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A01847	A short discourse of the three kindes of peppers in common vse and certaine special medicines made of the same, tending to the preseruation of health.	Baley, Walter, 1529-1592.	1588 (1588)	STC 1199; ESTC S100520	16,124	46

A Short Discourse of the three kindes of PEPPERS in common vse and certaine special medicines made of the same tending to the preseruation of health 1588 AS in former yeeres at this season I haue been alwaies careful to shew my special affection towards 〈…〉 by offering som present appertaining to the preseruatiō of your health so at this time 〈…〉 in token of a good and prosperous newe yeere God grant you many I haue emboldened my selfe to exhibite to 〈…〉 in our vulgar toong this short discourse of the three kindes of Peppers and of three medicines cōpounded of the same greatly commended by Galen in his books De sanitate tuenda which being vsed in right order with discretion will vndoubtedly bring three waies commoditie to the continuance of your heath For it is certaine that most men in this our countrey through our maner of feeding do gather in the stomacke and in the first veines many crude and vndigested humours which do often occasion lacke of appetite grosse windines distentions in the sides and many waies greeuous paines and sometimes vnnaturall vomits which crudities carried farther into the body doo breede obstructions tympanies feuers and other dangerous diseases The due consideration hereof may easily inferre how necessary to health in this our region the vse of pepper is and what commodity may accrew by conuenient vse of the three medicines made thereof For first the medicine termed diatrion pipereon by consent of all writers hath facultie to warme the stomacke to dry superfluous moisture to further concoction to discusse winde to ripen crude humours and is cōmended aboue all other medicaments that in performing of these actions it doth no way ouer-heate the liuer nor distemper the bloud The second medicine termed diaspoliticon keepeth the belly loose and doth carry by the stoole crude corrupt and naughtie humours cut grosse and thicke phlegme keepeth cleane the belly and guts The third medicine termed diacalaminthe hauing more subtiltie in substance doth penetrate farther and so doth concoct and expell not onely the crudities of the belly and of the first veines but also doth digest extenuate discusse and by vrine carieth the excrementes of the inner veines clenseth the bloud and keepeth clean the habite of the body by sweate and perspiration through the skin That in very truth Galen had iust cause so greatly to commende these three medicines as most conuenient to preserue health For I do not reade in all our authors of a more conuenient meanes to continue health than the apte and due vse of these three medicines which in propulsing of diseases and in reforming of the state of the body may be resembled to the triumuiri in the common-wealth of Rome Wherefore I remaine to the almightie a daily orator so to prosper the effects of these medicines that the same commodities may come vnto your 〈…〉 which our authors do attribute vnto them that your yeeres may be inlarged to extreame age * ⁎ * Of the Spice called Pepper THAT kind of spice which of the Greeke authors is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Latin writers do name Piper and the apothecaries do terme the same as the Latinists After the Arabike speech in Auicen it is read Fulful in Serapio Fulfel Garcia a physician to the viceroy of India doth write that the Arabians in these daies do call it Fulfil and he addeth that the greatest quantitie of this spice is nowe brought into Europe out of the prouince of Malauar and that the same is in that countrie language named Molonga We in English do call it pepper and much vse of this spice with vs is in making broths and in conditing meates The kinds of Pepper HEer it is to be noted that many herbs of our writers are termed by the name of pepper For the herbe called in Latin Persicaria in English Culrage is of some named water pepper The seede also of the herbe called Chamelea is knowen to the herbarians by the name of hil pepper Likewise the herbe which we call Stonecrop is also named mouse pepper And som do cal diptander herbe pepper and some sauery pepperwort So the latter writers shew many other herbs vnder the name of pepper and vnder pepperwort For they refer to pepper euery kind of herbe which doth bite the toong as pepper doth And beside the three kindes of pepper which are best knowen by that name we do read in the latter writers of some other kinds vnder that name and so we read of pepper out of Aethiopia which is of the learned rather referred to that spice which is called Carpesium than to any kind of pepper But properly and in true speech this word in Latin Piper and in English pepper is to be vnderstood of one of the three peppers in common vse of which one is named white pepper the other blacke pepper the third long pepper Of the which three kinds and not of the other things falsly named peppers that confection so greatly commended in cold affections of the stomack called Diatrion pipereon is made and kept in our Apothecaries shops So that these three kindes of peppers most properly do deserue the name of pepper and are so most conueniently called and the other things are rather by similitude so termed for yeelding some taste like pepper and therfore neuer knowen by the name of pepper without some addition as Piper montanum Piper murinum c. So that when we do read in any author this word Piper or in English pepper without addition we must vnderstand the same of one of these three peppers The nauigations in these latter yeeres made by the Portingales into the east Indians and by the Spaniards into the west Indians hath made manifest to vs how greatly the old authors I meane Dioscorides Galen Plinie Auicenna Serapio and other writers of the former time were deceiued in and about the historie of pepper For first all the ancient writers in their monuments haue deliuered to vs that the three kindes of pepper in common vse are all three the fruit of one tree For say they the pepper tree doth bear a long fruit like vnto that which doth hang in hasell nut trees and birch trees And they affirme that this long fruit is the first rudiment of the pepper which is called long pepper after that this fruit being more ripe is disclosed they take the seeds contained in it to be the white pepper the blacke pepper such graines which are not perfectly ripe they supposed to be white pepper and those which are perfectly ripe to be blacke pepper So they concluded that these three kinds were all the fruit of one tree and differed only in that one was not so ripe as the other But by the nauigations of the Portingals and of the Spaniards into those countries in which these pepper trees do growe it is euident and well knowen that the trees which do yeeld these three spices are diuers in kind For the trauellers into those

not haue this medicine often vsed after meate In the medicine called Diaspoliticō al the simples must be pounded in grosse maner for so the medicine will more loose the belly and by staieng longer in the stomack further concoction if the things be finely powdered into dust as the medicine will little or not at all make the belly laxatiue so it will prouoke vrine and sweate to the intention of this medicine The like manner is to be obserued in confecting of Diatrion pipereon that if an intent be to haue the medicine stay in the stomacke and guts to warme those parts to digest crude humours in them or to loose the belly the simples must be pounded grossely but if we haue a purpose to open obstructions to warme the inner veines to prouoke vrine or sweate althings must be beaten into fine powder By which discourse that question is easily answered which some latter writers do moue about the beating of the kindes of pepper whether the same ought to be beaten finely or grosly For some do affirme that pepper is alwaies to be beaten grosly for so it will remaine longer time in the stomacke and will the lesse heate the liuer and the blood Some other doo maintaine a contrary opinion and that by Galen himselfe who in the 5. booke De sanit tuend cap. 8. After meats which do bread stoppages in the body take saith he the medicine called Diacalaminthe and if you haue not it ready take Diatrion pipereon and if that be not at hand take white pepper beaten into fine powder diligently sersed mingle the same with the meate and sprinkle it to your drinke And in the same booke the 10. cap. Galen prescribeth a ptisane in which the dust or fine powder of white pepper is mingled And in the 6. booke De sanit tuend cap. 14. Galen giueth pepper alone as finely powdered as may be By these counsels of Galen these men do conclude that pepper ought alway to be beaten into fine powder by Galens doctrine Neuerthelesse these men in mine opinion do not with diligent care cōsider Galens intention in these and the like places neither well haue marked the scope and cause why Galen in these places doth aduise to pound pepper into fine powder for if they had well considered that Galen writeth they might haue vnderstood that he giueth pepper so finely beaten to remoue the obstructions and stoppages for so before he did admonish that things beaten into thin powder passe into the body better and sooner do remoue obstructions and contrariwise that which is grosly beaten doth stay in the belly longer and better warme those parts better digest crude and rawe humors gathered in them and do more effectually discusse wind to these latter intents pepper is to be beaten grosly especially in this our country in which men commonly do seed vpon grosse and slimy meats and so do heape in the parts of the belly and first veines manie crude and grosse humors that pepper ought in this region to be beaten most grosly that it may therby be occasioned to stay the longer in the belly so to warme the same the better and the better to concoct and extenuate such grosse and crude humors for the heat of this medicine as Galen writeth is founded in so subtil a substāce that the same is extinguished before it can come to the liuer then if you shall beate the medicine finely the heate wil so soone be exhausted and spent that it will neither sufficiently warme the belly neither in good sort concoct those crude and rawe humors Wherefore I do thinke it verie needfull for our apothecaries to pownd pepper alway grosly in the medicine Diatrion pipereon For if we shall need withall to open obstructions we may prescribe the medicine called Diacalaminthe and so we may mingle it to Diatrion pipereon or as occasion serueth giue it alone wherefore I hold it best to follow Galen his precept which is that alway things be powdered finely and in subtill manner when our purpose is to remoue obstructions or to digest cut and absterge crude rawe slimy and grosse humors which are in the inner veines and habite of the body or meane to prouoke sweat or vrine but if our meaning be to increase heate in the parts of the belly to concoct humors there and in the first veines or to make the bellie loose then things are to be beaten in grosse powder The priuate properties of the medicine called Diaspoliticon THis medicine doth make the bellie loose and bringeth out meate which corrupteth in the stomacke and is speciall good for them which haue a cold bellie or declining to cold For it maketh thinne grosse phlegme and expelleth flatulent winde See Galen in the fourth booke De sanitate tuenda The particular faculties and properties of Diatrion Pipereon DIatrion pipereon is of great efficacie and doth much good in all colde diseases of the stomacke in sower belkes in quartaine feauers in palsies in euill affected liuers in them which haue their bellies blowen vp with winde Diatrion pipereon confected after the description of Mesues is chiefly commended in fluxes from the head to the breast good generally to the coldnes of the cheste and to coughes which do proceed of a colde cause That the excellent and rare vertues of this medicine called Diatrion pipereon might the better be known I thought good in this place to remember the reader what is written in the booke intituled Secretorum which booke is ascribed to Galen in which booke we reade in this maner A certaine friend of mine being about the age of 70. yeeres complained of a coldnes in all the parts of the bodie insomuch that his memorie failed him and he had paine in his ioints and then I made for him this medicine called Diatrion pipereon and it was a wonder to see how he recouered in the space of a fortnight And I made triall in many which were sicke of diseases of the bladder of the heade and of the iointes occasioned by colde and crude humors and it is found speciall good in a cough of cold phlegme in weakenes of the stomacke For it breaketh grosse winde digesteth meat prouoketh appetite resolueth crude humours strengtheneth the stomacke euerie way restoreth memory cleareth the voice putteth backe grey heares remedieth the goute which commeth of a colde cause And in generall whosoeuer aged doth vse much this medicine he shall not need any other helpe to preserue his health The priuate properties of the medicine called Diacalaminthe IT cutteth grosse and slimy humors and occasioneth the same to be clensed by the skin by sweate prouoketh vrine and the monthly courses in women as Galen witnesseth in the 4. booke De sanit tuend it is good for them which do abhor meat for the vse of it prouoketh appetite it remedieth the shortnes of breath and helpeth them which finde a coldnes in their stomacks and which haue their sides and bellies blowen vp with winde as