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A07612	Ioyfull newes out of the newfound world wherein are declared the rare and singular vertues of diuers and sundrie herbs, trees, oyles, plants, [and] stones, with their applications, aswell to the vse of phisicke, as chirurgery: which being wel applied, bring such present remedy for all diseases, as may seeme altogether incredible: notwithstanding by practize found out, to be true. Also the portrature of the sayde herbes, very aptly described: Englished by Iohn Frampton merchant. Newly corrected as by conference with the olde copies may appeare. Wherevnto are added three other bookes treating of the Bezaar stone, the herbe escuerçonera, the properties of yron and steele, in medicine and the benefite of snowe.; Historia medicinal de las cosas que se traen de nuestras Indias Occidentales que sirven en medicina. English	Monardes, Nicolás, ca. 1512-1588.; Frampton, John, fl. 1577-1596.	1580 (1580)	STC 18006; ESTC S112800	203,465	298

in the cleare water that shall remayne vppon it some small clothes or in place of the smal clothes lint of fine Linen cloth weate in the water it cleanseth the sore eating the euil fleshe in such sorte for howe euill olde and filthy soeuer that the sore bee it leaueth it cleane and being laide to the flesh it doeth soder and heale them and after this is done you must vse the Medicines which haue vertue to ingender flesh And the effect of this seede is no more then to mundifie make cleane and to take away the superfluitie of the wounde The self same effect that this seede worketh in vs it worketh in beastes also which for the most part haue very euill sores that bee cankered and full of Wormes the seede being laide vnto them if the cause bee so great that it doth requyre it or the water of it as it is sayde maketh the lyke woorke as wee haue spoken of and better vsing alwayes the defensiues as is conuenient where such Medicines bee applyed for that it is a Medicine most strong and it hath neede of them all I wil shewe you what happened to me with it An Indian brought me this seede with many other hearbes and going about to discouer them and being come to this seede I tooke a graine and put it into my mouth to proue it He that brought it as one which knew it wel kept back my hand would not suffer me to proue it for all that I parted with my teeth one graine which is no greater then one grayne of hempe seede but some deale lesser and beareth some likenes of it at the tyme that it came to the point of the tongue the seede being parted made me a blister vpon it which dured with me certaine dayes I commended it to the Deuil and then I beleeued what they had certified me of it I began to make experience of it and it wrought more effectually then was spoken of it It is hot in the fourth degree and more if there be any more degrees Also I haue an Hearbe which being sodde and the water of it taken hot healeth the euils of the brest I know not the name of it but in the remembrance of them which came it was written And an other which enforceth to cast out the dead childe of the belly of thi● the Indians haue great experience for this effect and once in these countries it hath profited They brought me two drie hearbes which I would haue been glad to haue seene greene the one of these being in the field in all his force if a man or woman doe put their handes vpon him forthwith he falleth downe dead vpon the ground And the other lying abroade vpon the ground in touching it to gather it it shutteth it self together as a Cabadge of the Countrie of Murcia Thinges meruellous and of much consideration I haue blacke Eleboro brought from the Prouince of Mechoacan like to that of Spayne and woorking the like effect Certaine dayes past a young man which tooke counsell of me that came from the Prouice of Quito and beeyng with me there came vnto me a neighbour of mine saying that his daughter was verie sicke of the Flixe and I had her in cure and her disease increased with blood requesting me that I shoulde goe to visite her The Indian which was with me asked me if they were stooles of blood I said yea and he sayd vnto me that he woulde geue her a thing that beyng made into pouder and taken woulde take them away forthwith that in the Prouince of Quito it had been experimented many times The Father of the sicke maiden went with him to his house and he gaue him certayne peeces of a fruite which seemed to be of a greate tree of the one parte they were very smooth and of colour yeallowe and of the other they were very sharpe and very redde insomuch that they seemed of a purple colour They were ground smal and he gaue the pouder to the sicke womā with the water of the hed of Roses once that Euening an other time in the Morning and immediatly the Flixe did cease from tha● time waxed better whereby she came to be whole And as for the man I neuer saw him after he gaue it to her ¶ To the right Worshipfull Maister Doctor Monardus Phisition in Seuill RIght worshipfull famous Doctor it will seeme a newe thing to your worship that I being not learned not of your profession doe write to you in things of your faculty being a Souldier that haue followed the warres in these Countries al my life I haue done this because I am affectioned to your worship by reason of a book which you haue cōpiled of the medicines which are in these partes of the vertues benefits that by thē haue byn receyued which are so great that I cannot declare thē as they deserue And by means of your book we haue order how we should vse the remedies which we haue here for before we did vse thē without rule or measure so that neyther they did work effect nor with them the people were wel remedied which now is to the cōtrary by meanes of your books there hath been people remedied that neuer thought to haue had remedy nor health It is more then 28. yeeres vnto this day that I haue gone wādring by al these Indias where are many things of those which your worship doth write of in your book other things also which haue not byn brought thither for bicause the Phisitions that come to these parts are nothing curious They apply not their eye to the vniuersal wealth but to their owne particular for they come onely to enrich thēselues for the most part they be ignorāt people which passe to those Indias they doe not esteeme of the good which they might doe And though that I haue no learning I am affectioned to men of learning so I am to your worship for that I vnderstood of your bookes and for the same that you haue in these partes which is great although I knowe you not yet I was willing to take these paines which is a contentment to m● You write in your book geuing knowledge of the Bezaar stone set down the signes of the beasts which haue thē which being cōsidered we haue happened vpon a kind of beasts that liue in the moūtaines of this country which are much like to sheep or kiddes which your woorship speaketh of which are in the Indias of Portugal which breede haue these stones of the which there are many in this country in the mountaines colde countries They are for the moste of a darke red colour they are fed with healthful herbes wherof is greate plentie in the mountaines where these beasts do feed they be very swift insomuch that they cannot bee hunted but with the hande Gun they haue no hornes and in that onely

they doe differ from them of the East India for in all the rest they are the same The 15. day of Iune in this yeere of 1568. I certain gētlemen my freends went to the mountaines to hūt we were a hunting fiue dayes and we killed some of those beasts which I haue spoken of And as we went for this purpose thinking that they were of the kind of thē of the East India we carried your booke with vs we opened one of them the greatest that we hunted and oldest we colde finde we found no stones in his belly nor in any other part of him nor any other thing wherby we bel●eued that they were not the same kind of beasts with those of the East India And we asked of certaine Indians that went to serue vs where these beasts had their stones as they are our enimies would not that we should knowe their secrets they answered vs that they knew nothing of these stones vntil one boy which was amongst them being an Indian of the age of 12. yeres seeing that we were so desirous to know the same shewed vs the secrete of the haue byn vsed since that hunting that I haue spoken of which were the first that haue bin discouered in the world for the vse to heale diseases we do trust that with them wil be done maruellous woorkes according as they haue begun to do thē all this is owing to your worship seing that by your book we had knowledge to seek them to discouer them to take them out of these beastes which had them so hidden within them that surely ther is much owing to your worship for discouering vnto vs so great a treasure as this is which is the greatest that hath bin foūd in these parts wherby our nation is much bound to you likewise al the world because al men shal profit by thē the rest of the secrets which you haue set down in your book which bringeth vnto vs great profit And in recompence of the benefit which I haue receiued I send here to your woorship a dosen of stones by the returne of Iohn Anthony Corso the rich Merchant which if they come thither your worship may make experience of them in many infirmities for you shal find great effectes in them By the same returne also your worship may aduise me of them any thing that shal please you to commaund me I wil do it as one that is most affectioned to you because you are curious and learned for doing so much good to the world in those thinges which you haue written published Heerewithall I send you a small Chest in the which come certaine Frisoles which you may command to be sowen in the beginning of Marche that the colde doe not hurte them which send foorth a plant like vnto beanes but somewhat lesse which haue certaine vaines where the seed is Halfe a dozen of them eaten with salt being of the tast of green beanes they purge valiantly euacuate the water of him which hath the dropsie without paynes The selfe same effect it worketh if that they be dry making thē into pouder taking thē with wine it is needful that meat be made in a redines for if they work to much by taking more then they should be with eating any thing incontinent the worke wil cease Also I sende you an hearbe which groweth in these plaine countries clounge to the ground like vnto grasse which is of great vertues for many infirmities chiefly for them which are grieued with Reumes and Fleumes in the throate taking them away easily with great benefite and in this griefes of the head Reumes chewing it they do dissleume very much they call this hearbe after my name because I vse it for the like euils for that an Indian did teach it me which knew much of the vertue of hearbes Also I send your worship a fruite of a tree which is of great profit these trees be not founde in any countrie but in this they are of the greatnesse of an Oke of those in Spain it hath many vertues for the rinde being made in pouder and cast into any sore which is needful to bee made cleane it maketh it cleane afterward causeth the flesh to grow healeth it And rubbing the teeth with this pouder it maketh thē cleane very wel being laid vpon the gummes if the flesh be taken away it doeth incarnate them if the teeth be loose it maketh thē fast Seething the leaues of this tree well in water washing with the water thereof any manner of swelling which hath any sore or that is therof cankered it taketh away the swelling and impostume And making some small linen clothes weate in this seething laying them warme vpon the medicine which is laide vpon the sore or vpon the pouder that is made of the rinde it maketh the sores to heale more quickly causing that there come no humour to them Out of the saide tree commeth a Rosine which is of sweete smel and serueth to perfume in many diseases of the head to make plaisters for many e●ils and heere I send it to your worship Of the fruite the Indians make a certaine drinke which is for them very health●ul Your worshippe may commande them to b●e sowen for I would be glad that they should grow for it will bee a thing of much delight for the profite that it bringeth in Phisicke and for the noueltie of the tree for at al tymes it hath a very good smel I brought into this country a blacke woman which I bought in Xerez de la Frontera and there did appeare vpon her when we came hither certain olde sores in her legs which were of long continuance and comming to the Ilande of the Margareta and beeing very sorowefull for the sores which my blacke woman had an Indian tolde me that hee woulde heale her and seeing that she had no other remedy I deliuered her to the custodie of the Indian that he might heale her for me and immediatly he toke a fruite which is common in that country and al people ingeneral doe eate it which is of the greatnes of an Orenge it hath a stone like vnto a Peach This stone the Indiā did burne and made it into pouder for the stone is hard can not be grounde without burning of it and he cast the pouder of it into the sores which she had ful of much rotten flesh and very filthy which with the pouder were made cleane and very well and it tooke out al the rotten flesh to the bone and after it was cleane with lint and a litle pouder laid too it they began to be filled with newe flesh vntil they were ful of flesh and she was healed very wel And it is to be considered that the little kernel of the stone hath so much venom malice in it that if any person

forthwith a double linnen cloth vpon it wette in the same Balsamo and so bounde that the lippes goe not a sunder and keeping diet and vsing letting of blood if it be needful and not vnbinding it vntill the fourth day and they shall finde the wounde comforted except that there bee any accident which causeth it to bee vndone before And when the cause is such that it requireth to bee dressed euery day by reiterating the wette Linnen cloth in the Balsamo it wil bee healed for the vertue of this Balsamo is to cause that there bee no matter engendered in the woundes and especially this Balsamo doeth profite in woundes where there hath beene cuttinges of bones taking them out that haue beene diuided one from another and not touching the rest for that the vertue of the Balsamo will caste them out and hauing so done wil heale the wounde One of the thinges wherein this Balsamo worketh greate effectes is in woundes and ioyntes and in cuttinges of Sinewes in al prickes for in all these kindes of woundes it maketh a maruellous woorke curing and preseruing them from extreame colde and from running together of Sinewes that they remayne not lame The woundes which doe penetrate are healed with this Balsamo being mingled with whyte wyne and spouting it into them and after three houres taking it out again This must be done in wounds or prickes once euery da● that it may goe with a moderate heat Likewyse this Balsamo serueth to be applied where haue beene giuen dry blowes or brusinges and for al workes of Surgerie where is no notable inflammation which beeing taken away with the Medicines that are conuenient for it the Balsamo may then bee vsed In euilles which belong not to Surgerie this Balsamo doth profit much as in him that hath the shortnes of breath by taking a fewe droppes in whyte wyne it profiteth him much it taketh away the grief of the head cōming of a colde cause and a litle Plaister being laide vpon the griefe and wette therewith to the Temples of the head taketh away all runnings by those partes and in especially the euilles of the eyes and Reumes that runne into them beeing layde to the foreparte of the head and it must be good and hot It taketh away the paynes of it and comforteth it and remedieth the Palsie Some that haue beene in a Consumption haue vsed it taking some droppes in the morning licking them out of the Palme of the hande and they haue felt notable profit And it maketh cleane the brest very wel it is good to take some droppes with Aqua vitae hot before any maner of colde in a Quarterne Ague or of a long importunate tertian Ague annoynting with the same Balsamo mingled with Oyle of Ruda the Temples of the head good and hot before the colde doeth come If with the Balsamo they annoint themselues from the mouth of the stomacke to the Nau●l it comforteth the stomacke it giueth a lust to meate it helpeth digestion it dissolueth Windes it taketh away the paines of the stomacke and it worketh farre better these effects if the halfe of the Balsamo be mingled with another halfe of Oyle of Spike Nard● compounded or simple and so it is better applyed There is great experience of it in the Indias for Swellinges that are in the maner of Dropsies and mingling it with oyntment disopilatiue of equal parts and annointing the belly therewith chiefly the parte neere the Lunges there are seene wrought therewith great effects it dissolueth any maner of swelling or hardnes that is in any parte of the body and being laide vpon any paine that commeth of a colde cause although it be of long continuance it taketh it away bringing it to be so smal vntil it fal of it self the same it doeth wheresoeuer is any winde And if it bee in the belly or in any parte of the body wetting a Linen cloth hot in Aqua vitae of the best and applying it to the place where the griefe of the Stone is and mingled with Oyle made for the purpose it maketh a great woorke it taketh away the paynes of the Sinewes and when they bee shronke together in a very hot weather rubbing them with it it dissolueth them The euil called the Lamparones that are open or shutte it healeth Many other effectes this maruellous licour worketh which I haue not knowen but these which I haue knowen I doe manifest to al the worlde that they may take profite by so maruellous a Medicine which hath so many vertues as you haue hearde and euery day the tyme wil discouer other greater The ende of the thirde and last parte The Table of the thinges that these three bookes doe containe In the first Booke OF the Anime Copal fol. 1. Of the Tacamahaca fol. 2. Of the Caranna fol. 4. Of the oyle of the Figge tree fol. 5. Of the Gumme fol. 6. Of the Liquid Ambar and the oyle thereof fol. 6. Of the Balsamo fol. 7. Of Guaiacā holy wood 12. Of the China fol. 13. Of the Sarcaparillia fol. 15. Of the blood stone and the stone for the disease of the stone fol. 18. Of the woode for the Urine fol. 19. Of the Peper of the Indias fol. 20. Of the Canafistola fol. 21. Of the Purgatiue Nuttes fol. 21. Of the Purgatiue Pinons fol. 22. Of the Purgatiue Beanes fol. 22. Of the Milke of Pinipinichi fol. 23. Of the Mechoacan fol. 23 Of the Quicke Sulphure fol. 30 Of Arromatike wood 31 In the second Booke OF the Tabaco fo 34 Of the Sassafras Of the Carlo Sancto fol. 57. Of saint Elens Bedes 59. Of the Guacatane fol. 60. Of the smal Barlie fol. 62. The Epistle from the Peru. fol. 64. Of the blood of Drago 71. Of the Armadilio fol. 73. Of the flower of Mechoacan fol. 75. Of the Fruite of Balsamo fol. 76. Of the long Peper fol. 77. Of the Sarcaparillia of Guaiaquil fol. 79. Of Ambar grise fol. 82. In the thirde Booke OF the Cinamon of our Indias fol. 88 Of the Ginger 89. Of the Ruibarbe of the Indias fol. 89 Of the Pinnas fol. 90 Of the Guaiauas fol. 90 Of the Cachos fol. 91 Of the flowers of blood 92 Of the Rinde of a tree for Reumes fol. 92 Of the Pacal ibid. Of the Paico ibid. Of an hearbe for the euill of the Raines ibid. Of the fruite which groweth vnder the ground 93 Of a fruite called Leucoma fol. 93 Of the washing Bead stones fol. 94 Of the Crabbes of that coūtrie fol. 94 Of the Cardones fol. 94 Of an hearbe good for them that are broken fol. 95 Of the Ueruaine fol. ibid. Of the Masluerso fol. 96 Of the wilde Lettise fol. 96 Of the licour called Ambia fol. 96 Of a Tree which sheweth whether one shall lyue or die fol. 97 Of the Granadillia fol. 97 Of the hearbe of the Sunne fol. 98 Of a Gumme that is taken out frō vnder the ground fol. 98 Of the Bezaar

stones of the Peru. fol. 98 Of the Figge trees of the Peru. fol. 100 Of the Coca fol. 100 Of the Colours of diuers groundes fol. 102 Of the Casaui fol. 103 Of the Canes for shortnesse of breath fol. 104 Of the Carlo Sancto 105 Of the Stone for the Mother fol. 105 Of Canafistola in Conserua fol. 160 Of the Balsamo of Colu. fol. 170 A Booke which treateth of two medicines most excellent agaynst all Venome which are the Bezaar stone and the Herbe Escuerconera Wherein are declared their maruellous effects great vertues with the manner how to cure the said venoms and the order which is to be vsed for to be preserued from them Where shall be seene greate secretes in medicine and many experiences Newly compyled by Doctor Monardes of Seuill 1574. Translated out of Spanish into English by Iohn Frampton 1580. eases of the bodie from the toppe of the head to the soale of the foot may be cured by the same so as no drugge in the worlde is thought to be comparable to the same The third book sheweth the mischiefes that growe by drinking of drinkes whot and what Benefite doeth followe by drinking our drinkes colde c. And Sir finding many thankfully to take my sayde former simple trauell too you heretofore dedicated and your Woorship aboue all desert of my parte too recompence the same and beyng earnestly and often exhorted by the lerned Phisitiō Maister Doctor Hector Nones to translate these said 3. Bookes also the remanent of Monardes works to make my Countrymen of England Partakers of the benefit of the same I tooke it in hand as inflamed with the great commendations that this Learned Man made of the sayde three Bookes and especially of the Booke treating of the benefite of yron and steele in phisicke And hauing now thus finished the whole work I dedicate the same to your woorship as to the man to whom I am most bound and that doeth of many best deserue the same requesting you too take it in good part to beare with the base doing of the same And calling to remembraunce of what moment in somtimes A man of value may be to a common Weale and howe common in the worlde the practize of poyson is what malice raignes now among men how needful it is that some kind of persōs should feare prouide for the worst and weying that by our Persian merchants and by other meanes the Bezaar stone this great Iewel is brought into the realme and may be compassed in this our tyme for a litle money And withal weying that Iron and steele be things tending so much to the cure of al diseases and bee the natural home commodities of England and such as are commō and that are both easily and cheaply to bee had by euery poore subiect I haue the rather for the ready benefit that might ensue taken the dispatch of the translation in hande with purpose no longer to keepe the same out of print and so I most humbly take my leaue from London the xv of Iune MDLXXX Your worships most bownden Iohn Prampton bewayle him heereof in that so little a Hearbe can offende him and so small a fruite or stone may destroy him Against al these venomes as well in general as in particular the Phisitions as wel Greekes as Arabiens Latinistes wrote effectual remedies as wel generall as particular Amongest the which they put one in practise that in tymes past was had in greate estimation and taken for a present remedie for the greate vertues and meruellous effectes which it wrought against all venoms and accidentes thereof which they called the Bezaar stone But as tyme is the discouerer of all thinges so is it the destroyer and consumer of euery thing for in hauing bene hid so long from vs wee knewe no more what the Bezaar stone was then as if it had neuer beene and the name thereof was so strange and vnknowen vnto vs euen as the Townes in Scitia Time it selfe willing to restore againe vnto vs this precious stone hidden from vs so many yeeres not onely discouered the same vnto vs but iointly therwith hath descried vnto vs an hearbe which hath the lyke vertues and effectes against all manner of venom which hearbe is called Escuerconera hauing bene discouered but a fewe yeres past to our exceeding great profit and commoditie And because these twoo thinges to wit the Bezaar stone and the Hearbe Escuerconera bee so lyke in operation and haue so many and the selfe same vertues against venom that I determined to wryte of them both together and to shewe the proper vertues of these twoo thinges so excellent in medicine it is needfull first to knowe and therefore treate of the venomes as a beginning of the woorke and to declare what Uenom is and the cause of such as haue taken Uenom and then the remedies thereof and howe they may bee preserued from them and therefore we wil treate first of Uenom for that it will serue not a little for the intent of that which we minde to write of the Bezaar stone and the Hearbe Escuerconera Uenom is a thing which beyng taken at the mouth or applied outwardly doeth ouercome our bodies by making them sicke or by corrupting of them or by killing them and this is founde in one of these foure thinges in plants in minerals in beasts or in mixtures the which worketh their effectes eyther by manifest qualitie or by hidden propertie or both These venoms partly doe kill vs partly we vse them for our profite and bodily health and partly the people of auncient tune did vse them for a remedie against their great labours That which doeth offend vs as well in generall as in particular Dioscorides in his sixth booke of his history of Plantes doeth treate of very exactly putting in generall these remedies and in particular that which is conuenient for euery one of them and the same did other Greekes Latinistes and Arabians which are to be seene who will more particularly know of them These did write of many Medicines with the which euery one may preserue themselues from poyson for the malice of mankinde is very greate and many haue procured for their interest and reuenge not onely with venome to offende and kill the common sorte of people but also Emperoures Kinges great Princes and Lords the which in how much more high estate they are appoynted and placed so much the more daunger they are in And many notable men of the olde Writers fearing this did compounde many and diuers Medicines that by meanes of them they might not bee hurte by venom or venemous thinges that might be geuen them As for example the Emperour Marco Antonio did vse suche thinges who fearing to be poysoned tooke euery morning a little Triacle and Methridate Sometimes his confection Methridatica other times certayne Leaues of Rue with Nuttes and Figges and so they did vse the like medicines because

to see what we finde written by euery one of them Amongest whom Andrewe Mathiolus of Siena a man very well learned in the Commentaries which hee wrote most learnedly vppon Dioscorides in the sixth booke declaring the Medicines that are agaynst venome by speciall propertie doeth write of the Bezaar stone very geeat vertues and doeth approoue it to be a medicine and remedie most principall that at this day is knowen in the Worlde agaynst venome and he doeth referre that as is sayd vnto the Authours which wee haue alleaged Andrewe de Laguna borne in Segouia who amongest the learned was named Galen the Spaniarde for the Commentaries which he made vpon the sixth book of Dioscorides in the Spanish tongue where he treateth of venomes he sheweth how present a remedie the Bezaar stone is agaynst all kinde of venome and agaynst the bytinges of venomous beastes and agaynst pestilent Agewes of euill qualitie and also that it is a greate remedie agaynst the falling sickenesse that it doeth expell the stone of the Raynes and beeyng geuen with Wyne it breaketh the stone in the Bladder There hee noteth howe this Stone is engendred in certayne Goates of the Mountaynes of Persia and howe the stones that are the best bee bright and skaley and softe of the colour of a Fruite of Spaine called Beringena which is a remedie muche commended amongest Princes and great lords for the effects aforesaide Valescus de Taranto a Phisition and borne in Milan the scholler of Tornamira in the 7. booke of his experiments praiseth very much this Bezaar stone to be of great force against venom and other diseases for his effectes and for the great fame that was of his woorkes in this tyme against al venom Saint Ardonius of Pesauris Phisition in a booke which hee made of venomes exceedingly prayseth the Bezaar stone preferreth it before all other medicines as wel simples as compoundes which haue vertue against venom or by●inges of venomous beastes and sayeth that hee sawe it and prooued it by great experience Amato Lucitano a learned man of our tyme being now resident in Ragosa in his commentaries which hee wrote vppon Dioscorides in the seconde booke of Ceruigenitale did treate of this Bezaar stone very learnedly as a man of Portingal who did much enforme himselfe of those of his nation that came from the East India and he sayeth that the Bezaar stone is of the making of an acorne full of spottes declining to the colour of a sad blewe compounded with many shales the which they call Bezaar as a present remedie against al maner of venom and they take them out of certaine beastes which are lyke to wilde hartes that are in the East India and are called goates of the mountaines they are founde in their bowelles and inner partes of the which being giuē 3. graynes with the waters of the flowers of Orenges it is the present remedy against all Uenom killing and extinguishing the venomes and force thereof it killeth the wormes giuē with water of Verdolagas where the feuer is and where there is no feuer with whyte wine he saieth that he hath experience and hath cured therewith the plu●esie being very sore rooted it is conuenient that it be giuen to them that haue taken venom in vomittes and it wil expel the venom and being giuen to them that haue vomitted of beastes speaking of the goate doeth much commend this Bezaar stone to be against al venō Other authors there be that make mention of this stone but they passe it lightly ouer only praysing it to be good against venom in generall and in particular the which at this present I lightly passe ouer for it is sufficiently spoken of by those before rehearsed wherby it may haue authoritie with al those that therof wil profite themselues That which I haue seene by experience I wil now speake of for the more confirmation of the sayde cause and of the meruellous vertues which it hath wherby it may bee vnderstoode what is written by these authors aforesayd with manifest examples It is about 14. yeres past that my Lady the Duches of B●jar was aduertised by the Lorde don Iohn Mauriques that in the Court was vsed for such as did sound a stone that was called the Bezaar for that my Lady the Duches had a sonne very sicke of the sayde disease wel neere since the tyme of his byrth and shee beeing desirous of his health did procure to know what remedy might be had and seeing the ordinary remedies of Phisicke which they had ministred vnto him beeing many and diuers by the wysest Phisitions of Spayne and yet not preuailed any thing and hearing of the greate vertue of this Bezaar stone they had communication with mee thereof yet was it to mee somewhat straunge for that I had no other knowledge thereof then by bookes and I thought that it had not beene in these partes then I requested that the stone might be sent for being desirous to ease this Lorde for his vertues deserued the same and his great knowledge in al kinde of learning and in al things that a noble man might haue knowledge in as also to see the stone which was a thing of mee much desired The stone was sent for to Lishebron by meanes of a Genoues and there was brought twoo of them very fayre wrought in gold and eche of them as great as a Date stone and somewhat greater of colour greene and blackishe lyke to a Beringena which is a fruit of Spayne and the stone being brought not a little to our contentment euery one gaue their iudgement it was agreed that at such time as he should sownde it shoulde presently be giuen him and the sownding being come in the euening hee toke foorth with the appointed order which was brought from the court that hee should take foorthwith the waight of three graines of the pouder of the stone and it should bee cast in water of Oxetongue so much as might be sufficient for him and so it was done Opening his mouth hee swallowed it downe the which he did with much difficultie within the space of halfe a quarter of an houre after hee had taken it hee recouered as easilie as though hee had not had it And seeing the vertue that was in the stone wee did esteeme it much and the more for that wee sawe that euery tyme it toke him he came to himselfe so easily and when he toke not the stone the sounding did continue long and hee returned from it with greate paynes and in long tyme it seased not but when the stone was giuen him he came quickly to himselfe and with greate easinesse as though he had not had any sownding at all My Lady the Duches caried the stone in her purse and had the quantitie that he shoulde take alwayes in a readinesse bycause when the sownding came to him it might bee giuen him with more speede bycause hee shoulde not bee long