grounde with ſome water,
made fo2 the purpoſe, cauſeth it to bee caſt out in Clay, and
being come tooth it returneth tobe tungeled, and turneth it
keis S35 32 ne = -
Dulpto a yong man 3 ſaw this happen, who hada fone

er become ee

aie

are brou ughit rom the Weſt indiss. E ol.gs
wꝛonght by 80 as they ſap is in a tauſe of . Pe
and a it doe N will vſe of it.

Ofthe flowers of .

3

i ewes feede , which they bwught mee
iy =) fram the Pers, moze to fee the fairenes thers Thedefrpe
ie. of, then fo2 anp medicinall vertues that it tion ofthe
„ | bath. The hearbe cometh ts be ofthe height hear he and
A oftivo ſpannes lite wacne 02 lefie, botwes it the flower.
e thin, in the hieck of the bowes there g roweth
a flower being peallow, very high in tolour, z onelp it bra
reth fiue leauts, ⁊ in the middeſt of euerie leafe there isũ
gured a dꝛop of blood, ſo red ¢ fo firmely kindled in colour,
chat it cannot be moꝛẽ. This flower bath at the foste ofit a
Kalke verie long, which commeth out a god ſpate from the
flower. It is a flower verie beautifull, which doth adoꝛnate
i gardens, it groweth very wel of the feede,02 of the plante,
and being taſted it bath the ſame lannur and tate that the
„ : |

Arinde ofatree efor the Rewme. :

: feandein We rte de tibiae ut anety there. The
tree is after the kichion ok an Elme, as wel in the greatnes,
as in the leafe. The tudians when thep fiele themſelues la⸗
den with Reumes, oꝛ haue the Cough, oꝛ any paines of the
head, they make pouder very ſmall ot the rinde of the tre,
and take it in at their noſes, and it tauſeth them to purge

much at thé , and with this they cleare themſelues of the e⸗

mill: which we haus experimented, e taking the powder in
«atthe noſe and it maketh them to purge notably. zt ſermeth

: to be moze then bot in the ſecond degree.

Ol che Pacal.

n dee which the Indians call Pacal, iuhich
N ee tre is leffer then that we haue ſpoken of ues
yas, fo2¢: the Indians doe bie it made in Aſhes
9 | mingled w Sope, it taketh away any mans
nner ol ſoꝛe oꝛ ſkabbe in p head, how grieuous
bener it be,afwoel thote that geotw in the head. 2s in p Ody:
as alſo it takety alway the markes of the laid xa s oꝛ (e
eee. Wether they tent mee a tittle ofthe
was pet lace a ial a alma

N

Hey ſent me an hearbe which in the Peru
2 tall eee e.

* +

are from the Weft Indais. Fol.93.
n ainay Ge 8 the *
kidneis, which commeth of & ind Nel oʒ colde cauſes: and F
being ſodden and made E upon the thereof.
griete her take it awaꝝ alſo.

An hearbe for the e uill oft she R . ee

\ Fae Zuewiſe they ſentme another herb,

S which profiteth much in p euil of the |
fn FEF . é
HE inite mingled w the ointment of The uren
it . thereof :.

SG 2 lee 2 thereof beeing put, and and it profiteth -

. muche, 1 vee te bn 1
ee eee paine. The leaues whicgh

they ſent me. bee like to lmall Lettice, with the fame great⸗

E e

ives eee

Ota fruite which oe
pf „„ — 285 2

Almonde the rind ofit ie-tatuny,and ſome what white pars
ted into wos partes lyke vnto an àlmonde. It is a fruite
el good ſauaur and taſte, and eating of it, it ſemeth that
: vou eate Kutte;
3 This kruite groweth vnder the earth, in the toaſte of
= Wher et the River of Maronnon, and it is not in any other part ofall
Lees. the Indias. It is to be eaten greene and dꝛie, andthe beſte
| wap is to toſte it. at is eaten alwaies after meates, as fruit
taten laſt ofall, becauſe it dꝛieth much the fomacke and
eaueth it ſatilſied, but it᷑ pou eate muche ok it, then it bꝛin /
geth heauine e to the head. It is a fruite in great reputati
on, as well amongſt the Indians, as the Spaniardes, and
With greats reaſon

. ͤ Seon,
DODtlthe fruite called Leucoma.

¥ We 5 x

Miz WAGs is lite vnd a Chettnutte of thets sfaurs,as
e wel in colour as ix the greaturs, as allein
be wwhitenes p the Coetnut hath. It lem,
um eth within it is another thing. 1 did not
vꝛeake itto fee what it was, becauſe they brought mee but
tms ok them, the one 3 haue ſowen, z the other J haue fo2 to
ſopat anpother time. This fruite doth beare a tret of much
AFreatneſſe, 2 it is ot timber ſtrenge and harde, it cafteth

foogth the leancs like to

Lue Hounte

Of the Bead ftonesto wash withall.

n Per dent me a tyttle Cheſte made
ö 2 of Coꝛkefull of round Beads ſtones
and blacke , of greate beautie,
“tee, Se fo that they ſeeme feo bes made of
the WMoodde of Ebano : and they
a brea fate tobicbeafaltre tea Flore it i
eth, beeing —— erer eee we
ers: and it carriefh a round fruite as
5 great as a Nut, couered with terteyne fethinesclong thers 8
vnto, which being taken alvay.tyere remaineth, a rountde
Bead ſtone, and fo round that it cannot be rounder, of blaea g
colour, moſt harde that it cannot bee boeken. 5
hierar een Se Be
fives 02 three of thele with bette watep are ol ae
twath withal, and to make cleane cloathes,the Hip — ,
percep ere :

—

effet 5 2
andthe aner 8

0 dhe Crabbes ofthat ountre’
fae. 8

1 N Gentleman whiche came cian the firme
lande, certified mee that hauing had cers
1 , kein continual agues in p country, he came
to be ina conſumption, x was counſailed to
f 2 V Loto certein zlandes, which are betwene
~~ = Puerto Rico and the Ad argareta fo that ther
is in them great quantitie of Crabs, and they are the belt of
the woꝛld, betauſe the are iuainteined by Pigions Egges,
which goe thither to lay, and of the pong Pigions that are
there, e that he ſhould cate no other thing but theſe crabbes
ſodden, and he was healed very wel: and although he hadea⸗
fen much lache of Bopingcies fo; that purpoſe they did not
him lo much good, as the Crabbes did: and in themthat are
+ they haue a greate pꝛoperty:as Axerzoar fayth, —
5 S ——C—
es women e
tbe fame purpolz. *

OftheCandones,

carb which is the Cardones ofthe greatnes
torch rushes |

e Bey ſent me a litle of an hearb and by rea⸗
dn it was fo dꝛy it came ſmal bꝛokt᷑, in pees
Aces, ſo that the figure of it could not be fene,
A which they wꝛote was maruellons faz thé
‘ that are bꝛoken, whether they be childꝛen oz
men that haue 5 kind of griefe, and in thoſe
parts they haue it ſoz a ſure thing, and it is vſed by one In⸗
Dian, by applying this bearb arene, rum that weich in bee.
ken, being men o2 childꝛen. And it maketh therebpon a cers
teine binding very ſtrange without nerde ofany manner of
Bꝛich, made fo the purpofe,for they map goe ſo faſt and fo
fivift being bound theretwith, as though they had paire of
bꝛathes, as one told me that had bin healed ot gh like diſeale
with the hearbe, and with the maner of binding. J haue vn⸗
derſtood that if the maner ol binding be as god as this man
ſpeaketh ol it is ſufficient to heale without the hearbe, :-
ny thing eis, vy realon that ¥ fate a man af ce dend whiche
bealed all perfons that wert bꝛoken with onely the binding
that he made of them, without vling vnto them ang manner
ol Bꝛeech. And this is terteyne, that there be forme here that

Were beaten aden e

—

un

N U ofthat country nere onto them, ther grows
aS panne, with the twbich the zudiang dos e
= ES ppoftethemnfluesin their res demea u

| al inet cially againſt all kind of poyſon, and
e aa fog

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at

*

| fracas ta ates bay bene gine Eee amel
the like thing.

A ſpake heere with a Ladye which tame from the Peru,
and ſhee certifiedimec that hauing beene many peeres fick, -
and being in cure with many phifitions, te went to an In⸗

dian, that was knowen to bee a man that knewe muche ol
berbs, vnto whom the Indians did put themſelues in cure, t
he gaue her to dꝛink the twice clarified of Veruaine, which
thee her ſelke made, and within a fewe dayes after that ſher
had taken it, ſhe caſt out from her a woꝛme, che ſayd it was
à hearie Snake, of moze then two ſpannes long, and verie
greate, and his faple Was parted, and after (he had caſt him
out from ber, ſhe was well and whole. And ſhe counleiled a
Gentleman which was in the Peru, that was tontinually
ſicke to take it, and he took it in the mozning with Sugar,
for ſo hee had taken it, becauſe of the bitternes that it bath,
and he calf out a great number ot long and finall wooꝛmes.
and one like to a white long girdell, and ſince that time be
bath very well his health. And this thee npr go
Perſons which were ficke, to doo, that had fulpicion, toa
haue woszmes, and with the vſe of the ſapde iuyte they call
from them manp, and they were healed. And it was focers
tainly, that te ſhewed me a Seruaunt of hers, and it was
fapd that acco2nir ee
bee had, there was giuen vnto him certepne thynges of
witchcraft, and with the iuice af the Veru arne. that he tooke,
: he cait by bomite manp thinges ont of his ſtomacke, of di⸗
— and it was ſayd that it was that wher with he
itched, which being cat fooꝛth, he remained whale,
aba un, which taucheth witchcratt, 3 wil ſpeake what
a ‘fale a ernannt of zahn 4. Quinana Duenas, beeing
Abmrgales, who di — an ;

=e eer te — which hee han
caſt vp two heures beſoꝛe, & he remained as though bee had
taſt vp nothing at all, moꝛe then the alteration that her had
ko ſeꝛ that he had caſt bp ſuch ſtuffe. 3
John Kangius an Almaine Phifition , and verie wel / bar
learned, faith that he ſa we a woman that complained much , erie i
ofpaine in her ſtomack, did caſt out many peeces of glaſſe, fs
and peeces of Carthen Platters and of ithe bones wheres J
pg ae Soaps 8 1 — 3
r caſe like Onto eneuenius (peakethofin his zg
book de nsorbis mir andi hut that which J du moſt marucl at, bifteri, 4
was, pa labouring mai fuffering great paines in bis bel»
lie o that no medinine coulde profite him, did cut his owne
thꝛoat with a knife, and after that he was dead, they opened
him ¢ ſoũd in his belly great anantitie of haire, d like wher⸗
al he that J haue {poke of did vomit, with many other perces
ok iron Theſe things J do attribute tothe woꝛks of d Diuel
koꝛ that they cannot bee reduced vnto naturall tauſes. The
Aeruaint is lise that offopeinese nüt en,

Of the Maſtuerco. 5
Say Fis Pane an-beacke bound 858 ch Petty Tf op a
which they call Al aſtuerco, it is a little herb
3 — —

. f /| round, which being beaten ina mostersstbe |

—
‘boing atieni met hett

- Ofthe fall wilde Lentee. i 5 . 1

tet
i he,

Gain Partes another bearbe , which they call
zie 4 wilde Lettice ; the leaues be like to Let⸗
e tice , the colour is a ſadde greene , it
8 Dy bath vertuc tatatse away the toothache res
———==—— ceiuing the ſeething which is made of the
. leancs and palning itin the parte wherg the gricfets ; and
putting a litle of the inpce in the tooth, which is grieued, fo
fo it taketh alway the paines,¢ the leaues which are ſtam⸗
ped,after the iuice is taken out, muſt be laid vpon it, and be⸗
eee bitter. It ſeemeth to bee dot i in moꝛe then the

= pe

2 «Ofte licourwhic is called Ambia.

to the fea fide,tt is of the calour ofhony, tas
thin, the (mellis like the Tasamahaca, they

1 oan 5 re alfothen was that it hath great me⸗
& ce = vicinal bertucs,chiefly in the healing of old
les, eee at taketh atoap

a the effeasthat the Tacamabica eth Sans dor, t fo they
pie it in thoſe parts, in ſtede of them: yau map nat touch nos
handle it with your handes, vnleſſe you haue them wet and

8 r it be put, it ſticketh faſt, that it cannot be taken

5 amen bletfe it be toaffen w long time. They ſent me this
5 —— be w, becauſe 8 ahead
5 th : 5 > i eme rote me it

5 a Orche tree that sheweth whether

one ſhall liue or die.
AN the peare of our Low 1562,

I man which was married feat ſer⸗
>), wed him, r her huſband waxed ficke
@ of a grieuous viſcaſe q an indian ot
great reputation ſeeing her to be in
much ſoꝛrow, ſapd to her, ifthe wold
ede gow whether her hulvand thoulve
line o2 dye of that diſeaſe be woulde fend her a Wow ofan
hearbe, that che chould take in her left hand and hold it fa
foz a good while: and if he ſhould liue, then he chould es a
much gladneſſe, with holding the Bow in her hand: and it =
be ſhould die, then ſhe thould chew much ſadnes. And d In 3 0
dian kent her the Bow Fihe bid ashe had willen Her to Dap:
andthe botwe being put into her bans the focke lo mtch fan,
e ee d woudinatiee
atthe ond haun dientherol, and fo he died twithin a feld
— know it that it were ſo, anda Gen⸗
had bene there manp-peares, bed
at it was oftruth thatthe Indians did

—

Pia

2 ems AIM! <.

= 1 4 — ee;
8 * A ayn 7 * ah see a
* sow hide 4 i

:

„ 8 that
Pꝛungarnardes, foꝛ that thoy are well neere of the fame
greatneſte and colour wen they are ripe, ſauing that they
haue not alitle crowne now they are dꝛy they ſeꝛr me with⸗
in p the feevis like to the graines of Pꝛares ſomwhat areas”
x ter;fo2thep are all ful of litle graines, verie faire, and thew
Hex it és a Bary wel, they are White within a witheut any faua2. The
Plant. Blaut that this fruite beareth, is like to Juie, and fo it runs
a neth vg and clingeth laſt tos any thing that is neare to it
We jerefoeucr it be let: it is faire when it bath fruite, fo2 the
— greatusileit is a particular hearbe, andonelp in one place
= ftisamsar- it is founde , it caſteth a flower like to a white Koſe, and in
vellous flow the Leaues it hath figures which are ſignes of the Paſſion
ere of our 3920, that it feinzty as though they were painted,
ee wyth muche care, where the Flower is moze particular
than any other that hath beene ſeene. The kruite is the lit⸗
tle graines, which we haue ſyoken of and when thexare in
ſeaſon they be full of L icour, ſome what ſharpe, and all full
of ſerde, ich are opened as one daeth open an Egge, and
the Licaur is to bee ſupped vp with greate contentment of
the Indians, and ofthe Spaniards, And when they haue
faped it vp, man do nat fee le paines in their ſtomacks, but
rather they foften the bellie. hep ſæme ta bee temperate
With ſome moyſturr e.

eh 1

22

* 2 FF
ene siti 3

ss EA a notable hearbe and although that neiwe
edefcrip- ther fent mee the fede of it, vet a few peeres paſte
gabe ue had the hearbe here It is a ſtrange flower, fo3
it caſteth out the greateſt Bloſlomes and the moſte

a
leane to ſome

are brought from the weft Indias. Folaez.
dooth turnt it ſelfe continually towardes the Sunne, and

loꝛ this cauſe they call it by that name, as many other flow⸗

co Wearbes doo the like: it che weth maruelleus faire

Ofa gumme that is taken out from yn-
der the grounde.

the Collao being a cauntry of Pers, there
is a Pꝛouinte which doth nat beare anꝑ tr
02 Plante, becauſe the Orounte is fullof
Gummes, and from this ground the Indi⸗
ans take aut a Licour, that ſeruet them ts a
heale many dileaſes, and totake it out they 5
They make ofthe Earth certeyne Seſternes very How rhis li-
grsate, and fet — — Canes, and vnder⸗ cour is taker

eth out blacke Smoke, and an hozrible (mel, and fo al
— — make tre of, thee

eth can th | fi : | ee :
vozth of it, pꝛofiteth the erf.

ee

f ‘ent sot are clos meta arkan ibd 5
. f

Of the Bezaar ſtones ofthe Peru.

78 though in the lecondpart I treated ofthe
ö 8 50 Ber aar ſtones that haue beene founde in the
s A. mountaines of the Pers, fi that they haue
f bern ſent me by the firſt diſcouerer of them,
N . P beſt of as many as from thoſe partes haue
dome, pet J would ſap in this thirde parte
— — ſent me foꝛ knowledge, ſaping:
that betauſe % wꝛote of them they had knowledge oftzem:
and the booke which J wzote or them was the guide to finde
and dilcouer them, as we haue ſaide, and hee ſhe wetz bp his
letter, which we haue ſet in the fecsnd part. f
i Dhoſe whiche hee ſent mee too pꝛosue bee very tx ⸗
tellent in their colour, making and greateneſſe, whereof
J haue broken ſome, and finde them as excellent as thoſe ot
the Caſt india: and ſa they pꝛooue in powder, 02 in one
little graine as the other dos, and in colour well nere they
are the fame. Truth it is that thofe which haue this qualitie

and geodnette, and haue all the qualities that the Berger

Aones ought to haue whiche are fine, Moule ber thoſe that

‘ ars taken out ofthe Beaſtes, that are fedde in the Poun⸗

ttaynes , fo2 thofe whiche are taken aut olthem that are
bDzedde in the plapne Groundes, are not ſo good, noz

8 —— vertues, becauſe tze Beaſtes are —

it fromthe We in deg sia ae

okthem, who DIDfee where they lay, and were bꝛed within
the beat, and with his owne handes made the Anatomie of ö
him, and wꝛote vnto mee that the Berau ſtones ate grow Where safe
inginthofe Beaſtes. after the manner ofa garde made of fene doe
lleſh, ofthe length ol tos ſnannes, lyttle moze ozlefic, and groe ·
ol thꝛee fingers breadth, whiche is iopned neere Date the
Mae ol the inner parte, and in the garde the ſtones are
let in oꝛder one alter an other, like bats button bee sot a
toate.

are brengh “Bole.

Ai 2 a bei Sete, and take
out the ſtones, that ſurel it is a g to fee,
what Mature bath created there toꝛ our bealtg t remedie t
dur cuils. And as 4 haue v thefe. a
baought from the Gall India, be foundeafter the ſame ma.
ner, fo 4 {peake the trueth tog they bing very many which
are falfe, that amongel one hundzed there are nat to oe ee
faunde tenne that are true, and their warters of the Cat
apna conte fle, that there be mabe many indeed ußieh
art 9 9
> ye people ofthe Catt zudia take them out alfe ofa On
siren tbat bre faa tps mo8 paste ke adde dias

th e beſt are taken cut of

ane ee, a ge Be
faa te are not 5 15 :

ii i da N erfia ha ee „b pole , Goate 5 of AA.
e taz cattell to 1 one

of mountaines, as they that 3 |
eee eres ) | gee

The third part ofthe thinges that

goe on them are: the like is in our Decidentall Indias: fe2

thoſe which are brought vp in the Mountaines of the Pers,

. haue the ſtones ſine and true, which haue the maruellous

- Medicinal vertues and they that are in the playne ground,

: are like to theſe of AMalaca, that goe in flockes, as cattel da,

whiche ſerue foꝛ the Butcherie, and out of thele they take

many ſtones, but they are without pꝛolite, becauſe thepare

not maintapned by the healthſull hearbs or the mountains,
d We haue ſaide.

It à woulde ſet do wne bere the great effectes and the

More. diſeaſes which the ſtones of the Pers haue healed, as they

A= whiche come from thencs doo tell me, and that Gentleman

Booth wꝛite vnto mee, it would make a great booke. 3 will

wꝛite that which only J haus experimented, and the efferts

that I baue vnderſtaode they wooꝛke, and thoſe that haue

paſt bp my hands, wherby all credit map be giuen vnto thé,

az à thing certeine, ſceing that there is experience made of

them, with all affurance and truſt, that they map ſa be vſed.

5 Dur Deciventall Secu ſtones haue great vertues,

This medici- principally they remedy manꝝ perfons, which be fick of the

nalvertuer heart. Foz the which J haue giuen great quantitie ofthent,

which they that haue beene bꝛought mee, and they haue Wꝛought mare

bane, nelleus effectes, in ſomuch that many perfons Which did ful

fer ſoundings, by taking it away from them, were deliuered

troem death. it mut be ginen when thep dos ſounde t befoze

For foudsngs it came, taking it in the mazning faſting, with Role water,

Es ik the partie haue great heate:if not, then with the water of

the flowers of Oꝛenges, the quantitis of foure graines cues

BOS rytimeanade into pouder, in all kinde of tenome, it is the

n al bind o f maſt pꝛintipal rensedy that we know nowe, and that which

vine, hat tought beſt etted in many that haue biene poyſoned,

2 which haue taken it as wel fo; venom taken at the mouth,

asby bitings of benomeus wems, which are full of poyion.

It doth trulx a maruelleus and a maniteſt l

e
nee

atebrouzhtfromthe Welt Indi. Folio.

that haue dꝛunkt water Landing ina ſtinkins lake, being They sar
infected with bealles oz vermine which are fall of popſon, have drapke
and being ſwollen immediatlp, after that they had dꝛunke water!
it: Who bytaking this fone twoo oz thꝛee tymes, ars res
medied, as 3 haue feene the after this hath happened, whole
and well.

In Peſtilente Feuers J haue giuen it many times, and „ Y eum
ſurelꝑ it doth ertinguithe and kil the malice of them, which ,
is the principal thing that the Phiſitions ſhauld procure in
the like diſeaſes. Foz although it take a wap the tauſe, and
withdꝛawe the putre faction, yet if it doe not diſtinguich and *
take alway the malice, the cure is neuer at an end. 302 that Note.
is it which killeth, and doth the pꝛincipall hurte, and where
there are tertaine ſpats inthe bop like to lea bytinges,
which appsare in the like feuers, the Becaar ſtone ot dur
Indias dosth woꝛke a maruellous effete, Of thoſe wypch
they haue bꝛought mee, J haue (pent the mo parte, giuing
théin the like dile ales, and furely they haue remedied many
with maruellous ſucceſſe t that Wherin ſome of them haue
been (pent by me hath been in ſoundings: and ſurelx J haue
ſeene in tele ſtanes the effets fo greate, that it ſeemęth a
ting ol wonder And especially J haus hene theſe cauſes
moꝛe remedieꝭ in womẽ thé in mt᷑. It is a marue cus thing
tobe také,¢ithath wrought manifeſt effets, Where there
is a melãcholike humoꝝ, it dath repaire it much, ¢doth in it
tin al things which do relult of ita great woꝛke, be it vni⸗ ears
nerfal-orparticalar, in the head o that wich they cal a4...
rac hia, and alſo 5 that haue the Lepzofis of the Arabi
arts 02 Elephantraſer uf the Grickes, It daeth profite much in; 2
Stabes, in Itchinges in S curuine ſſe, and in all partes dt 4 4 Bs
the body that are inteaned, it maketh a verie woke, Are
and doceth remedie theſe euilles iunnifeſtie, for that this „, dy.’
fone path pꝛopertie to heale them. I haue giuꝛn it in quar⸗
terne Agues, and although it tane not awap the ae :

In Alelan-
cholile hu-

ae The thyrde part ofthe thinges that

Is quarterne kerne: pat it taketh ato y the arcidentes ofit,the faintnes
Alewes. ſadneſſe, and the griefe of the heart which in theſe Feuers
are common. Surely they feele with the vis of it notable

In long enils, Pꝛalite, in al leng and impo:tunate diſeaſes q doe giue it, ¢
they finde profit in it, chieſiꝑ in thafe which ſtand in feare of

auy malice of diſeaſe, oꝛ windine lle, whert ſoeuer it be. Foz

J haue ſcene, that in this it hath a greate pꝛapertie, and of

this it commeth that it is good to caffe into purges, ſome
graines ot it, that itthe purge doe carrie venomous quan·
lities it map rattiie them, and amend them, and iknot, it

giueth koꝛte, and ſtrength to the heart, and they wooꝛke the
utter. In the oriental zndias they haue a cuſtome ta purge

themlelnes twice euerie vere, and efpecially the noble peo⸗

ple ot eſtimation, and after they haue purged themſe lues,

they take suerte moꝛning faſting foure graines ofthe Be-

Acuſtome ef ⁊aar Stone, with Hole water, oꝛ with water made fo2 the
the Oriental purpole , andthey fay that this doeth conferue their youth,
Indias, and ſtrengthen the members, and pꝛeſerue them from dif
ee eaſes:and it is a good bfe, fo2 if cannot chooſe, but doe them
much good. o; Moʒmes thep giue this Stone with malt

happie ſucteſſe, and furely 3 haue giuen it to many people,

andelpecially to Childzen, and Boyes, that are toꝛmented

with this enitl, and z haue ene ſuch woꝛkes as are not to
be belceued, it they were not ſiene. J gine it by it felfe, and

5 alſo mingied with this pauder, in this forme. Se fe

4 J dos take hearbe Lambrigera the wayght of twelue
PHoudersto pence, the ſeede of Samonicy the wayght of fire pence, the
e maruelled Bowe ot a Parte burned, and the ſeede of Verdolaza: , and
fer the Carknay of euerie ane the waight of tha pence, and the
vn mel, and Bexsar Stone of the Peru, the waight of thꝛee pence : of
_ alkindes of theſe tyinges let there be ſmall pouder made, and let them
them, be well mingled. hele pauders are maruelleus and of
= Areate effete, toerpsll Wlormes,and verie much experi-
wutedin mann pecple, and they baus 3
* great

„„ toznin

ting, as tothe Phiſition ſhall feeme good, according tothe

age or him that ſhall take them, büng fome medicine of

Silke, and Suger tivo houres aſter they ber taken. And

8 vnto childꝛen being ficke ok it, wee gine this fone mingled

—

with milke: and without it, the doe ſucke and it doeth a

maruellous woꝛke:and to them that be in yeeres, by it felfe,

b is nothing that can be

63 mingled with other thinges appꝛopziated fo2 the diſeaſe.

In concluũon, we giue this ſtane in al long diſeaſes, ⁊ tits
poꝛtanate, where the oꝛdinarie medicines haue not profited,
in which it doeth F

9 hurte.

Ok the Fig trees of eter

2586 trees being caricd from ſpaine tothe
Peru, haue increaſed fo wel in that country
that there 3 apie 3

fine and make ey s they deus

Kinde of Cievnin bes arcate ant

Oꝛenges, and they are fo full of popſon that
ging they kill, vnleſle there bee vled great
it be long time withaut remedie, and

eee

t Gh he beni:

that the Aermine did taſt into the fore, andthe accidentes-

be remitted which they ſutker, to wit. great griefs and foun?

dings, remaining only to heale the place bitten, and as it is

little, ſa it bealeth fozthwilh, although theß procure to keepe

it open a long time. Gnd Sods wil is, that at all tints this

remedie ſhoulde net lacke, fo2 the Figge trees neuer look
teir leaues, e all the veare thee are alsoaies
l Freene.

Of the Coca.

I Las deſtrous te lee that hearbe ſo
5 pases a e femany

) ps Atty e ule 2 5 fe
@ Ito their pleaſures, which we will
e of. K. ok Cocaigan nea the

are, 5 are
carp cary the fisbe inclulters,

is ripe. Gno itisattty 0 fame greatnes, tobe the a
afr. Kyat it isto be e bers 4p in

of Beanes, oꝛ of Praſen. 255 ; is a
The oleofit among the Indians is a thing general, 7, oft ofits.

tn many things, fo2 when ther trauell bythe war fo2 neede es

and fo2 their content when they are in their hauſes, they ble

it in this forme. Theptake Cockles o; Oyſters, in they:

chelles, and burne them and grinde them and after they are

burned they rem zine like Lime, verge mall grunde then

theptake the Leaues ofthe (ves, and chewe them in then:

Mouthes, and as they che we it, they mingle with it ſome s

the powder made ol the ſhe that ther make

it lpke to a Pate, faking

hearbe, and of this Ba

rounde, and lap them to

take alittle Ball intheir n

ate,” 7 Geavaltegst¥er, actu goe asthep were
out iter e ozasifthey were dꝛunke, which is a
thing that dooth give them gleat contentment to be in that
fort, Surely it ia a thing of great tonſtderation, to ſee howe
deſirous the Indians are to be Dep2‘uedoftheir wittes, and
to bee without understanding, ſeeing that they bfe thus the
Coca with the Tabaco, and al ta this end that they would be
withont vnderſtanding, and haue their wittes taken from
them, as wee ſayde in the leconde parte, when wee treated
af the Tabace.

OF i aes lou of the . —

*

de thing it is, wel to bee conũ /
n bdered, che diuers colours ofthe groundes
e ZZ Whichare inthe feldes in the countries of
ISA EN B Pere-fo2 that loking a far off pou al (ee
12 Sa manp parts of grounds of diners colours,
: — which feeme to be clothes of diuers colours
lald to der in the Dun lo pow hall fee one part of the 3
gerne, and an other ble we, and foszthwith an other vral⸗
00,3 d wolte and blacke, and red, and fo of other colaurs,
Wineries ol diuers Carths. Of the blacke 3
tan ſent mee a little that there with J might
make Inkeß which being cake inte water oz wine there is
made tpereefbery goad Inke, where with one may wits.
very well, bi . 8 oki a

0

bo great, that it is not knowne vnto the Indians. It ſerueth
them loꝛ no other bfe then to mingle it with certeine gums,

to pgint themſelues withall, which they die to da when then
goc to their warres te Mewwe themſelues gallant and ſterce.
Euery day they diſcouer in thole countries great Pineries
of metals, t fuck like things, foꝛ they haue found out a moũ⸗
taine ok Oker, a Myne ok Allom, x an other cf Bꝛiniſtone,

and many other things which they do daily diſtauer.

_Ofthe Caſany.

AS) Waue cauſed them to bꝛing me krom Sancte
Domingo aleate of that plant tobercof, they 5
make the Caſans, and they bꝛought it mee Ca i
„ Sbe cin is the bread which the Indians gradi b
OGY okperes haue maintei⸗ Pda.

art

Carth,that they hatte put to the lire and there they knede if,
and manke it like to a little take ok Egges, turning it rem
one ide to an other and after it is wel kneded it remaineth
like a Cake, otthe thicknes of a pece of ſtluer of foure ſhil⸗
linges, oz little meze, which they lap inthe Sunne, that it
map depe, and theſe Cakes they vile foꝛ Bꝛead which are
of muche ſubſtaunce Thele Cakes continus long time
without coꝛrupting, and they bꝛyng them in the Dhippes,
which come from thofe partes . into Spapne without
beeyng tozrupted, and feruc for wifket to all the peor
ple . It eateth as a thing tharpe, and lo it feructh, and
they lapit to ſoake in water, oʒ in Bꝛoth, oꝛ in pottage,
- for after this manner they ſerue themſelurs better with it
then to eate it dꝛie. It is needetull to haue a vellel with twas

the inyce.

agante, that, that which is ealthfall and aüawablelute⸗
nance in the firme land, the ſame is noꝛtal venome in al tze
Illandes: as Colurssla wiiteth of the Peache, that it was :
venom moſt miſcheeuous, which in Perſſa did kill men and Colwnacla. =~
being brought into Italpit loft that malice and p2opertie
that it had to kill, and giueth vnto vs health, and a [werte
iupce.
Dotvioeucr it be, hauing in the Indias ſo much Payes,
and ſo common in all partes thereof , J woulde not eate 5
Caſaui, ſseing that the Mayes are of as good ſubſtaunte, Maite.
as our MAheate , and in no parte bath either venome, 02
popfon, but rather is healthful, and maketh a gad ſtamack, Bred of
There is bꝛead made of it, asot the Cgaui, for they grinde as.
it, and with water they knede it, and in a Frying panne aol .
Earth thepbake certain Cates, which they make of it, and
ö muſt be eaten freſhe, aſſoone as it is made: foʒ being dꝛy
it is harpe and troubleſome to [wallow downe „and duetd
offende the teeth.

The Vatatas, Which is a common kruite in thole coun Batata’.
tries take fora vittaile of mache Subſtaunce, and
that they are in the middeſt betwerne lleche and Kruite.
Tructh it is that they be windie, but that is taken front.
them byroſting, chiefly if they bee put into fine Myne:
there is made of them Conferua verie excellent, as Par-
molade, and mall Poꝛſelles, and they make Potages
and JSzothes, and Cikes of them verie excellent: they are
fubiedt that there be made of them any maner of Conſern⸗
and any maner of meat:ther be fo many inf
bing from Del. enen e )
fipelne c arnelics laden with them. T

e Plantes that are fette, the mal

r
B

e a 25 ih

OF the Cask sihich See good 2
the thortneffe of breath,

22 eee. ber being from the newe Spaine greate
Canes ot a Cane that are touered within x
without with a certaine gumme; t tome it

apn fiemeth that it is mingled with the inice of
a baco, and it is heaup. It femeth 1
Cane is annointed, and as at hinge that

hit : fatt,ifis clunged well tothe {ais Cane, and it is of
2 “ablacke rolonr, and bee ing harde it clingeth not, they kin /
dle the Cane at the parte where the gumme is, and the

i et, And fo? e 1 8 .
it the iutce or the Tabaco mingled with the one and withthe
~ ether. It is done with al adurance, fo: that toe da fir iterpe
ited with mantiet allurante in many.

mi Si = eee ee eee

arebroughtfrom the WeftIndias.

bꝛeſts, ſo that they be lightened with it notably, at is a mar⸗

Fol. 105

a

uellous thing, the great vertues, and fundzy and diuersef-

fetes that they doe diſconer of the Tabace: fo2 beſides that
Which a haue wꝛitten of it inthe ſecond part, of the maruel⸗
lous vertues thereot᷑. 3 determined to make further triall of

it, as 3 haue vnder ſtoad, and ſeene fince that time. 2 ann

Ol che Carlo Sancto.

M the ſecond parte we entreated ofthe ver-
tiues of the rocte, thatthen they had brought

19 from the new Spaine which they cal (rie
Suncto, and now in theſe ſhippes they haus

8 : 5 i brought it, with great vene ration eſtima⸗

ASS 2 2

— tion:⁊ the rote is called H udica, t they bung
wꝛittẽ many vertues ok it moze then they are wante to re⸗
porte ofthe Roſemarie. Nowe that which haue ben erperi⸗
mented a feene fince that I wꝛote of it, j wil (peake, of this
Roote, which beeing made into pouder, giuen to women
that newly bꝛought Childꝛen, who fo2 euill keeping haue
taken great colde and benumbe, it pꝛoũteth muche to pꝛo⸗
uoke them to ſweate, and maketh them remaine cleere: it
p2ofiteth muche giuen with wine , 02 water of the floures
ol Oꝛenges, vnta them that haue a harde labour. There
was a Frier which had papnes of the Stemacke and
na taſte ot his meate, but had an euill bꝛeath, and much
windinelle, and al did pꝛoceede of colde that hee hadde ta-
ken, and litle natural heate. He ſodde of theſe Rooth in twas
ter at his diſtretion, as the water of the S arcaparillas is ſod-
den, and ſohe Banke it continually,at dinner r {upper fo2 a
long time, and it did fo well with him, that he amended his
fomacke , and increaſed the heate of it whereby hes
did digeſt, and conſume his meate verg wel, and fooke front

The vertnes
thereof »

Thethyrde] part ofthe thirigeswhich

For tb tba king ofthis water there followeda remedy not thoughtol,
be broken, — that he was bꝛokt many peres, æ dis weare
: continually about him a Bꝛich made for the fame purpoſe,
and he left it net oft in a long time: but hauing vled the wa⸗
ter twomoneths he found himfelfe hole and well, ele he
is now well withaut any frelingol it,
8 In the ſtething ofthis roote, waching pour month theres
Pe oak with, it ſtrengtzeneth the Gummes „ it keepeth the teeth
dee bend from wozme eating, and if pou haus any teeth woꝛme eaten
= it fuffereth them not to pꝛocted foꝛward. 3 haue experimen⸗
; Ne ae tedutany peeres to cauſe the mouthta be wafhed cotinnally
5 with the equall partes of vineger of Scuilies, and water of
the ſmal heades ol Roſes, that furely if it be bled ta wath the
teeth and gummes ther with continually, it pꝛeſerueth them
from eating of woꝛmes, and if ther be anp, it paſſeth not fo2s
ä ——— — —
ee ;

of the Rone a: the Mother.

8 = a wep ——— Some

nog 5 which they fay vot profit much fo2 the euil
WAGE POG of the other, it is a blacke ſtone and vere

FF) fmath ¢ waighty,to2 the moſt part they are
long k round. It is a greattbing that they
eee — — —

te brought from the weſt India. Fol. 13.

ana Neer N „ eee ten mt :
Ofthe Canaßiſtola in Conferua,

J Wels deſtrous to fie the leafe of the tre, that

d (anafitolabeareth, ⁊ the flower whiche it
tcaſteth dut, ſeing p here we haue the fruit ſo
AY) knotonie lo they bought me the leale, x the The leafe c
lower dꝛy. Che leaf is like tothe leafeof a oe i Gs

pPeare tre p flower is very litle, x white, of een

although it be dey it bath ſame god fmell. Of O an Cas

€ moze rppe. And the Canes that are not berp — Me
moſte blacke, and the fmoothett andthe weightielt are the Cute
be, Beide derer ewe baun anger u Confers = 1

gk Roles, andthe other ofthe whole flower ſodden in Sugar
the one and the aher le Tonlerua: beeing tar

Of the
Canes in

Conferna,

The thyrde parcofthethinges which
ken from fives to thee Ountes of it, it purgeth well and
eaſilie, and euen as it is goad to take, ſo it is good to woꝛke,
fo2 that 3 haue purged many people with it, and it maketh
à very gaod wooꝛzke, and purgeth without papnes. One
thing they doo euill in thofe partes, which is, that they ne⸗
uer bꝛyng them hyther made with good Sugar, ifthey
come ſo, they would be the better, and ol better taſte. They
bee purges fo delicate people , they euacuate the fame
bhumo2 that the Canafiſtola dooth. Ok the Canes of the ſmall
Canafitole there is mide an other Conſerua verie good,
which is an excellent purge, and delicate : for they take
the ſmall Canes, which are growing ofa ſmall time, and
ſesthe them in Sugar, and with the ſeething and Sus
gar, is taken from themttze ſharpeneſle and the dꝛineſſe
whichthey haue, and they are made tender and ſofte, and
ofa very good ſauour. They beeing taken, make a verie
good Wwoeozke „ and purge withont greefe oz moleſtati⸗
on, and withsut all accidents and faintneſſe that purges
are vſedto procure, foʒ that they are full of good taſt, at the
taking of them, and light of wooꝛking. They are given
‘from two Dunces tothꝛee, haue giuen them many times
with very good ſucce ſle, and haue taken them beeyng fick,
and they haue wzought verie well with mee. Df theſe

Conſeruas they bꝛing hither euery peere from Santo De-

mingo, and Puerto Rico many Barrelles full. The Ca-
rafiſtols that is perfeu and rype, is the motte excellent
Medicine for to purge withall of as many as haue beent
knotwne to this dap, and that Booth bis woozke bett in

t gat which it ſerueth fo2, and with moſte aſſuraunce as it is

well knoln not onip to Phiñtions, but alfo to al the woꝛld,
and doth his woꝛk without the hurtes and accivents which

+ i. other Pur gatiue Medicines are vſed too dao, and it is 4

generall Pedicine, t amongſt them that are called bleſſed,

is the moſt bleſſed ofall, whole vertues and pꝛoperties we
deo treat of perticuterly, in the irt part, and * -

daue ſpoken beere hath biene fo gine relation ofthe leaues,
and flowers of it, whieh they haue now bꝛought me.
One thing z would they ſhould be aduertiſed of, that when
wee are commaundedto pine Canafſtola, to lighten and fof,
tenthe belly, and that the tcammon matters may be vopded
dane is ment that they ſhoulde take it a mall time before
meate be eaten, at the molt halſe an houre kefore, fo2 the
meate being mingled ispntlie with it woꝛketh with it and
in this ozder it makettz a bery good wooꝛzke, and purgeth ves

ught from che WeltIidias: — Folio

Nate.

ry wel, z withont painesitebichts not done with that which

is taken any long time beloꝛe meate as tio 02 thre honres
be foze, as nol many do vſe it, foʒ that the meate beeing dis
lated, it maketh an ende or woꝛking. And as it is a thing
without ſtrength and weake,it goeth al into vapours, and fo
Headeth it telfe abꝛoad thꝛoughont allthe bady:and if it tary
lang, it is conuerted into meate, and ſubſtaunce, which 1
haue ſeene by experiente manpe veeres wherein J haue
pꝛadiſed, that alwapes as 1 gaue it halfe an houre before
meate at the moſt, it maketh a good woꝛke, and if it be giuen
many houres befeze meat, it purgeth, and euacuateth litle,
Concerning mingling of medicines, which doo purge, with

Hipocrates treateth of it in many partes, and
Galenein bis Commentaries. And trueth it is, that when
we wil that the Cenafi/te/a ſhould not euatuate, but that the
bapours ſhoulde bee ſpꝛed abzoade by the reines, and all the
bodpe, wer gine it many heures before meate, and then not

wartung mee effec that wa |

~~ Ofthe Balfamo of Tolu.

Oꝛoninte which is betweene Cartagena, Numbre

8 ep neta bing nto com the Frais lande rana

N eee which the Indians call Lol, a Ballamo, 03 3
: ian that isthe be thins, tue of areata — ae

Thethird pateofthethingesthat
hat trees Aus manp thinges As come fromtbeſe partes: Ther “gar
88 ther it from certeyne Trees, whiche after the manner ol
wbereqf it is uttle Pinos, Which tak out manybowes to al partes. It car
gathered, Teeth the leafe lyke toe A garrouu, nll the peere it is green,
nee ches are the beth mhurde groe in a kuke Srounde tell
tilled. im sn enceinte: e
Hon it iiga- Chis Sulmmo the Zutat voa gather by iunpotttts
tbered. ting Spuing terte pat tuttes in the rinde ol the tree, ſoꝛit
is chinne and loft. and they ſet vnderneath it, nere vnto the
tree tdinges like to diſhas made ur ware, wyithe is in that
tountre v blacke,uhichtheytaue out of Hines that certeine
sets waxe blacke Bees don make in tht chappinges of the grounde /
5 A haue ſecne brought much ofthis Ware into Spayne and
it was ſpente in Toꝛches but it was foꝛbidden that none of
it chould bee ſyent, tothe mate which it catt from it, had ſa
tuil a mel. that it code not bes ſuſtered. A hey dyd le this
Ware in matters of Medieine, toꝛ thereof wers made Cere⸗
cloathes, which Wrought very good etkectes, in mitigating
greefe of any colde tauſe it dildlusth any manner ol ſwel⸗
linges, and woozketh many other goed effectes. Okthys
axe the Indians doo make veſſels like to a ſpoone, and
fet them clofe to the Tree, that they may receiue the tical
that commeth out of it, by the places where the cutting
are made, and from thence they receiue it into thole bel
ſelles: and it is needefill that it bee done in time of great
heate that the cuttinges mare cake dut the Ricour, and
in thys tyme lxkewiſe , there loketh out of the ioyntes
of the ſapde Tree ſome Licour, and it is loft becaufe it is ſa
little, and falleth into the ground: in the night time thors

tommeth fooꝛth none.
This licour, oz Bailamo is very much ett med amongſt
the wien F

Ta

*
— tia . great pꝛice:and
they haus reaſon ſo ts das: foʒ ont ot᷑ the belt thinges that
haue come from thoſe partes, which haus brene bought for
Me dicins is this Balſama, which ſeemeth to be better then
that ofthe netus: Dpaie; audi it ite: ‘gppeareth tobaue
moge bettues.

It is et an alboꝛne 5 — beni dens oke to a thinge The colour
that is gilt, it is not serie thinae, na verie thicke, itcluts and mauer
Seth faſte where ſdeuer it bee lapde, and it hath the taſte of it.
and fauour ſwæte, and although it bee taken, it maketh not
any haꝛribleneſſe, as the other Ballamo doeth, it hatha
moſt excellent ſmell, like ta Vimons, inſomuch that where Tbe workes
ſaeuer it bee, the good imell thereof giueth greate contenté e Fectes of
ment, and it cannat bee hidden, foꝛ à little of it ſmelleth; this Balſamo.
much:and if vou rubbe pour bande therewith, there remax⸗
neth a maruellous ſmell. The works thereat are excellent How they
and verie groate, faꝛ that it is licaur which is taken out bp cure a it.
inciſton, as they taoke out in oldꝛ time the Balſama in &⸗
gypt· and fo al tyote neee ee eee
. iB Ace

It heslethalf évounted, comifagtingtyiapaites ate
loining them without making any matter and without lea
bing any ũ gne of them. The ſuperfluity that is in tze woũd
mut be takt awaꝝ of what fort ſoeuer it be, æ waſhed with
wine, z ioyned wel in the lips ¢ partes theres, and then tze
Balſamo laid to it when the colaneſſe is aut ot᷑ it, and ſuzth⸗
wit ij a double linnen cloth von it, wat in the fame Balſa⸗
ma, and fs baunde that the lippes gu no a ſunder and keeps
ing diet, and vſing letting of bloadif it bee ner dfull, and not
unbindiug it untill tze Furth day, and they Gall finde
the waunde caomlaꝛted, except that there bee anyacets
dent; which cauſeth it to bee vndone befsze . And
ae cauſe is ſuch , that it requireth to nee

a

*

*

In diſcaſes

that belong
meets Surge

rie.

The tkyrde pam ofthe thinges that

euery dap, by reiterating the wet K innen cloth in the Wale
ſamo, it will ber healed, faz the bertue ofthe Balſamo is to
cauſe that there bee nd matter engendꝛed in the woundes,
and eſpetially this Balſamo dooeth profite in woundes,
where there hath beens cuttinges of bones, taking them
aut that haue beene deuided ons from anather, and nat tou⸗
ching the relt, fo that the vertue of the Ballama will caſte
them out and hauing fe done, wil heale the waunde. One of
the thinges wherein this Balſamo woꝛketh great effeces,
is in wounds and iointes, and in cuttings of Sine wes, and
in al prickes:fo2 in all theſe kindes of waundes it makethj a
maruellous wooꝛke, curing and pꝛeſeruing them kram er⸗
treame tolde, and from running together of Sine wes, that
they remains not lame. The wounds which doe penetrate,
are healed with this Balſamo, beeing mingled with white
wine, and ſpouting it into them, and after three houres ta⸗
king it out again Chis mutt be dane in wounds 02 pꝛickes,
once euer dap, tłhat it may goe with a moderate heat Likes
Wile this Balſamo ſerueth to be applyed, where haue beene
giuend2y blowes, oꝛ bꝛuſinges, and fo2 al works of Surges
ry, where is no notable inflammation, which beeing taken
_ Sivay with the medicines , that are conusnient fo2 it, ths

Balſamo may then be vſed. 5
In euilles which belong not to Surgerie this Balſamo
doth profit much, as in him that haththe chaztnes of breath,

by taking a fewe dzoppes in whyte wine it profiteth hym

much: it taketh away the griet or the head cõming ofa cold
tauſe, and a litle Plaiſter being laide vpon the griefe, and

wette there with to the temples of the head, taketh away
all runninges by thofe partes, and in eſpetially the euils of
the evxes, and Reumes that runne into them, beeing layd to
the fore part of the head and it muſt bee good and hot. It ta
keth atway the paines ot it, and comfoꝛteth it, and rentedys
eth the Palſte. Some that haue beene in a —

are brought from the weft Indias. Fol. io)

haue vled it, taking ſome dzoppes in the moꝛning, licking

them out of the Palme of the hand, and they haue felt nota⸗

ble pꝛoũt. And it maketh cleane the bꝛeſt very wel it is gad

to take ſome dꝛoppes with Aqua vita, hat, before any maner

et tolde in a Quarterne Ague, oꝛ ofa long impaꝛtunate ter /

tian Ague, annopnting with the fame Balſamo, mingles

with Dyle of Rd the Temples ofthe heade, good and hot, i
before the colde dooth come. It with the Balſamo they an⸗ =.
noput themfelucs from the mouth of the ſtomacke to the “ae
Paul, it comfoztett the ſtomacke, it giueth a luſt to meate,

it helpeth digeſtion, it diſlolueth Aindes it takethawaye
the paines ofthe ſtomack, and it wozketh farre better theſe
effects, itthe halfe ofthe Balſams be mingled with another
halfe ak Ople of Spike Nard: compaunded az fimple, and
ſwitis better applyed. There is great experience of tt in the
Indias, fa ſwellinges that are in the maner of Oꝛopſies:
and mingling it with ointment, diſopilatius, of equal parts,
and annointing the belly thert with chiellye the parte neere

p Lunges , tere are feene wrought thore with great effeas:
it diſſolueth any manner of ſwelling oꝛ hardnes 5ᷣ is in any
parte of the body, and being laide vpon any pains that com⸗
meth of a colde cauſe, although it be of long continuaunce . it
takethit atwap, bꝛinging it to be ſoſmall vtil it fal ok it felf,
the lame it Booth wyerefoeuer is any winde. and if it bet in
the bellp oz in an parte oi the body, wetting a L innen cloth
hatte in Aqua vite ofthe bet, and applying itte the place,
where the grecfe of the tone is: and mingle Z with Dyle .
made fo2 the purpoſe it maketh a great wooꝛke, it taketh a⸗
wave the paines of the Sine wes, and when they be ſhꝛonk
together, in a ver bet weather, rubbing them with it, it diſ⸗
folueth them. The euil called the Lan par one: Chat are open

a3 ſhutte it health Many other effedtes this maruellous lis
conr weꝛketi which I haue not knowen but theſe which J
baue knowen Aeta buen Sar HEP

4 b : E. ‘

ie profite by fomarueliousa Meditine, which bath o
many vertues as pou u haue hearde, and every day the tym
willdirrnerether greater, ; : mae

2 : : . * thirde, =
i and la ) 2

ee bookes doe containe, Ae 4 ee

In the firft — Okthe 5 kol. 23
Of the Nuicke sulpbure.
F the Anime t Car fol. 30.
pall. fol. 1. Of Arramatike wocd fu. 1
Okthe Tacamahaca

fol. Ss Inthe fecondBooke, ee

Of the Caranna. fol. 4. a
Ok, the Ople ofthe Figse F the Tabaco. 50.3 4.

Dithe Summe. fol. 5. — Dftbe Sarin Sande
Okthe Liquid Ambar and fol. ag 5

the oyle thereof. fol. G. DespaintSlens weve. 59.

Okthe alſamo. fol. 7. Ok the Ouacatane. fol. Co.

Ok Guaiacã ¢ holy wd. 12. Df the mall Barly. fol. 62.

Ok the China. fol. 13. The Epiſtle from the Peru.

Okt the Sarcaparillia. fol. 15 fol 64, “4

DF the blood tene anotie Ok the blocdofD2age, 71
Aerne, fon the dileaſe ofthe Drthe Armadiie. wi ae
ffons. - fol. 1 8. Dithe daimer al Pech:

Ate eee Tarot
. 0 of sect 7
atthe Peper of the India. fol. gis 20. ee

7 20. Stthetans Pepe 0.77 8
sre oa sees Of Boom 1 4 1

pis se es. iaqwmill.
a 21. stanbar ene,

Orthe Purgat

. “Srp nase f, Indi,

bol 89. „
Di tbe winnas, fol 0. whether one thall liue oꝛ

Or the Suaiauas. fol. 90. die. een,

Okthe Tachos. fol. 9 1. Ok the Granadillia. fol. 97.

Okthe flowers of blod. fol. 92 „F

F :
Keumes. fol. 92. Of the Summe that is ta⸗
Or the Pacal. ibid. ken out from under the
Ok the Paico, ibid, ground. fol 98.

Ot an bearbe fo; the euill of Of the Bezaar ſtones ofthe
the Reines. ibid. Peru. fol. 98.

Pk the kruite which groweth Of the Figge Trees altge

vnder the ground. fol. 93. Peru. fal. 1000
eee eee fol. 100

93. Ok the Colours of dyuers

c ang See groundes fol, 102

a Ok the Cafani, fol. 103.
Okthe Crabbes ofthat Porn Dithe Canes fo ſhoꝛtneſſe

try. fol. 94. ol beeath. fol. 104.
Dithe Cardonen. bol. 94. Df the Carla Sands. 105.

DF an dearbe unn fo) them De ane athe Pots. M4

that are bzoken, fol. 9 5. 105.

Dette verum. ade 7 nein Con |

Ry 5
*
i „
71

fh

—

bee

L
*

> eee
W A 5 a
. —

„ Zocoke which treatethi.

/ two medicines moſt ex-
ellent againſt all venome, which|,

here fhall be feene greate ſecretes in
mellicine and many experiences.

are the Bezaar ſtone, & the hearbe

Eſcuerconera.

noms & the order which is to be
vled for to be preſerued
from them.

1

Newly compyled by Doctor
@ 14 7 7

Ad onardus of Seu 101.
1574.

Tranſlated out of Spanifh into
Englith,by lohn Frampton.
130

® | VV herein ate declared their mar-| oe
uellous effectes & great vertues, with
che manner ho we to cure the ſayd ve-

A anſten Edward Dyer Efquicr, —

John Frampton witheth increaſe of
all woorthip with perpetual!
et Nint.

4 Inding heretofore,Ryght Wor-
ſhipfull, my former tranſlation
out of Spaniſh into Englyſp, of
4 the woorke of Doctor Monar- 2
dus of Seuyll treating ofthinges 5
of the Wealte Indias, to bee
% fome-thing paincfull to mee,
8 not before accuuftomed in tran-
lations, in tongues fo farre differing in Phrale
ol ſpeech: I was forced to cutte off, and to leaue three.
Bookes of the whole worke yndone, dedicated vnto .
three honourable Perfons whereof the fir Boke
doeth theweas well the great and rare Vertuesofthe ~
~ Bezaar {tone of the Eaſt India againſt Poyſon, hotte,
or colde, as alſo his wonderfull force agaynſte the
Plague and Peftilence , and many other difea
as hath in olde time beene written | by the moſt ex:

‘cellent ‘Phifitions „ and as Doctor Mobardus a

‘others the learned of this ourtyme, nowe in thys

age finde by prefent proofe: The fecondeofthele

three bookes dooeth open the vafpeakeasle verte
ia Phiſicke of yron and ftecle, and howe ale

ſes of the bodie from the toppe of the heade tothe
foale of the foote may be cured by the ſame, ſo as no
drugge in the worlde is thoughtto bee comperable
tothefame, The thyrd book ſhe weth the mifchiefes
that growe by drynkyng of drinkes whotte, and
what Benefite dooeth followe by drinking our
drynkes colde, &c. And Syr, finding many thank- —
fullye to take my fayde former fimple trauell too
you heeretofore dedycated: and your Woorthippe
Aboue all defert of my parte to recompence the
ſame, and beeyng earneſtlye and often exhorted by
che learned Phiſition Maiſtep Doctor Hector nonnts
totranſlate theſe ſaide 3. Bookes alſo, the remaneat
ol Monardus woorkes, and to make my Country men
of Englande pettakers of the benefite of the fame, I
tooke it in hande, as inflamed with the great com-
mendations that this learned man made of the
layde three Bookes, and efpecially of the Booke
treating of the benefite of yron and ſteele in Phi-
ficke. And hauing nowe thus finiſhed the whole
Woorke, I dedicate the fameto your Worſhip, as to

che man to whome I am moſte bound, and that dooth

and weighing that by our Perfian Marchantsand by
other meanes the Bezaar ſtone this greate Iewell is
brought into the Realme,and may bee compaſſed in
this our time for alittle money: And withall,weigh-
ing that Iron and ſteele bee thinges tending ſo much
tothe cure ol all diſeaſes, and bee the naturall home
commodities of England and ſuch as are common,
and that are both eaſily and cheaply to bee had by
euerie poore ſubiect, I haue the rather for the ready
benefite that might enſue, taken the diſpatch of the
tranflation in hande with purpoſe no longer to
keepe the fame out of ptintè: and fo I mofthum-
bly rake my leaue, from London the xy, of Iune.

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Buches of Beiar;Marquefa of Ayemontey and
of Gibraleon , Counteſſe of Benalcafar and of Banares,
Lady of the townes of Burguillos, Capilla, and Curiell
and their Iuriſdictions, and my verie good La-
dy, Doctor Monardu; your Phiſition,
wwiſheth health, &c.

Uch as are acenftomed to Write any
worke, right excellent Lady dedicate
the fame tofome great Prince, r Lord

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T be Booke which treatethof twoo me- F

dicines moſt excellent againſt all venome,to fay, the
Bezaar ſtone, and thehearbe Eſcuerconera. Whereupon
are written dyners maruellous effettes nowenevecly
compyled by Doctor Monardus Phifi-
| tion of Seuill.

euill: whereas Man onelp, beeing left deſtitute thereatenat
knoluing What is conuenient fo2 himſelfe, neither chunnett
oꝛ auoydeth that thing which oath anoxye him. Calbichit ves
bee not taught to knowe: 02 offysetone underſtanding
hee doott not weigh: it commeth to paſe that hee ſucker
manptroubles, and that ſuddenipe there bappeneth onto
amongſt thole

r pci u f. der at i. bg d
tao be pꝛaude Ft 1

Jol. 2). OftheBezaarftoneand .,

betwaple him beereok: in that ſo little a — can aad
ee him, and fo mall a fruite oz fene may deftroye

Againſt all thete venomes as wel in general as in parti⸗
cular, the Whifitious as wel Greekes as Arabiens ¢ Lati⸗
niſtes wꝛote effectual remedies as well general as partitu⸗
lar. Amongeſt the which they put one in practife, that in
tymes paſt was had in great eſtimation, and taken fo? a
pꝛeſent remedy, fo2 the greate vertues and maruellous ef
fetes, whiche it wꝛought againſt all venomes and acci⸗
dentes thereof, which they called the Ber aur ſtone But
as tyme is the diſcouerer of all thinges: ſo is it the de⸗
Troyer and conſumer of euery thing: foxin hauing been hid
fo long from vs, wee knewe na moze what the Becaa tone
was, then as if it had neuer beene: and the name thereof
was fo Grange and vnknowne vnto vs, euen as the townes
in Scitia Time it felfe willing to reſtoꝛe again vnto bs this
precious one hidden from vs fo many peeres:not one lp dif
couered the ſame vnto vs, but iointly ther with hath deſcried
vnto vs an hearbe, which hath the like vertues andeffectes
againtt all manner of venome, which hearbe is called Z
cuerconera, hauing beene diſtauered but a fewe peeres pal

5 to our exteeding great profit and commoditie.

The 1 And becaufe theſe twoo thinges, to wit, the Bec
Eſcuercone- one aeethe Vearbe Efcuerconera, bee fo Ichs in oper
re. ration, and haue fo many and the ſelfe fame vertues, ar
23ẽimtz venome, that z determined to wzite of them both
fogeather, and to ſhewe the proper Uertues of ticle
Fs eee is needefull firſt
to knawe, e treate ef the Wenemes as a bes

ofthe hearbe Eſcuerconera. Fol. if.
wil ſerue not a litle fo2 the intent of that which we minde to
wꝛite of the Beraar ſtone, and the hearbe S cuerconera.
UNenom is a thing, which beeing taken at the month, oꝛ
appiped outwardly dooth suereome our bodies, by making
them ficke, oꝛ bycozrupting of them, oz by killing them: and
this is founde in one ol the ſe foure thinges: in plants in mi⸗
nerals, in beaſts, 02 in mixtures, d which woꝛketh their el⸗
fectes, ether by manifeſt qualitie, 02 by hidden pꝛopertye,
oꝛ both. The ſe venoms partly do kill vs:partly ws vſe them
for our profite and bodily health, and partely the people of
auncient time did vſe them foꝛ a remedy againſt their great
labours. Chat which doth offend us as well in general, as
in particular, Déo/corides in bys firth books of his biffozy of Diafeorides
Plantes doeth treate of verp exaaly, putting in general ;
theſe remedies, and in particular, that which is conueuient
fo2 euer one of them: and the fame did other Gres ks, Latte
niſtes, and Arabians, which are tu be ſeene, wa will moze
particularly know of them. 5 7
Thele did write of many medicines, with the which euerx A
one may pꝛeſerue themſelues from payſan: fo2 the malice ot ,
mankinde is very great, and many haue procured foꝛ their odd
tntereft, and reuenge, not onely with vename ta offend and
kill the commen ſoꝛzte of people: but alſo Cmperours,
Ringes. great Pꝛinces and Lods:the which in how much
moꝛe high eſtate they are appointed and placed, fo much the
moꝛe danger thepare in. f
And manpe notable men ofthe olde MMzxters fea⸗
ryng this, did compounds many and diuers meditines, that
by meanes ofthem theymight not be hurte by benom oꝛ ve⸗
nemous ttinges that might be giuen them. As ſoꝛ example, gperor
the Emptrour Marco Antonio did tie ſuche thinges, WhO Azarco
fearing to be poyſoned tookeeucrpmozning a little Tria: Antonio.
tle and Methꝛidate. Sometimes his confedion Pethzina“
tita, ethet tunes certexne leaues ol Rue. with Huttes and
eed 5 3 figges

Of the Bezaar {tone and of
SFigges: and fo they did vſe the like medicines betauſe they
promt hot be offended with benome,ifany were ginen vn⸗
totem. e eee e
Others there bee which doo vle venome foo remedye
andheale many diſeaſes: and likewyſe the Wbifitions
doo bfe them to expell and evacuate the Humsurs that doo
abounde ouer muche in our Bodies : fez that this cat
not bee Deore effectually, vnleſſe there bee bfed biolence
aàgainſt nature, ſo Che purgatine medicines beeing ſtrong,
dos not Wants Genome: trueth it is that it is procured
with all dylygence too coꝛrecce and prepare them, but
although that thys bes doone, pet alwapes there dooth res
mapne venome where with that wooꝛke is made fo ſtrong.
Also they vſe venomes in Surgerie, withthe which
they doo reste out and eate the naughtye fleche and the
fuperfuitpe of woundes, and doo open and ſerue to burne.
„ QAhere it isneedefull lpkewiſe the venomes doo pzeſerue
Quickfilner. from diſeaſes: as Quickſpluer beeyng tarryed about, one
a doseth pꝛeſerue Childꝛen from the euill of the eye:and the
Sublimatum Sublimatum from the Plague. 3 knewe one that kepte
fccke people in an Bofpitall , where they dyd healemanve
e. that were ficke ofthe Plague: And with carrying conti⸗
8 nuallp a peete of Sabimarxm neere tute his bearte , it
N neuer came to hym, nepther was hee ſycke of ane ſuche

Others in olde times being Inſidels did ble venoms,
where with they deliuered themſelues from euill Deathes,
Iniuries, ez perpetuall Slauerpe, whiche haus beene tar
ren alxue thepthouloe haue ſuffered. As Demofthenes,

4

Folus

Ofthe hreabe Efcuerconera. *
whyche he carried in a King: and Hannibal When her
ſawe him felfe ouercome : lpketwple Cleopatra betauſe (leopara.
Pompeio ſhoulde net tryumphe over her: and manee o. Pompeio
thers for to deliuer themſelues from vile Death, whych
they looked fo2,hadrather fo take it with their own hands,
. — too ſutfer their Enemies tyzannous trxumppe auer
em. R

The principall tokens whereby it is knowen when Tokensofrhe
one is benomed, oꝛ bath taken Genome after he bath eas hem that
ten oꝛ dꝛunke, are; if bee dos feele foozthwith very great ucnomed.
heauineſle; and bee ouerladenas it were in all the bodie,
with greate faintneſſe; 02 doe vomite, and that out of his
ſcomac ke, there doeth come an hoꝛrible ſauour; the colour ot
bis face to chaunge ſometymes vellowe, other times pale;
oz elſe too bee of the talour ol Earth, and ol theſe colsurs
they doe chaunge their lippes, their naples, and all the bo⸗
dis; they are fo diſquieted that they cannot Land neither
on their feete-, noz lpe in their bedde, but rather with
kapntneſſe and gviefe they tumble in their bedde, andon
the groundeʒ they doe feele at their heart greate ſapntneſſe,
and are ſubiecte too ſoundinges, and are dꝛiuen foo bos
mite, pet they cannot; the whyte of the eyes doe turne
too the colour of blonde and are inflamed; they locke
with a furious countenaunce and hoꝛrible; their Pulſes
beate out ot oꝛder; and lyke wiſe their breathing; and a⸗
boue all, an vniuerſall Colde, thꝛoughout all their bos

And chiellp in the lower partes , and this is ton,
vable br the benen they baue Caken den if the ur,

‘Dutiout Juogement ir the benome bec botte , thee
‘aes tooled ao dere opt) grete Sue xd

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Page Ofthe Bezaar ſtone and
and in ward and outward burning, that it ſcemeth to them
they are fired, a f
-Toknow It is alfoneceffarie (to know what venome they tooke)
what venoms foꝛ tod fe the vomite, and what they doe caſte vp withall,
it was. to iudge by the colour what UNenome it was: and beeing
knowen by this way, oz by Relation, oꝛ otherwaies bes
vng apparaunt, it mul be remedied by his contrarie, lo
to extinguich and kill the malice thereof, as all the aunti⸗
ent Phiſitions haue ſuffitiently wꝛitten ok, as well in
generall agaynſt all, as in particular againſt euerie one of
them, foꝛ that euerie one bath his contrarie effects foꝛ to re⸗
: medie the malice thereof, ee
Ei The tokens that be molt euill in them that haue taken
will fignes. Genome, by often ſoundinges, and to caſt vp the white of
their eies they doe ware verie red, and put out their tongue
verie great, and blacke, and the pulſo fall, colde ſweet vui⸗
uerſally thꝛoughout all their bodie, chiefly in the extreame
parts, and in their bꝛeaſtes, and they are deſtrous to vomit,
but cannot, andthey haue their vnderſtanding troubled:and
this is in alkinde of venom being taken, oꝛ by bitings of ve⸗
nomous beaſtes, in fo much that they talke polelpas though
they had the frenfie which is a moꝛtall figne. ”
To know It is nedfull,foz the better knowledge what Uenont it
whar venom Was, that it bee ſtene it there did remaine any thing of that
ns. Which they had eaten oz dꝛunken, and toler what was that
Which was mingles there with, iudging it by the colour, the
imell and the taſte, oz giuing it to a Dogge, a Hen oꝛa Cat,
and marke how it wozketh with them. Foz if any ef them
waxe ſadde oꝛ heaup, it is a token that there is venom: and
ifthep die, it is a taken that the benom was rong,
Tuecure. And being knowen ts bee benomed the fire thing that is
: fo bee pꝛacured, is that be which is ficke doe vomite, which
is the tging that doth moſt profit bycaule there ſhould be no
time foꝛ the venam to enter, by the baines, and arteires, ſoʒ
N io come to the heart, taz it it come thither, it is paſt a.

5

of the Hearbe Efcuerconera.

delpe: and therefore it is tonuenient that this remedye of
Aomite be done with all (pede, that it may be expelled,
before it paſſe fromthe Stomacke . And faz to cauſe Tas
mite, there muff bee pꝛoturedtzinges that in very ſhoꝛte
time will pꝛouoke it, as to put the fingers in hotte water,

and ttze molke common thinge is [weete Ople, drinking

muche quantitie thereofin ſuche ſoꝛte, that they ſil their
Wellies theretvith : that it may the better bee expelled:
the whych hauing reteiued, they hall with their Fyne
Sers,o2 feather pronoke them to vomit, which muſt be done
vntill that yon perteiue that all that be expelled, and caſte
out which was eaten oꝛ dꝛunken, which did hurte. And it
the Ople bee not ſutkicient too dose this, there may be
made thinges fo2 to caule vomite, beginning by the mofke
Meake, as the ſcething of Dill , the Seede of Radithe
of Camamell and other like thinges , that dooe pro»
woke omits , adding to the teething , ik it bee nerdlul,
a Damme of Agarico, the which alttzought it doe pres
noke vomite frengly, it hath alls the pꝛopertie to bꝛeake
the ſtrength or the venoame Some foꝛ a greate ſecrets
doe giue a Pinte ol Mater ot the Flowers of Ozenges
warme, which although it dabeth pꝛouake Gonnte, it bath
alfo a particular bertuc foo extinguſhe, and kill the
ſcrength of the Aenome, it muſte bee giuen hotte the
_ Quantitie ofa Pinte. And heereok it commeth that

the Mater taken out ol the Flowers of Ozenges which
is a kinde of Cydroz , hath greate vertue againſte Ges
name , as we haue witten in a little Booke which ts
printed with others of mine in Latine, that doeth treate
of Oꝛenges. It is very good that withthe thinge which
prouoketh vomite , there bee mingled thinges that haue
aes ee ee beereafter wee will treate

Os *

~ 5 *

Oyle of Vie
37 sole.

Ofthe Bezaar ſtone and 3

© Gn our time there bath beene compounded and
dꝛawen out an Ople, wich they tall Ople of Uitrioll,
or Coporace, and it is taken to bee that enely whych is
maſte excellent fo2 too expeli and caffe out Aenome, and
fo2 tao extinguiſhe the malice of as many thinges as are
nowe knowne faa bee venomous: by taking fire dꝛoppes
thereof with ſome Coꝛdiall water, for that it maketh the
Gienante foo bee vom ted out, extinguching the malice
of the benome . And not onelp this Ople of Gitryall
dodeth pꝛofite vs fo any manner ot Aenome, but alſo it is
founde out to bee an effecuall remedy for many other inſir⸗
mities, as Exvonimsins Doocth ſhewe beeyng a greate A
cumſte, and alſo verie well learned in all kinde of edi
Bes that ſhall cure them that haue taken Aenome
muſte haue a ſpeciall cars at the firſte too procure Ao;
mite, for that it is the pꝛincipall and firſt grounde, foꝛ to
go abont to ture and heale them of venom, to miniſter ſuch
medicines that will pꝛouoke vomite.
And the Gontite beeing pꝛocured, there muſt bes
giuen after warde too him that is ſicke, medicines that
baue particular vertue fo2 too take away, and kill the
force that the Weneme hath lefte in bis Stomacke and
other peincipall Members. And fooꝛthwith it muſt be pꝛo⸗
tured to Rnowe what manner of Genome in particular
the ficke Perſon hathtaken : foz that beeing knowen,
Boe foorthwith too Droftersdes , Galen, Pauls, e Aui-
cen, and other Authours; fo they pꝛeſcribe the remedies

—

in particular againſt euerie one ofthe laide venomes, of the

which ther doe waite at large, J lo bee that anp of tye

lenome haue ſtaped ſo long in the bodie that it be deſ⸗
fended Dolunefothe Outtes , fo that it cannot bee expels

led bp bounte , let them vle a gentle gliſter, that they max
dure by Stats the benone that weite fo tot

es

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of the hearbe Eſcuercohera. 3 Fol. ins a

Itthey knowe not what Aenome the licke perlon tooke, Hor venome.

it mut bec ſeene by the Accidentes of the Aenome which
ill chew whether it be hot oꝛ told: foꝛ ifthe venome be hot.

the kate wilbe inflamed and great heate wilbe inwardly, ¢

beating outwardly ouer al the bodie, the cies red, the nailes
wollen, an extreame dꝛieth with ſome heate, with bur /
nynges, and beatinges in the Stomacke : then it is cere
tayne that the Aenome is hotte, and accozding thereunte
the remedpes muſte bee gyuen. And although they haue
greate vertue agaynſt Aenome, and doo alter and take ar
Way the euil heate that is impꝛeſt in the members being re.
teyued inwardelp, withtheſe Medicines that bee againſt
Poyſon, and whiche are serꝝ celde and Coꝛdiall: pet muſt
they bee applyed outwardely vppon theſe Pembers molt
pꝛincipall, ioyntlve with the vie of good Meates, eaſpe
and diffeluatine,altered with colde Coꝛdial thinges which
are of a contrarye diſpoſition in operation agaputte the
heate, and that may ertinguilge the malice and force of the
Genome, eae: a

*

But if the Ateidentes bee in luche forte that OM Cold ven,

percepue the Uenome too bee colde, as though the fick
Perion were in a Dzeame oz in a Traunce after the

haue berfue foo beate and too take awape the colde as
well inwardely as outivardel

| Denwme of
bu one
| properties

- ‘Of the Bezaar ftoneand a

muſt bee gyuen the remedyes, that are too bee doene fos
the Cures and Difeates that the Aenome is tauſe of: not
forgetting the pꝛincipall cauſe whiche is to kill and to

ccrope the malice , that is the tauſe theres with the me ⸗
dicines and Remedies that 4 well fpeake of heereat⸗

ter.
Ikhee that hath taken Nenome do not perceine no:

ö Eibe ind üs tt b tant Bee tooke, noʒ

the Accidentes thereof doo ſhewe: At is to bee thought
that it was of the Wenomes whiche dos they? woozke ol
thep2 one pꝛopertie whiche is the Wooꝛſte of all kynde
ol Uenomes: then it is conusntent that there bes had
moꝛe care procuring vomqptte, and that it bee effectually
boone , as it is afozefapde . And if any bee defended
into the Guttes , let him haue a gentle Glitter that in
all properties hatha knowne vertue agapnſt Ueneme,
whiche remedies are called Becearticas, the whiche muſte
bee bfed at all tymes with his meate, and dꝛynke, pꝛo⸗
curing the inwarde and out warde comforting of the pꝛin⸗
cipall members, and bifng Meates of Subſtaunce, that
mape gpus great ikrength, taken out by a ſmall Pꝛeſſe
and in anpe other forte that is needefull, in the which

eee put thinges that haue Uertue agaynſte

ate oe of bensn e eee

eee

~ ofthe herbe Efeuerconera. —-Folny

les and other tompoundes: and becauſe there are many
ol the one and of the other, 3 will ſpeake of them that are

moſt vled and wher is len greater erperiente of thẽ which

are compounded. C he pꝛincipall is the triacle that 4d”

macho Wrote of the whithe if it bee well made, is the malte T, ;

pꝛintipall editine of as many as euer haue beene com-

pounded againſt al kinde of venome. And although it bee of

a true tompoſition vet there lacketh ſome Medicines als

waies ta dos that which is polſible, we doo fee that in thys

taſe it sooth maruellous effedes, and not onely being taken

With fome water made fo2 the purpoſe, but allo ber vng put

ints pꝛickes oꝛ bytinges of venemaus beaſtes and like wiſe

in Apoſtomes full of poyſon, which are made in the time of

the plague. | 5

The Methꝛidate is of a very great effecd, in this caſe. % hide

and doth ferue ſometymes for triacis. Chat of Cidꝛonb and , come

Emraldes deo make a marueltous woozke, in all venome. % d-

Che Carth Sicillara hath a pzersgatine aboue them, elpeci /.

ally in feuers lohich haue an euil qualitie. he triacle Ds-

rhefaron,is foꝛ the pur poſe in tolde benoms and in bytinges

of venemous Wealtes, and in eſpetiallp in the bytyng ofa

beat that is madde. And fo von haue many other compoun⸗

hed Medicines that haue vertue and pꝛopertpe againſt ve

nom but thefe which J haue fpeken of, are the mol paint

pal, and found mol true by erperiene e.
The imple Meditines bee many, the moſt principal is

the earth Leni Wee 8
tiallyof Galen, who onl to ſet it, and to ſee goto the preted c:
bibmake it, faplen tothe Alande of Lemorthat at this uae fee,
is called Ef alimene, whithe is the ö

Dicine thatth

—_

_ Ofthe Bezaar ftone and :
hurte by any venomous hearbes, fo; by eating thereof then
Are healed. : *
Efeerdeen. Che Eſcordeon is of fo greate vertus in pꝛeſeruing
from coꝛruption, hat in a Battaile the dead bodies whiche
were fallen downe vppon this hearbe, were long time pꝛt⸗
ſerued without any putrefaction : and the others which fell
not on this hearbe, were found very rotten and in peeces ·
7 The ſeede ol the Cydꝛon are of maruellous c ffede agaynſt
The Rede benont,as Athenco doth ſhewe, in a large hiſtoꝛie treating
, tberck. he fame vertue baue the (mall grains of Djenges,
Salle ſeing that they are necre to the nature of Cidꝛons. The bone
of the hart, ol the Deere called} Hart, is ofgreat vertue as
: gainſt benoit and ſoundings of the heart, the fame dooth the
Precious 3928, it Doth heale maruellenũiy the Jaunvite.ofp which 3
3 haue {ene greate experience in many All precious ſtones
5 Efmeraldes haue the ſame vertue againſt venom, in efpecially, the Jar
fs int, the pearles, much moze the Emraldss of the whiche
being taken nine graines it doth refit al venem, and in the
infirmities that are of paplon,chiefip tober there are pricks.
| ol venemous beatkes,¢ in ſtooles of blood being bencmous,
The nicorn and in feuers of an euill qualitie. The true Anicoꝛnes hoꝛn
. is a thing of moſt effete aboue all others, and where in
meſte experience is ſouunde , whereof there is but lyttle
bzptten . Dnely Philoflrato in the lyfe of Apolonio,
ſapeth that itis agaynſt Genome, the wyiche the late wꝛy⸗
ters did ampliſie. It is conuenient that it bee the true Ani⸗
copies borne, by reaſon there is much falſe and fayned- 4
ſawe in this Cittie a Aenetian that bꝛougbt hittzer a peece
lerpe greate, and he aſked fo it ſyue hundzeth Crownes,
and in my pꝛeſence bee made experience ot it. Mee tooke
„o pa ig
erokeoswelyooter and dyd thꝛoughthe Creſtes ot
= eee bene ait common swat, n

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ofthe Hearbe Eſcuerconera. Fol,n0.

the other hee qanenothing at all: this died within one
quarter ofan houre, the other that tooke the Unicoꝛnes
hoꝛne, dured out twa daies, but he woulde not cate, and at
the ende ofthem hee died as dꝛyas aſticke. J dose bees
losue if it had berne giuen to a man that hee had not oped,
bycauſe hee hath the wayes me bꝛoade, and thereby hee
map expell from him the poyſon, and to hem myght bes
giuen other remedies, by meanes whereof with the Gs
nitcoꝛnes home hee might haue beene deliuered. DF all
thefe medicines J dor compaunde certaine pouders, that
are well knowen by their manifeſt qualitis „ as alſo by
their hidden pꝛoperties, which haue great vertues ¢ are of
great efficacie againſte all venomes, and foꝛ Peſtilent fer
tiers, oz it they haue any euill qualitie, oꝛ toberefocuer
there ber an euill humour oꝛ a cauſe venomed, they take sf
the earth Lemnia 93 our Belearmenike pꝛepared, the
aight of eighteens pence , the fede of Ciorens, Eſcerde-
on, Diptamo,peatles prepared of cuerie one the waight of
twelue pence, the bones of a Deere called a Harte, Juozie,
the Waight of fir pence of euerie one the Unitoꝛnes home,
and the Bezaar fone, ifit bee to bee had the waight of rr.
graines, let them be made in ſmal pouders, and let there be
mingled with them ten leaues of golde, ol the which there
Tall bee vied the waight of thee pence, with foie twas
ter made fozthe fame purpofle.sfez the effece that it muſte

bec ordained it mut be taken many daies fading, and it

away the ſtrength of the venome, and pꝛelling Dolone
the force thereof, comfoꝛting the bearte; andthe reſt bed |

euill difpofition , faz it taketh awap the venomous mas

Note.

a

—

85 Olche Bezaar ftone and

* in vayne. Like wile it is to be giuen ts them that are bitten
5 with venomaus beaſtes, oꝛ pꝛicked of them, betauſe it may
a krtinguich and kil the malice of the venome. And although
~ that thefe pouders are of ſa much vertue as aſoꝛeſaide, the
3 Bezaar ſfone is of greater vertue and extellentie, toꝛ that in
it alone is founde all the vertues and properties that are in
all medicines which we haue already ſpoken of by his on
pꝛopertie hidden and by grate from heauen intulſed into it a⸗
gainſt venomes: which von thal find tobe the beſt and mot
eſent Seer ofall others.as we wil ſhew in that which

felloine 0 a

n ene

Dis Beer fone bath many names: fo;
W . the Arabiens doe call it Hagar, the pert,

N s ans Ber aar „ the Indians Bezar, the
i bvebzewes Bek aar, the Graekes Alexi-

Wi
2 i ey | obarncacum the Latiniſtes again venem,

Spaniardes the Tone againſt venom -

Ofthe hearbe Eſcuerconera. Fol it

net ingendzed: and like wile in byꝛdes, and ũches, & rattes
okthe field. gs
linie in bis 2 8-booke-the.o. Chapter, faicth that the Pirie,
wilde harts goe to tge hollow places where ſnakes and fers
pents are, and with their bꝛeath doe bing them foꝛth and
tate them Andthis is gathered hereby, that they doe it eps
ther to heale them of ſome diſeaſe, oꝛ to ware yong againe,
that they may liue many peeres. The Arabiens doe ampli
fie this cauſe and fay, that the wild Barts by eating ofthels
lerpentes, tome to ingender the Beraar ſtone: and they de⸗
clare it in this manner, i ae
In theſe Gatk parts are bꝛed tertaine beaſtes, which are Hier.
called Darts, which fa; the great heat of the Sommer gee.
into the caues and hollowe places, where the adders and
ſnakes and other vermin being of poyſon are, which in that
country be many and verie venomdus, bycauſe the country
is ſo hut: and with their bꝛeth they dꝛiue them out, andtread
vpon them, and kill them, and eate them, and after they are
filled with them, they goe as ſperdilx as they can where was
ter is, and they plunge themfelucs therein, in ſuch ſoꝛt that
they leaue no parts of their bodies out, but their ſnolut, faꝛ
ta fetch their bꝛeath: z this they da, that with the colones of.
the water they may delay the greate heate or the venome.
which they haue eaten: and there ther remaine without
dꝛinking a dꝛoppe of water, vntil they haue alaxed and cos
led that feruent heat, wherein they were by feeding vppon
the benomous bermine. And being in the water there ath
ingender in the places where the dzops ol water tummeth
foozthof their eyes, a ſtone, which being came kooꝛth of the
water, falleth frem them, and it is gathered vp fu toe vlt of
medicine. This is that in effec tubich the Arabiens Dee
wzite of the manner bole the Bes as tone is ingender ev:
A bane procursd and with great diligence fought of find out
bp uch as hane come from the India of Portingaland (cH

} . f of thys
saan pat rng je Chinato kai fhe hene

Ofthe Bezaar ſtone and

f matter:and it is thus, |

3 — oF - In the greateſt zndia, (where Prolomeo beth boite ts
ingendered bee founde fo much gooves, and ſa greate riches before the
Kiuer Ganges in certains Mountaines which poos iopne
with the Country of China) there dooe bꝛeede certapns
beatles like to Hartes, as well in greatneſſe as in ſwilt⸗
nete, and are verie much like vnts Hartes, ſauing in forma
tefpede they doe participate with goates , as well in their
$oznes which they haue like a goate, beeing turned backe⸗
warde, as ia the making ofthe bodie: whereby they gius
them the mane of Goates of the mountaine wherein in mx
Opinion thcp are deceiued, fo: they rather onght to bee cal⸗
led Partegoates, in that they haue the parts and likeneſſes
ef hoch, which is ol a Harte and er a Soate. Theſe atte
geates im khoſe partes doog ble themſelues Ipke to the
Bartes, that Plinie ſpeaketh ot, in theſe plates as is afoze+
lald that goe to the dennes ol wilde denomous beaſtes, and
with their breathing caufe them to come kooꝛth and cate
them: and after warde doe goe whereas water is, and do
plundge themfelues therein, vntill they perceiue that the
furte ofthe benome which they haue taten bee pat, and vn⸗
till chen they dare nat dꝛinke a dꝛoppe. And beeing tome
feazth from thence they got into the ſleldes, and there they
eate many healthlull hearbes, ol great vertue, which are a
gaint venome, which they bytheir naturall infinite Dect
know that there doe aryle as wel ofthe venom which the?
daue eatt, as of the herbes whict they haue fed on, being in ⸗
gendzed by meanes of the natural heate, and by that ber?
fue which is declared, beeing infufed at the time of the ge⸗
neration in the inner parts of the bowelles, i in other parts
oftheir bodies, certaine fones,of the greateſt and of tos

8455

ann

of the hearbe Eſcuerconera. Folr2
ful that they fed vpon it, bx a maruellous teozke, the Bam
tone is ingendered. f

And as they whiche come from thofe partes, and The figure af
baue fone this beaſt from whom they takt out theſe fones, th beaft.
dee is cf the greatneſſe ofa Harte and well neere thys
making, hee bath onely twos bꝛoade haznes, with the
pointes fharpe, turned and falling muche backe warde, his
hapꝛe is thicke and grole ot a mingled colour, fo2 the moſts —
parte, and reddiſhe, and of ether colours: vou haue many of
them in thole Mountains. The Indians doo hurte them
and kill them with weapons and with ſnares and ginnes:
and they bee fo fierce, that ſometymes they kill forme of
thenn:they are ber ſw t on wote, and leape tery much der
liue in hollowe plates of the grounde, they gos in kamra⸗
nies, there bee males and females, their vopces are roa
rings: they take out the ſtanes rom the inner parte oftheit
bowelles, and of other hollowe partes of the bodye, an’

Abep vie muche diligence inthe taking out ofthem by teas
fon the Portingales that deo trade thither, upue muche faz
theſe ones, that they dos ſo take aut, and thep carrxe
them to the China, fo fell ; and from thence to Maluco,
and from Maluco to Calicut, foztbere is the greateſt vtte⸗
rance otthem, and they do eſterme fo much of them, that ont
is wodꝛth there, beeing fine, fiftie crownes as they are bere.

And as A was wyyting this treatiſe went to fee a Hiferi
beaff, that ſhaulde feeme to bee the fame, by reafon be bath Noris.
all thoſe markes which thoſe of that partes haue, which 4
fale inthe houte of the Archdeacon of Mcbla, beeing 4
Wodꝛthie Gentleman, which was ſent him from bery karre
Countries, by the way of Affrica, and is in thys fozme
agg : Bee isa Beaſte ofthe 22 kote 8

arte, bee bath the fame hayze, colout an e cdat ps: “a
Setz path, be bath the face tye bead ache Erie Nea ~~ "SE:
Harte, het is wilt in m, : Fee

Ofthe Bezaar ftone and of

like to the Bartes,anvlpkeWwite his tountenante, his bodye
is lyke to a Soate, for hee is lpke to a greate hee Soate,
and bath two hoꝛnes turned back warde, ſome what falling
with the pointes wꝛeſted that hee ſeemett to be lyke a he
goate and all the reſt like toa Harte. Chere is one thing in

this beaſt which in greatly to bee maruelle n feꝛ if hee fall
from a Toe dobne to the grounde, hee lyteth vppon hes
hoꝛnes, and recepueth no burte thereby, but rather booth res
bounde as a ball of Minde in the apꝛe: bee eateth graſſe,
bꝛeade, and all that you giue him, hee is ot great ſtrength,
and is alwayes tyed witha Chapne, becauſe he bꝛeaketh
and byteth a ſunder the coꝛdes. 3 doo locke ſtil when he will
eae that they will kill him, ta fee if hee haue the Ber

one.

The ferme The making and fathionof the ſkones bee ol dyners ma⸗
ofthe ſtones. ners fo2 that ſome bee long is the ones of Dates, others
a bes lxketo Cheſtnuttes, others like to rounde pellottes,of
earth, ſuche as are ſhot in Croſſebowes, others like tothe
egges of Pigions, 3 haue one lyke to the kidney ofa Wide,

there are none that be ſharpe pointes, ~~ ae
J And as theſe ſtones bee diuers in their makinges fo they
His colaur. deo varie in their colours, ſome haue the colour of a darke
baye, sthers bee ofan Ache colour, commonly they ber ofs
Greene colour, and with blacke ſpottes, ſuch ſpottes as the
Cattes of A galliæ haue, ofa ſadde gray colour, al which
are finely tompounded of tertexne thynne ſuales, oꝛ rides,
one bppert an other, lyke to the ſuales ot an Onion, verve
artificially ſet, and thofe rindes are fe extellent and ſo gli
Gering, that it ſeemeth as though euerx one ol them wert
burnithed by Arte, and ſo taking awaye that whithe is
bppermof ofall, that whiche remapneth is muche most
gliftering , and thyning , then that whiche was ta
ken awape: and heerebyttheꝝ are knowne to bee fine, and
true, and onelg fo this 3 tooke atuay from that wbicbe 4

panes

~ ofthe hearbe Efcuerconera. Rol. te;
haue, the vttermaſt ſhale, that was bpd him, and that which
remapned was as gliſtering and moze then the ürſt, theſe

chales are greater 02 ſmaller accoꝛding to the greatneſſe of

the flone, it is a light fone and eaſie ta bee ſcraped oz cutts,

ivke to Alabaſter, becauſe it is fofte: if it bee long in the Pr is liebe
Water, it diffolucth, It hath no heart noꝛ foundation in the 5
inner parte, whereuppon hee is loꝛmed, but rather is ſame⸗

what hollowe, and the hollowneſſe is full ot Powder of the

fame ſubſtaunce that the ſtone is ol, whiche is the belt. And

this is the beſt way to knowe whether the fone be fine and

true When it path that pouder, foꝛ they which are falle, haue

it not, and by theſe twoo thinges they whiche are fine and

true, map well bee knowne from thols which are falfe and ch are
tounterfapt. an them that are moſte true bee theſe thinne fists
fkalesand rindes, gliſtering and ſhining one vpon another.

and the inner parte hath that powder which J haue ſpaken

ok: and thoſe whiche are not true haue neither the one noꝛ

the other. Foꝛ 3 ſawe one that was bꝛoken to fee if it wers

fine and it had ſhales , and in the inner parte it has a graine

oꝛ ſeede wherby the Indian deteined marry. f

Guido de Lanazaris, à man naturally borne in this Cis Guido de I

tie, whichtrauelled all the rounde wozlde ouer, and was in race.
thofe partes of the China, ſapde vnts mee, that there were :
Indians that counterfepted them with a tompolition that

they vfe and knowe, but the tives thinges which is aloꝛe⸗

fapde they coulde neuer bring to pale: to wit, the gliſtering
tales, and the poder, that is in the inner parte. And bee
layde to me that they were there much moze eſtermed ten e ee
e becaule they bee healen witz them ot manxe „4 ,

cafes. |

Andrew Belunenſis doth alledge of Tipthas Arabien, f ewe

in a booke that bee wꝛote of llones, and ſayeth that the B--
e Er is 4 spinerall, ann that it ts taken out n
the fame manner as the other particuler tones are of brs
93 mineries

Ssrapha.

‘Ofthe Bezaarftone and

mineries asthe Dicwondes , Rubies, Efmeraldes, and A.

gatas: and it ſeemeth that Scrapienooth ſo vnderſtande it,

When hee ſpake ofthis fone. Be ſayde that the Mineral
ol this fone is in the lande ol Spꝛia, and of the India, and
Caſt Countries, in the whiche they were deceiued: for that
te is clœerelꝑ ſeene that they are taken out of the ſapd beats,
Which the Indians da take out with great diligence as we
haue ſayde: andthere is ſeene in them the wooꝛke and ma⸗
tile effect which we will ſpeake of,

Serapio dooth ſhe we, that in bis tyme there wers
like wile of theſe counterfapte ſtanes which hee layth haus
not the vertue againſt Wenome as the true Beraar bathe
Of this ſtone 3 finde naOreeke Autheur which bath writs
ten of it, m0; Latineſt: onely amongeff the Arabi this

The old wri- matter is treated ot, and in fome late Aziters whiche tse
bers Wrote of will ſpeake of heersatter, and fo2 this cauſe onelp the Aun⸗

thas Fone,

Serapio of

bis vertue,

Rete:

tient Mzyters, beepng Arabiens that to20te of it, aun
the late Wiziters Latiniſtes and thole ot our time, amongſt
the Arabiens, hee that dyd moſte largely wꝛite ol it, was
Serapis a learned man, in bps Pedicinall Hyſtozie in che
306, Chapter where bee wziteth many thinges ofths Bea
zaar Hone woozthie tobee kuotune, the which of his otuns
authoꝛitie he ſheweth ham great ercellencic this tone bath
againſt all kinde of Genome, of what manner and qualitie
euer it bee , and agaynſte the bytinges of Wenemous
beaffes, extinguiching and taking alway the grounde, and
ruill qualitie, that the venomes dos intuſe ints the bodtes,
deliutring them from death that ſhall vie it. at is giuen in
Vonder, and they (ay that it doth the ame effect by che wing
ok it, o3 holding ofitin the Pouth : faz after it is taken,
it dooth pꝛeuałe watt and booth expell the Aenome, and
maketh the tooopke fare, faving that beeyng carries about
any perſon, and that it touch the fleſhe, and bzinging it auer

‘Spe lett parte, tt daatg pzeſeruꝛ pin that Gall ſa carrie by

of the Hearbe Eſcuerconera. Fol. 4.
bout him that no benonte 02 benomous thing thall etfendẽ
bint: 9; being applied tothe bovie,tt refitteth venome that
it map net offende him: and them that bee infected theres
withit bealeth . And this it doeth not one to them that
daue taken venome, but vnto ſuche that haus had it put
ints their Spꝛops, apparrell, 02 letter, oz other parte
that may offenve them. The fame Serapio ſapeth that
this Stone dooeth prifife muche againſte bylinges of
beatkes that are venomous, and in their Pꝛickes taking
the ponder theresf at the mouth, and prenoking ſweate,
it expellett it from the inner partes: it pꝛoſiteth much, too
tall the pouder ot this fone in Pꝛickes, 02 in woundes
made by theſe venomous beaſtes, fo: it veltrepeth and ta
keth away the malice efthe benome, and although that the
ſozes beeing ſo made by theſe beaſtes dose beginne fo coz
rupt, it cureth and healeth them, andthe ponder of this tons
being put vpon the venomous beaſts doth take a wax their
ſtrength, and ifit be putin place where they do wound any,
although they make a ſoze pet the malice ofthe venom Doth
not take holde. ;

And this is ene by erperience in the venomous beaſtes
called Adders and Snakes , for the pouder beeing put in
place where they doe byte , all their benemens ſtrength is
taken away and nothing both remaine but the ſgne theres
of, The graines of this pouder wet with forme licour, bee⸗
ing calt bpon ſnakes and adders, thex die th witz. Thus
Much Serapio ſaieth. a ee a

Rafis Simia of Gallen a man amongeſt the Arabiens Rafiss

mol learned in the boske , which dee wrote called Con- 5, of
tinent , fatety thus: the Bec tone is that which feemety G.
ſometimes pellowe and fofte, without any manner of take,
the which bee Gaieththat be bath erperimented two times,
and hath found in it bertue of great efficacie againſte N
pelo the ſtrongeſt of all venemes He faytthalfa that be Hath
tene in this Gone the mot marne llaus etttacs * — 5

Ofthe Bezaarftone ar “i

bene fat ue tinany mene n onsen
venome either fimple o compounds, 02

made againſt venome, as Triacles 92 eee compoſitions,
ko; that tze ‘ecaar fone is ot moꝛe efficatie and vertue
then any ofthem. The ſame doeth agree with the bokes
be mads to the Bing Almaſor, ſaping. The euill Henoms
that doe offende the heart and wooꝛke their effece, O he
little pꝛofite doeth anꝑ cure pꝛoue in them, if the Beraer
be not taken, foꝛ that doeth reſtſt it: and he fapeth ,. mozeo⸗
uer I my felfe ſaw that it did reũſt the venome called ao
pels which is the benome that doeth penetrate moze then al
venoms:thus much ol Kn.

An other Mooze verie learned and a great Aſtronomer
that wꝛote of ſtenes Gqured vnder ſignes and Planets and
the vertues they haue, was called Hamech Benreripho: het
in his booke that he wꝛate of the vertue or Plantes and of
ſcones and of beaſtes, that ſerue fo2 the vle of medicine, favs
eth the Bexar tone is againtt᷑ all venome, and it bath ber
fives this particular pꝛopertie taken in pouder againſte the
bytinges of Scozpions, and being carried about one, and
poe — * be is late agatné all the bytinges of vene⸗

45 . other Mose called Abdala Nęracbe, à
earned man in Pedicine, ſaieth, that the Bear fone
gaint all bensme, bee ſawe it is a precious thing in the

s ok tte Ring of Cerdon calles A iramamolim bnto

— 4 gee ſtrong venome: and $auing giuen onto
bim the Beraar ſtone, by meanes whereof he was deliuered
Whollpok the veneme: forthwith the Ring gane his roiall
allace ta him that gaue him the ſtone, which deliueres
this eee. furety it was a great

* Of the hearbe Eſcuerconerꝛ. Fol.
rall Spaniarde of Penafere a plate lying betwirne Cords _

ua and Seuill, gaue dito one, who was verig much lamens

ted, by reaſon he had taken very euill Genome,ofthe Beza·

ar fioue the waight of z. graines with the water ol Gooꝛds,

fo2 that it was hot venom, t betauſe it did {rere to be fo. Foz

alſoone as he had taken it there did appeare bppon him tge

Jaundies very veallow, and he was very weldeliuered and

faued from it. } |
Aucroi & Phiſition anda Philoſopher tery ercellent, Auersiz.

besitig a Spaniarde, and bogne in Cordous, ſaieth that the 2

Bezau ane is in great eſtimation, and verie profitable a+

gaint all venomous bitin gs, and efpecially againſt the by,

tinges of Scoꝛpions. e

Haliabas doseth make mention of the Haas

2

medicine

e-tuicen,

Olthe Bezaar ſtone and :
is et maſt certaintie anvtrueth. There is an other Bezsar;
that is a Minerall fone in the lande of Egypte at diuers
tolours, ot the which, they y haue heretofoꝛe wꝛitten, haue
detlared great maruelles thereof in their bookes , but fuss
haue pꝛosued nsthing of this Pinerall ſtone: J haue ers
perimented them, but they haue profited nothing. But the
Bez aar ſtone that is taken out of the beaſts which we haue
x te ofbefoze, we haue tryed the vertus thereofby expe⸗
fr ce, they

And beeing giuen to him that bath bene bytten ol a

venomous beaft, and being applied to the place, he ſhall be

bealevand delineredtheref by the help of God. Theſe thai
kinde of edicines haue been pꝛoued in al kinde ef venoms
that ars in the woꝛldt, that is to ſax, the ſede of the (sdron:,
ths Cmseraides t the Bez aur tone of the beaſt. The ſame is
recited in the 4. Chapter. T wa thinges doe ſhew that ther
are of impoꝛtance as wel as their vertues:that theſe Hones
are ingendꝛed in the gawles ofthe beats, it ſemeth that it
tarrieth great reaſon, fo that wee fos in many beaſtes that
tones are ingendꝛed in their galols:the other is as they {ay
that they doe ingender by little andltttle, the which appea⸗
teth by the ſhales thatthey are compounded of,

Alices à man very wel learned, wzote not of this ſtont
in particular, as of many other things, and being bozne in
Perfia ot the Citie of Bocara, he ſhould haue had moꝛe knows
ledge then the Mooꝛes beeing Spaniardes, which doe par⸗
ticularly wʒite thereof, onely hee doseth touche it in the ft»
sond Canon in p fourth Chapter ſaying, that the medicines
Which of their one pꝛopertie do woꝛke againſt the malice
er venome, dadeth erentplifie in Triacle and in the Be-
zaar ſtone: and hee fpeaketh moze after warde, that the
Criacle and the Beg ar ſtane are tives thinges, whic
doe conterue the health andthe vertue of the ſpirites, that
thepimay expall the dename from them; aud an”

ofthe hearbe Eſcuerconer . Pol. as

booke and the fourth Chapter, and in the fifth Boche in
three partes he pꝛayſeth the Bezs i Gone to be effeduall as
gaint Genome: and like wiſe hee doeth the fame in the cure
with the gall of the Adder, hee ſapeth that it is an excellent
thing, in the which places he maketh a thozt repearfal, and
both as it were buf paſſe them ouer by the wap, and alſo hes
fooke net this of himſelte, foꝛ bee had it of Kafis in the eyght
part that he treated ot. 2 6
In the fame Chapter bee lapeth. the thyng that
booth moſt pꝛofpte, is the Bez aur Stone ifit were to bee
founde : but with howe muche difficultie is it to be had? the
Stone is called the Baar, bceyng a darke redde, and aps
pꝛooued goo againſt Aenome:and thus much fo2 them that
were in his time. we

poploned, A caufed him to take thereof diners Moꝛninges
the weight of thꝛee graynes ofthe fame Bexacr tone with
the Water of Oretongue, and bee was there with very wel

ae Many Phiſitions of late time and in our dayes haue
Phifttions of made mention of this Bec aar fone and doo bery much ertol
ute time. he ſame in their books with great Pꝛerogatiues, again®
al Kinde of benome and againſt many other diſeales, which

wee minde to treate ot, toſee what we finde witten by eue⸗

f Jubilee, Siena, aman berp well learned, in the Commentaries

Soates of the Mountaines of Per-

Land hole the Stones that are the beſt bee brights

a and folk, of the colour ofthe Fruite of Spaine
ers, whiehe is a remedy anche nee

) of the hearbe Efcuerconera. Fol. ay 2

— amongeſt pPpꝛintes and great Loꝛds fo2 the effects afore,

e. a j —

Valeſcus de Taranto, a Phiſition and bozne in Milan,

the Scholler of Tornamira, inthe 7. Booke of his experts Valqc us.

ments, pꝛaiſeth verꝝ much this Bex ar ſtone, to bee of great

toꝛte againſt venom and other diſeaſes fo2 his effectes, and

fo2 the great fame that was of bis woozkes, in this tyme as

gainſt al venom. Saint Ardanius of Peſauris Phittion, in

à booke which bee made of benomes, excerdingly pꝛapſeth

the Bex aur ſtone and pꝛeferrethit before al other medicines,

as well ſimples as compoundes, which haue vertue againſt

venome oꝛ bytinges of venomous beaſtes: and laxeth, that a

be lawe it and pꝛodued it by great experience. „
Amato Lucitano, a learned man ot᷑ our tyme. being t ͤjẽ,

nowe reſtdent in Rago&, in his Commentaries whichebs

Wrote vppon Dioſcorides in the ſetonde Booke of Ceruige ·

nitale, dyd treate orthis Bezaar Stone verie learnedlp/as a

man of Portingall, who did muche enfoꝛme himſelfe of thofe

ok his nation that came from the Catt India, and her ſapeth

that the Ber aur ſtone is of the making ol an Acozue, full of

ſpottes, declining to the colour ofa ſadde blew, compounded

with many thales, the which they tall Bez aar, asa pꝛeſent

remedy againſt al maner of venom, and they take them out

of certeine beaſtes which are like to wilde Hartes, that are

in the Gaft India, and are called goates of tze mountains:

they are founde in their bowelles and inner partes, of the

Which being ging 3. grapnes with the waters ofthe flowers

of Oꝛenges it is the pꝛeſent remedy. againſt all Genome,

killing and extinguiſhing the venomes . and fo2ee thereof, it

Killeth the woꝛmes giuen with water ol? r Where

the Keuer is and where there is na feuer with white wine:

be lapeth that he bath experience, and bath cured there witz

fhe Plureſie being very ſoꝛe rosted, it is tonuenient that it

be ginen ta them that haue taken denomein vamittes, and it

wi venem . and being given totbemtpat haut vo
nil erpel the and being gin ais ine

~Ofthe Bezaarftonéand: —

mitted, it cauleth it to be erpelled by ſweate oz by ſtoole:and
beeing giuen in keuers, the dap that they bee accuſtomed to
comic, it pꝛauoketh ſweate, whereby many times they are
deliuered theres. And in his thirde tenturia the 74. cure
and the 83. cure, in curing certepne Peſtilent Feuers, he
fapsty, that hauing taken the weight of thꝛee grapnes of
the Bezaar ſtone with water made forthe purpoſe, it extin⸗
guiſheth and killetz the malice of the venom ot ſuch agues,
and he giueth it as a meſt pꝛeſent remedie, and ſapeth that
the hing ofthe Eaſt India bath this Fone in great eſtima⸗
tion, and it ſeemeth to bee ſo, ſeeing that in a pꝛeſent, at the
tyme ofthe firf congueſt that was made there, the Kyng
of Cochin ſent to the Ring of Portingall, and amongelt
man pꝛecious qeweilles which bee ſent him was a Bezaar
tone, as a thing of greateſt poyce and eſtimation, which
was little bigger then a nut and was heere much eſteemed
by realonof ttz great vertues that it had: and this was tze
fir that the Portingales brought to Spaine, and after thee
brought many other, they ſeeing the great effeces that the
Indians did witz them, and ince that time they being them
with Diamant, Rubies and other precious things of great
value, which they bꝛing from thoſe parts: and they fell them
ea great ſummesot᷑ mony.
Nickolas Nicholas Florentine among them of bis time the wiſeſt,
| Florentine, in his fourth Sermon where he treateth thereof and in ths
nienth chapter, dott highly commend the Bezaur fone, and
agresth with Aueroiz and Serapio.
Fobn Agri-] lohn Agricola an Almaine, who wꝛote of the ſimple me⸗
Cela. ditines ot our time, in his ſecond booke, and ſpeaking ofthe
5 Ber aar ſtans ſapeth that it is a molt (are Antidote againte
beneme, and that it is a diuine medicine and a reme de ol
— Uenemeus
Terem An- lerome Montuoa trench Pbilition of hing Henries, in
% che teeatg which be wut of the remedies of fargery,« of ths

ofthe hearbe Eſcuereoneta. Fol.23

remedies of thole that bavtaken benome,be doeth preferre
the Bezear Lone fo2 the greatett remedie of al others, which
in our time bath been founde,by great experience that ther⸗
of he had experimented vpon many Loꝛdes. f

Anthoni Mufa Braſauola a learned Phiſition ot Fer- gen
rarainthe pꝛologe which her wꝛote bpon the antidstes ef fe 7
Meſue, detlaretꝭ af a maruellous matter that happened in
Ferrara of many perſans that had taken venom which were
remedied by vamitting ofthe benam with the ople ol Duri
ol and by taking the Bezaar fone.

The counſeller Peter of Abano boꝛne in Padua, à man Peter of Ea
lerned amõgſt other of his time, in atreaty which he wꝛote pre,
ol benems in theS r. chap. ſpake of a certain ſtone called Bes.
zaar, whofe pꝛapertie and ſpetiall vertue is againſt deadly
venom, delinering from death with all (peeve without bas
uing nee of other he lpe oz beneſite of any other Pedicine
oz any Phiſttien, and ſs foꝛ his erceilencic is called Be-
zear whichis as much to fap, as the medicine that deliue-
reth from al venom, and from death, and from other gries
uous diſeaſes. And whefoener bath this Tone with him let
— bee lure that with it hee ſhall ber cleare of all moztall

enom. 85

And a Bing of England talled Coward, was delinered Hiforic.
by meanes thereof from a poiſoned moztall wound that the
greate Solvan with a venomed glaine gaus him in a bat:
= chat they fought beyonde the ſeas nerre to the Citic of

aron, 2 i!
When bee was almoſt dead, there was giuen to him
the Bezaar ſtone, by one who was the greate maiſter of the
Templers, which was an opder in thele daies of great ftr.
mation, andveric riche,andbee faicth maresuet that bit
came in bis time another Ber ar tone very light in twaight
and that it might bee ſeraped bponit;as cafilę as Opps
parte lyme, and was much altem. e te me,
3. Cqnradg Geincro Tigurion inthe boot TP eon, 5

Ofthe Bezaar ſtone and
ok beaſtes (peaking of the goate, doeth much tommend this
Bezaar ſtone to be againſt all bend. Other authoꝛs there be
that make mention of this fone, but they paſſe it lightly

ouer, only pratfing it to be good againſt venom, ingenerall

and in particular, the which at this prefent 3 lightly paſſe

euer, fo; it is ſufficiently ſpoken of by thole befoꝛe rehear·

fed, wherby it may haue authoꝛitie with al thefe that therot

Wil pꝛofite themſelues.

Ths as? That which 4 haue ſeene by experience ¥ wil now fpeake
of fo2 the moꝛe confirmation of the ſaide cauſe, and ofthe

maruelous vertues wich it hath wherby it may be vnder⸗
ltoode What is witten by thoſe authoꝛs afoꝛeſaid, with ma⸗
niteſt examples. It is about 14. eres paſt that my Lady the
Duches ot Bejar was aduertiſed by the Loꝛde don Iohn
Miuriques that in the Court was vſed fo; ſuch as did found
à tone that was called the Beru foꝛ that my Lady the
Duches had a ſonne very ſicke of the ſaid diſeaſe, wel nere
fince the time of bis birth, and thee beeing deſirous of his
health did procure to know what remedy might be had, and
ſeeing the oꝛdinarie remedies ol Phiſicke, which ther had
miniſtred onto him beeing many and diuers by the wyſelt
Pbifitions of Spaine, and yet not pꝛeuailed any thing, and
hearing of the greate vertue ofthis Bezsar ſtone, thee had
communication with mee theresf: vet was it to me ſome·
what fkrange, ſoz that J hadde no other knowledge thereof
then by bodkes, and 4 thought that it had not beene in thele
partes:then I requetted that the Gone might be ſent lo ber
ing deſũroeus ta eaſe this Lode, fo; his vertues deſerued the
lame, andhis great knotwledge in al kinde of learning and
in al things that a noble man might haue knowledge in, as
jo to fee the fone which was a thing of mer much deſired.
The Tons was ſent for to Liſhebro n by meanes ofa Oe
noues, and there was brought tioas of them verie faire

uought in gold, and each orthem as great as à Date ant

bane ſeene by

experience,

39 colour edz ang blackishe, test

of the Hearbe Eſcuerconera. Foling,
fea Berimgena Which is a fruit of & paine, and the fone bes
ing brought nat a little to our contentment,eucry one gaue
their iudgemẽt, x it was agrer d at ſuch time as he ſhould
ſotonde, it chould pꝛeſently be giuen him: and the ſounding
being tome in the euening he take fooꝛth with the appoin
tedoꝛder, which was brought from the court, that he ould
take foothwith the waight of thꝛee graines of the pouder
ofthe lone, and it ſhould bee caſt in water of Oxetongue fe
much as might be lutficient foꝛ him and ſd it was dane. Ds
pening his mouth hee ſwallowed it downe tze which he did
with much diffitultie: within the ſpace ol halle a quarter of
an houre, after hee had taken it: he retouered as eaſtix, as
though he had not had it. And ſeing the vertue that was in
the ſtone, we did eſteeme it much: and the moze for that we
ſawe that euer time it toke hun, he tame to himſelfe fo eas
ſily / when he toke not the ſtone, the founding did continue
long, and hee returned from it with greate patnes, and in
long time it feafed not: but when the fone was giuen him
be came quickly to him ſelfe, and with great eaſineſſe· as
though he had not had any founding at all. y Lady the
Duches carried the ſtone in her purſe, and had the quantity
that he chould take alwaies in a redineſſe, becauſe when
the founding came to him, it might bee giuen him with
moꝛe (pede, bycauſe hee ſhoulde not bee long in paine: ſo
that from the time that he receined it, his ſoundinges came
nat to him ſacontinually as they did before. This being per⸗
ceiued, ſaide one day to my Lady, that it was the docrine
ot Philitions, that the medicines which doe not heale diſ⸗
eaſes, cannot pꝛeſerue that we fall not into them, dut that it
ſemied good to mee that wee ſhoulde giue nts bim euerte
moꝛning the pouder ofthe 8-zaar lone, that with the contts
nuall vſe theres, the vapour might bee conſumed which did
rpfe uptothe bꝛaines, fe that that feemeth to be venomen
and hurttul the fone would extingnich and sil, and woe
eanſume the vapour . | ä

.

„ @ftheBezaarftondand ><.

| ö r, the rote and oꝛiginall beeing tay)
Ren aboꝛpotthe diſcaſe, he ſhould bee healed:ſo euerie mays
ning it was giuen him falling the waight of thor graines,
ofthe pouder of the ſtone, with the water of Oretongue x it

pleaſed Goa that it chould waoꝛke ſo effectua ly, that from
the dap that he be gan ta take it, vntil he died of another dil⸗
tafe after which was moze then r. yceres, there neuer came
to him any ſoundings, the which ſtone he take vi. mo
together and neuer miſſed dag. f *

: Flſterie. im ture a voung Sentlewoman called the Lady Mana

r amen ee

F. c —B— A ca i ie „3
* ofthe hearbe Efettercoriera.

helps that the remedies whiche had beene giuen ko him

dyd: I my ſelfe wente to ſeeke foꝛ remedie whicg was

the Beraar Stone: and beeing ſearched fo2, at length was

found in the handes ol the ſapde Lady Mary Catano, fo2

that the Powder of the inner parte al the Kone remained

With her; and thinking that thee fhouloe not haue kaken

it, re kept it, the whiche 2 taske, and it was about

fixe Grapnes of weight and J deupded it into twog pas

pers, and greatlie to his comſoꝛte 4 founde remedye. fos

bys greefe . J returned to hys Boule, and founde him as

full of payne as might bee, J gaue him boczthwilh the

thee Graynesot᷑ Powder that 3 carried in the one Pa⸗

per with the Ulater of Oxetongue, and in ths ſuace of

halte an heure oz leſſe, hee was maruellondge ealed, in

fuch forte that when night came hee was in good dilpoſiti⸗

dn, and dut of daunger of Death, whiche was fo neere

him in ſuch forte that the nert day in the moꝛning her res

mayned well, fz as muche as touched the daunger ol

death vim he remapned in ſuch forte that in many moueths

— not fhrouably auercame the great euill whiche he

ad paſt 2 ere

The fayd Doctoꝛ Lewes de Cueus going by the wax with Hiforic,

a Lord a bunting, one of his pages being a tall vaang man.

layde him downe to dꝛinke ofa paste at itanding water, ve⸗ 5

ing nought and full of venamous Modes, and after bee
bad dune it, hee felt himſelke ſa cute, and in ſuche fozte, sites

{wollen and all his body in ſo greate a faynines, ant f 1
dinges, with greate vomittes and ſweate, that theꝝ ca

him vpon a hoꝛſe to à Tillage

after they had made fonte remedies fox

sh ine n. ns 227 80 aie 4 oe

» Ofthe Bezaar ftone and
2 Childe did eate acerteine venomaus thing, whereby
hee was in danger of dsath, and ſeing that the conimon re⸗
me dies did not profft, 3 cauſed to bes giuen tothe Childe the
Bezaar ſtone, and immediatly it was well. And for childꝛen
that haue wozmes, it is lykewiſe verie gaod, foꝛ that it cate
ſeth them to be expelled by diſſalution, maruellouſiy taking
away the actidents, that are wont to happen to childꝛt̃. And
this it wooꝛketh toberefosuer pou feare any griefe oꝛ vena⸗
mous humour. In the thinges that it hath doone maoſt good,
bath been in tge peſtilence, foꝛ that there was in Germanꝑ
a great Plague, and vnto all ſuch as had the B. Za Kone
giuen them, immediatly was ſeene the great effecte that it
did in them that tooke it. And in an bofpital were foure per⸗
fons infected with this euill, and it was giuen ta twas of
them and not to the other, and they that tooke it eſcaped, and
the other twoo died And then it was giuen to manie that
were infected with this enill , and ſome of them had two
ſozes, and ſome had thꝛee, and pet thep eſcaped and of this
were witneſſes many people ol greate credit that ſawe it
and other meaner perſans, as it is vary well knowne ta all
the Court. i f
T hhis ſtone doeth profit much ta them that be ſadand me⸗
Fer then lanchalike, the Emperdur teake it manp times fo2 thes ef
that are fad lea, and it is taken of many perfons thatare melancholike:
and melan- fez it taketh it atwap; ⁊ makettz him glad and merry that b⸗
belle etz it and to ber of a goa difpefttien. Many J haue lerne
that haue beene much dileaſed with faintneſſe, ſoundynges
and melancholie, and taking the weight ol thꝛee graines of
this Kone wittz the water of Ortongue they haue bin healed
prefently In keuers ot an enili qualitie and maſt peſtilent, it
is meruellsus the guad woorke that it doath : fo2 that it f+
ketg away tde malice therof, extinguiſhing and killing the
euill qualitie ot the Aenome, which is the Grand principal
_ thing that tye Philition ſhauld des, fa: if that this bet not
dat awar Girl, the curt is in vaine. an da vſe ee

of the hearbe Eſcuerconera. Fol.131.

holding a peete thereofintheir mouth in the luſpectedtime
ofa Peſtilence, and where as venom is feared, oꝛ any thing
that is benomons, and alſo it dooth profit much taking it in
Water to them that are ficke of peſtilent Feuers. 5

A Gentleman had al his ſeruantes ſicke of àgewes that , err
are commonly called Modorras and he put into a pot of wa⸗ :
ter a Be zar tone that hee had, ofthe whiche bee cauſed the
ficke people to dꝛinke, and they al eſcaped and were deliue⸗
red from death. And man people foꝛ this cauſe, bane thys
tone lapde in water continually, that they may dzinke thers
ot beeing ficke, fo2 it pꝛoſteth much to take away the Ague,
and giueth ſtrength to the hart, and not only this Gone doth
profit in venomous things and venomes, but in other diſea⸗
les, as it hath bin pꝛodued: ¢being giuen ta them that haue
the giddines in the head it doth much pꝛolit, and alſo againſt
ogilations . And it happened that a Aunne that had four
dinges and greate opila tions, by taking the Bezaar fone
was healed, and like wiſe ofthe opilatiens: and being long
time without her cuſtomed termes, they tame very well to
her z aboundantlp. This lone profiteth much to them that
haue taken Arfentke oꝛ other cozfive venom, ſoꝛ that it doth
kill and conſume the force of the venome, and taketh away
the actidentes thereof. Milke hath in this a great pꝛeroga⸗
tiue, and dooth werke effettaallꝑ, bp taking much quantity;
and continually bing } fame, for althaugh that it be a mer⸗
uellous remedp, it mutt be vled in coꝛũne venomes, foꝛ that
it makeththe venomes to be erpelled bp vomit, and dat ers
tinguich the mallice. It is the true Antidote againſt cadue
venome, and alter the vie theres the fone may be giuen oꝛ
the pouder oꝛ any at the ſaide meditines that haue vertue a:
gaint venome. Alla this one doth pꝛonte much againtt᷑ fee
gers that bꝛing terteine red ſpots in the bodie lite to Fleas
.
Badin their arthier parts oF thels W
zuin their arthier pa 3 Gage tues,

| Of che Bezaarftoneand .
Age bes that dos expell the humours out of the bodie, am
ſoit is conuenieent that it bee ſo vſed that it may come out

well, and this mull bee doone by putting ventoſities, and

atger like helpes, that maꝝ expell the Humour, whereby
nature is holpen, foꝛbidding oyntments and other thynges
that map diſturbe the comming aut oftgele thinges . An
other thing which is conuenient, is to gine to the ſick, when
fhefe ſmall ſpottes dos begynne to appeare, thoſe thynges
which dos extinguich and kill the venome: ofthc which we
haue treated very largely hauing refpecte not ta let blood,
after that they haue appeared „ ikit come not ok too

Okthchearbe Efeuerconern. F
fes with the vie thereof, ——
wonderful effectes, that a one taken out of the belly of a

beaſte like to a wilde Harte or Ooate in ſo little quantitie
giuen, choulde wozke fo great effeces as we haue wꝛitten
of. and az that it is already time to treate of the hearbe E-
cuerconera, betauſe wee haue bens long in treating. of the ,
Bexaar Sone, A will peake inbatis knowenofit,

2 ee ee BEST

Ofthe hearbe Eſcuerconer a.

— 5

7 —
Kern

Orthe Bez ar ſtone ane

beattes whleh are talled Efcvercos, and likeiviſe of many

How this
hear be was
Aiſcouered,

other, and although that they are verie venomous and ful of
papſan, there are alſo many in number, as well in the tilled
lie des as amongſt trees, and graſſe, and eſpetiallpy in the
Coꝛne ſteldes, in ſuch fost that they are to them in ſteede of a

plague, and an vncurable mifthiefe,by reaſon that the peor 5
ple cannat labour in their Aines, naꝛ reape their coꝛne, no:

doe their buſines in the ſieldes, vy meanes that they are {9

crucily hurt by them, whofe venom and poyſon is ſuch, that

whereſdeuer they byte it ſwelleth forthwith, with greate

paines, and the ſwelling riſeth vp to the heart immediatle,

and if they be not remedted and ſuckeredloꝛthwith they die

pꝛeſentiꝑ:their Criacle and other benefits which the y had,

did ſerue them to little pur pole.

And ſceing that in this time this plague was fo without
remedie, it katuned that they bꝛought to that plate from 4.
frica à young man Captiue, which did heale them that
were bitten with thefe fo venomous beaſtes, with gimng
them to cate of a roots , and the inpce ot᷑ an hearbe that he

ne we which did them ſo much good , that it healed the

bytinges and poyſan verie easily. Foꝛ the whichthere came
ſo manꝑ people tothe Moaꝛe, that they did nat onely make
him free, but allo rich, and the young man in all this time
with all the pꝛomiſes and giftes that they coulde gine and
make ato him, woulde neuer tell them what roote and
hearbe it was, where with he healed fo great a plague.

Two Perſons ofthe Towne beeing verie deſtrous to
nau the fame, by reaſon it ſtaode them them fo much vp⸗
pon tas knawe what Hearbe it was, went alter him and

dog ged him fo politickely, that at length they ſawe where

bee gathered the hearbe and tooke aut of the grounde, the
reates therest. The Poaze being gane, they wente
foo the place there de gathered it and ther wunder tie
lathe ofthe gracks that toe Page had abend of ie

ofthe HearbeEfcuerconera. Folazz.
which they fooke out a good quantitis, becauſe there was
much there in that plate, and they went there with to the
L owne, and fo to the houſe ol the ooꝛe, where they found
him taking out the herbe of a Bagge that he bꝛaught it in:
andthe ons hear be and the other being (iene, they ſaw that
it was all one: whereby the Mooꝛe coulde nat denie but the
thing which had beene by himſelfe long time hidden, was
now diſcouered, and the hearb that be had gathered and gir
uen, and that which the other bꝛought were all one. And
fromthat time foꝛ ward al the people began to know it, and
fuch as had nerde of it went to gather it, and died it fox the
bytinges of thefe venomous beaſtes, as 3 haue ſaide. Cheꝝ
tal this hearbe Ejcuercovera hecauſe it dageth heale and te/ cal
medie the bitinges of this beaſt, called Efarta in the C. I Eſcuer-
talan tongue, and the fame roote is like to the ſaide beaſte, era
and the beaſt like to ths reote in figure. T his beaſte o2
vermin commonlp is a Spanne and a halfe long, hee is
ſmall in the tayle, and is greater and greater tawar des the
heade: his headis greate and ſquare with a greate mouth.
bis tonau- blattze and ſharpe, his text) ſmall lyke toa thee
Adder, with the which hee doseth byte, and with bis
tongue hee daeth pꝛicke like to a Scozpian , his colour is
full ot blacke ſpattes, with diuers colours, hee och e+
uill fauouredly, and is continually among Plantes, and
Uines, and byteth other beaſtes, as hee Dooeth men.
bee goeth continually by the grounde , and therefoze all
men looke warily too their feete, where they are. Pee
is a fierce beaſte and valy too beholds, and full of mpl
thiefe , bisbyting is woszler and moze Dangerous than

. hee dyeth. Ir ang “a

Olche Beraar ſtone and
bee bytten with this beate and dooe eate othe roste and

dzinke ofthe iuxee of the Hearbe, koozthwith hee is healed:
and ik her bee [wallen, foorthWwith the welling is gene,
and the paines taken away , and alſo the ſoundinges,
and if they take it immediatly after they be bitten, there
will ne harme hagpen tod them, inſomuch that ſome foꝛ
paſtime dose cauſe the ſaide beaſte ta byte them in the
arme, ox in the legge, and as they are byting of them
they eate the Roste of the Hearbe, and ſo feele ns hurte

at all, ſauyng onely the zmpꝛeſſion with the ſmall Leth,

remaining, and if with the iuyce of this hearbe they dove
watte throughly their handes and doce take with them the

Ederer, it doeth nase him faule, in ſuche forte that bee
dosoeth neither byte noꝛ ſtirte, but is as though hee were

The Roste ofthis hearbe is ofa good ſauour, and it is
ſame what ſweete, and it is to be eaten rawe, as the roottes
Of Sanshariasage’ . It is good, as J bane ſaide, againſt
fhe bytynges of thete Beaſtes which are talled by the
name thereof, beeing eaten rawe, oꝛ roſted, 0210 Cow
ſerua, and alſa the iupce of it, daoeth muche good beeyng
made of the leaues fo; the fame bie, and beeing dzunke
by it ſelfe o mingled with other Coꝛdiall thinges, it is

t venome: and not onelp it dooeth remedie ts

vytinges ol the Eſcuerco, but of the Adders, and ſnakts,
and other venemous beaſtes. The water beeing taken
out by a Limbecke oꝝ ſtill, giuen in the peſtilent Feuers,
is a verie good remedie foꝛ them, and beeing giuen ths

Day when the diſeaſe daoeth came, when nature dodeth pꝛo⸗

tat many times the ficke perſon remaineth whole. This
ABaucte is made in Conferua, and it is ot a good tate and

e, and beeing gien with the water af tye wearbe

oe

- _ ofthe hearbe Efcuérconera. Fol. 34
diſtilled, it is a very good remedie forthe lade Feuers,
and fo: ſuundinges, and Pelancholies dk the hearte.
In all partes they bie at this day the water diſtilled, for fas
fected Feuers deinking thereof continually, az mingling
it with Coꝛdiall Maters, they doo giue the Con ſerua and
the Mater together many dayes, forte heale vpilations of
the Lyuer, and Lyghtes, and the inner partes and koꝛ wa
men whole Flowers dodch not come oꝛderly, and foꝛ ſoun⸗
dinges of the heart, the manner ofthis hearbe Eſcuercone-
ra is berp fayꝛe and beautifull to behalde, Wherebr wee
gather, it chould bee good for man thinges . It is in
beight , the length ol a mans arme from the Elbewe
fos the hande, lyttle moze 02 leſle, it hath a leate eke
fo Suckoꝛie whenit is very muche growne vut it is ſane ·
what bꝛoader, and ſpꝛeadsth much abesad e by the Sreumd, 5
it is long and at the ende ſharpe, in the which there is a ſt⸗ cP ge ok
nets that groweth vp tothe tops 2192 Calour Cyereatis: Fele be.
a lyght Greene, and doothcaſte gut mau baaun hes, bees
rug reunde, final and harde like ta TMgaddes and in
the bighct parte of them they caſte out certerne long
buddes full of rounde Sine wes with ſome pointes tae to
teeth and ſeme what lyke to Sillowe flower Buddes. An
the Moneth of ay there commeth out ol theſe Buddes⸗
certeyne Flowers very muche lade n with many leaues-
and beepng all opened, there appe areth a greate Flows
er, and raunde, and theſe Leaues bee veallowe like to
the Streames ofthe Sunne, itis a ver pe faye Flower fo
beholde in the ende of June the Sälles cher 1 80 ose i
the buddes become rounde: there dodetg come fram then

many runde codes 07 Ayninges, khnt grame tun ,

Ofthe Bezaarftone and
the Plantes dos fall. The Mote is lpke to the reste
of a Sadshoria fleſhie, and weightie, and leaucth with a
papnt, and wireth greater towardes the leaues, it bath
a thynne rynde iopned to the Roste, and is of a ruſſet t
lour , ſome what blackiche, and fone what ſharpe, and be⸗
png. tutte o2 bꝛoken, it dooth caſt from it a certeine clammit
wWoterichnes, like to milke: it is all white within, ſweete,
and kattie, it groweth for the moſte parte in Wyllie places,
where fume moifture is:the complecion thereof is whet and
more in the firoegre..

The Gertues that it path bee luche as wee haue ſpo⸗
nen of, the pꝛincipall vertue is againſt the Eycorcn a
fo venomous, and dooth fo much hurte, that in this ſurelxe it
ſeemeth to bee a thing of greate Aertue . It is good when
the iuyce is taken out of the leaues and clarified, and that
the Nocte alls bee taken whiche is a thing of greater Uer⸗

tue. f
f Ann it is to bee conſideredthat although pou take the
iayce andthe Roste ofthis Hearbe agaynſte the Povion
that poceedeth ofthis beaſt whiche is fe pernicions, it is
conueniént that great di igence bee vled, as we haue a forse
fayde, for the remedie of them that are venomed: where
8 deo verye well that in the meane time that
the iupte bee a pꝛeuiding 07 the Moote of the ſapde
arbe, that foure oꝛ fine fingers breadth abous the ſoꝛẽ
it bee beunde fate, that the force et tze Ticnome oo not
paſſe to the reſte of the partes of the boope ,. and thys
is te bee doone in the Legge a Arme “ano if the

of the hearbe Eſcuerconera. Fol. 135.
harde: and this muſt bee vniuerſally in al pꝛickinges oꝛ by⸗
tinges of venomous beaſtes. and if the wound be ſmall it is
ne dtull to open it with a ſmal cut, oꝛ ſome other wap: and it
it be ne we let the cuttinges be mall, and if it ber of a long
tome, then let the inciſion bee deepe, foꝛ that with the much
blood that goeth out thereof,there goe out a greate parte ot
the venome alfa. And after the cutting let there bee applied
lach thinges as may dꝛaw ont flrangly the venome, til ad⸗
dingthereunto that as ſhall bee needfull, Some there be that
doe ſut te out the venome ofthe pꝛickes oꝛ woundes with
their month,but it is dangerous to them that fo do oz ſome
haue dyed thereot it is better to remedie it with ventsſities,
02 to put to it the binder parte ofa Cacke, op Chicken; „ 02-
& Pigeon beeing aliue, vppon the pꝛicke o2 wounde, the
fethers being plucked from the binder parte thereof,and ble
it fo often as ſhall bee needelnl, vntil you pertsiue that ther

out by thefe meanes let there beputbpon the woundames
ditine that hath vertue to keope the wound open. Some das
bie in the Cuttinges oꝛ inciſions an Aduall th

calico a canteric,tobich Dott dente bel inguiſ

the venome, and comfoꝛting the burte. The fame etkeß ders
the cawterie potentiall in killing the benome, but it is not „

—— a benomansbiges2 baickune .

Jf the Bezaar ſtone and

feite oꝛmingled with other medicines, that haue bertue to
take a wap the ſtrẽgth of the venom, as triatle, methꝛidato ⁊
other medicines like tatheſe ꝛand ifthe Be caar ſtone might
be had caſting the ponder thetor eps the wound it wil work
à maruellous effet. Chile thay are in this caſe they mutt
he kept with goodoꝛder x good gouernement, in all thinges
that are contrarie to then, and bing euacuations, ſuch as is
conuenient with whole ſome medicines, and there mutt bie
mingled with them mevicines that ars againſt venom, and
when time ferneth vle letting ol blood, and in the reit, to gos
to the cure of the diſeaſe, and vnto euerꝑ one of them as it is
conuenient vntuerſallp, aud particularly, hauing alwaies
carte to gine tothem that are ücke, in the moꝛning faſting,
the conſerua of the roote ofthe Eicuerconera, and bys tar
ter, oꝛ the Bez scr ſtone , oꝛ the pouder as itis fapd,o2 Bolear⸗
menike pꝛepared, hee muſt haue care to annopnt te heart
with thinges which are temperate, that may comtozt with
pouders and toꝛdiall waters, amongeſt the which let thers
bee put the hearbe Elcuerconera. And beſides the vertues
that the hearbe E(cuerconera hath againſt the bytynges of
kheſe beaſtes in particuler, and for the remedie of all in vni⸗
uerfal,it hath alſo other perticuler vertues, the vſe whereol
bath beene ſhewed vnto bs, it is very good againſt ſowon⸗
Ringes, of the hearte, and fo; them that haue the falling
ficknes and foz women whole matrir are ſuffatated 02 Mops
bed, ox taking the conferua made of the rote, and dꝛinking
the inyce of the hearbe clarified, oꝛthe water of it diſtilled ·
It dooth profite muche when the ſoundinges are came, b

much moꝛe befoze they Doo tome: when they feele that ther
begin to ſolonde, let them take the roete therof with the wa⸗
ter, andit Doth hinder the comming therol:and if it do coms
it is much leſſe, and it dooth not woozke fo bebemently as
when it is taken after. Anta them that haue the gidineſle in
the head it death good, and being continually taken it ma ⸗
weng de bart mereieatoaty dale atnay the lunes uhr ,

ofthe hearbe Eſcuerconera. Fol.136
the tauſe therofithe iuite taken out of the leaues and clari⸗
ſted, and ſet in tie Sun for certain daies, taking the clecreſt
thereot, and put inlo the eies doeth claritie the fight and tas
keth away the dimneſſe thereol, ik it be mingled with a litle
good hony, it is good faz them that feare themſelues to bee
poyſoned. T he Conferua ofthe roote being taken, and the
water in the moꝛning, that day by Gods grace they Hall be
ſafe. The ble and experience of this hearbe hath bin taught
without any authoꝛ:foꝛ fo this day we know not with what

ge asdedts this which 3 haue diſton
haue treated beit ür andthe bel that

Of the Bezaar ftoneand |
things fo precious and of ſo greate effectes againſt benome:
now haue we ts treate of the laſt parte which we pꝛomiſed
ta doe, and how we ought to keep and pꝛeſerue our felues, €
net to fal into fo greate a danger, as ot᷑ them is declared, fo
that it is better to k pe cur ſelues from daunger, thẽ to fall
therein. Herrein the ancient wꝛiters haue bin very circum⸗
ſped. Amangſt the ret it bath beene an ancient tuſtome in
Princes Courts ⁊ other great eſtates, to haue their taſters
as well in their meate as of their dꝛinke forthe eſchewing
of popſon, and fo by the meanes thereol they affure them⸗
ſelues to be out of peril fo2 that matter, the which lurelx is
allowable and a gost cuſtome ⁊ neceſſarie for the ſafegars
and health ol ang Pꝛince oꝛ Loe, fo: i there be any hurte
in the meate oꝛ inthe dꝛinke it thal light firi vpon thé that
doe eate 02 dꝛinke thereof and not vpon the Pꝛincs oꝛ other
high eſtate, in whole life and health greate matters doe de «
pende.

Trueth it is that in thele daxes it is done moze loꝛa te⸗
remonp x eſtate, then fer health a fafety of life, this oꝛder
is vſed amonglt great eſtates, moze foꝛ cuſtome then foz any
thing elle, for this purpofe the common people haue it in
eſtimation, ſo that at this pꝛeſent it is vied contrarie to that
end and puͤrpeſe it was ment, foꝛ they ble nowe taking of a
litle bꝛead and bꝛinging it with the meat and fo talk it:that
dene, they caſt it away, and like wie they dꝛiinke a dꝛop al
wyne oz water: t it᷑ it choulde be vſed as it ought to bee, the d
fhould cat and dzinke thereof thaoughlp , for other wiſe th
popſon, if there be any, cannot be diſterned before it come in
tothe Pꝛinces mouth Allo the Loꝛdought to command that
there be pꝛepared fo2 him diuers meat es, foꝛ that if he miſ⸗
lxke ot one, he may taſt of another: fo2 being of diners ſoꝛts
he maꝑ taſte of cache a little, and eating litle at onte of ane
‘that were infected, it wauld doe leſſe burte then if he ſhould
eat ot one diſt being inletted filling himſelk ther with ale
being either dethem inlected and eating much theroßßit =

ofthe hearbe Efcuerconera.
do the moꝛe hurt. And note this wel, that many times a ma
is not giuen alwaies to cate of one meate, naa ta ſee it al⸗
wapes tafted before hee eate it, and aſterward there appea⸗
rethin it notable hurte, therefore it is good fo take your
meate with a forke oz a ſpoone, and that theꝝ be made as le-
rome Montuog learned man in Phiſicke had appoynted
forking Henry ol Fraunte, whiche was made to knowe if
that he had eatt any venom there muſt be made a litle oak
and a {peone of one mixture of gold and filuer, that the olde
Wapters called Elerrum and it mutt bee 4. partes golde and
one of luer they mult bee imooth,cleane ¢ well hurniſhed
with the loꝛke o> holder let him eate bis meate, and with the
ſpaone his bꝛoth : for putting them in the meate o2 in the
bꝛothh, it᷑ that there bee anp Uenoms therein, foazt with the
golde will haue an euil colour, appearing tawnie, ble we. o:
blacke, and looting the beautie that beloꝛe it had, the which
will cauſe them to locke better to the meat, ann this is dun
ta trial therot, and ta make further experiẽce by fome beat

is the greatelt experiente the lyke may bee boone with the

Romacks abbozre it, fa in perteiuing o⸗ feling
93 that pour | baer itfo2n nt ach rot mouth

Wit wine az water and leauc that meate and fal to
— very wel to give tt co fonte beat to ſer the 2

Fol. 137

Hiſtorie.

Ofthe Bexaar ſtone and
derſtaode when the vendmes come of cozſius thinges, vou
thal fee le a nstable ſharpenes, and they bite and burn foꝛzth⸗
with : the beſt is az themthat haue ſuſpicion, to eat meats
that is roſted oꝛ ſod, that they eate neither bꝛothes noꝛ pots
tages, foꝛ in them there map be greater hurte:and it any bee

made, let them not bee made with things of ſmell, as Aine

ber, muſte, and ſweete ſpyces, and let them not haue ouer-
much ſharpenes, foʒ in b20th oꝛ pottage, the poiſon will feos
ner lurke then in roſted oz ſodden, and ble no Meates,
which haue much ſweetneſſe, therein all poyſon will lur ke
the moze. Hee that hath any ſuſpicion ingen he goeth to bis
meate, let them not be toa greedy ta sate forthwith very ha⸗
ſtilp, but let him refrain himlelle, and let him eate with ley⸗
ſure, by litle and litle. The like he muſt do, in his drinking,
being very thirſtp, hee feeleth not what he dꝛinketh: and ſo

man peop!e being very dzx, haue dꝛunke inke, lye, and allo

water of arſenike, nat feeling the fame vntil they haue hurt
their body, andtherefoꝛe it is conuenient to dꝛinke leifurelp
by litle and litle taſtiug his dꝛinke as hedzinketh: farely it
men would be ruled by this oꝛder, they ſhould eaũlp ſindt il
there were any euill thing in that they eate, and dzink. Nou
haue to cauũder the colour of your meate, for thereby will
fome what appeare. Fo2it wil lake atherwiſe, then it ought
to doo, ſee that pour veſſels wherein pou cate 02 dꝛinke bee
cleane, ne we, and gliſtering: and it your abilitie be ſuch / let
them be of fluer.bemg cleane burniſhed, foz if pou haue ve⸗
nom in the dꝛinke it is ealily eſpied, and the lluer doth turn
blacke 02 taume. 1 185 .

Ofthe hearbe Efcuerconera. Fol zs.

ewꝛe there were many graines of arſenyke, which as vet
were not diſſolued. J was called ¢ J gathered out of p ewe
moze thé xx.ſmal grains of arſenike:⁊ within certain daies
after the Gentlemen fel fick, whereby J did coniedure p it
was not the firt time that they pretended to poyſon him: €
fince that, he bath bin ſicke a longtime. And thus much ¥
afirme that it p cup had not bin altered of his colour c been
infected,it had not bin perceined. T hereloꝛe it is neceſſarie
that the teficls and tinages where wine ¢ water are kepft,
be ffopt foꝛ feare leaſt any venomous thing fall therein, as

ſpyders Sallamanqueſas andother like venomeus beaſts,
and therefore it is nought to dꝛinke with vellels oꝛ cuppes
that haue narrow mouths:fa2 it is beſt to fee What one dꝛin⸗
keth in a cleere veſſel and bzoade, fo it is god fo2 them that
da regarde their health It is good to haue a pace ot a right
Unitoꝛnes ome in a ſmall chaine of golde, that it map ber
fwilled continuallp in the water that chall be dzunke, It
would do well, foꝛ not onely it taketh alway the ſuſpition of
the venom but doth put tothe dꝛinke a meruellous coꝛdiall
vertue. Allo pou mult not ſtãd by the fire that is made wilh
benomons wood, faz the fmoke doeth popſan, as if you fouls
take popfon,and to ſet in the chamber coales when they Do

begin to kindle many haue died ther with: let pour apparel

be kept by ſuch as you haue truſt in. tos in them may be put
things that may do notable hurt. and fo; al that, as is fü
Boeth much profit to haue trutie ſeruants, and that the p va

ſuch whome poumay truſt, and that ther bee of a Ab par

rentage, and ſticke not ta reward them well. And aboue all
atber let the Philiti that bath the charge of your bealth,be
learned and erperimented.diferete ans ofa gd indgemet,
and that be be riche and ol a good kinred, andbecing fach
ane he wil nat Doe any thing that be dug vt nat to doe fing
thatin bis handes is the lite and healtz of tye Patlter s

m2

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ea THE DIA.

LOGVE OF VRON

which treateth of the greatneſſe

thereof, and how it is the moſt excel-

lent metall of all others, and the thing moſt neceſſarie
for the ſeruice of man: and of the greate medi
cmwall vertues which it hat. 2

An Eccho for che DoftorMonardus 255
8 P hifision of Sensi 1

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cala, &c. my Lorde, the Doctor Monatdus
Phiſition witheth health Ke.

S Orafinuche as the metall called y-
ron is of fo greate im nce
= Vin the Worlde , and 10 neceſ-

? J farye forthe ſeruice of manne, it
</ mooued mee to make thys Dia-

Sjogue , whiche dcoethtreate of
“oy the greatencfle and maruellous 3
Woo rkes thereof. Which if they be 5
well conſidered. they will bring ad-

miration vnto all that fhall reade them by reaſonit is ſo ne-

ceſſarie for all ſtates, and manners of lyuing · It hath alſo

greate and Medicimall Vertues, and like wiſe with worthi-

nefle, and greatneſſe, it is an Iuſtrument and meane,

whereby the moft Woorthie haue gotten great Titles aud

tame: as wee ſee mani¢of thoſe hiche in times pail haue

attayned vnto among whom the Predeceffours af your
excellencie withtheir noble mindes, and ſtrong. armes,

the Speare in the Fift, and the ſworde in the hande, by o-

uercomming Battailes, by getting Townes and places, the

name and fame ofthem haue beene immortall to this day.

And for to augmentandincreafe thys the more , and to

giuc to your excellencie, and to your Children and fucs

ceffours , greater glorie youtooketo Wife the excel-

lent Daches the Ladye Juana Curtes that at thys daye

dooeth beautifie dene ee with, 55 eee. a
neſſe, eftimation, quilitie, and greatneſle, Daus 8
ö e Prince, Don Fernando

to that valiaunt and * .
ums „ ae wub his greatnelle and infimee dees

ae iat

cies 5
= is An Epiſtle. N
‘conquered and ther ne we worlde . and gotte in ſit not one
_ Townes and Cities, but e Empires: ars
by dyd followe to hys name euerlaltingglorie. And euen
fo the Chyldren and Succeffours, that thall come of your
excellencie with iuſt title ſhall reioyce of ſuche Progeni-
tors, labouring to imitate them in their greate knoweledge,
and warlike actes that they did , taking the yron fort
inſtrument thereof, that vnto them in theyr warlike ex-
derciſes it may bee a great meane and helpe, and for that
this our Diologue dooth treate of it, and of the praiſe and
greatneſſe thereof, I dedicate it to your excellencit᷑ as vn.
to whome fo much bounde, I am and it may pleaſe
vour excellencie to receiue my good will
for to ſerue you in greater

The Dialogue of Iron, and o
greatneſſe and excellencic
_ thereof.
Doctor. Burgus.

A Vrgus. Catberein doth maſter Doc.
tor goe muſing * ſtudping fo, that
F he temeth to be Hipocrates himſelf
I as theold writers haue pointed him
out⸗ Doctor. On a ſicke perſon that
J goto vifit, Burgus, It is needfull

N ok ſo muche care before it be (rene?
Doctor. Pea long befoꝛe, fixing frõ
. my ſtudie 3 had greate care of him.

Burgus. It is a thing of greate labour, you hauing fo many
icke perfons as vou alwaies haue, that pou mut ſtudꝝ e⸗
uerp dap the cafe ofeuerie one. 115
Doctor They are nat ſtudied all euerie day , but ſuche
as haue moſt ned, and da aſke euerie houre new remedies,

as in tharpe difeates, where nerde is ofcare anddiligence,
whereby the occaũon of the euil may the ſoner paſſe away:

fo2 thofe that are long ſicke, as ttze beneũtes that ſhould bee
done to them by leaſure and by little and little, the ſtudies
ol them are after the fame manner Burgus, 3 went

ſothinking how J ſhoulde ſee in the Contratation houſe

Wwhither J nowe great quantitie of Gold and ſiluer,
hich they haue nolw bꝛought in theſe fleetes that are now
come fromt the Indias, and efpecialipcertaine &meraldes,
which they haue brought from the newe kingdomte , For it
is laide that the oł them are worth thꝛer ſcoꝛe thonfande

went unhef my Wotbecaries bop ta ir them inthe Cone
tratation houſe. Doétor, ari 3 allo tnt go thither to bi.

ate a ſicke perfou at the treaſurers lodging: it may be that
there we may fe them „ gate, fo2

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is achter wap, and fee people will be there. It ſemeth
to mer, that the great hall of the Dreafurie hauſe is ſhut: it
May be that whiles J go bp to ſe the ſicke perſan, they wil
oben it. Burgus, Baur Woꝛſhip map goe in Gods name,
A will tarrie bere foꝛ vou, and ſæing the great hall is not
opened, 1 will (le dawae vppon the benche, and wil fe
what doeth pale vntill vou come. : ;
Doctour. alter Burgus, J pꝛap vou pardon mo, if
IJ haue tarried long: for the qualitie of the cauſe hatt caus
ſed mee to tarrie. Burgus. Rather J woulde haue beene
glad that pou hadde tarried longer, becauſe 3 would haue
ſeene maze , Doctour. Mhat haue pou feene whiles 4
was abſent: Burgus. The great hall being ſhutte, and the
parde tull of people, and J looked vppon them earneſtlp,
it ſermeth to mex that they are people of eſtimation, but to
mp indgement full of cares: foꝛ inthem 3 haue fene fo va⸗
riable and diners likeneff:s of countenance, that J maruel
at it. Some ol them talkingto themſelues: others being
alone with their heades hanging downe, and with greate
imagination: others talking by two and two tagether:
Others in cluſters treating of the fales of their Parchaun⸗
dize: Mariners and Souldiours tarrying for their pay⸗
mentes: Others carrying alway their postions of ſiluer, ;

which the y bad taken out running with it, as though they

had ſtolen it: Others tzere were with the Nataries about

their ſuites · Others in the office of ths Treaſurer

the Regiſters. Where was allo a greate noiſe ofmuche
people, delinering and receining parcels ofſiluer , but
they were ina greate ſtrife thereuppon. Che Indges were
in counſelt, and many people tarrping foz them in luch fort,
tat 1 was in greate admiration: J beeing there onelx
to beholde, and all the reſt todo their buſineſfe. And it was
to mee as one tat viv beholde them without graf, asd

and ofthe vertues thereof.
Andthat which did make mee maruell moze, was to fee
khat nous were merrie noꝛ content: rather they ſeemed to

haue great care andtroubles. a
f Doctour. aiſter Burgus, I am glad pou haue fene
what doot) paſſe in that houſe, with ſo much attention: fo:
all that which pou haue ſeene, that Gold and ſiluer is cauſe
thereof which with fo great goed will vou came to ſee, and
this is it whiche is the cauſe of their troubles, and cares,
and not onely it bꝛingeth ſuch as pou ſaw there amazed and
aſtonied, hut manp others, 2 they ars at this days the in⸗

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them, that they haue and doo pꝛocure them, by the loſſe of
their lyues, and ending of their blood, and after they haue
them, they conferuc them with their labour, and with grea⸗
ter care keep them and with much milery they ſpendthem,
and with great euill fortune they laoſe them. Theſe are
they that take away quietnes and reſt. They takeaway
fleepe, and many paſſe the dax to keepe them, and te in ⸗
treaſe their afflictions and cares. Inthe night alfo they
r fomany Mares
— Foz all this 4 woulde {ce the Golde, the ſluer,
and the Emeraldes. Doctour. What? maiſter Burg
haue vou neuer ſeens Golde ſiluer, and Emeraldes:? Bur-
gus. Pea, J haue ſeene them but in little quantitpe. Do-
tour. Vat dos pou thinke is there in ſ; et of little, aꝛ
much, but ta fee much earth oꝛ little earth, and mole or all
without the pꝛaũte of man, of as manꝝ as nature bath creas
ted: And it you haue fo great deũre to ſee pꝛectaus metalis:
3 will carrye vou to a plate where you hall {ee one metall
much more of pꝛice, ¢ of greater eſtimation, then the galt
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then the Emraldes, foꝛ that theſe things concerning ffones
are no other thing, but an opinion which men haue olkthem
and we haue ſeene very fewe wonders that they do by any
thing that is wꝛitten of them, except it bee to take money
dut of one purſe, and conueigh it into an other. J knowe
na other vertue that they haue. And the Golde and Siluer
is na other thing but a duſt and earth of that colour, whiche
Nature did bꝛeede in the bowelles of the Earth, as thee did
other Detalles , Trueth it is, that the people haue put
moꝛe eſtimation in theſe twoo, then in the ref: info much
= that ſuche as haue aboundaunce of them are called rich :and

Sccrater, khat is called riches, whereof Socrates ſapth, that they dons
== ſeruice to the wife man, but to trouble his mind, as the long
a apparell dooth trouble the bodie . And nowe ſeeing wee
esta are come to the houle ‘where the nietall iez that is moze pꝛe⸗

tious then Golde, Siluer, and Emeraldes, let vs goe in,
far 9 Ortuno will giue vs leaue: the Poꝛche o the
Dose is frethe, and the heate is create, foꝛ here wee hall

paſſe well away a part of the hot aſternoone.
Ortuno. Mhat deo pou lacke maſter Doctour? Doctour.

Wee wouldbe merry and reſt vs a little inthis pour porch
ol your booze,’ Ortuno Fant very glad thereof. Till it

pleate pour wooꝛſhips to fit downe, foʒ heere are chayies

Doctour. Baker Ortuno the holte afiernane is better to

paſſe in Biskey then heere in Seull. Ortuno. Shere is als
ſo heate at this tyme of the peare, as there is here, but here
is a Difference, that inthis cittie the houſes art made verpe
well to defende the heate: and there the moſte parte of the
houſes are made of boozdes, to defende the greate colde,

And at thys time ol the peare they are verpe hot. It is well
ſpoken ot ſuche as faye, that inthe Ginter tyme it is good

oe to dwell. ftyBurgus.and in the Sommer in Seuill, foz be⸗
Auuſe the haut aur made facentene are tore both ea

ae pitts FS; 7s. BBY if

oe ot 2 D

ee, a ee ee * as oe ee ee q A en ̃ .. — ˙ ... ee a ee

and of the vertuesthereof. Fol. 143

Doctor. And ſeeing wee are heere, à will ſhewe Maiſter

Burgus the metall ⁊ pꝛomiſed him, whiche is richer then

Solde, eiluer, oꝛ Emeraldes which he went to ſee. B. J

woulde be glad te ſee what it is. D. theſe planches of Iron Pron

that you (ce leaning to thele walles, is the true mettal not”
pꝛecious which ſerueththe twozld:¢ with it men profit them

ſelues in their neceſſities:this is the true golde and filucr,
without which wee could not liue: noꝛ men toulde srertiſfe

their artes, and offices without it: and with it are recouered

the true riches, all fruites, and tempozall goods, and with

this metal al other metalles are fined and bought to theyꝛ

perfection. B. Trueth it is, that vꝛon is very neteſſarie, but

it is a plapne thing that golde and ſiluer are moze excellent

then it, and they are bꝛedor a better oꝛiginal ſubſtante, and

ofa greater beginning thenit, as it appeareth in the fapz⸗

neſſe and ercellencie whiche they haue, moze then all other

metalles. f : 5 “i

D. Maifter Burgus, pou ſhall vnderſtande, that all thefe a

mettalles doo pꝛoteede and are ingendꝛedofone manner of Tbe original
ſubſtance, original, and beginning. Crueth it ie, that there of the metals
haue beene great opinions and dluers iudgementes among and of what
the ancient and wife Philofophers, whereupporthe oꝛigi / they sre ur
nal and beginning thereof fhould bee, and whereof they are gendred.
ingendered. Some deolay, that moyſture congeled into a
terteyne foꝛme, is the matter of all metalls. Ariſtotle faith, Ariſtotle.

p they are ingendꝛed ofa vapour entred into the bowels ol p a
earth. Democrito fapeth , that thepare made ofacerteyne Democrits
kinde ot lime and lye. Gila Spanilh Per tayeth,that ther

lements : ſome fap that they are tonge led ofa calde cauſe: o⸗
thers, that beate Both make them thic ke. Che Aſtronamers The Aſtre-
dos attribute this matter to the ſuperianr cauſes, and to the nomeri.
willing to repꝛooue the one and | | ‘tha 5
celedttall vertue, with the „ cauſe of his be⸗
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| beginning, and oꝛiginall. 8
Trimerift Trimegiſto fapa, that the earth was the mother of the
1 metals, and the heauen the Father. and Uiime fayth theſe
dVoꝛdes. The inner parte ofthe earth is a tzing moſte pres
cious, fo? into it, and thꝛough it doo goe, and pearce al the in⸗
fluences of heauen, ingendering therein thinges ol greats
8 pꝛyce, as ſtones and mettals: and this is doone, as Calci=
Calidonio. donio Platonico doeth fay , by reafon of the greate heate,
Caliſt henes. that is inthe inner parte ot it. Caliſthenes vnderſtood that
| Anaxagorasthe fozmie afmetals wers all one. Anaxagoras and Hermes
ara Hermes ſapde, that the metalls had ane foʒme in the inner part, aud
i an ether in the out warde parte, one ſecret, and an other mas
nifett,ater the manner as the lead hath within it gold, and
the gold lead, and fo of al the reſt of the metals. See you mx
maiſters howe many and howe variable opinions there ars
f LS ate wiſe men. —
aoe re is another opinion, h is that whiche is com ⸗
5 3 man, and which fo2 the malt certepne we do followe, which
as FECT Auicen wzote in bis boakes of Matheurous, and in the
bookes hee made of Alcumiſto, which were conũrmed by
Geber and Raymond Lullio, and Arnolde de Villa no-
ua, and all the reſt that haue treated of thefe matters, euen
vnto dur tame, doo fap, that the true matter of all metalis
is ingendꝛedofbꝛimſtone, and quickeſiluer, the bꝛimſtone
: — a the quickettluer as the mother : and ts
mſtone, donth incazpoꝛate, and congele with
| — in lach unte that otters too thinges are
made the metals wich are in the bolwelles of earth: and of
the variation of thefe twao beginninges, they come to byt
—— from the ether, and ol the pureneſſe of thels
| , ſome doe come ta be ——

And there were Whilofophers which ſaid that al mettals
ſhould haue bin golde, if it had not bin fo2 the imperfection of
the ſulphur, and the quckſtiuer. And alother metals beſides
the gold, they call imperled mineralles, becauſe they hadde
nat their pureneſſe, and concoction, that the golde had, with

thut maruclleus kriendchippe, which nature gaue onto it.
And ofthis it commeth, that the Alcumiſtes for fo make
golde, doe pꝛetende to make cleane and puriſie theſe twos
beginninges of the which all toe mettalles are made, and
boring put into their perefcion the golde is made by ol
. the metall moſt pure and cleane, of all s⸗

er. s f

Thus they door wooꝛke with their diſtillations and
limbetks: and hole hard it is to doe, let them reports and
ſpeake that haue {pent their goods, and alſo their patrimo⸗
— 3 and pet in the end haue perfezmed nothing
Buch as doc wiite again them, making impollible
their woo2kes andeffectes, do fay that in the bewels of the
earth, the metals are not ingendꝛed, noꝛ made ofbꝛimſtone,
and quickefiluer, as they thinke and holde it foꝛ terteine,ſo
they cannot make ofthem by Arte, fox ifit were fo, that ok
bꝛümſtone and quickltluer they were inge ndꝛed ther would f
be lame rafe of them in the mynes of golde, and Giver, and
ofthe other metals: fo2 it is ſeene that there is no ſigne 2
Payne of them in anvof thofe mynes, hawe ygepe ſa cet
they be: but rather they are mynes olthemſelnes, as wee
les, that nepther in them are founnde metalles-n in the
mynes ot the metals are founde ſulphur, noꝛ quickſiluerr.
And ikit were ſo as they Cape that the metalles doobtecde,

and are newolp ingendꝛed ok the ſe tives be
bee of fozce, that one metall Were alread) and
the other thoulne goe a making, for that all cenie na
dee made alpke: but ratber they take out all metalles

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that is made or them, are neither founde ſulfur, noz quicke⸗
ſtluer. The canfe is harde, and the opinions are many, as
vou haue heard. 4 knowe none that path hit the Parke.
God only knoweth, who gaue to nature certain lawes, and
maners tocongele, and make theſe mettals with ſuch mix⸗
ture and foꝛme as it hath pleaſed him fo do. Hero it is that
ſome haue beens of opinion, and not without great reaſon,
that the mettalles were made and bꝛed ioyntly, with the
Woꝛld, as ſaint Auguſtin ſaith. All that euer the Loꝛs made
he made it together, at one time, and he did create it euen ſa
When he made the woꝛld, and created the earth, ieintly with
it, and in the bowels of it he created the metalles, and that
which is to be taken toꝛ moſt certaine in this cauſe, as alſo
that which doeth ſhe we molt effectes,is the common opini⸗
on, which ſayeth, that the metalles are ingendꝛed of bꝛim⸗
tone, and quickſiluer, foꝛ therby are diſſolued many doubts
which woulde be harde to verifie,ifit were not ſo. And this
is the beſt opinion, moſt ſure, and true, and with the greateſt
demonſtration. B Great thinges hath matter D. che wed
bs , for they haue put me in admiration, and J doe vnder⸗
ſtande, that his defire is to gine vs to vnderſtand, the oꝛigi⸗
nal cauſe of what the pon is ingẽ dꝛed, ſeing that his intent
is te treate ot it andof his greatnes. D. Trueth it is that
mp pꝛincipal intent in that which J haue ſaide, is to ſhewe
vou hewe the pron is made, and created the fame begin!
nings, and matter, that the gold and filucr are made ot, and
the reſt of the mettales, and that the pron dooeth not differ
from the gold in moꝛe, then the golde is made of his begin ·
ninges cleane and pure, wherby it is bꝛight, gliſtering and
faire, and the pon bycauſe it is made of groffe beginnings
and not pure, theretoze if is foule,blacke,and darke, as We
ſe it, and although it be ſo, pet it is moꝛe excellent then
Solde, oz ſiluer, and all other mettalles, fo2 of it wwe reteiue
mo3¢ benefite and haue moe niede qt it, then of all the ret:
and al other mettalles without it are of value, to it bad

and of the vertties thereof.
take them out, from vnderneath the ground, €

with it then

are wꝛought and come to their perfection, Mith it are vef- *
fels made, money, and all other thinges which ſerue foꝛ the
Dic and profite of man: t in this refpedt it is of moze ſtrẽgth,

then al they are of, ſeing that it doth make them al ſubiec,

and in ſuch ſoꝛte doeth grinde and beate them, that all they

doe come vnder the wooꝛking thereof, perfoꝛce. And before

wet paſſe further, it wil doe wel that after Ortuno, who ;
was boꝛne in Bilkey, der tell vs hob the zron is taken out, 4
made, and brought topertection , andthe reſt that he darth

knowe thereol:foꝛ this being kno wen we will Lay the mate

ter, withthe better foundation, Ortuno. Master Dactoz

bath {aide fo much vate vs, that hee hath bounde mer Ipbes

wyſe to runne my rafe, and 1 will fpcake that wyich J

knowe although that my talke be as of a Bifka

Pour worthippes th ul onverttande that all the Pilly

Country ok Bil key, foꝛ the mat parte are my

and although that all of them are not weught uppen, be
thofe which are the beit, are wꝛought and ſuch Where moſt

ine,

ow To
e . made.

quantitie of mettall is taken cut: the others as a thing of

little benefite, bee not wꝛought vppon, vrcauſe
nat the colt that is made in taking out the

thep veelde
mettall of

E he ſtones which are vppon all in the vopermatt part of

the baine, are the moſt ſtrong and harde pron

that it is called Stele , fo2 the greate ſtrengt o that it hath,
the vopermoſt parte is alwaies of greate rockes , geke⸗
in isthe mettall which they vader mine, and put fler under
them that there w eth tev map bꝛenzes and akter warde
with great hammers they bꝛꝛake them ind make Egon ta

weces, and after put the into an Duende ge £94
es * and put fire ta them that there tats en
mane foft chceatier , and ta mike them inf naler pe
| a done, they are put into a Furnace made

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f the Iron doeth fall downe ints the loweſt parte, and ſo it is
* made a great cake, the which beeing deuided into peeces,
they carry them tothe forge, where are certain great ham⸗
mers oꝛ ſledges of {ron which the water dꝛiueth, and they
beate them, and there they are foꝛged, and doe make theſe
planches that pou (ee there leaning. Trueth it is, that there
are mines Were ſome Iron is moze ſtrong then other ſome
5 and like wiſe harder and ſtronger to labour. The Iron
“Almaine, of Almainie is ſoſter and gentler to wozke: That of Flaun-
8 ders is harde and naught: and therefore it is that many
| Baskey. thinges are foone broken that are made ofit. In Italy pou
haue all fortes, that of Biskey is the beſt, by reafon it is
good to woꝛke, and it is more mightic and ſtronge then all
ether, and lo the goodneſkz it hath, it is carried to all

partes.
70h; Doctour. Doe they being tele from Biskey as they
Fah. doe from Italie? Octuno, hep doe bꝛing a certains kinde
of Iron ſo harde and ſkrong, chat being wꝛought, it ſerueth
fo2 Stele, chiefly with a temperature that is giuen to it,
that dott make it verie rong although that it be wꝛeugzt
with great labour. There is great difference bet wenne this
andthe Stele which they bing from Italy, and cheefely
from Milan, foꝛ this is erie pleafant to tusozke and forte,
and is farre better, andthe creftes men that dode twozke it
toꝛ this cauſs are deſirous of it, and do ve it moze then and
other. Doctour. Some will ſap, that the Stale is a mins
alone ofit felfe diſtant from the Jron. Ortuno. It it not {95
foꝛ all are mines of qron, but that ſome is moze ſtrongtden
other ſome, z the ſtronger and harder it is, foz the ſtrength
whardneſſe thereof we call it Stele, andtgere are coun⸗

= tries wyieh haue no sther Iron but this which is harde and
Mondragon r 8 all the countrp of Mondragon, where ——
Dixie, all that is taken out of them, the diſ⸗

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and of the vertuesthereof. Fol 46
krom Italy is ofanother forte, Jnthat Countrie are diuers 8
mynes of vꝛon, ſame of foft pꝛen ⁊᷑ eaſie to wooke, and other

of hard ¢ ſtrong vꝛon a not eaſie fo Weꝛke. And loꝛ to make

the ſteele which they lende vs, they vſe it in this ſoꝛte: they

take ofthe foft vꝛon the quantitic they feente good, and they

make it in certeyne ſmall thinne planches, then they take

marble ground ſmall, and allo the ruſt of the yzon graunde 8
mal æ mingling it al together, they put it into a furnace to The minner
melt, pꝛepared fo2 this purpoſe, with much quantitie of kin- hom they
dled coale, they caſt all together into it, ⁊ giueth it a ſtrong „ate Steele
fire and after they caſt to it fom of the hard Aron that is ſo , ale. 5
hard, that it cannot be wrought, and with a ſtrong fire it is sg
al melt, and they make it one peece,of the which they make
thele barres of ſteele, that they bꝛing to tbeſe partes, in ſo
greate quantitie the which they call Teele, by reafon it is
hard to woozke,and ſtrong, t in Latin it is called Chalibs, f
by reafon of certeyn (mal totene ? z were ſa called, whereas 8

Doe ſteels lerueth foz many Steele.

‘pion, and of moꝛe attiuitie, and they make ſtrong t foꝛtiſte
the toolesofy20n with it to endure the lenger, and may deo
their work moze quickly, with moze ſtrength e reabines,fo3

pꝛon, and of tele. D. Paiſter Ortuno, bai

Well, and not in hort (pecch,but wiſelx, and dilcrectlr. Res
for would that many people ſhauld bim af theſe a metalles
fo 4 haue vnder toad that they ſerue fa many ings. Or
which do buy yꝛon ok mee, are

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well net bee declared, much leſſe inthe little time that wer
haue heere. D Let vs be inkoꝛmedas long as time wil per⸗
mit. Ortuno. J will ſpeake of fame thinges which z dos
remember. One of the thinges in the which vꝛon is moll
ſpent, as alfa greate parte of the Steele, is inarmour, as

thinges Iron well acfentine, as offenſiue, fo that there is no place at this
55 Steele are Day in the woꝛld where they are not bled, and exerciſed, ang
pen.

A with the helpe of an other thin not nerd of iran

in many Countries they are made. Chictly there is ſpent
much yon in making of handgunnes, the ble whereok is fa
much in the warres, and warlyks exertiſes, that the people
ol greateſt fame and adiuitie, are they whiche ſhoote in
them: as a thing verie pꝛincipall, and moſte neceſſarie: but
ſurelp it was an inuention of the Deuill, foꝛ to carrie mas
ny to hell. And fo ſpeake of all kinde of weapons which are
made of pꝛon and ſteele, it will aſke a longer time then we
haue. Che pron dooth profite fo2 the tilling of the earth, and
labouring of the feldes, and foz the benefites ofall the
wooꝛkes in the Countrie, to ſow, and doo other woozkes,
à thing fo neceſſarie and profitable fo2 all people, ſeeing
that ths wooꝛkes of the ficldes doath ſuſteyne all manner
oke ſtates, in the wozlde . The pꝛen ſerueth fo make buil⸗
binges, fomany ſoztes, and diuers, that there with ther
builde Citties, Townes, Ailages, Forts, Churches, and
publike places, the whiche without yon and ſteele coulde
not be made, as alſo in the ſcientes of any manner of handi⸗
trafts man, in the which there are fo many neceſtary inſtru⸗
ments, ſoꝛ to ble and exertiſe, that thereby you may fee how
neteſſarie the pron and ſtæle is, ſœing that without thé they
cannot be made, noꝛ anv thing can bee wꝛonght. And to ex⸗
pꝛeſſe euerie office, and ſtience by it ſelfe that by meanes of
theſe t wos metalles are made and exertiſed, it will neuer
bee made an ende of. One thing J will ſpeake with truth,
that there is nothing in the woꝛlde , bee it by it felfe alone

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and ofthe vertues thereof. Folit47

By meanes of thele two metals, kinges r pꝛinces do get |
kingoomes,ano cities, ¢__ meanes of them they dos make
fubiect their enemies, and doo defende their goods and per⸗
fens, Andas Liuio ſapth that with ron the Countrey 18
Defended, and not with Golde, and with it kinges are made
ſtrong and mighty and are eſteemes and had in great reue⸗
rente By Iron iuſtite is kept and mainteyned, and by the
meanes of it, euil dosers are chaftened and the good confers
ued. T his mettall hath ſo much authoꝛitie in the wald, that
itconferueth peace and guietneſſe in common twealthes, in
cities, in ſieldes, and in Defertes, in fache ſoꝛte that by it
in all places they haue all their aſſurante, and delence: and
fo much may be fayd of that which it tan do, and the greate
aucthoꝛity that it hath and tze meane that it is fo2 al things
that my tongue is not able to ſpeake them, noꝛ my memoꝛdꝰ
to expꝛeſſe them. One thing J will fap, that the auncient
Romaines had by it (uch ettimation, that onely the Povle
people onely might weare a ring, t the ſame to bee ok Iron.

Drtwe neꝛdles which are made of ſteele J wil ſpeake, as The ein
of the greateſt thinges that may be thought: the one is the edle.
Needle with the which they doo ſowe: pow neceſſatpe it is
in the woꝛld, in citties, in townes in tommon wealthes, in
perticuler houſes in the field in the Sea, z in al places, yea
and to anpe ons particuler man alone : And let ſo many
Artes ſpeake thereof,that by meanes of the Needle are v
ſed x don, and without it they ſhould not be vle d, noꝛ Boone:
and beeing fo manp, it will bee a thing incompꝛehenſũble to
ſpeake of them. Let eueryman conſtder therrot ſeeing that
from the king vnto the ſheepehearde, and from the brihop o
the lerton they cannot paſſe without the bie ofit. And if wee
looke What feraice it dath to women in their vles and erer⸗
ciſes, in their ſa wings ¢ wozkes wꝛought Spor linen cloth
and Gike, thinges fo politike. and delicate that with the
eerie they do workerimitating allo in things which they *

wozke, like bate the woꝛk of nature making beaſtes birds,
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plants,leaues,and flowers. which do feente with the bꝛan⸗
ches, that they gine ok lilke in colours, as it it were the felfe

flame that is growing in the ſielde. 3 ſawe the picure of

the kings maieſtie made with a needle fo naturally, as if an
=" - excellent apnter had payntedit. Dr all this the necdleis
—— tnitrament : a thing fo mall that it is hid among the

ä The Indians were in great admiration thereefat
the beginning, when they were firſt diſcouered, when they
fate Spanpardes ſow with a Needle, foꝛ it ſeemedto them
athing of wonder, and they gaue fora Needle much golde,
and they were aſked wherefoze they would haue them ſee⸗
ing that they were naked: they aunfwered,fo; the waꝛkes
thatthe d panpardes did with them, they wauld haue them
in their power fo2 a thing of admiration. And with them
Fheptooksout the thoanes that ran into their fete, better
bath feral that oh ati

eedle is that which ſerueth for Mautgatl

joes om ts fayle withall inthe Sea, and is ene of the greatefl
en, things that hath beene diſteuered in the whole wozld, with
in this little time: and by meanes thereof, there haue been
founde new woꝛldes, great kingdomes, and pꝛouinces, ne⸗

Mer ſeene noꝛ knswen vnto vs. And if the Needle had not

been found, they had neuer bin diſcauered. Wiben they wan⸗

ted ik, the nanigation was very little, and ſhoꝛt: they

E Dea toaſtts: ant

and of tke vertues thereof. Fol. 148
the Which is ofſterle:and they do rubbe oner one parte or it 5
with the love ſtone, 2 forthwith by particular vertue which
God hath giuen vnto it bythat parte which they did rubbe
suet with the love ſtone, it looketh towards the ole, Which
is nctre tothe Noꝛth / and perpetually it dodeth this beeing
in the Sea on the land either by the dax oz by the night.
twits the Sunne oz without it, alwaies it leoketh to wardes
the oath, bee . Regie 5

With the which Perdle, and wyth the Carde ok

Nauigation, wherein is platid a diſtinction forthe know ⸗
ledge of the windes, and the deſcription ol the pastes; ther
faple fo many milleons of leagues: as at this daꝝ wer ſet,
and it is done fo cafily,that it is very wonderful. Che mules e fit

tion ofthis maruellous Needle was founde by a Pariner, found this
who was bene in a citic of Melfi in Ita y. Allo the von E needle,
Steele do ſerue to make clockes, which is a thing or greate

art, z very ueceſſarie to line w rule c oꝛder:ſoꝛ bythem ha!
be know the wels that are tobe made, ⁊ p time that Hal
be ſyent in them, they lerue faz all ſtates of people whereby
they map line wiſelx ¢ diſtretely:⁊ were is no clocke they.
nue like beaſts the are made at this dap with fo muth art
g curiouies, that theymaks great admiration, the purifte
and make cleane theſe to metals that thꝛꝝ make them as

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rut, andbecauſe it may not eme to it, there are many re-
medics that the thinges which are made of zron, and of
Stele map be continualipcicane: pʒincipally, that they be
put inte no maoiſt place, and that they be occupied and bfed,
gildingthem oz filucring them: in ſo doing theꝝ bee kepte
tleane from the aloꝛęſaide ruſt, oꝛ annointing them with
tommon ople, oz wich the marcswe ofa Deare, 02 with the
latte of birdes, 02 with white lead and vinegar: when they
are take with the ru d, foꝛ te t ie it away, they mult be fy»
led of and put into bineger, and after inta the fire, fo2 with
this it is taken away, vnleſſe when they be fo mach eaten,
that they are not ta be remedied with the ſe benefites. J dos
not (peake of the ſtneſſe and delicateneſſe that there is in

ſodering of it, and clofingof it together, and of the vſing ok

it inß forge, bꝛcauſe J am wear J let it paſſe with many
ther things that J ſhauld ſap thereof, and da conclude that
theſe twothinges, Aron and Stele are the moſt nec llarie
things fo2 the ſeruice ot mã, ot as many as are in the woꝛld.
Doctor. J am verie glad with that which maſter Ortuno
hath ſpoken: fo3 all is ta tonſirme the excellencies, x great;
neſſe which J haue vnderſtod of theſe tua mettales, wher⸗
by I doc take them ta be maze neceſſarie then the gald and
ſiluer, it we da tanſider well ofit. The gold path not ferns
vs principally fo? any other thing, but foꝛ money, which is
ta bup any thing ther with, and fo? the trade ofthingts, the
which any other metal might ſerue, o any other thing Fo?
in the old time asthere u is na money, the y did barter and
change one tying foꝛ another: and by reaſon in thys barter

ring and changing there could not be ned anpegn jlitpand

tion bet woene parties: the wiſe and diſtriete men
n wealthes did agree togetter to make a thing

mhict might ſeruꝛ the lacke that mig it be ok the one parte

to the other, that with it the thiages mi aht be m ide equal.

8 bes a inibificatian of voty parts. Ao fos

sverttiesthereof § Fo 149
Se, bind Une eee . on,
ander metall as w fee in the money of old time. and aſter
that, the Romaines made it ot golde and ſiluer, foꝛ the fayꝛ⸗
heffe thereof, but it is fufficient that the firſt which was
made, was ol yꝛon and ok metall, ſeing that the Indians
haue it to this dap, ol fcuites of trees, and eſpecially of the
Cacao, Which is the fruite ol a tree, lyxke to an Almond this Mony weil
bath ſerued, and doeth ſerue them foz mone p, to bux, and to o ſruite ,
ſell, and to vſe all plapneſle, in their buſtneſſe. And in all .
Ginea the blacke people called Negros dose vſe foꝛ montp,
fo2 the fame effect,certaine little {naples , which they finde
in the Sea as alfo other nations doe bie ofthinacs lyke to
this. B. J baue helde my peace, harkening ta pour
worchippes, with great attention, and furely vou haue
treated in thinges ef greate impozfance, and of great lear⸗
ning: and ſeeing you gee treating fo effectually the matter
of Iron, and fo delicately, and with fo greate learning, 4
woulde that Paiſter Doctor myght latiſũe vs one thing,
that 3 haue ſene decided of learnedmen, vppon the com

doe fap 6

N vanbthat 3 b 3
with Paiſter Burgus: eee i dziue mer to a
gueſtian, the molt hard and ditfitulte that is inal Ppilicke,
and furelpit were node of moze time, then that wee haue
9 B. pour e not cf by that meane fo3 fo
may not efcape 5
moꝛrowe pou map maks an endofthat, which vou cannot .
doe this dap. Ortugo. z ſhall receiue great pleaſure in it, al⸗
thougbit bee not me profedison: ein beeing a thine touching |
e, eS DARIEN , :

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dos t and fe 4 will rtturne bither tomoꝛralo atter Dinner
betauſe we map haue time and place to treat of all thinges |

that are to be ſaid of pꝛon. i goe te biũte my ſicke peo⸗

ple the little time that doth re maine: and spate
ſcer Zucgus will goe tu his Apotheca
ries Mappe, and fo Ood be
with vou.

Gard g: Le Gz 8 is dae Sieg
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ol Iron, treating of the vertus
thereof. „

=f Odo. J am righte glad, es
A finde PMapfler Burgus heere, foz

Nas, J came by the waye, ſente
to call him „ becauſe it might
haue chaunced that wee fhouide not 5

haue mette fo well together as wee

dpd peſterdape. Foz we went rem
iv hence when tt was night, Burgus.

tance andthat noath glue fa much fatifrction anv contents
mentit is good to come tymely, Ortuno, ou are welcome,
maiſter Doctour. pou haue verye well accompliſhed pour
; God ſaue vou, in a good hotwze be it, the poꝛche
of the dooꝛe is very freſhe, and it is necdefull that it foul
be fo, becauſe it is ſo hatte, Burgus. peeing that wess
bee nolue bere lette done, and are fo wel adowed from ö i

the heate, it will doo twell,tyatimaifter Doctour doo re.
late unto bs, that wgiche wee aſkedof him veſterdap, that
the tome paſſe not awayein baine. Doctour. 3 do minde
o to doc, fa; almayes 3 come ſhoꝛte and Wear pe, and haue
neede of tyme. This que ſtion which we {will treate ot, is
i “fo difficultie, that manp of the olde wꝛitets, who haue
treat. een let it alone, andmedled net with it: fz
dae thereof, wyet e oa

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may moꝛe apparantly fee the ſame, 3

And that wee
= wi.ill ſpeake of ſuche that holde the one opinion, and alſs ot
Thai ebe I. thole that are of the other: and the parties being heard, wee
ron is colde Will iuage that which al ſeeme beſt onto vs. Let vs ſpeak
Salen. firſt of thofe that affirme zron ts be colde, and let Galen bee
. the irk, who dooth lay that all thoſe metals of their nature
ure dꝛpe, and ſothey haue great vertue, and ſtrength, to dꝛy
vp, and that that bath moſt vertue and ſtrength to doe this
: among all oftgem, is the Jron,as allo with this vertue to
* Daye vp : it hath alfo bertueto make colde. Wee dooth coms
pate it to the fone, faying that the ſubſtance ok the ſtone is
conſtant, and ſtedtaſt, for the colde, and dꝛyeth that it bath:
Euen la is the ron, in ſuche ſoꝛte that it bath the nature of
the fone, the which is tolde and dꝛye. And this whiche her
ey ſayeth in the nienth of his Methodo, hee dooth confirme ta
an ttatokthe naturall faculties . The harde bodies Dootheww
* to haue moꝛe earthly partes, and as the Iron is moſt harde,
it bath moꝛe then all ether thinges, whereby it commeth to
be colde and dꝛie. ; mid N ob os FESS
Aueroyes Booth tonſirme the lame in the fifth of his Co-
iger and fayeth : thinges whiche ars made harde of heate,
With the dominion of earthly partes ought to bee colde, and
dzpe, as the Jromis, Alberto Magno in the booke ofthe
Metheuros ſapeth: the ron when it is kindled maketh
itfelfeverprende, foz becauſe in bis principall qualitis it
bath earthly partes the ſame he doth confirme in the bake
which he made of metals. Tey eee
Conciliador in the difference 55. ſayeth inthe Trot
is not founde that bertuc which is erpzeffely acine, but in
de erdeitis calde and daye . The fame wordes are fapoe
inthe differente 123, Gentill in the ſame queſtion wyiche
de made dee Atte medicinarnns, ſapeth, thatthe Aron

ee ae Sh Herculano

and ofthe vertues thereof. Fol. ;.

Herculano in the chapter a: ami con rmeth he fame.

lacobus de partibus . he clk, 32 B tat e
the pois colde and dax. Nee do les thatthe waters which „tube.
baue quenched hot yꝛon oz ſteels, are colde and dap. Aucen 3
in the fecande of the ürſt, fapeth that they doo reſkraine the

colaur, and take away dꝛieth . and the beate chiedy in time

of verie hotte weather. And follo bing after this, Monardo fende.
fatety, that the water which bath cooled horte ſteele is cold, :
fing that it taketh away the dꝛieth, and doth mittigate the

heate, in tym of hot weather: and the dꝛietz being taken a.

way, cauſeth that the putrefadtion ofthe feuers doceaſe ais?
where they are with tooles, it maketh an excellent worke,
Albucaſis in the booke which her made ok cering Inſtru⸗ Albucafis,
mentes ſapeth, that thole inſtruments where witz the head

chould bee cered, ought to be of golde, becauſe it is moll tem
perate: ¢ that in no manner of wile they be of pon, becauſt
theironiscolvesfnatures: 9 seo eat
- > Brafauolain bis Bosks ofthe French difeate Gaveth, Braſauola-
that the yꝛon is colde and ayy. which as he faveth dath che w

wel in his colour and manner of ſubſtance, and in the dark⸗

nes and weight it bath, fo2 theſe thinges Boa alw des Ape
peare, and come into earthly ſublkance,as that which is
light into het, and ayerp fabfance which is knowen ka bee
colde and dꝛx for his eſfe tes, ſering that it taketh aluay,and
dosth repꝛeſle the cholerike ſtooles it withholdeth the luxe,
and hot runninges. That which this dooth alivaics is cold
ene, e ee ene, mS

) poms putteth the degrees of the colones, which Sarauarolu.
the pꝛon bath, and ſaxeth: that it is colde in the feconte de „

to paſſe fazwarde: fo2 Onto mer, hat which is ſyoken, is ſul⸗
ficient,fox 3 bane na doubt therof, but that the zun ts calde
and dꝛy and alwaies 3 haue vnderſtood it ta be a. and now
with the confirmation of ſuch authors, holde it faz moze
terteine and firme. D. Paiſter Burgu hath very quicklie

5 PP3 deter⸗

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determinet wieda hearing the other partie. And theretoꝛe
i: is ſapde that the iudgge ſhould haue fo eares, the one to
5 beare the one partie, and the other to heare the other party:
e when pon haue heard the contrarie party which faith, that
the yon ts hot, authoꝛiked with ſo grate men, and fo wile, as
the aozelaide, perhappes vou ſhall remayns confounded in
f hauing made ſo light a iudgemenk⸗ B. Is it poſſible that
That ehe p- an doo fay that the prow which is harde and colde, weigh⸗
ron is hot. pe, is not cold, but hot? J cannot beleeue it, vnleſſe it were
with fome lophiſttcall argumentes. D. Itſhall net bee, but
With very plaine reaſons ⁊ euident, ſpoken wy the mot pꝛin⸗
8 tipall Phiſitions, and Philoſdphers, that haue beene here-
Gan, teldze. Galen in his nienth boone of the Mingle medicines,
: faith that the meftalls, haue much ſudſtante efthe fire mins
gled with the relfshotminth reafonis it, to bee moze in the
; nther inthe reſt er the metals, but betauſe itis hard and
weke, let Rafs chewe it wa in the zr ofthe: Cantinemy bes
Za. Baath fay iron to be hot z dꝛie in the third degree. And fo2 the
Feen ö therot, let Menne be tited, who was — - pe
i ftton and a Philoſopher, very famous in his time. Aliabas
* nthe: pis e wech fape that the water that hath
‘Tuertehed hot ckeele, is hot and day, becauſe it hath vertue to
tonſumt the fapettiuities ofthe ſkomacke, and openeth the
iimner partes ot the vodie which are al woꝛkes of heate Aui-
Auicen. ‘cen in the ſetand Canon ſayth, that the ſteelie water doth re⸗
Thine, which tooꝛ ke is onlx ol heate, and he himſelt giueth it
Jadem. in the diſeaſe of the palſey, which is a diſeaſe for the motte
| Cracilador. part, that commeth of colde antes. Concitiador in the Com⸗
mentaries which de made vpon the pꝛoblemes of Ariftorle,
maketh a great doubt in this matter, ſaping that the authors

Auicen. “ty

a f ol pron did not determine ik it were hot oꝛ
1 ‘opinion is; that i doth moꝛt derline ta be

art. Auicen faith; tha the rut ofthe rom is gut.

8 Gradi ‘Hot ther
“Mathew de Graditaith ſa likewife, Alberto Magno inthe

Alberta .

Mego e which he made of metals inthe z. karte ith, be

and of the vertues there ct.

the gold andthe copper there is no doubt, but they are hot,
aud chielly the copper, by reafonitisofa parker cslour, and

foz this tauſe the vꝛon Both participate of heate. The Altre
nomers boc fay Ipkewiſe that it is Bot, üring tat Chey ges
it, ta be vnder the dominian of ars, which is het and die.
And be fides tye ls graue authors the reafon doth ſhe lu it (elf:
and the woꝛkes and effets it hat. Ce fie that it doth ouer⸗
come the ſupertludus mopſture at the ſtamacke, it openeth
the opilations it pꝛoudketh the monthly cuſtomeef wanene
it canſumeth and dꝛie th vpsal Which are wazks of heat, in
fomuch that J do perceime With that whichisalycady (poke.
that . B. is à maſed, z ot an other opinion then he was be⸗

toe. B. Sourely it is ſo, äthence 3 haue heard fuck graue
men che fogaod reaſonthaf tze promis bot, i hat dien
me intg a great doubt and confugau, and hnote nahem £9,
determine with my elf, vito which part chalincline, and
belteue. D. and fo lykewiſs manp athers haue dane that
knetwnot wat tgey ſhanld determine. And Wziting or the
von they fet not daun of what camplection it was baute
CCC ti
barietie of ind gem ts weegdnch as we aue Declared,>. 3
would be a learned thing ¢Ueep coau em t ta make certain
in one iudgement, theſe authoꝛs, ing

that lo long time they
baue bin at ditkerence, r at diſcozdzand it Kemet to me chat
P. Dogo might co verte wel ſeing that the 1 He
rabians did fit in countel together Witgone cöfcützta det .
mine vpon the letting of Load, fog the Miche e ehe
other contrauer dics Which were in this ma erie ſeing that
Sopke bath bin foemeeme in all places. like wile this wit
beof greateſtimation to make ſuch graue authors toagre,
Wich are fo different z contrary (Bopinids, O. It femet
tobe a hardtzing to da this. 3 The greatet it is, the moze it
wil be altered, Ds Bpraufe up god twill is fo pleats
‘Baiker Burgus, J Wil spcabe my minde and erung,
Mane fop the votive fo tell the certaine keueth: then n

wachs ner „ 80d ta fete, voloar a Saal ge

Fol. 152.

itthickeneth,it
Cdles, it cwleth and temoꝛteth the hꝛate/ and it dꝛeth ma⸗

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and determination or this controuerſie.
Mee haue faid witz the opinion of Auicen, and the reſt
Aconcords the authoꝛs: that al metals are made of ſtiltur and quit k
of the diſfe- Tuer, the ſulfur as the father, ethe quick luer as the mo⸗

rence.

ther the one as the maker, and the other as the matter, and
being ſo, the matter thereof the pion is made is of thefe
fivas thinges,and of theſe two beginninges, ol the molt hot
ſulfur / and of the mot told guickſiluer. Che which nature
bath placed in the inner parkes ef fhe earth, and made them
metals, and where there was thete two beginninges, molt
pure, it was made golde, and like wife of that which was
groſſe and vnpure, actoꝛding to the degree and qualitis of
euerie one, there was ingendzed and made metall, confor»
mably ta the pureneſſe, oꝛ groſneſſe that it had and where
there metals are moꝛe vnpure moze grote and moze dark,
PO NPCS SHC UST STi GEG rae

che yon div ingender. 2

The whypeh beeing ok beginninges nat pure
no; cleane, but groge and felthie, became to bee a metall,

: 9250 85 then all other metals ſo that by meanes of it
frenat |

) there might be ſome who might make it eaſte and
fubieet to be wrought , as alla might ber a neceſſarie in.
frument that thereof men might piofite themfelues / And
whereas the pron is made and ingendꝛed ofthefe twos bes
ginnings,tobichare,fulfur and quick Gust the ons hot, and
the other colde : ſo it bath the complection and temperature,
and Boeth participate ar bott qua ities:the rave it is fo die,
and for this tauſe hard and ſtrong. Sp meanes of the ſulſur
it heateth it conſumeth, it dꝛieth, it openeth, it comfoztet, it
pꝛousketh appetite, and maketh the meruellous wodzkes
ofthe heate which it bath. And by meanes or the duet
uer,being grotte cab onpute avec tg hoes ween
Ip vertue, wyerewithit is mingled; it cooleth, it retaineth,

cöngeleth ir withoratnetl, ann detainety a
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ny other effects, which are al done by meanes of the coldnes
that it bath, in ſuch ſoꝛt that as by the aloꝛeſaide is frene, the
effets are contrarie which the Jron doth: the cauſe wherol
is by reaſon it is compounded of thinges that haue contrary
qualities, which are roted in it, and do wozke confozmably
to the fubtect where they doe woꝛke. Foꝛ where it is nerd to
open, it openeth: and where it is nerde ta ſhutte, it ſhutteth.
SCrueth it is, that beũdes theſe qualities, the yon hath an a⸗
ther moſt pꝛincipall which is, that it is moſt dꝛie, moze then
all other metals, by meanes whereof it doeth many oktheſe
effcctes and woozkes, which wee haue ſpoken at, and alſo it
bath vertue to heate, to csole, and to dꝛy by. And or this it
tommeth, that ſome doe fay it is hat, bycauſe thep ſe that it
maketh woꝛkes of heate, and others fay that it is cole, by⸗
tauſe they fe that it doeth woꝛkes to make cold, the reaſen
whereol is, that itis compounded of twos contrary begin⸗
ninges, the one hot, and the other calde, and thereby it ſe⸗
meth that they may verie wel defend themſelues, who ſaid
that pꝛon is colde, and woꝛketh cold effectes: And lxke wise

they that ſayde, it was hot, and doth hot effecces. MAhereby
if both appeare that which the one and the other haue ſpokt
and treated thereof, to be true. B. alter Dodo; hath te-
ry wel ended the controuerſis, and cOtrariety that is in this
matter diſtreetly and wiſelp, wherby we are ſatiſſtied: but
there remaineth a doubt, if the quickſiluer bee tolde. as het
ſapeth that ſame doe fay that it is, and fo pꝛocue it, they fap
that it the weth by his ſtrength, colour, and taſte, and the ef
fectes Which it doeth, to make colde, ſeeing that ſuch as das
vle ofit,it maketh impatent, they faffer weakeneſſe, and
trembling of ne wes, and are btterly bode of the bie of
their members, and they die all together of a diſeaſe cal⸗
led Apoplexie, and all this doeth came of colde tauſes. They
which (ay that the quickſiluer is hot, doe pꝛocue it with his
etlectes, for anointing the isynt es and other partes, ef the
boby ther with it maketh great woꝛkes, and etcas ol he ‘2
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it intlameth their mouth, and thꝛote, their gummes, : roole
of their mouth, with great heate, and burning: it pꝛouoketh
ſweat moſt vehement: we fie that thereof is made the molt
Sublimat um trutig thing like to fire, that is called S binn at um, which is
moſt ſtrong ſtre and burneth woherſoeuer it bee put and all
thatit taketh,tt conſumeth, and ſiereth. Okit is made that
coꝛſtue poyſon, called ponder Precipitatos, in ſuch forte that
the tauſe is neꝛdlull, ſceing it bath and dooeth the woꝛkes fo
contrarie ta make colde, and to make hotte. D. The fame
doubt we haue okit, as of the pron, and what is that which
Maſter Burgus wil now haue: 3. Now that vou bꝛought vs
out of the Girt doubte, we pꝛap pou that vou will bꝛing vs
out ofthe ſetond. D. It ſeemeth bute me that Maſter Burgus
doth take the matter fo earneſtly that à muſt needs do it, be⸗
cauſe I meane ta content him, inal things, ⁊ it ſhal be done
very quickly:the euening connneth vpon vs. The quickül⸗
uer is a metal cõpoundes of diners parts, the watery parts
that it hath, are mingled with earthly things, which is that
that giueth it ſub tante and ſtrength. It hath allo min⸗
gled with it fulfery parts, which ſermeth to be very bꝛight:
foz in chaling the quickſiluer betwerne the hands, there re⸗
maineth in thé ths perfect ſmell of bꝛimſtone, x fo the quick⸗
luer is compounded ot diuers things. The watery t earthe
parts giueth it vertue to make colde:by meanes where is
dont the vertue which we haue ſyoken ol, and by meanes of

the lulfar Which hach avery parts jit heateth, genetrateth,

speneth and maketh thin, and by them it pꝛauoketh ſweat,

and of thevertuesthereof.

nat the ſteele, but onely treated ofthe aol, and to it thep aty
tributed the medicinall vertues that we will ſpeake ot, and
vnder our talke ok pꝛon, we will compꝛiſe the Steele, ſeing

Itis needlull before we proceed lontwarde,Wherrbe wer
may the better treate of the bertue of p29, that wer onder?
tand hom it ought to be prepared. $02 if it be not prepared,
neither can it be adminiſtred, noz vet wil it wazke it effects fii
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any longer of them: but ſeeing that it ſeemeth good to ai⸗
er Doctor, that 3 ſhoulde ſpeake of the preparing of theſe
metalles, I will doo it, betauſe J woulde fay ſome thing as
well foꝛmy parte. But if Maiſter Deco woulde take
papnies, hee might ſpeake thereof, as wel as moſt men that
ate tithe woꝛlo, ſeeing he knoweth it, and that there is nes
thing in medicine hidden vnto him, but feeing that we haue
ef him a good Cenſor . i any thing dad lacke, he may ſpeake
| and ſupply it. The metallesifthep bee not corrected and
Ti cee Pieparedenerie one, as it is conuenient fer them, cannot
legales, kerne in medicine, no: wozke the etteges and vertues, which
3 they haue in them, becauſe they are grole of ſubſtaunte,
and ſtrong.

The Alcumiſtes haue knowne and dode knows
much in coꝛrecting and pꝛeparing of them, ſeeing that wee
les tyep bie the golde and the ſiluer, in bꝛoths, that they may
be dzunke, and do reduce them inte pouders, as alſo they de
the like with the lead and copper and ok ther minerals and
metalles, which they doo cozrect and pꝛepare, for to make
them inte powders, that they may ſerue in medicine.

They dos coꝛrec and prepare particularly the iron foꝛ
ä this effede, but with greate difference, from all other me⸗

Bulcafise talles, as Bulcaſis ſheweth very learnedly, beeing a Phi⸗
lition, and a Mooꝛe, who in particular doth ſhewe the man⸗
er ugich ought to bee had ſoꝛ to prepare the pron, and hee
retz in kpis manner, the fpling of the yon which is mot
: pure, muſt bee taken without other mixture, fo2 it it bee
mingled with Copper, 02 Lead, 02 Glaſſe, and it᷑ it bse sv
nen fo mingled ta any perfon foz ta dʒinke, it wil kill them,
ou ma take the quantitie you lift, of that which is filed,
ched, let it be put into a cleane veſſell. And let there bee put
uutceruerer, ietit in remayne thysty daßes » 97 at tbe
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pou ſhall finde that whiche is filed of the colour of Gerdes
greace, the which muſt be dꝛied: and after it is dꝛye, it mak

be grounde, and being well ground pou may vſe thereof.

Some there bee that dos wath it with freſh water, oꝛ with
vineger, and dos ſtraine it thꝛougha linnen tloath, and then

put it vnder a veel vntil it ware rottt, and after ther waſh

it. and keepe it. That whichthis Mode dooth ſap,ſeemeth

to be of Aueroies, in the fifth of his gathering, where he ſet / Aueroie ..
teth downe the preparation ofthis in this forme: After the
Iron is ground very ſmall, let it bee put many times into
vineger, oz into Goates milke, when it is tcruddy. This he

would chould be the preparation. And Chriſtopher de ho- %,
neltis following this in the commentaries which hee made fi ‘his,
vpon Meſue fapeth.Let the filing of the Steele be put int wens
bineger many dapes, forinanyotherwile the vſe of it will

not profit,although that fome de put itintomilke of Cotes,

and ſome into ople of ſwerte Almondes,and in this ſaꝛt they

take it. The fame preparation Clement Clementino doth Clement
giue. It ſeemetha harde thing to beleeue, that the vꝛon oz Clementiuo.
Steele is penetrate, and doth ware ſoft with any or theſe

thinges: onelp the ſtrong vineger is that which doth pene⸗

trate and ſotten it, whereby it may be well grounde, ſoz to

ble ok it. And foz the moze certeintie J will ſhewe hotwe J 7 prepa-
do pꝛepare it. J da take of Steele the pureſt and whiteſt 1%.
can get as alſo iron, and dos cauſe it to bee filed as ſmall as :
map bee, and when it is files 3 cauſe it to be waſhed in wa⸗

ter manꝝ times, vntill the water daa come foozth cleare, and

then 3 put it intoa cleane glaſſed veſſell. and da caſt ta it as

much ſtrong white vinsger as may be lutfittent to wet thes

rowe the ſaide filing, and the befell beeing ſtopped and put

into a cloſe plate, do let it ſtand xx. daies, ftirring it well

twice euerie weeke, and putting to it ſome vineger ifit bet

needefull: and after the twentie dayes when it is well fo»

ked z take it out ofthat, and put it into ſome other baaader

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after it is dꝛie, J doo grynds it in a moꝛter of metall, ſot⸗

tiug it twiſe thꝛough a thick ſiue of filke,¢ fo being made

into Ponder, J put it into a fine carthen paynted pot, ⁊ then

with a Peſtle beate it ſmall againe, in ſuch ſoꝛt that bee ⸗

ing taken betweene the fingers, it ſeemeth not to haue any

maner offubltace, neither is it felt between thẽ. And ikit be

not door in this ſoꝛte they are neuer well grounde, faz it is a

thing that they take moſt care ol, ſo that therby it may work

the effect the better. and being made into pauder in this ſozt

it ought to be kept in a glaſled veſſell. Some doo wet it with

Gumme Dꝛagagant and make it in rowles: and it liketh

mee very well, betauſe they be the better conſerued, and the

gumme Dꝛagagant taketh away fome part of their dꝛieth.

And ſeeing that haue made an end okthe preparing of the

ſteele and pron that it vooth the effect whenit is needlul as

though it were the ſteele it felfe, let Maiſter Dodo; ſhe we

vnto vs the wooꝛkes and bertues that it doath. D. 3 dad

reioyte very muche to heare the geod oꝛder ofthe pꝛeparati ·

on, that Maiſter Burgus hath giuen and fet down to be Died

with thele metals. And ſeeing that J am bound to declare?

bertues and medicinal wozks which they haue, J wil ſoeak

ofit the beſtthat J know, as wel that which 4 haus known

"The vertues Ht read, as that which experience hath taught me, and the
of Iron and dle uf ſo manꝑ peeres. Thebe tivo metalles doo ferne in me⸗
Sterk. dieine two manner of wapes, the one is, that ol them mag
dbemade inſtruments to woꝛke with, in cauſes of Surgeries
without the which the Surgeons cannot woꝛk their works
and effects, noꝛ the Barbours without them tannot da their
occur To declare what inſtruments thole are which
lerue toꝛ the one ¢ fo2 the other occupations, it wil bee too tee
pious, The iran and Keele da ſerus in medicine with great

Bi effectes and maruellaus wozkes, by curing and healing di⸗
Auers diſeales, and fo Plinie in his boske of the natural bitos
tlie ttreting of this matter of irõ acter be wrote great things
Nit as wall in that tubicg cath pꝛot in the ferwice 3

and of the vertues thereof.
as other curious thinges, hee treateth ofthe vertues and
wooꝛkes which it noth in medicine ſhewing firſt the quali⸗
ties of it, ſaying: The pꝛon bath vertue fo dꝛie vp, to res
tapne and to holde fate: it is good for ſuch as Door lacke
their haire, that it may growe, beeing prepared andmin
gled with ſome licour prepared and made fo2 the ſame puts
pole, it taketh away the roughnefic of the cheekes, mingled
with vineger: and being made in an oyntment with ople of
Mpꝛtiles and ware, it taketh away the bliſters of all the
bodie: the pouder of it mingled with bineger , doeth heale
the diſeaſe called Saint Anthonies fire, as alſd al maner of
fkabbes:it healeth the little ſoꝛes betwern the naile and the
linger theporders therol being applied therunto with a lin
nen cloath. It healeth alſo the flux of women of what ſaꝛte
focuer it be, being put thereunte with wooll oz with cotten
wool, and alſs if they be applyed thereunto after the maner
ofa Tent in the lower partes: the pander being mingled
witz mirrhe and put to the ſoꝛes 02 wounds new hurt, dosth
loder them and heale them: and beeing mingled with Ge
neger and put vpõ the piles, it diſſolueth them. It is a great
remedie fo2 ſuch as are gowtie, being applied with thinges
made faz the purpoſe bod the grief: It ſtencheth the blod of
{ach as are wounded, which is faz the mot part made of J+
ron. It is giuen to bee dꝛunke to ſuch as are diſeaſed of the
lungs, fo2 it conſumeth the diſeaſe, and healeth him that is
ſicke it ſtapeth any manner of fluxe ⁊ the Piles t deeth re-
medie the ſoꝛes ofthem. It healeth fore cher kes, caſting the
pouders vpon them it is a great remedy ⁊ worth of eſtima⸗
tion. e that doeth cauſeit to be made i doeth put it vpan a

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molt excellent remedy, fo2 to dꝛy bpthe moyſtures ⁊ teares
of the eyes. In that of continuall diſlalution, bee ſapth: that
prces ot burning pen caſt into milke, by taking awapthe
wateriſhnes which the milks hath, is god foꝛ over muchs
ſtles, and efpeciallp fo2 the blodie flix. And in the tenth ol
the finple medicines, he commanndeth that milke be giuen
wherein pteces ot pron haus biene quenched, and ſaith that
ſuch Kinde of milke Doseth god onto them which haue the
blody flix.

And int he like cafe it is better to ble of Iron, thenot
Se feneso2 pebble fones,by reaſon the Iron doth leaue moꝛs
ee . der, pꝛithe in the mile. Alexander Traliano, adding to thys,
lane. treateth how milke ſhould be vled in ſtwles. e tommaun /

deth to ſesth milke with a quarter parte of water, vntill the
one halfe be conſumed and in this forte it map be giuen fo
them which haue the ague with feoles, and it is better in
the plate of ſmall pebble ſtones, where with they doe com⸗
maund it to be ſodden, that there be caſt into it ſmall pi ces
Faul. ol burning Iron. Paulo, well neare ſaieth that which Ga-
len hath ſaxed, and that the pouder of gron mingled with
vineger pofiteth much to ſuch as haue matter coming fa2tb
b. of their eares, although that it bath beens of a long continu⸗
5 arte,

And allo it is a greate remedie fo2 ſuch as haue taken
denom, that is called Aconito. And forthwith he treateth
ofthe vertues of the water that haue cooled hotte J ron, and
ſayth, that it doeth good to ſuch as do ſuffer the payne of the

bellp, and ſuch as haue any cholerike diſeaſe, and ſuch as
bane bot ſtomackes, and ſuch as haue the Topping of the
unges.
Disferides. Dioſecorides in the chapter where he treateth of the rult
of pꝛon, ſaieth, that the water o2 the wine, that hath quen⸗
cheda peece of burning Iron, is good foz them that haue
the fluxe of the ſtamack, and the blody fluxe it diſſolueth the
hardneſſe ofthe lungs, and ſerueth in cholerike ſtoles, and
Aeiis. in the loaſeneſte ofthe ſtamacke.Aecio, treating .
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rowles which are verie excellent toꝛ the opilations ol the
inner partes, fapeth, that it is a moſte conuenient re-
medie for the Lunges, and inner partes ofthe Bodye, that
the water that hath quenched whotte Jron bee taken fo2 a .
longtime : but ſuch as haue a whotte diſeaſe, muſt vie k
the water, x ſuch as are tolde if they be weake, of wine that
hath quenched pꝛon. Oribacio ſaieth, that the water which oO, 40%
bath quenched whot ſteele, is an excellent remedie fo2 ſuche f
as are ficke of the lungs. Scribonio, an auncient Phiſition 8 bende,
ſapth, that the water which bath quenched what Fale is a
great remedis foʒ ſuch as are (wollen, and ſoꝛ ſuch as haue
foes and qriefs ofthe bladder, chietlꝑ itthey ble it continu⸗
allg. Ri, ot his Continent treating of pon fapeth, the ſame N.,.
as Galen Both, And Paule adding this, the pꝛon doeth taks
a waythe fluxe being ouermuch ofthe menſtruous, and con⸗
ceauing with childe, it healeth the little ſoꝛes that are be»
tweene the finger and the nayle, it taketh away the Pearle
in the eye and the hardneſſe of the eye lid, it healeth the piles
out wardly, it remedieth rotten gums, it taketh awapthe
Goute from the feste, and from the handes, it maketh haire
grow where it lacketh, althoughthere haue none grote a
long time. The water that bath quenched yꝛon, is god foz
the flure of the bellie, although that it hath beene ol a long
continuantce, and foꝛ ſooles of blood which doth auoid from
the bodie, and the meate which is caten and nat conſumed,
and fo2 ſtooles of bind: it alſo diſſolueth the hardneſſe ofthe
lunges, it remedieth the runninges, and weakneſſe of the
ſtomacke. And Mecerico an ancient Phiſition faith, if the
pouder of vꝛon be taken with ſodden wine called Cute, it
tomloꝛteth the weakneſſe of the ſtomacke: he taketh foꝛ his
Authour Mefea Phiũition. And Kalisconcludeth the fame,
ſaying, J fap andcertifie by great erperience,that the yon, x
doeth profite inthe difeats of the piles , and for the fiure .
—— „ flure ot the menſtrues ꝛthis 2
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Serapio reciteth al that Rafts faith, woꝛde foꝛ warde: and
becauſe I woulde not fay it twice together, 3 let it alone.
Auicen followethj Raſis in all that he bath laid, adding this
that followethtoit. Che water wherin pꝛon is quẽched, ma⸗
kety ſtrong the inner members by his atone pꝛopertie and
manileſt qualitie: it comfozteth the ſtomack, foꝛ the water
which doth quench what pꝛon, ſtrengtheneth the vertue, and
tonſumeth the ſuperfluities of the ſtomack, ⁊ the ſuperllu⸗
ous moiſture thereof, fo2 thoſe are the thinges that take as
Way appetite bp the loſeneſſe of the mouth of the ſtomack,
e they arethoſe which extinguich and hil the natural heate:
and the vꝛon by realon of the coldneſſe and dꝛithe, helpeth
the knitting which is made inp mouth ofthe ſtomack, wher
the appetite is ingendꝛed, it comfoꝛteth the Liuer andthe
reſt ofthe interiour members it ſtrẽgtheneth natural heat,
the line wes and powers ofthe bodie, and in ſuch ſoꝛt it doth
giue them ſtrength, and they take ſuch vertue the rby;that
they caſte from them the opilations: by reafon of which
cauſes the Lunges are conſumed. It comforteth the vertue
of generation, and this it doeth by conſuming the maiſture
which is that which letteth r traubleth natural heat Which
is neteſſarie therefoze, and if it be not done by his qualitie
petit is done by his actidents. al this is ſpoken by Auicen,
inthe ſecond ot his fir, as allo be faieth in the ſeconde Ca⸗
non where he pꝛaiſeth the vꝛon greatiy fo; Ringwoꝛmes,
and foz ſwellings and faz the Gute, and mingled with Ai⸗
neger and put into the eares that of long time haue caft out

matter, it healeththem, æ loꝛ the Harpies of the eie liddes,

and to take awap a webbe 02 the whitenes of the eyes: and
bee faith mozeouer that the Tyne which doseth quenche
fhe Aron dogeth pꝛofite foz the Apoltumations in the
Tunges, and for the loofenctte of the ſtomacke, and
lo the weakeneſſe thereof it taketh away the ſuperũuous

Flure ortge Pother: it drpeththe piles it takelh asp

Hooles of ths bla dg Flure, it doocth goad to luch as bet

fundantent commeth forth, and to (uch as theyꝛ water doth
aucid from thẽ, not feeling it, it tabety away the ouermuch
Flure ot the menſtrues of women, and combogtery MUTE
in man oꝛ woman: all this is taken out of Auicen.
in the fifth of his Theorica ſayth, the water that caleth the
ron, dooth detayne the bellie:it hardneth and gteth
Members, if pou bathe pour ſelle with it, it dooth good to 3
the Baynes and Apoſtumations ofthe Lunges, Albucaſis A/buca/t.
fapeth, that the vle of pꝛan prepared , taketh awar the ce
naughtie colour of the pellowe late, that is of the colour
ol Halkron, and the ble thereof dosth mate fatte, and it
choulde be bled as the licke man doth heale, who being wel
and whole, dooth ware fat. 55 PRET a
Nell neere all that which J haus (aide, Alz ananio and 4 ananic,
Lac, da ſap: which J do leaue to relate, betauſe it is ſhewed cc.
already . B. Naue there beene any late writers that hau:
fapde any thing touching this matter 4 think there be none
that conũ dereth how that the ancient Wpiters haue wait⸗

v, haue written of prot, and the bie thereof, and of the
great vertues which it hath, and thelpke ther fay of the

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The pꝛon ohayeth nothing but the Diamond, koꝛ it cannot
Base moꝛe then yꝛon: for it dooth conſume it altogether.
There is no mettal, which dooth receiue ſo much hurt with
the ruſt as the yꝛon dooth, and much moze if it be tankered
with the blood or mankinde, and allo after pou haue made it
tleane again, it vou annoint it with the marrow ofthe Deere
called the Hart, aꝛ with Ople sliue, oꝛ with Uineger min ⸗
gled with Alom. This the Cardinall faith.

Montenana in his Counſell a hundzeth firtie one, dooth
put fo; a great ſecret to kill oꝛ quenche fiftye times a peece
ol ſterle in ſtrong Gineger and in that Gineger being made
whot, to wet a courſe Linen cloth, and put it bpon the lungs
and inner partes that are ſtopped, many dapes together,

Senauaroſa. Michaell Sanauatola in the bodke bee made of Bathes, doth

: fay, the pron maketh cold and dꝛyeth vp, whereby it is bin⸗

ding, and thereloꝛe it dooth dete yne, and the water that kil⸗

leth oꝛ quencheth the pron, hath the (aide vertues, and all the

reſt that the yꝛõ hath, foꝛ the water receiueth into it his qua⸗

alen. lities, and vertues as Galen ſaith, that the water receiueth

. the qualities ¢ bertuesofthe things that we put into them,

82 ſodde in them, and they do the fame wooꝛkes that the ſaid

thinges themſelues will do, the water which ktlleth oꝛ quẽ⸗

cheth the pron 02 ſteele dooth detayne, it cauſeth that the

faxe aʒ runnings do ceaſe, and being put to the ruptures, it

doth lodder them together, and ſhutteth them, it conſumeth

the olds matter of the eyes. The pouder made of vꝛon

doath looſe the wollen exe liddes, it taketh away the Rime

from the eye, and doth make falt the gummes that are lole.

Gabe there is a tent made and wet in this pouder prepared

ae and put into the mouth ofthe Mother, it withholdeth any

. manner of fluxe of it: and the like it booth by puttingit into
the fluxe ot blood: that commeth from the Pyles.

This Powder is good agaynſt the Aenome called

Acovito, Dye Myne that quencheth pron oꝛ the 8

Montenana.

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and ofthe vertues thereof. Folly.
vosfh profit fo2 the hardneſſe ofthe lungs, and the weak ſta⸗ 1
mack and laratiue,¢ any maner of flure,thiefip iftt be cho ·
lerike, it dooth pꝛofit much. Such as haue the dꝛopſie, and
the flure of the vꝛine, and uch as haue the menſtrues, duer⸗
muthe, and ſuch as their water geeth from them without
perteiuing thereol, and ſuche as their fundament goeth aut:
hetherunts Sanauarola hath fapde « Nicholas Florentine, Nicholas
pꝛapleth infinitely &cele, foꝛ opilations of the inner partes Florentine,
ofthe body, and like wile the water of the ſteele. Bartholo- Bartholmew
inew Anglicus, greatly pꝛayſeth the bie of vꝛon, € of ſteele, an Engh{h
and fayeth, that they are a moſt excellent medicine, then wan.
gold oꝛ ſiluer, fo the ſeruite of man: foꝛ that by them thele
twꝛo metalles, that are fo greatly eſteemed ot all men, are
kept in ſafetg, becauſe they dw defend and ſuttoꝛ them ſcem
ſuche as continuallie daa perfecute them. Dhey Defend tus
ice, they conſerue the common wealthes, by them the euil
doders are chaſtened, and the good are conſerued and deken⸗
ded: in all offices of handecraftes theꝝ are neceſſarie: ther
labe and twaozke the ſteldes with them, wherebe we are
maintained, it path medicinal vertues maze then any other
metall foꝛ the filing which dooth pꝛoceede ol it, bath ver tue
to dꝛy vs and tomake thin. It vndodeth opilations ok the
lungs, it taketh away any maner of flux of cooles, although
thepbee of blodd: andit pꝛoftteth fz many other thinges. al
this the Enguch learned man ſapth . Wiliam of Saliceto, Saliceto·
in the ture ofopilations ofthe lunges, dooth tommaunde to
tatethe pouver of rele, fo2 to loofe opilations, and bee ta .
Kethit foꝛ a great feerete, Platerio in the Chapter ot vn Sei.
laxeth, the yꝛon and the feates of it and his rut ethe ele 5
euerpone ofthem bath the like vertue and pꝛopertis taking
twos partes ofa dꝛam of the fyling of ron pꝛepated, as a
it is conuenient with hot wene, it healeth the opilations of ~
the liner and the luags,altpough they be very olde. Muhen, Mathew
Siluatico faietptbe fame, that the ruſt and the ſcales of the Suluatico.
shot jane the ame bertur thatthe thete bars über been

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being pꝛepared, and made into pouder, do heale old opilati⸗
ons, and they muſt be taken with hot wyne, and thefe pou⸗
ders muſt be mingled witz the iuyte of Polen, put in a tent
ok cotten wooll, into the pyles, it healeth and cureth them,
alfe when the fundament commeth out, ol hat maner ſoe⸗
uer they bee:and chiefly if they pꝛateede ora hot cauſe, by cas
iting wine called Tente, vpon burning vꝛon, and taking ß
Clement A. ſmoke thereof, dooth take it away. Clement Amerino after
merino, hat he hath ſhewed the pꝛeparing ofthe ſteele, dooth coms
mand to giue halte a dꝛam thereat prepared, mingled with
ſugar of Roſes, taking it fiſting it cauſeth that no euill hu⸗
mours be ingendzed in the body, and it taketh away the rots
tennes ol them, andit dꝛyeth v the watrichnes of the fas
mack, it pꝛocureth appetite it ſtrengthneth the interioꝛ mẽ⸗
bers that are weake, it rectifieth the liuer that is ſicke, and
the reſtorthe members, andchielly ik they take the pouders
with ſpyces ol a ſweete ſauour, theꝝ will make the colour of
Cbriſtopher the face cleere and faire. Chriſtopher de Honeſtis, after bee
dle honeſtis. had let done the preparing ofthe ſteele ſaith that the pou⸗
ders of it are maruellaus good, taken with Sugar ol Ro⸗
ſes, in the moꝛning, becauſe it giueth appetite to meate, it
comtoꝛteth the ſtrength of the ſtamack, ¢ conſumeth the fs
perfluous moyſturs therof, whereby p digeſtiue vertue Dots
crengthẽ it ſelf, to make his woꝛks p better. at healeth the
that are in a conſumpꝑtid, ⁊ ſuch as are ſwollen with opilati⸗
ons os witz the cuit compledion ofthe Liuer. It is pꝛota⸗
ble fo3 them that haue a naughtis pellowe pale colour in the
face, it comsforteth the Liner it keepeth away the dꝛopſp, €
ifit bee at the beginning, when it fir commeth, it cureth €
healeth it. and generally it taketh away al the rottennes of
8 the body, and dooth retifie al the cozrupt humours, chieiꝝ if
¶ Marbewe de (ev bes the interiour members, Mathe we de Gradi dacth
Grad. Pꝛayſe it much in the fluxe, pis ouermuch ol many months.
andin ckooles: and Auicen declareth it inthe 20. at bys
thirde booke, who laxeth in diuers places, that it ,

and of the vertues thereof. Fol. 160.
in the like fluxes, and hee ſaith, that it is good foꝛ the Go -
morea pasſio, and fo2 the luſtineſſe ot man, and fo2 him that
cannot make his water wel, and foꝛ the white purgations.

And becanfe J am weary of muche ſgeaking, and of
thinges which are to be much eſteemed, J pretend to make
an end ok this matter, foꝛ the day goeth away, and if wer
would ſyeake other thinges of great impoztance time wil
not ſutfer vs. B Me would be glad that the ſun woulde not
make fo great hat, that the day were longer, that we might
— thefe thinges, and efpecially being {uch as art ſpok⸗
en ol. 0 5 s

And 3 neuer thought that of a thing fe forgotten in medi⸗
cine, as the pron is. that there had bin fo much to fay, and ſo
much to bee knowen thereof, and it we well perceiue that
which is ſaide, there is no dileale in man, from the foals of
his foote, onto the haire of his head, whertin the tron doe th
not good and that which J haue moꝛe eſtæmed is that ſuch
wyfe men haue gone into counſell, vppon things ol f9 great
impoꝛtante. e
D. Malter Burgus, dooe you not maruell ofGentil, hes
pꝛetending to do this, feing howe great contrarietie there
Was te make them agra in one, brought the matter fo
things hidden and by that as it is ſaide, hal be fare hold he
Was deceined,feing that the diners partes Which the Jron
bath are maniteſt canfes whereby it maketh diuers effeds
and operations. B. here remainct) tome ont doubt, which
ie, i the lode fone being ground ¢ pꝛepared, as the pꝛon and
tele, if it do the woꝛks that they do, ſeeing it is ofthe ame
nature that xꝛõ is of D. Che love tone hath much ofthe na
ture 5 the vꝛõ bath, which doth treme to be fo, b his colcur,
waight ¢ maner of ſunſtance, ⁊friendſhix y be bath withthe
von. cing that it plucketh it vnto him, as if it were his
aon, x that a far of, that it mæueth ¢ beingeth the pꝛen Une
it z not only the faid love fore Datbit,but allo p things t
ath touched, that fo haue taken the bertue of st 98

*

Gal e.

Galen.

Serapia.

The ruft of

the fron ana

bis vertues.

Plateario.
Mathew
Siluatico.

alen.

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were the lode ſtone it ſelle, and all this it doeth by reaſon ot
the greate lykeneſſe and friendihippe which it bath with
the vꝛon, together in one with the hidden pꝛopertie which it
bath therfore, Foꝛ this vertue, that it hath to dꝛawe vnto it
pꝛon either it is fo2 the likenes it hath, oꝛ for the property
and in this Tone ought to be the one and the other The dias
mond is his euemie, inſomuche as it is aide that in his pres
ſence, it dꝛaweth not the pron vnto it. Galen ſpeaketh of
greater power that the loade ſtone hath then the pꝛon, ſeing
that it dꝛaweth the pron to him, being of his otun kind, and
therfore the ancient wꝛiters do giue it the ſame vertue, that
thep gine to the von, in curing the opilations of the lungs,
and other inner partes. Galen faith, thatthe vſe therof hea⸗
leth the dꝛopſte, and doeth euacuate the groſſe humoꝛs. Se-
rapio fateth that being taken with water and bony: it loos
ſeththe belip,chiefly groſſe humoꝛs: many doe pꝛayſe it fo:
the dꝛopfte, with water andhony. 3 vnderſtand that the leve
fone ought to be prepared in ſuch ſozte that it may be vſed,
as Wee haue ſaide of the pꝛeparing ot the pon. B. Doorth
your wooʒſhip miniſter any tints the ruſt of pon prepared;
fo2 3 haue pꝛepared it by conunandement of a Phiũtion,
being a ſtranger, and gaue the pouder thereof vnto ſuch as
hadopilations: and hee ſaide ta mie, that they did better
wooꝛke then the pouders of ſtæle. D. Me haue ſpoken ot
Plateario and of Mathew Siluatico,howe theꝝ fap that the
ruſt ofthe yꝛon, and the pꝛon it felfe,and the filing of it, and
the ſkeele, haue al one maner or bertue, and therfoze the rult
of the poi prepared wil profit as much fo2 the fatd purpoſe,
as the ruſt doeth, and haue vnderſtode faz to tonſume and
by vp the moiſturs of the ſtomacke and the limp humours
therof, it will make great effectes , for the ruſt ol the Aron
and of the Keele is the mot hot partes z the diet partes of
them. And fo Galen doeth command it ta bee prepared with

* 1 there bee mane ofit,pouder malte mall

ch dꝛxethertreamelx, as he fateth in the nienth of
i ümples,

and of the vertues thereof. Fol. 161

fimpies , and in the fifth of his Methodo. Mefuc, in that Meſue.
af the blcers of the pares, her dooeth put a confection foꝛ

them Wherein is tonteined the pꝛeparing of the ruſt, and

be foʒe that hee putteth the fame ruſt pꝛepared in vineger,

and made in ſmall pouders, hee maketh of them a liniment

fox the rares that are troubled with vicers. Raſis in the K
nienth Chapter of thoſe thinges that doe comfozte the ſto⸗
macke, after he hath ſhewed of many compound meditines
ſaieth, ifthey doe not pꝛoſite, let there be ginen the ſkales ot
vꝛon, with wine, and he ſaieth the fame in the bookes ofthe
Deuiſſons, in the Chapter of the diſeaſes of the moiſt ſto⸗
mack: he temmaundeth to giue a campoſitien called Irifera
Minor, and after that, the ruſte ofthe ꝑꝛon. And in tze fame
chapter before fothe weaknes of ſtomacke, and the Bes
bilitation ofthe naturall beate,be commaundeth that there

bee giuen Tritera, ans after that the ruſt of pron, and at the

end okthe ſaide chapter foꝛ ſuch as do eate earth, tlay, and
coales, hee tommaundeth them to bee purged with Acibar,

2 after that theo eate Trifera made with the ruſt of 4.

on.

B. Sou haue ſpoken very wel, eaiſter Docoz,but A pray
pou ſhe w vs how wee ſhoulde miniſter the pouders of theſe
thinges. D. Scing that ther with wee ſhall make an end, J
will chew it in ſhozt time, conũdering that the time doth ne
longer giue place.

The cauſe and oꝛiginall of the diſeaſe being knowen, ths How eheſẽ
ſieke perſon ought ts ber let blonde, and purged, if it teme pouders are
good fe the Phiũtion to bee fo, andif the ſicke perſon bath iniſtered.
rength therefoꝛe:foʒ there are ſome fo leane, that it is nat
tonuenient to vſe ofany euatuations in them. This being
done, they ſhal take of the pouders that ſhal ſæme moſt cons
uenient faz them, of the thee thinges which are ſpoken of
the vꝛon the terle, oz the rult of them, the quantity that hall
ferme good to the Philition, accozding tothe age, vertue, ?
ſtrength. J doe * = meane age a n Thequantity

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from thence J riſe oꝛ fal, as the age and ſtrength oꝛ the cons
tinuance of the diſeaſe requireth, and that it may not beleſſe
then twoo graines of waight, noz moze then a dꝛam ¢ halle,
J giue it many kinde of waies, either mingled with fugar
of Roſes, oꝛ with conſerua ot violettes, oꝛ with a {pope af
Coꝛiander, oꝛ ofthe roote, oꝛ made in pilles, with a (prope:
made fo2 the purpoſe, calling them into the mouth oꝛ any.
maner of theſe waies, that they be taken: there muſte bee
dzunke after them a little ſacke, that it he not cold, noꝛ very
hen they ſtrong. And it the perſon that taketh it, dꝛinke no wine, then
ould be ta. BE map dꝛinke water ſodden with Cinamon, although the
her: wine be the better, it mult be taken, faſting in the moꝛning
and imme diatly after it is taken, they mul go and exerciſe
their bodies, two houres after, if they haue ſtrength theres
foze, andif there bee not ſtrength to doe it, one is ſuffitient,
#2 the time p they may pollibly. The going mut be in ſuch
fozt that the partie be not ouer wearied:and if he be, let him
ſit down, now and then and by reaſon ſuch as dotake them
bane Toppings 62 opilations, of any maner of exerciſe, ale
though it bee little, they are fooꝛthwith wearie, and all the
paine is fo: the firſt dayes, fox aſterwardthe x thall goe very

wel, and hall not be fo much wearied.
The which This exertiſe is better to bee vſed out ofthe houſe and
_ the geing by the firetes, and in the fieldes, it dodeth impozte verie
Ab: import. much by the going whereby theſe pouders doe make their
i and dos good, that if they bee not well gone
with all, they doe not the effectes that is deſired, and the
exertiſe being made, let him take reſt in his heuſe, oꝛ in the
place tuyere hee commeth vnto, not vnclothing himſelfe,
but euen ſo apparelled, let him lpe downe vpon his warme
bed, and reſt zimſelte one houre, and let him cate foure
haures at the leaſt, after he bath taken thefe pouders, 02
Anben bee perceineth bis Homace to bee clare , of them.

and of the vertues thereof. Fol. 162.
to eate any greene thing · Wet the dꝛinke bee accoꝛding to the
diſpoſition that hee hath, wine watered if it bee conuenient 7 he order
foz him to dꝛinke, oꝛ water ſodden with Cinamon: let him thse He fa’
refrain to that day from all things that may offend him. let baue.
bim not dꝛinke betwerne meales, let him make a light ſup⸗
per, with that as may dꝛy vp mopſture. 3 will nat counſell
that they take thefe pouders euery day, but suery third dap.
and chiefly thefe firſt dapes, and efpecially (uch which are
leane and delicate, fo2 in taking ofthem euery dap, they wil
be muck wearied, and one day that they reſt betweene, they
Will be reſtoꝛed, and take ſtrength fo the nert day. The day
that it is not taken, if there doo appeare anꝝ feuer, it would
Doo well that there were taken a god veſſel oꝛ great cup ful
of hep, made of Soates milke hot, whot with ſugar ⁊ it it
be not tebe had, then take a ſmal table of roſade of a ſweete
ſmelꝛthis day their liuer (hal be annoynted with ſome oint⸗
ment made foꝛ the pur poſe, and their lungs with ſome thing
that max vnſtoppe them, and the ſtomacke with ſome thing
that may comtoꝛt. This ſh ill be Doon in the moꝛning when
he is on his bed, andafter the oyntments are ended a little
tyme, one howꝛe oꝛ too after that they are anopnted,
receiue a common medicine with thinges that haue
vertue ta euacuate, and this medicine ſhal not lacke, euerg
bay whenthe pouders are not taken, faz it dooth much im ·
poꝛt, ercegt: a there bee not many ſtoales: in ſuch ſoꝛt it will
bee better that it bee a wathing medicine. The day which
they take not the pouders, then mp eate ſodde meats with
ſome ſauce and greene things, and in the one dax and tge o⸗
ther dꝛinke little. : 1 5 e git b
Tt pee pouders are giuen ming as few: dapes acta, he,
ding to the necellitis of the partie that is lick, and as it ath 54 hey hal
bim good, fo to fonte 1 5-Bayes are fut tient, and to others 24 %
20. and ta others; o.ſamethere 3

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them notable good, but being paſt twoo oꝛ thꝛee dapes. and
being accuſtomedto them, they vomit no moze:others there
bee tzat vomit nothing at all, it wil doo wel when tenne oz
twelue dayes are pat, to purge with ſome light purgation,
and to reff t wos dapes after the purgation, and after warde
to returne to the pouders, and then to dooit vntil the taking
of them be fully ended.
The verines. The ble of the ſteele ſu pꝛepared is tommon to men, and
iit women, and to al ages, ſo that they be not verp cold, fo very
shings Wher» PONG Principally theſe pouders doo good to women, noz the
inthee molt part they are ſtopped and doo ſuffer retentiõ, otthe me:
ponders dog Arues, which are in them, theſe pouders doo make maruel⸗
profit. lous effectes, by healing them of their opilations, and tops
pinges, and cauſing their monthly oꝛder to come. Like wile
the ſe pouders are giuen whereas bee eaſie agues, and euill
colour in the face, of what tauſe ſoeuer it come, it taketh
it awap, and doth all things that we haue ſaide, veing wꝛit⸗
ten and eommended by fo graue authors of fo great leats
ning r experience:and they map be vbied in all theſe thinges
with all adurance, without hauing anything in them that
May oftend, as Wwe ſes by experit᷑ce, in thole which do great ·
le bis thems, B. You commaunded mee to make a confedi⸗
on which was of ſteelꝛ prepared, fo? a woman that had bin
man peeres maried, and neuer bjonahtfoe2th childe, and
tooke it, and à haus ſeene her here with childꝛen: ſhewe vn
to us if it hath made moze effectes then in that woman. D.
It bath noone good to manp, and I haue many god childzen
by that means, fo; wiẽ they bꝛing foꝛth childꝛen, immedi⸗
atly they make mee their Soſſip, fo2 the benefitete haue
shildzen, Surely it is a maruellous thing the effed that in
this cafe it dooth fo: it diſopilateth, maketh the monthly 02
der of women to come, here it doott nat, it maketysleane
if gold harh de mother, it puttethinajvertoingender,
medicinal] B. A would knoue ons thing, ſeeing bere bath bin ſaid
verines, o great excallencies of pron, and it bat in, eerily ves

and of the vertuesthereof.

tlared hobo neteſlary itis fo3 the ſeruite oł man, asalfo bis
great medicinal vertues, that pour woꝛſhip wil alfo declare
‘onto vs ifthe gold haue anp, foʒ that 3 fe learned phiũtions
command it to be giuen vnto ſuch as are weake z leane. tte
ſuch as are ready to die, and ta ſuch as are fick at the heart:
t to ſuch as are full o elancholv. D. knotw net wherupõ
thefe learned Phiſitions do ground themſelues, that vou ſaꝝ
do this, know not what benifit oꝛ profit tan come vnto thé
of the vſe orgolde that ars debilited and leane, foz the longer
they vſe it, the woꝛſe they thal like it: oz ifa furnace W great
quantity of kindled coles be not ſufficient to change the mas
her ¢ Difpofition of it:hotw tan the beate ofa weake ſtomack
Work with it foz to profit therot and of the bertues,ifit haue
anpefos hetherunts we knew not, z the neerer they are ta the
death, the leſſe they can do with it. Seme there be which do
commaund te cat peeces of golde, made in mony oꝛ in other
fozmes into the pots whers the meat is ſodden, foz ſicke pers
fons, they pꝛomiſs great matters theraf the heat where ·
With it is ſoddẽ, is not lufficient to change the foam ef it, noꝛ
it prodteth any other thing then to make it clean of p filth p
it had, as alſo the weight which it had, came forth, euen as it
went in: foꝛ fo light a fething tan do litle in ſach metal. To
think p it lerueth fo2 the heart and toꝛ foundings.of J which
is ſaid, doth mant feſtly ſhe w that rather it is purtfal fo2 the,
being ing dꝛed of their beginnings, ofſulphur ¢ quickſiluer
although it be moſt pure of thẽ, xet alwaies his beginning is
fulfur ¢ quic kũ luer, which botz of thele things be hurtfnl to

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the hart. And ſo Hipoctates taketh it tobe euil water which Aspocrares.

doth palle, by mines of gold, for the ſaid tauſes. either do 3
knoty what foundation there is that gold ſhauld be gad f
them that are Melancholp ſeing it is metal, being ſa, it ts
very dꝛx, a thing fo cõtrarꝝ for them: il it be made croons,
wherby they may be ſpent ¢ da his wil with them, who doth
peſſeſſe th in this thẽy gine tõtentment ¢ gladne s. know
no other medecinal benefit it can dato the, There are many
83 Phiũtions

The Dialogue of Iron

Phifitions which doo command tocartp to the monphouſe,
which is v hauſe where the money is made) a pot of water
Wherin they quench many times a bar of gold, ¢ they do at⸗
tribute moze vertues to this water then to roſemarp. at is a
thing moſt fafpictous of as manꝑ as map be, foꝛ at the time
they diuide p gold frõ the filuer oz copper, wher with it doth:
come mingled, they diuide w ſtrög water which is a coꝛſiue
bend emioztal,ofthe which it cãnot be choſen, but there wil
remain ſome euil quality therof, bicaufe it is athing fo frog.
And like wiſe at p time they melt p gold, to make it in bars,
€ ol the to make monp,o2 any other thing, that it may fine ¢
rife of moꝛe killats when it is melt in the furnace, theycaſt
into it Sablim vũ groũd:iudge pou if it wil let the gold to par
ticipate, (althaugh it be but litle) ofthat venom fo moꝛtal €
fo hurtful:t the pooʒe fick perfen truſting vpon the woꝛds ol
the Phiſitiõ, thinketh that he hath remedy fo2 the hart, ⁊ for
bis ſoundings ¢ faintnes, ⁊ there cometh to him hurt e pope
fort, which deſtroyeth ¢ toꝛruptethhim. Beleꝛue you me, and
ſuffer not ſuch which are ſicke, to ſpend their money to caſt
gold in medicines which they take, noꝛ let them quẽch gold
that is hot in wine, noꝛ in water, foꝛ of the one ¢ or the other.
there remaineth no medicinal vertue that wil remedy their
euils. Only § gold being made monꝑ, hath great vertues €
pꝛoperties, foʒ that is it that maketh the hart glad, z taketh
awap ſadnes r melancholp, and repaireth all the vertues €

Of man. it giueth ſtrẽgth wheras is none, it is an v⸗
niuerſal, remedy of al things, vnles it be of death: foꝛ agaĩſt

~~ that nothing can pꝛeuail · And ſeing that might is come and

time giueth not vnta vs any longer libertic, and although
rere fo2 J feele my felfe

with pou maiſter Octuno, and like wiſe ts
ror sen zee ake

BOKE WHICH TREA-
TETH OF THE SNOW, AND OF
the properties & vertues thereof:

And of the maner that fhould be v-

fed to make the drinke coldtherwith, &
ofthe other waies wherewith drinke
is to he made cold: Wheroof isſhe·
wed partly, in the latter part
_ of the ſecond Dialogue
of Iron.

With other curiofities which will giue content:
ment by otherancient thinges worthy tobee 75

Written by Do@torMonardus Phifitis
vdnofsSculll. peed Be

—

+ filant ofthe Citie of Seuill.&c.the Doctor Monardu:
: your Phiſition wifheth health g

Oſtexcellent Lordi thefaire & white ſno w/
94 &'\ doth complaine vnto mee, faying that ſne
N being fo ancient, and of fo many ages,cele-
YN J brated offo many Princes, Kinges, wife &
ESD valiant mé;& being had in fo great eftimi-
tion, and price, that with greate care they —
ſieeke after her; & with greater care they do conſerue her,
for to giue health and contentment to all perfons: yet for
all this, many people with little conſideration, & not kno-
wing what they fay ,dooe perſecute her putting vndecent
names to her: and that which dooeth moſt grieue her, is
that ſome Phiſitions, either for ignorance or for malice, do
ſpeake euil of her, not perceiving what fo many learned me
haue treated and faid ofthe great vtility & profit which ſne
doth to many. as experience doth fhew, and all people doe

vnderſtand . chiefly when they doe drinke their drink moſt
cold with the benefit which doth remaine to them there
of, they do pray fe & extol her. Moreouer the faith,thatfhe
forceth no parſon to vſe her, but if any will vſe her, ſne can
giue ſuch order and maner to make cold the drinke as is cõ-
uenient for all perſons, giuing the degrees of coldneſſe
which euerie one would haue and which dothbeft apper-
taine to them, and this with al aſſurance with onely leauing
or placing the veſſell wherein the drinke is ioyned neere to
her, the which none of the olde writers nor of the late did
ſpeake againſt, orforbid. And eſpecially let this manner
of making could not be done with ſtinking water ofa well,
nor with the moſt burning faltpeeter, but with pure water
bs is rg intsand many other
the fi |

hire lilly white Snow hath vrrered vito mee,Scinthe
end fheelaf y faid to mee, that fince that I had praifed her 5
„ fauour her, that Iſtioulde

to light the antiquitie of this Citie putting the colummes
that fo many yeares haue been fecretly hid and buried in a
place now fo publike decked and adorned as the antiqui -
tie and greatneſſe dooth deſerue wherby that al people may
enioy ofa remembrance fo euerlaſting, the whych howe
harde and laborſome it hath beene, the imposfibilitte that
the worke had, doth thewe. And fo the faire Ladie Snow
3 ere ed trult that hauing ſuche a nobleprotec-
tor. he ſhalbe defended from euil tongues, & that ſhe ſnall
bee taken and held in the ſame eſtimation that her workes

And greatnes doe rigitly deſerue e. 12 —

“Lhe Trestife declaring the of 88

5 with the fiuguler benefites
thereof.
OD our Lozde fo mianifett big
5 Knowledge t infinite power, made

¥ a tbe vniuerſall circuite of this woꝛld,
wich conteine al thoſe per fedions,
Gc iS that man may imagine in his vn⸗

derſtanding: and it is deuided into

: two parts that is, the region celeſti⸗

St 7 . Re, all and the Region Elemental. The

ch ‘celeftial i is ſhining, Without any va ·
—— — cozruption.

This dooth conteyne in it eleuen Heauens —
ſeuen ol them, are the Sunne the Boone and the other
nets, in the eight are the ſtarres, the nienth they call ce
ſtaline the tenthmouable, and the laſt they call the heauen of
imperial heauen, which is as much to fay, as the heauen of
ite, by reaſon of the bꝛightnes that it giueth from it which is

fired t both not mooue, where the dwelling place seater
which are of good foꝛtune · Che other parte is the elementall
region which continually and without ceaũng is ſubiecte ta
theſe alterations:and this is deuided into 4. elements, which
bee fire ayꝛe, water and earth, ofthe whiche mixture are in⸗

gendꝛed all thefe inferisur thinges: the clement of the eart

is in the middelt, as the foundation of all the Circuite: then

boozthwitg is the water : and abone the Water andthe
~ Garthis the apze: And abou the ayzs is the fre , the
7 Whichisneere to the circle of the Paone. al thete 3

doe mcour as wee (ee in the impꝛeſans which are made in 5
them, one ly the earthis vnmooneable, as the foundation a
VTG * 2

Ofche Snowe

Inthe: fire hath no mirture of other Elements, and een
theſe Clements the ayꝛe is very pꝛincipat, which is deuided
into thꝛee parts, one is the ſupꝛeame, and neere to the Kegi⸗
on ofthe fire, which is whotte and dꝛye fo2 the kellowihippe
that it hath therewith, taking muche of his qualitie, whiche
is cleere and pure, from whence doo not pꝛoceede anpe
Wyndes, noꝛ clowdes: and this they call the celettiall Re⸗
gion: and the partes moze lowe which are neere ta the Was

ter and earth bee great and troubled full of Gapours, pears

ted and viſited with the beames of the Dunne, twheresp
it commeth to bee whotte and the ſupꝛeams and middle
Region of the ayꝛe, dooth tome to bee very colde, becauſe
it ſtandeth in the middeſt of the twoo extremities, bee png
fo whotte. And in it, is increaled the colde as in the mid⸗
dle part flying krom the ertreame partes of heat, as we haue
ſpoken ok beſoze. This middle parte hath partes moze 63
leſſe eolde, foꝛ the parte that is topningneere vnto bs is not
fo told, as that which is neere to the faperiour partes ot the
fre. And how much moze the vapours do riſe vp on height,
moze they bo tongele, and holde fal. In the middle region of
the apꝛe doo ingender the clowdes, the ſmall raynes -, the
dꝛoppes, the kroſt, the rapne, the Snowe ee Hayls , and
other impꝛeſſions of the Thunder, ligytninges and Harpe
eee The Clowdes be the pꝛincipall mat /
ter, which dos ingender the Rapne, the Snowe, and the
ess and the other inrpreffions twhiche wer haue ſpoken
of that are made of manp UAapours which doo ryſe vppe

rom the lower partes vnto the middle Region ofthe apꝛe:
and lo beeyng ioyned, they make one body, and they ware

dicke with the colbe of the faide plate: and fox this the cland
is like to a mother, and is the common matter ofall the im ⸗

oe zenten that are made in the ase. And (a it is of the nowe
‘asa thing ingendꝛed of it in the middle Region of the ayꝛe.
N ee e

ing ingendꝛed, in the bodie of the Clawde
coldene ſle which is not fo ſtrong as that which dosth cauſe
the Maple, nan fo foft as that which dooth cauſe the water.
nnd in the like Wapour before it be made water, it doth tuus⸗- 8
geale and frerſe, and booth tall baoken in peeces and are ang
white, becautetheredorapne in them moꝛe colde then in
enter: Sr f e ee
The which Galen noth ſhe we vnta vsintheboke oy
ef the Bhilolophicall byMorte of Anaximenes the Poles 44pm
pher. Okthe congealed apꝛe, hee ſaieth that the cloudes are „, 25
made: and ot the ſame, beryng moꝛe thitke, che raine is in-
gendꝛed, and the lame is congealed and froſen, and by the
toldene ſſe or the Ayꝛe it is made Snawe: and beeyng moe
tongealed it is made Bayle . Andthe ſame Galen dont g
lap in his booke de Veilitate reſpirationis, the Clowdes e
tongealed are made Snowe: whichis the matter that the
rapne is made ot, the Snowe daath fall in the high places,
which of their owne nature are colde places, and therebpit
is muche tonlerurd, and very ſeldome it falleth in che Ual⸗
lepes, andit it dos fall there it is very fatal, foozthwith ik
ditſolueth. Atkallethin the Sea but ſeldam times by reaſã of
the heat which it bath t far the winds that ars lein
it, do heate æ moitturr are tõtraries i much maze the Winds
zccõpanted withthe fim.Galentnthe nienth oc bis Gmples,
tateth that there were Philoſꝛphers that fatd the facto had
hot parts, v being take inthe hãd it heateth z burneth ne „
to fir, and fo the fain Galen in the 4. ofthe Haide Wookes, .
fayeth as he went vpon mot his forte did be cauſe ot
this is not that the aon is hot, na that it hath thot partes .

dc bens burt be pi ita it ker as be,

Ofthe Snowe.

l ebe indes Peas ungen Udater it diflolueth,
„„ wersuecage ae .
nech colde. 3
The, „eme The Mholwe dooth fall fo2 the moſt parte in tze tyme ak
: ai és = Winter, when the whirle windes dooblowe: it falleth in
5 ee. mW Countries which are full of Mountaines, it neuer falleth
in places that are very whot, vnleſſe it be by great maruell.
WUiben it falleth it is faire andof a goodly ſhew, by reaſon it
kalleth in peetes very white, and it falleth foftiy without
Tempeſt oꝛ Apꝛe,it feaſteth the people as it lalleth with her
feathers,it hurteth no bodie:and ik it doo harden the Earth,
when it melteth, it fofteneth it againe and fatteneth it. It
Hilleth the euill hearbs, and doch frucifte and increaſe them
Aae Cale. Dich are good, as Aulo Gelio ſapeth, and foz this it is ſaid.
= The peere of Snow, the peere of fertilitie:
It dooch good to them of the Mountaynes and to the
Sen Punters > fopinthe tyme that it falleth, thers are taken
* wioze ktoze of wilde Beutes and wildetowle, then at other

Galen faieth, that the gonotve dodeth cauſe that the
——— and ſo it dooeth conſerue ita long
fime that it rotte not: and like wiſe it conſerueth the
Fleſhe from Putrifaction , as wee fee in the Poun⸗
kaines amonge the Snowe there are found men and beaſtes
that were frofen fo muche without corruption, as though
they were putte into Balſamo: Galen fapeth when Snowe
dodeth fall, it is a Token that calde Diſeaſes are at hande,
and the older the Snowe is, the harder it is and it loo⸗
: Goth bis foftnette and waxeth harde 3in Gucbe atem
i fe Pounta ines there are Bnildinges and hollotve plas
tes made of Snowe lo ſtrong, that they ſeeme as thous
then woulde indure many numbers efpecres, | 82
Manie other geod thinges are ‘tabee fpakenofthe
of inbiche 9 booe let fo tpeake of faz to treate ofone,
-atett 0 3 355

and ofthe vertues thereof. Fol.
this dap in manp partes of the wenld. With it, is cgoled
that which we dzinkte, in luch loꝛte that with all adurance it
doeth make it fo told, as our health and taſte can ſutfer : and
this is in ſuch degree, that there is nothing at this dax that
with moze taſte and pleaſantnes doeth it. And ſo wer will
treate firſt otit, ſeing⸗ that the eta ar the ſnawe is to coole
that the dꝛinke may be tolde, and to whome it is tonuenient 5
to dꝛinke it and who they be that with alſurance may bie itt.
as wel in the conſeruation of health, as in the healing ofdilss
eafes. The deink bꝛought b beginning of b necellitie which Of be drink
we haue of our conſeruation, foꝛ it is a natural appetite, fu: a!
men deſire appetite to reſtoꝛe the mopſture, that continu
lx is loſt, and fo? this nature brought foozth water Which is
cold and moiſt for tarepare this loſe, and it is common in al
treatures: ¢ fo Hipocrates, Galen ànd Diaſcorides, doe fap,
that the water although that it be without fauour and mel Galen. ae

itdoct good to fuch as bane their belly foft,and tathem that.
Doe {uffer the fur. az runnings ob the veilie of tobat drt fore
uer it be, and it dosth good ta ſuch as dae (uffer difeates, that
are caufento the like runnings wwbere Auicen both mne ve
bo bnderſtand haw muchthe ble af cato water is conttentent
won them, which doe fatter the ur ,oorunntisges ofthe for
macke, chieflꝑ

. Cornelio.
Celſo.

Anuictv.
Auicen

ei
— *

Aicen.

Yaak,
Alsabos,
Raise
Anieen.

Ofrthe Sno-wee

drinking of the coldeſt water they were healed, zs Galen

layth in the 7. ol his Methedo, that ht ſawe in one day, pea
in one houre, with a dꝛaught of colde water many diſeales
Were healed, and ſome of thele were weake of ſtomack, not
only with colde water ofa ſountaine, but with water coled
in owe and in Rame it is vſed. And lo Cornelio Celſo in
his firſt bake vnto ſuch as were weake of ſtomacke, com
manded them to dzinke, alter they had eaten, the coldeſt was
ker they could get, and in cholerike ſtosles ſhould be dꝛunke
Water, that was moſt cold, and in runnings of whot humoꝛs
it ſhoulde bee bicd, koꝛ toſtap the fiure, Auicen in the laide
thapter ſaith, that the cold water dath cõloꝛt all the vertues
in his Woꝛkes, that ts to fap the vertue dilgeſtiue, attradine,

retẽtiue, and expulſue. And fe he goeth declaring euerie one

of them, giuing vs to vnderſtand how much the colde waker
doth toꝛoboꝛate and make ſtrong all theſe vertues, whereby
they dos their woꝛkes fhe better. andthe ſaid Auicen in the
fecond of his frſt treatie of water, ſaieth, the colde water is
the beſt of all waters, and it is tonuenient fo2 them which
are whole, oz it giueth luſt to meate, maketh the ſtomack
frong, And a little before hee laieth, that which is nat colde
dodeth coꝛrupt diſgeſtion, and cauſeth the meate to ſwim in
the ſtomacke, it taketh not awaythe dꝛyth, it cauſeth the
dꝛopſie, by reaſon it cosrupteth the frſt diſgeſtion, ⁊ conſu⸗
‘meth the body with his heate. Auicen himſelfe tonſlirmeth
this in the thirde ofthe firit part, ſaxing, the colde water is
connenient for them that haue a temperate complection,
‘for being whot, itcauſeth the ſtomacke to be ficke, Iſaac A-
labas and Rafis,fay the fame, that Auicen ſaieth, the which
he did let to wꝛite of, bytauſe bee woulde not bee long in his
ſapinges, One thing Auicen wotild haue in ehe third of the

VVV
kd:

300 foundation,cating firtk a goed pozttõ ofmeate⸗
denke. Allo he (aith that the colde dꝛinke may not
e much at one dꝛaught, dut by litle and litle, ee

and of the vertues thereof. Fol.

ſon it doeth bꝛing two benefites, which is. that there is taken ie
moꝛe taſte in that which is dꝛunke, and it dooth not kill the Wbodrinke
natural heat, as it is ſeene by the pot that bopleth it vou cat colae, let
into it much water at one time, it doeth ceafe bopling but them drinke
it it bes caſt by litle and litle, it ceafeth not his working. and 4 aud lit-
therefore Auicen himſelfe ſaveth, when that they wil dzinke le.
colde, that pou dꝛinke with a veſſell which bath a fraight :
mouth, that the dꝛinke run not in haſtilp, the ſaid veſſell bees
ing a limet oz a vewꝛe, with a point, furely it is a greate be-
net, foꝛ them which are affedioned to dꝛinke with the lyke⸗
vellelles: ifthe ought ürſt to take aut the winde oz not, 4
dw remit me to the Dodo; Villalabos, who treateth largelie
or this matter. stg cpt eS |

And by this it is ſeent howe Auicen woulde that thofe Yon mt not
which woulde dꝛinke verie colde, they chaulde not dzinze drinke colde
tooꝛthwith at the beginning of their meate. Foꝛ ſame there ar che begina
bee, that as foone as they begin to eate, forth iith they will wing of
deinke that as is very colde, the ſtomacke beeing emptie messes
without meate, which cannot chooſe but hurte: and la the
hurt Which dooth come to them by this, they do attribuite it,
fooꝛthwith to the colde of the dꝛinke, and nat to their euill oꝛ⸗
der:tge which Auicen fapth, {peaking of colde water, that ts
Drinks it without oꝛder, is the cauſe of many dileaſes ik it
be dꝛunke in oꝛder, as wel in time as in quantity, it pofitets
as he hath laid. LTherfoꝛe let euerx one lo ke to that which is
conuenient foꝛ him, and let him make experience in himſelf⸗
and ikthat it bee conuenient loꝛ him to danke colde that bee.
map beare it, without that it das otfende him that dos it s
thereof will followe the benefites which wee tzaue ſpoken of,
but it he be icke, and kall into ang diſeate, where bn he faith, See
that the dainking of colde dinkke dooeth effende him, in
ſuch cate let him nat ble it, foꝛ m intent is to hem and pets
ſwade them that das deinke colde „ that ifit dove them ne
burte, nan offende them that ther dainke it lo, and luche as
dos bie it of cuſtome and haue ae that it vat ae

ne offend the, vnto ſuch if they dꝛinke nef, that which they

dꝛinke told the luſt oftheir meate is taken away from the,

fo2 they take no taſte in that which they sate, and thep eate

it with griet, and with an euil wil, foꝛ that which they dꝛink

doth not fatiffie them, ⁊ the het dꝛinke doth fill the ſtomack

— 5 re oftvindinelle, and cannot make therewith a good diſ⸗
geſtion.

But what is hee that bath areafonable health, beeing in

He doth the tyme of great heate, oꝛ in the whot ſummer, that coms

ceunſell to ming to eate, beeing weary oferercife, 92 of greate labour

drinke cola. hauing the tongue dꝛie, the breath ſhoꝛte, that dooth let to

dꝛinke colde, ſeeing that to doo it, there dos follow the bene⸗

fites that J haue ſaide, and doath ſuccour his neteſſitie, and

remapne content and glad without hauing offended his dil⸗

poſition, and health. Unto the which, Galen doth unymate

and exhogte vs, in the booke which hee made of good and s⸗

ml meats:ſaping. In the time of hot weather, when our bos

dies are wohot, and ſometimes inllamed, then we mut vſe of

thinges that may rekreſhe vs: although that they bee euill

meates, as Plummes, Appples, Cheris, Melons, Soozds, f

ok other colde fruites, in theſe like tymes. Galen ſaith, that

wee map vſe colde meates, as the feete ofa pigge 02 hogge

ſodden in bineger, and crudded milke: and the fame meates

muſt bee made colde, and like wiſe the dꝛinke muſt be made

tolde, as the water, and the Myne watered with colde

water, o made cold in now, the one and the other muſt bee

made colde in the maſt colde water ofa fountaine, and if it

bee not to bee had, let it bee made colde in ſnowe, chielly the

Sala. dꝛinke. And after that Galen bath made a large digreſſion

as it is conuenient, lo muche in the tyme or greate heate ta

tate and to dʒinke told thinges, hee dooth deſtribe tube they

are that ſhould dzinke colde, and faith in this ſozte, thoſe that

could dꝛinke told are ſuch, as haue much buũnes, and haus

care of many things, as thoſe which are gouerners of tities,

and cammon wealthes, and the miniſters 8

28 Otfthe Snovve

and of the vertues thereol. Poly.

s

them, and do participate of ſuch cares and troubles, x thoſe
that are much exertiſed in bodily buſtnes, in efpecially the
ſouldierlike exertiſes oꝛ other great crercifes, ⁊ they which

do ioꝛnie, and ineſpetiallp long ioꝛnies giuing to vnderſtäd

all cozpozat and ſpirituall exerciſes. And after he hath done
this, hee doeth moderate it in this maner ſaying But ſuche
which haue nottheſe cares, t dzinketh without them when
they are idle and in pleaſure, dooe nat exertiſe themſelues:

theſe people as they haue not heat to conſtraine the to dꝛink

told, let them not do it, neither is is conuenient foꝛ them ta
Dink it, let thé content themſelues with cold water, as nar
ture bath bꝛought it forth, without putting it to cole in any
| —— thing, ſeeing they haue not needs of that which is mot
vs ;

Moꝛeduer he faith, although they liue tolelp,and do no ere
ertiſe, and are without cares, if the time were warm, 02 ve⸗
ry hot, they may dꝛinke the water cold, J doe meane that in
the countries wher it is not cold, they may put it to be made
colde ſa that it be not verie cold. Che ſelfeſame is confirmed
by Galen himſelfe in his 3 booke of meates and in the boke
ofthe diſeaſe of the reines, where be ſaith, that the vſe ok cold
water cooled with ſnow, vnto ſuch as are verie whot,¢ ſuch
as are fat, and ſuch as do exerciſe themſelues ¢ labour much,
that fuch may dꝛinke verie cold, chiellp it they be vled theres
vnto, foꝛ ſuch as are actuſtomed to dꝛink it, do fuffer ¢ carty
it better and moze without hurt, then ſuch as do nat vſe it, ſoz
ſuch ought ta dꝛinke it with moꝛe reſpede and conũderati⸗

on. a ‘
And albeit the water bath fo great benefite in it, as wer
haue ſaide, fo2 the tonſeruation ot health, it hath greater te

heale Feuers and other diſeaſes: and thereupan Hipocrates

and Galen treated berie particularlp, inelpecially Galen in
the nienth or his Methodo doth repꝛehend there Fraſtstra-

to, and ſuch as do follow him, which did fozbid the vſe e tald

water. vnto ſuch as were ficke of the Feuers. End in bis
firſt booke of his * like reaſon *
nae a

, Ofthe Snovve
bend The//cid, and in the 7 booke he doeth ſhew that he him⸗
felfhath healed many icke perſons that had the griefe o the
tomacke, with moſt cold water, and made cold with ſnowe.
And in the 8.9. To. and eleuenth of the fame Met bodo, hee
healeth the Feuers ¢ other diſeaſes with water that is moſt
cold. And it is an excellent remedie taken with the conditi⸗

ons that is conuenient.an the xi.he faith, that the ſharp Fe⸗
uers are cured with letting blood and colde water, and eſpe⸗
tially the Feuers of blood, oꝛ that haue much mixture theres
ot. Bythat which is ſaid is ſene how conuenient it is, that
Water be made colde with ſnowe, where there is not to bee
found any fo cold as is conuznient toꝛ aur conſeruation and
tontentment, and foꝛ to heale vs ot many infirmities, Al the
which we haue treated of in bꝛiefe, whereby it may be a bes
ginning of our pꝛetẽce that (hal follow, which is to ſhe w the
maner hab to make colde the ſnow, and betauſe that which
ſhall be made cold is the water, and vnder is alſo ta bee bit
derſtood the wine, and all the reſt that ſhall bee made colde,
. will ſpeake of that which ſhall bee treated, vnder the

ter,

The water is colde two maner of waxes, one naturally,
às it commeth forth of the ſpꝛinges, and this is as colde as it
is conuenient, and bath no neꝛde to cole it, it it hath as much
toldues as will ſatiſtie our neceſſitie, without hauing needs
toficke anythingthat may make it tolder.

There ts an other water which is not fe colde as is cour
uenient fo2 vs, as well in our conferuation and health, as
koz our fatiffaction: and by reafon it is not fo colde as it
dꝛught ta bee it is the cauſs ofthe hurtes it dodeth. that bes
foze we haue ſpoken of.

Bome waters are nat fo colde as they ougbt to bee by
nature, by reaſon thep are in whot countries, 8
3 to treate fem oie they aught

andofthevertuesthereof Fo
without any hurt that thoy can doe vs: and ſo wwe will ete,
‘ofal the meanes that we map haue to make cold, which are
vlod at this dax in all the woꝛld, and of them we will chaoſe
the beſt, and molk ſure, ſetting downe the incanuenientes

chat is in euerie ane. % r ase ee e

There are fone maner of waies to make colde, which at
this dax ate vled in inalthe woꝛld: p is to fap, with the ape
inthe well, with Salt Peter, and with ſnowe, euer x one
of theſe is vſed atthisday. f 1 a
The firſt is to make colde with the ayze, although it bee
atommon thinge, and ved in all places, pet it bath bane
and is molt bied of the Gavptians,by reaſon they haus nets
ther wels, noꝛ lnowe, and that of the falt Pecter ther neuer
knew. Galen maketh a large relation of d maner to make
told with the apꝛe, r faith thus: They of Alexandria ànd E-
gypt foꝛ to make their water colde, that they may dzinke it
in time of whot weather, doe warme it frſt, 02 doe feth
it, andthen they put it into earthen veſlels, and fet it in the
tolde apꝛe d: dra inthe nigbe in windows on in the gute
ters of houles, and there they fet it all the night and bela
the Sunne rileth, they take it awap, and Wache the fide
earthen weffelles on the out five with colde Water, andthen
they rowle them with the leaues ol a Aine Crest of lettice,
and ether frech hearbs. x they put them inthe ground ttt the
moſt cold part af the haule, that there the colde may confers
it. The nraner af making colde is vſed at this dar in all the
iuopld, althaugh not ö lo much caviolity,bp reatonther feet)
not the water r they content themlelues w putting it inthe
cold ayʒe, zin the dea w, as conumonly it is done «| Liketwifs
they do make cold the water with hanging it in the are bar
ving tertaine fhins ful of water in the apes e maou ©
continualip:the which is vſed in al cauntrytalled Eltrema- ·
dura. Others do maße cold by putting 9 veliels w water in
beat betas plan rie te raise n duther int ag

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wi ha heepeheardes and other peaple ofthe fielde
de.

| The hurte go This manner to make tolde with the avze bath many in
Goole in the conusniences, becauſe theayze is ſubtill clement ſubiecte to

gre

etuicen.

any maner ofalteration andcoꝛruption:andthertoꝛe it map
be infected with ſome euill quality,cafilp:and being inkecteds
it may infec the water that fo is madt colde, infufing thers
into his malice, Che which Auicen ſheweth very wel in 5
fecond of the fürſt ſaying · The ayꝛe is an euil thing, by reafa
it is mingled with euil thinges, as Aapours, and imelles,

and euill ſmokes, chiefelp that whiche is put in betweene

twoo walles, and eſpecially that which palleth by places
where are rotten Plantes, and naughtie Trees, and where
dead bodies are, fo2 it altereth at euerꝑ one of theſe things.
and okthem receineth an euill qualitie. and foꝛ this cauſe >
ancient Phiũtions did foʒbid that in tyme of the plague the
water ſhould not be put into the ayꝛe to bee mads colde, be⸗
saute the coꝛrupt apres ſheuld not infett it. There is lyke⸗
wiſe an other inconuenience, that pou cannet enerp night
fet the water to bee made colde in the apie, for ſome nightes
and the moſte parte ot them, in the Sommer tyme are
ſo whot, that not onely the apze dooth not make colde, but
the water that is fet in tho ayꝛe, is whotter then it was be⸗
foze, and if it bee made any whit colde, it dureth no longer
tyenthe Peꝛning, when it is not needefull, and like wiſe
in the tyme betweene Winter and Sommer oz in the
Winter when the apre woulde make colde; then the rayne,
the tempoſtes and cloudes and other alterations wil not ſut⸗
ker the arze to des it. All thele thinges experience dooeth
There is another maner of way how to make cold with

the apꝛe, which is the mot wholeſome, and moꝛe without
burt than any of all the other: wherin there is na occafion of

which

| and ofthe vertues thereof.

which do vie this way to make colde that, which they Houle...
dinke, the which they put into beflels.of earth, oz metall,
and do al waies make winde and apze to the veſſels with a
wet linnen cloth And it muſt bee fo that it be in the axꝛe
continually without ceafing , as long as vou ars at meate.
And in this forte it will bee made tolde to purpoſe, and the
dote ayꝛe that is ioined to the velſell is taken away, and
in place of it commeth freche and colde ayꝛe , euen as it
doeth when there is gathered winde to the face, and taking
away the bot ayze that is ioyned to it, and with freche axze
it maketh it cold and refrechetg. 5 e

The other way to make colde, is in a well, wherein Te ſccena
they doe put the velſels with water oꝛ wine, and there they 7477-7 bow
remapns the moſte parte of the dae This Kinde of 0 make cold
making colde bath allo many inconueniences, as well of which is in
the parte of the water, where with it is made colde, as of w and the
the part ofthe place where it is put, chielly in the welles hurt that
of the cities and townes, that for the mot parte are foule “ome
and full of fithinele. The water ofthete welles is an berg.
earthly water grole and harde, becauſe it is continually
tcanding in one place, and ſhutte within the bawels ofthe
tarth. And as it is a ſtanding water, it muſt of force be
purified, fo2 that the beames of the Sunne do not pearce
it noꝛ pet the ayꝛe Dath viſits it, and therefoze tontinual⸗
lx it is full of euill bapours, whereof they doe eaſilꝑ rot, and
they are foule waters full of durte and claye , and of other
miſchiefes ofan euill qualitie. e

And ſeeing the water oꝛ wine is ſo put a long time in
to this koule kanding water, what ran came of it, but that
it participateth of the euill qualltie that it bath. And fo
Galen faieth , that the ve ell which mut bee put inte the Galen.
well, ought to bee full: fo2 ik it lacke of bis fulneſſe then
the water of the well doeth pen z the bapaurofit
goethinto that which is emptie: and thereloze it e .

fn the well
the veſſell
onght to be
well Popped.

and in the

To coole in
metall, is
euill.

The beſt ma
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uenienk that the befell bee filled full, and that it bee well

ſtopt , fo; that whiche is ſaidz. And hee lapeth the con⸗
trarpe, when hee ih ill mike colde in the ayꝛe : foo then

the UAzſlell ch ill not bee put full, but ſome parte thereof re ·

mayne entptic : foꝛ the colde apꝛe in the night ſeaſon ente⸗

er Which is emptie, dooth make the water moze

code, e art Red se

1.” Dyitiarlye they are veils ol Capper, oz of the leafs

of Milan, whiche are put in Welles foz to make colde. The
Copper, it it bee not well tinned within, dooth fuffer to

enter into that whiche is to bee made calde an enill qualities
foʒ With the moyſture of the well, there is grotwne in it ims

mediatelp, a certeine greenneſle that is ſeene vpon it, afs

ter it bath ſtoode a fewe dapes, which is a thing verge euyll

and hurt full. Hl ta ee

The leale of Milan is made of Iron, the whiche with

the moyſture ofthe well is taken forth with with ruſt, which

is a blacke thing that is ſeene vppon it after a fewe Daves,

which is an euill thing, whiche dooth inkule an euill qualitie

into that whiche is dꝛunke. And therefore J am ofthe opi-

nion that that which ſchoulde bee made colve in the water ef
a well, ſhaulde bee in a glaſſes veſſell 02 of ſiluer, although

the beſt waye is to take out water ofa well, and put it ints
a veſſell, in the which ſhoulde bee put that which ſhoulde bee

made colde, moeuing the water manp times: f by fae

bapours, by reaſon it is bifited ofthe apꝛe. which as is ſaid,
dooth ſhewe the inconuenience that there is by making cold

And befises that, wee (ee chat the water haih euer a taſte

akfarth , oz of fone euill take, that is perceiued notablye,
ee eee cad

Theihrd mitt ana caion ta makes ot pfü,

or 2

afid ofthe vertues thereof. Folie

pœrter, tze which is an inuention of marchants, and in elpes The third
ciallp of ſuche as goe inthe Gallie, by reaſon that there way or man
the ayꝛe Dooeth not make tolde, and efpecially in the time of ver bew e
talmes, and there is neither welles noꝛ now. Necellitꝝ did ma be cold
teach them this remedy, although it is not god, loꝛ the great With all per.
inconuenientes which it bath. It doth coole, as ſome fap, the ter

colde running onto the inner partes ol that which it Qoacth

make colde,fo2 the excelllue heate which the faltpecter bath,

the which is done with the ſtrong fozce of the ſaltperter with

the water, Which the ſaltperter beeing entred into the inner

partes maketh to bee colde, comming from the heate of the

ſaltperter woꝛking vpon the trong fo2ce thereot, Other fap

that the water doeth make it ſelfe grote with the faltpecter,

and being made moze thicke and qroffe , it hath moze colde

vertue, the which being holpen with the heat of the laltpee⸗

ter, the cola maketha greater pearcing, thꝛaugh the water,

foꝛ all thinges that are tolde, the moze thitke parts that thep

haue, the ntoze thextoole. And ſo Galen ſaith in the bookes G u,
ofthe fimple medicines, that nothing can be very cold, which

bath ſubtill thin partes, by the which howe moze thicke the

thinges are, the moze force thep are of. Other there be, which

fay thatthe faltpeter hath an actuall vertue, very colde, and

wonzking with the water is made moze colde:asisfene by

the bapne,that after the ſalt is verie much ſtirred in the wa⸗

ter, it is moſt colde. The ſelllame is ſeene in the water ofA’ Th hurtie
lom, and of ſaltpeter. E his maner of making cold doth caufe %%.
many diſeaſes, it doeth heate the liner, it cauſeth continuall

heate, and a bot burning, it inflameth the lungs, it taketh a⸗

way the luſt of meat and other euilles, which woulde be te⸗

didus to treate of, : 3 i

Chere are other wales to make told which are in riuers, Other Wares

and moffe colde fountaines, whereot Galen fpeaketh , af the malę cala.
whichit is nerdefull to treate of , fo: whereas are mole
cold waters it is not nerdlull to put them to bee made colde,
but to bie of them as they are. 2 8
Nee haue ſhewad hob the water that choulde 5 |
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a

raine water

e Snowe

Snowe and Yaine with the coldneſſe of the middle region of the aye,

did freꝛſe, and was made ſnowe, and therefoꝛe is little diffe,

doerb differ lente from the rayne water, and that which tommeth forth

in littli.

Asbeneo,
‘Perierates.
Enric ls.

Sciates.

ok the ſnoos, foꝛ bath of them are ingendꝛed of one manner
or matter, ſauing that the water which procedeth of the
ſudwe, is ſome what moꝛs groſſe fo2 the compultion it hath
ok the coldnes of the ayze, in ſuch ſoꝛte that it is not fo cuil,as
they fay it is. And we fee the Scithians doe dꝛinke it continu⸗
ally,as Hypocrates fapth, Mee fer that of the ſnawe which
doeth melt, ars made great and mightie riuers, ołtthe which
the people that tnbabits neere totgem, dꝛinke continuallp
without doing to them ang maner of hurt, oꝛ benumming of
them. And ol theſe are man of Spayne, Almaine, and many
moꝛs in the Wick Indias, where moſte of the riuers are ot
ſnowe, which doeth melt from the hilles and mountaynes,
and all people ingenerall dꝛink of them, fo there is no other
water in all the country.

The Romapnes fo; delyght and curioſitie, dꝛanke the
water that came fooꝛth of the ſnowe, the which they ſtray⸗
ned thꝛaugh ſtones, to make it moze thinne. Atheneo, doth
rehearſe certayne ver ſes of Sopita, an auntient Post, in the
which he faith, that in his time they dꝛanke ſnowe and the
water which came forth of the now. Pericrat es, Hiſtsʒisgra⸗
pher being a Greeke moſt famous, ſaieth 5̊ in his time, they
Danke ſnow, not only in the Cities but in the Campes. Eu-
ticlesa man berp learned, in onꝛ of his Epiſtles doeth repꝛe⸗
hende thoſe that were in his time, that they did not content
themſelues to dꝛinke that which was made cold with now.
but that thep dꝛanke the faowe it ſelle.Sciates, maketh mens
tion of the ſaawe, vled at times canuenient, with much tare

and delits. Tenophon inthe thinges of memozie which bee
Wrote, maketg mention ofmany people that did not onele
dꝛinke ſaalos, but the witer thereot continuallg.

The Kamaines dig ole it much, and ſa Pliaie inthe 31.
bask: of gie Willie City ht Nero was the fis that {onde
Aers, it in aas, Thewgich Galen in the fer

andofthevertuesthereoh = Folis r
uenthok his Met bodo Booth recite of him, ſaying Nero wass
the fir that ſodde the waters, and aſter warde cooled them
With nowe: fo2 the water beeing made colde in this torte,
receiueth moze quickly the colde, and moꝛe effectually. And
it is a water moꝛe healthfull ſoꝛ by the ſeething of it, is a-
uoyded the earthly partes from the water, and it remayneth
moꝛe ſubtile, and moꝛe thin, and fo it deſtendeth moꝛt ſper⸗
dily front the ſkontacke. ee oe.
Plinie in his naturall hiſtoꝛie, in the nineteenth booke, Pirie,
complayneth ofthe care that thole of his time had, in kee⸗
ping the Snowe of the Minter, fo2 the hotte weather in
Sommer, ſaying, that they did ouerthꝛowe the mountaines
by keeping the Snowe from warme weather, making it te
peruert the order ot nature, that in the monethes Which art
moſt hot, in the which there is nothing but heate k dꝛieth,
that the turioſitie of the people is ſo muche that at that time,
there is ſuch aboundante of ſnowe, as in the monethes in the
Which there doth naturally fal vpon the ground great quan,
fitte thereof. Chis Plinie ſapeth, foꝛ in his time and after, it
was a common thing to keepe the Snow ofthe winter fo2 5
ſommer . Heliogabalo Empercur had made a great caue Heliagabaln.
in a lyttle mountaine, from a garden of bisotone, where he
gathered in the winter very great quantitie or ſno we, bꝛin⸗
ging it from the mauntaines that were neereſt to Rome,
whereof they vſed in time of heate, in their bankets. “x
Chares Militineus, in the hiſtoꝛie that hee wꝛpteth ol Chaves Vis
Ring Alexander fayeth, that inthe Cittie ofPewaa moſte ae
populons Cittie in Aſia, there was oꝛdinarilꝑ thirtie taues
that in the winter tyme were flied with Snowe, fer the
Wwhot weather, fo2 the ſeruite of Alexander, ⁊ ſuch as were .
retapners to him. a 5
At this dap it is doone, nat onely in Aſta, but alſd in Snow is kept
many partes ot Affrica, and in all Europe, chiefely in all by mar pe-
Countries which are vnder the Deminiens of the greate ple. 3
Surke , and efpecially in Conſtantinople, where the
mowe is fo much vied, that all the peere it is ſolde in
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abe u. market, and they dle ot it all tze peere The
lelle ſame is Boone at this dap in all the Hates of Almayne
and of Flaunders, Hungary, and Bohemia, and other
a places, where they keepe the Snowein hauſes and vautes
5 in the Minter, foꝛ to mike their dꝛinke cold — in
the Sommer. a
They carrpe from Flaunders ta Paris, the Water
that is froſen, which i is moꝛe then thee ſcoꝛe leagues, di⸗
ſtaunce . Like wiſe in dur Countrie of Caltileit is kept in
houſes, and they gather it in the winter: and when winter
is paſt, they conſecue it foꝛ the whatte weather. And thers
are many Loꝛdes and great men, whiche haue in the moun⸗
tapes perticuler houſes, where they commaunde that it
bee put in the Ginter , ‘fo2 this effecte: and many or them
dode bie it, and dose make colde there with as well in ths
winter, as in the ſommer, as there are chiefelpin Caſtile in
the tyme of winter, waters that are moſt colde.
lk They which dꝛinke that whiche is made colde with
which dooth ſnowe, faye that it sooth not offende them, as that which is
ped of made colde with the weather, fo2 it is ſeene that a cuppe of
A ow dove colde Water beeing dzunke, that commeth foopth of a well oz
wet offend ai ofa colde fountapne, hurteth ſuch as doo dꝛinke it, and dꝛin⸗
n king that which is made colde with ſnowe, they feele no ſuch

deoth, burte.

How careles J dooe much maruell at one thing, that this Cittie

esl are ofSeuill beeing one ofthe maſte famous of the Moꝛlde,
2 she wherein alwaies haue lyued many greate Perfonages of
: b 5 had very high eſtate, and many people of greate eftimation as
2 a well of the naturall people of the Countrep, as ſtrangers,
we that there bath bin none which haue brought thither ſnow in
; the tyme of whot weather foꝛ to make colde that which they
dꝛinke, ſeeyng that the beate of this countrie from the begin»
ning of Sommer, vntil it be well neere tawardes Winter,
is fo great, that it ia not to be ſuffered, and all the waters are
maſt what, that they cannot fcarcely be dꝛunke. And beides
E Cittie are *

and ofthevertuesthiereof. Fol. 182:
much bull nelle and cares. And ſeeing that in a Countrer fo
whet where buſtneſle and cares do abounde, where the wa⸗ An exhorta-
ter is thet, and nothing where withall ta coole if, with iuſt 1207. N
Title it may be admitted and bied that it max be tled with
ſnowe, ſeeyng that the coldeneſſe is fo l ure, as wee haue aid,
and it dooeth make the benefites whiche Galen and Auicen
haue ſhewed onto vs. f 8 i
Het euer one looke vppon his diſpeſition, that beeing _

whole, although hee bee not altogether in health, in tyme of Note.
whot weather he may dzinke cold moze oꝛ leſſe as it is is con
uenient wꝛ hun. Foꝛ the dꝛinking colde doath tem xer the its
uer, it mittigateth the heate, it giueth appetite ta meate, it ;
comfoateththe Stontacke, it giueth ſtrength to allthe faurt 7 he good
vertues, that may dooe their woozkes the better, the meate har drin-
is eaten with appetite, and with gladneſſe, it taketh awax king colae
the dꝛieth in the day time, it canfeth that the Rone das nat in derb.
gender in the raynes, by keeping temperate the heats of
them, it taketh away lothſomnelle andlike wiſe it Doth mas
ny other good etkectes, that the ble thereofand experience
both che we vs. ies 33 mie e

And becaule it is the beſt manner to make calds with
Snowe as wee haue ſaide, let vs allume thereof with graue shila
Gutbours ; and let Auicen bee the firſt, in the thirde of the :
firlt, where layeth. The water that is made cold with inow,
onto ſuch as ars of a temperate compledion, whereas colde⸗
nelle bath beene made with Snotwe, pea although the now
be fowle and not cleane, then it ſerueth to make cold ths wa⸗
ter without: and that as is good and cleane, is to bee put ine
to that which ſhalbe dꝛunk:t a Auicen ſheweth in b 2. parte
ofthe r. book, the 16 chapter where he laxeth, the inolo ¢ the
frofen water whenit is clean e the now bath nat fallé Ops e.
ull plants, oꝛ p it be nothing mingled with earth 02 other ſa⸗
periluitics,¢ the fraſt not made of euill infected waters, but p
the water which commeth forth of the faotv,be cleer ⁊ clean.
Sthe witer that cömeth forthartye krolt be alla gun f clean,

itanp partotthe water ef the ino a ofthe troll, bs put i.

Of the Snow

che walker that mut bee dꝛunke, oz with them the water be

made colde, without doubt it is good: fo2 the waters whiche
come fooꝛth sf them, be not diuers from other waters.

This ath Auicen ſap, giuing to vnderſtand 5 thele waters
which doe proces of (now r of froſt being clean, do not differ

krõ h goodnes of other waters vnly p differẽte is that the twas

ters ofp ſnow ¢ of p fro are groler the other waters, vy re⸗

{OP the vapoꝛ is congeled in the middle of p aire, as we haut

declared. Raſis among p Arabians the beſt learned, in the 3.

bak or thoſe which he wꝛote to the King Almalor faith thus.

The water of the (now coleth the liuer that is hot, being ta⸗
Rẽ after meat, it ſtrengthneth ß ſtomatk it giueth appetite ¢

luſt ta meate, but that which is dꝛunk may not be much. And

imme diatlꝑ after he ſaith, the water which hath not fo much

coldnes, that it giueth not contentment to him 5 dꝛinketh it,

ülleth the bellx, e taketh not away the dꝛith, it deſtroyeth the

appetite, it taketh awa the luſt ot the meate, it confameth ß
body, contludeth in ſaying that it is not a thing conuenitt to

bet Dunks. J dos vnderſtande it foꝛ the pꝛeſeruation of the

health of mã, ot the which Raſis treating of that bon himſelle

in the J. of Almaſor, ſpeaking ofthe pꝛeteruation from the

pla gur, he tcommandeth todꝛink water of now: t in the fame

chapter he doth reter it an other time to the 26. chapter of the
{aid baoke, in the time of whot weather bee commaundeth to

be dꝛunke in the moꝛning ſnow with ſugar.

The Arabians tured many diſeaſes with the ble of the ſnow,

t with water made cold therwith. Auicen in whot griels of ỹ

ſtomack Doth command to make cold the dꝛink with Snow:

t like wiſe in hot qriefs of the liner, put dpon the grief which

is verx ſharpe oz ſoze, in cauſes whicht are very hat, it bath

been ſcen many times to take away the pain. Be tõmandeth

inthe grief er the tothach ta make cold p water with nom e
Bthey cherw very ofte. And like wife Aui-

cen in the 1 1-ofthe 3. treting ar p trẽbling of the heart ſaieth,

ifthe cauſe be rd ther w be any inflamatiõ let bim haus
Sint him cold water to dꝛink a new water mingled =

and of the vertues there ol. Pol. 83

ſuall water, certaine dꝛaughts ene after another, betauſe he
ſhould not dꝛinke much at one time, loꝛ the reaſon afoꝛeſaid.
The felſſame ſaith Raſis in the 7 of his Continent in the
places {peaking of the ſaid griet:at the firſt giue vnts ſuch to
dink continnally water of now, chiellp if p ſaid diſcaſe pꝛa⸗
£29 ofa melancholy humoꝛ. And in p ſecond part he conicleth:
thé to go dwel in a told toũtryx, z ifthey cannot doit, that they
vſe to dꝛink Mow, z cõtinually p water therof The 3 is that
luch as haue na remedy to be faũd p they wil be conſerued w
giving thé to dꝛink p water ol ß now cõtinually. And being
Witing oftgis,¢ healing of a Getlema p could nat fetch his
bꝛeath, x was al fivolé,¢ flept not in man daies, ⁊ had a griet
at the hart, and with letting him blood e giuing him to dʒink
water of fnow cõtinuallꝑ, he was healed, not waut great ad⸗
miration ot᷑ al men: for he was takento be but as a dead mã.
Amato Lucitano in the 7. Centuris ſpeaketh of une ; has
à bot burning keuer, x loʒ the great heat ⁊ inſlãmation, he had
in the thꝛote, could not wallom down any thing, w a peere
of feoſt, chewing it cõtinually, not onelpit toe alway p diffi⸗
tultnes ofthe ſwallowing down, z in the inflamation in his
thꝛoate, but did allo cafe him much ol his feuer.
It is bicd todꝛink at this dax made cold with ino inal plas
ces, where it is to be had:loʒ with this maner of making told,
they find moze allurante ⁊᷑ cõtentment, th in al the reſt. And
fo We ſa it is vſed in the courts of kings. pꝛintes.⁊ al great
men a loʒos, and common people that are there reũdent.Anꝭ
to this day with the vie the rot, it bath not bin ſeen, that it bath
tauſed any kind of diſeaſe: which if it han bene hurtful e had
cauſed any cõmon diſeaſe oꝛ patitcular in io man vceres as
it bath beene died, it woulde haue beene ſerne: rather wee
haue had manx examples, that it bath dane good, and hatt
conferued thoſe which are whole, that they chould not fail
ficke,¢ ſuch as are ſicke haue bin healed of their infirnuties.
Here I dos ſe many being ficke , and hauing greate occaũ⸗
ons ot ſicknes, after that they dꝛinke cold, are whole ftraight

wap g when they hau giuen auer the vl of it cger ache

8 Otkthe Snowe
ſtake againe. f
And although erperience dose che w it, vet Galen doseth
teache it vs in many places , beeing the Pꝛinte of Phiſike.
Foz inthe third degre: of the ſubſtãce of meates, heſaith, that
vnto them which are hat of ſlamacke, it is tonuenient that
their dꝛinke be made colde with ſuo we:the ſame he doth ton⸗
8 firme in the booke of good and euil meazes. a
Galen. And in the ſeuerith ar his Methodo, it path beeee feene
as he ſayeth, that diſeaſes haue beene healed, and the
griefes ot the ſtomacke with colde water, made told with
; ſnowe: and in the fir of the Epsdimias hre dooeth vie muche
Galen, of Mater, firſte ſodden, and after cooled with ſnowe, and
inimanp partes hee dooath put to ceole in ſnowe the medi ⸗
tines, which hee dooth vſe ol: and the fame dode the Araby-
ens, koʒ that, as it is ſaid, it daeth ſœme that the ſnowe Was
had in reuerence by the auncient Azyters, andthat ther
did bie sf it inthe pꝛeſeruation of their health, and in the
healing or their diſeaſes, foz that it was the beſt manner
howe to make it colde, moꝛe cleane, and nioꝛe without ſcru⸗
ple. Foꝛthe colve that pꝛoteedeth ofſnowe, is bealthful with⸗
out reteiuing hurt, by that which is cooled with it, noꝛ caus
ſeth any alteration, betauſe it is a very god congeled Water,
and Both make colde.
Howitough: Trueth it is, that it is not conuenient to vſe of the ſaide
to be veel. fnotut continually, it it be net in time of need, by the way of
medicine: loꝛ the bie of the ſaid ſnobor dꝛunke in water oꝛ in
wine, 02 putting the mnowe into them dath ingender many
kinde of diſeaſes, w hich it pꝛeſently theybee not felt, they
tome to bee felt in age. Ot the which Galen doeth make
a large relation, in the bodke of diſeaſes ofthe Reines, and
in the booke of good and euill meates. And bycaute that A-
uicen did expound them, I will (ew what be wziteth in the
third part ofthe firſt bodke, in the 8 chapter. He which doth
dꝛinke ſnow, and the water that voth pꝛacerd cut or the ſanis
meme, it hee doe vie it cantinuallv, there wil falls muche
hurt thereby sit doth offend the ſine es, and it Wan

and ofthe vertues thereof.
the bꝛeſt, and fo the inner members, and efpecially for the
bꝛeathing : and there is none that doe bie to dꝛinke it but it
wil do them hurte vnleſſe hee be of afanguine tomplexion,
which if he doe not feele hurte pꝛeſently, he ſhall feele it af
terwarde. WAhereby it appeareth howe euill the vie ol the
ſayd ſnowe is, and the water which dooeth tome out of it, it
it bee not by the way of medicine onely , ſo it may bee bied
to coole there with, loꝛ in ſuche forte it doeth not oſfende, as
is ſaide. Foz in this neither the auncient wꝛiters did put
any doubt of hurt, noꝛ any ſcruple, and now wee fee that it
—_ not, but bꝛingeth health, and benefite, as wee ba
apde, |

And as Plinie alſo faieth , of the delight and daintineſſe
of the colde, without offence ofany malice of the Snawe.
And Martial dobeth ſhewe the fame , in the 4.booke where
he ſaith the ſnow mut not bee dꝛunke, but that licour which
is made very told with it. And this was ſhe wed and taught
bute vs by the moſt ingenious dꝛieth.

And vnto fuch as are verie colde, it commeth not well to
paſſe fo? them to dꝛinke that, which is made cold with now
oꝛ that which is verie colde, i hee bee not attuſtomed there ⸗
too:fo2 by cuſtome, they may bfe and dꝛinke it withaut any
offence ta them, but it is good that they moderate them⸗
ſelues in dꝛinkingthat which is verie colde, and that they
content them ſelues that it bes made colde, after a meane
forts although it be with {howe . Allo it is not tonuenient
fo2 childꝛen noꝛ boyes, that their dꝛinke be made colde with
fnow, fo; the weaknels ofthe ſtne wes, and intericur parts,
and fo2 the tendernelſe oftheir age, and chiefly ther map
Drinke no wine, but water, forthat their age dooeth mot ful
fer, that they may dꝛinke it: and dꝛinking water verie colbe,
it doeth them verie much hurte. The wine which is made
colde with tnowe , doeth not offende fo much as the water
iwbich is made colne: one of the thinges wbich takers nt
n Sent at he Wins Us Se wee

| Olthe Snovvfe
8 8 three thinges which doe abate the furye
rin ie that is, to water it a good time before pou
ef ee, dꝛinke it. Alſo to caſt a peete of bꝛead into it, that it may
the Wer ſucke the vapours, and ſubtiltie of the wine. The thirvis,
tuo put it to coole ſome rea ſonable time in water, that is moſt
colde, opin nowe, forthe moꝛe it is cooled, the moze the
ſtrength and vapeurs are repꝛeſſed, and fo it will leſſe ofs
fend the head and it will leſle penetrate the topntes , which
is (eene in the fatd wine „ and beeing made colde there is
abated much ok his fronsth, | in fo much that ik it bee bes
ry colde, it ſtemeth as though that it were water. Some
people there are which doe fap and publich much euill of the
cooling with frotwe, without knowing it it be good az euill:
andas it isa newe thing, and efpeciallpin thys Countrie,
N they feare that there will come hurt to them by the vle of it.

FHiſteria. And à being at the Table of a Loꝛde, there was brought a

| platter fullof Cheeries with ſnowe vpon them, and there

was a Gentleman that durſt not take any one of them, favs

ing that they ſhoulde hurt him, bycauſe that they were made
ge opon colde with Snotwe, andas it was a thing vſed a long time,
n to caffe ſnowe vpon fruite , as Galen doeth fay that is was
38 caf vpon the Mulberie, the cauſe of this is fo2 lacke of the
ees bie thereof, by reafonit bath not been vſed no2 fiene in theſe
partes, andalwaies they take it fo2 ſuſpicious.

And here are none that doce bfe it, but the Noble
men, and not all, but ſuch as haue bene Courtiers and {uch
as haue pꝛoued in benefit and commoditie that doth fallowe
ok it: foꝛ the reſt ſap, that without ſnowe they haue liued, and
without it, they wil pa ſſe on their time. And they de not cans
fiver that to liue they map paſſe with Bee, and Garlpke,
and Lekes, but theſe kinde of meates doe ingender cuil bus
mours:toꝛ it is one thing to eate the Pattridge, ⁊the Geale

Aàt his time, and mutton ¢ birdes at another tune. And teere
VFFPPPV

Lemon, toꝛ the one is ta eate without taſte ruſticallx, and
f ista tate as men doe, hoptelꝑ and deliratix. Am

and of the vertuesthereof, §—- Fok

foitisin the drinking of colde, oꝛ whot, fo: of the dꝛinke that
is made colde with ſnowe, there followeth health, taſte ⁊ cons
tentment: and of the dzinke that is whot, commeth enill diſ⸗
eales,difliking,¢ diſcontentment. Let vs conſider howe the
old wꝛiters tooke great felicitie to dꝛinke colde, andcheefely 75. i ex-
that which was made cold with ino, and they were people , 4d v/e
both tuple and difcrecte, and with much care that pꝛeſerued „ch 25 cool⸗
their health. Koꝛ in this and in their eftimations, E in they2 7% jor
maner of ſubtile liuing / they did put their whole felicitie and
ſeeing that they with fo much cars as wir haue be foꝛe declas
red, did dꝛinke that which they made colde with ſnowe, in
countries that was of leſſer heate then this, wherfaze ſhould
we not eniop this benefit, and contentment, ſeing that therof
cannot fallowe vnto vs, but great benefite of health, bing
therofas 3 haur ſaid. .
Let euer one look to that which is conucniét for his health, Note.
age, vle, and cuſtome, and let him haue refpec to that which
doth agree with him:for the vie will Hew him that hee thal
do, ſeing that of the burt oꝛ benefit,bce may ſoane perce ine if
it ought ta be vſed, oꝛ no, t he mut be aduiſed that at the be ·
ginning when he Doty bie to dꝛinke cold that which is made
colde with ſnowe the firſt day her ſhall fer le in the Day time
dꝛieth, but being pat 7 02 S. dapes, it is taken alway, rather
they goe betweene dinner and fupper without dꝛith t with ·
out bauing any need to deinke. 5
Whey do bꝛing the ino ww ta this countrie, tram the mom / ; whence

tains wheras is much now G. leagues bepõd Oranado. be the, hing
{now hath many things to pꝛeſerue it, becauſe the way is log owe.
and it tommeth by a what country, by reaſon {whereof it dot
much diminiſh, and very little tommeth hither of that Which
they take out there: and there loꝛe it is fo Deere. er

It is a maruellous thing that theſe mountaimes of Sranz- Ifhunteyuti
do, are alwapes full of nom ⁊ that in them it iẽ durable and he e ,,
verpetual, and for great heates, and fanne, that ſbimeth org :
thent: pet the foto rantinueth in ane tate and we Ger Cbatit
both not change. zn the moutaines a are 3

33 22 a

The confers
ation of the
. Snowe.

Charles Mi-
litineus.
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> Augu-
Fine.

The proper-
ties of ftraw.

2 Ofthe Snow

with ſnobo euery winter, but p ſõmor being tome, al is mel⸗
ted, in ſuch fort that there remaineth in them no ſnowe. The
kinges of Granado bering in all their royall authoꝛitie dyd
bfe in the months of great heat and time of ſommer, to dꝛink
theſe waters, which they dꝛunk made cold with ſnow, as our
hyſtoꝛy writer Alonfo de Palenſio dooth referre bimfelfe to
that which he wꝛate ol the waters of Granado.

Let the ſnow be kept in cold and dꝛy places, foꝛ the mops
ſture and heate are his contrary,¢ the wind which commeth
of the ſunne, much moꝛe, betauſe it is whot ¢ moiſt. They doo
tread oʒ pꝛeſſe the ſnowe when they put it in ſellers ta keep,
that it may the longer ẽdure x melt leffe, Charles Militineus
doth fap thatthe ſnow mutt be kept trové ¢ touered W leaues
and bowes of an Oke, betauſe in this ſoꝛte it is moſt confers
ued. That which is brought to this cittie, they bing it in
fratue,fo it dooth tonſerue it moze then any other thing it
dooth melt the leſſe: which the gloꝛidus S. Auguſtme dosth
thew vs in the ſirſt booke of the city of God, where he laieth,
who gaue vnto } ſtra a cold vertue ſo ſtrong, that it kepet⸗
the ſnow which is molt colde ¢ conſerueth it? and who gaue
it like wile fo iw hot ¢ ferut̃t a vertue, that the gran fruit not
being rype, as apples and other like, it dooth ripe and ſeaſon
them that they may be eaten: in the whiche it is ſeene what
Diners vertues the fra hath, ſeeing that it dooth contrary:
effects which dooth conferne the ſnow / dooth make ripe the
greene fruite, and dooth moꝛe then the water, which is made
colde in the dea we, oꝛ in other thing: by putting any veſtell
whichis amongeſt ſtrawe, it dooth tonſerue his coldneſle all
the dag. jaar.

There were vſed tivo pꝛincipall wayes in theſe times to
make cold with ſnowe: the one is, to put the bottelles oꝛ the
veſlels ofthat as you wil make cold, buried in the inolw, this
is don tober there is much ino w, ⁊ this doth make very cold

and quickly:the ſame is like wiſe don with the water frofe.

There is another way te make cold which is moze c aſ ⁊ it
isan Soh itte nde which is to fila befkattpat liehe

eit
s,s

and ofthe vertues thereof. Fol
is to be made colde, and put vpon it a little platter of ſiluer oꝛ
glaſſe, oꝛ ofthin plate called the leafe of Milan ¢ that it may
be made ſo deepe, whereby it may penetrate though that
which ſhalbe made cold, and bppon thatdeepe veſlell let the
ſnow bee put, and from time to time, the water which deoth

melt front the ſnow mutt bee taken away, fo2 if it bes nat tar With a lutlt
ken abap it heateth the now, andit melteth the moꝛe. After platter.

this ſoꝛt it dooth coole much and maketh it as exterding cold
aS you woulde dꝛinke it: and it is a wa that euerꝝ one mape
fe moꝛe 02 leſle, as tolde as hee will, oz as hee hath neede of

it. Che leie ſame is doone W a long cane made ol the leaf al 7x a cane.

Milan putting it fall of ſnowe, into the thing that you minds
to make colde continuing in it ſtill, and ttie is to matze ane
thing told in an earthen pot oꝛ any other great veſſell.

This manner of way is long 07 it be colde, and it is needs
full that it bee put long tyme befoze pou goe to meate, and
fo2 all this it will not make it verye tolde . Others there
bee that doo put the ſnawe in a lpttle Baſnet, lapde vpon
a lyttle ſtrawe, ſoꝛ this dooeth conſerue the ſnowe muche,
pulting in one goblet with that as you will dꝛinke, leaning
harde tothe ſnowe: after this forte there followeth muche
benefite, fo2 it is not needefull to goe taking alway the Citas
ter from the Ondwe , byreaſon that it goeth awapthzeugh
the bafaet, And the other is, that the uo we dooth nat melt ſo
muche , let euerye man doce as hee bath the quantitte of
Snolde to door it withall, and lige wife in the cooling oft,
moge 02 leſſe as bps neteſſitie and health dooth require, and
can beare well the vie thereok: of the which wee haue
made a large relation, although that my intente and pure
pole was fo; nomoꝛe then to defende thatthe belt wave to
make the dꝛinke colde, and moꝛe healthful is to make colde
with owe, and as fo2 the other manner of wapes and vles
to make colde, they haue manes inconueniences whiche
J haue token of, and anelv to maße colde with non
is that which is conuenient, ſeeyng that the nate Dooeth
nat touch the thing, onelp the 5 os f

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with itis onelp that Whiche! nooeth make colde. All other
wayes whiche daoth make colde, dooeth not come neere tos
the cooling with ſnowe by a great wap, foꝛ this is moſt colde
whiche is cooled with it, and all other wapes doo feeme
whotte , beepng made tolde in the dewe, in Melles, 02
with ſaltpeter, in compariſon of that whiche is made colde
with ſnowe. And ſo it is a greate thing, and to bee muche
eſteemed that in the teme of whot weather, when wee are
made a burning coale, of the extreame heate ofthe tyme,
when the dꝛieth is ſo great, that it maketh vs to ſounde and
our bodies are ſo burning and ſweating, that wee haue fo
gaffe a remedie with a lyttle Snowe, wee map dꝛinke fo
colde as is conuenient loꝛ vs, and as colde as pou wyll,
with all aſſuraunce of health giuing vs fo muche delighte
and contentment that there is no price to bee eſteemed ta
it, noꝛ vnderſtandiag that can expounde it, ot the whiche e⸗
uerꝝ one that dooth dꝛinke colde with ſnowe may be iudge of
my Apologie whenthey do make an end do dzinke by means
of the moſt colde ſnowe. i
By that which is ſaid, it is ſeene what a thing ſnow is, ¢
hol tze vſe of it was eficemed amongit the people of old time
foꝛ ta make cold ther with, e as the belt maner of theſe which
are ta make colde withall, and moꝛe agreeable to our health
and neceflitie, is that which is doone there with, ¢ alſo as the
dzinking cold dath bꝛing fo many benefits and commodities,
t the dꝛinking hat ſo man hurtes z diſcõmedities, ſeing that
to ble it is to make leane, and dekilitate the ſtomack, it dootg
make the meate to ſwim in it, it dot caʒrupt the digeſtion.
whereby it doth conſume and weaken the body it ingendzeth
winds it is the cauſe that the Winer is debilitated, weake⸗
ned, it cauſeth continuall dꝛieth, it doth not ſatiſñe our neteſ /
litx it giueth paine and griefe and ether hurts, that he which”
dooth vſe it , ſhall quickly feele tzem in bimielfe . The
Which is contrary to them that do deinke colde beeing cold ol
bis owne nature, oꝛ made cold with ſnom, fo2 that it Doth cos
W ontack,ifit be ne arẽgthneth it, z doth 7

andthevertuesthereof
llixe, x runnings of whot humoꝛs to it, ⁊therefeꝛe it taketh
away ſtooles and vomits being cholertke, it doth comfort al
the 4. vertues, it taketh atway the dꝛieth it giueth luſt to eat,
it maketh the digeſtion better, z vou dꝛinke leſle ¢ that with
moꝛe contentment gladnes, ſalilũng vs moze w a litle told
dꝛink, thẽ much which is whot. It doth let the ingendꝛing of
the fone vate thé which are whot of cõplexion, it maketh tẽ⸗
perat the heat of the liuer, it taketh awar the kindling of the
fire of the that are to hot. oꝛ inflamedof what cauſe ſoeuer it
be it tempereththe exteſſius heate ofthe ſummer, it prefers
ueth from the plague in the time ofit. and being taken vpon
meat it ſtrengtheneth natural heat, that it may make better
bis digeſtion ¢ work, it taketh away the ſharp paines which
conuneth of any hat cauſe, it taketh away the trembling o
the hearte it maketh glad them that are melancholie, it ta⸗
heth from wine his furie æ bapours,e the fruits put in ſaow,
€ tauſe, that they doe not tozrupt. hee that dꝛintzeth cold doth
enioy the daintineſſe of colde that it dooth make, which is a
thing that cannot be expꝛeſſed and the vnderſtanding of man
cannat compꝛehend it: bey which may liberally deink cold
t being made told with now, are ſuch as be tẽperate of con⸗
plection ⁊ ful of lech, and thole which ars of a cholerthe conte
plection hot ¢ inflamed, ths witch are whot of the liner, and
ofthe ſtamack, they which are ſanguine and do exerciſe thes
ſelues and labour as men of great buſineſle, they which haue
manp cares, the gouernouts ot cities a common we althes, 7
the ninifers othem, wh ch do partcipate of the like cares
and traubles, thep which dae exertiſe temſelues in warlike
affaires, and other great baftnelle they which got much and

haue laboured much, they which doe ſutker burning agucs,

tuflamations, ⁊ aboue al, thoſe
n, let cuerp man deink
it is moſt con⸗

8

Ty and uch as are of young age, and
time and vſe bane ſhe wed what
+ Beonuenient fo them. And thus we

i oe end aan Apologie.