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A09763	The historie of the vvorld: commonly called, The naturall historie of C. Plinius Secundus. Translated into English by Philemon Holland Doctor of Physicke. The first [-second] tome; Naturalis historia. English	Pliny, the Elder.; Holland, Philemon, 1552-1637.	1634 (1634)	STC 20030; ESTC S121936	2,464,998	1,444

costly dames here And verily among them their Wisards Southsaiers Priests Prophets haue a religious opinion of them and attribute great holinesse to the vse thereof as being persuaded that whoeuer weare them shall be secured against all perils and dangers whatsoeuer and therefore a speciall reckoning they make of them as wel in regard of beautie as deuotion Before that it was known in what estimation Coral was with the Indians the Frenchmen adorned set out their swords targuets shields morrions and head peeces therewith But since time that there was a vent into India of this commoditie so vendible great searsitie there is of it and hardly shall a man meet with any Corall euen in that part of the world where it growes naturally The branches of Corall hanged about the neckes of infants and young children are thought to be a sufficient preseruatiue against all witheraft and sorcerie Calcined by fire and so reduced into ashes or pouder and giuen to drinke in water it helpeth those who are troubled with the wringing paines of the belly the griefe of the bladder and the disease of the stone The like effect it hath if it be drunk in wine or if the patient haue a feauer vpon him in water for to procure sleep This would be noted that Corall doth withstand the power of fire and long it is before it be burned and reduced into ashes But surely a singular medicine it is so prepared and vsed insomuch as by report if a man keepe to it still and continue it long the same will consume the hardnesse and schirrositie of the spleen The pouder of Corall is soueraign for such as reach and cast vp bloud at the mouth The ashes enter into many mixtures and medicines for the eies for astringent they be and cooling withall Hollow vlcers and fistulaes they incarnat and fill vp againe with new flesh Skars and cicatrices they do extenuat If I should speak of the repugnancie and contrariety in Nature which the Greekes call antipathie found in many creatures there is not to be seen in the whole world any thing more venomous and aduerse to plants than the Puffens or Forke fish of the sea called Pastinaca for as I heretofore noted it hath a pricke in the tail which is able to kill any trees that be pierced or wounded withall And yet a concurrent and enemie this hath which doth persecute plague it and namely the Lamprey called Galeos so eager is it and greedy of the venome and poyson of that fish There be other fishes also which it pnrsueth but those Puffins especially and no Weazill hunteth more after serpents In summe whosoeuer be hurt or wounded by the said Pussin this Galeos is a present remedy so is the Barble also and the gum Laser or Benjoin CHAP. III. ¶ Of certaine creatures which liue as well vpon the land as the sea Of Castoreum or the genetoirs of a Bever the medicinable vertues thereof and other properties obserued therein THe power and majestie of Nature is very conspicuous and visible euen in those creatures also which liue indifferently on land and in the water and namely in the Beuers which commonly the physicians call Castores like as their stones also Castorea Some hold that these Beuers when they be neer driuen and pressed by hunters and at the point to be taken bite off their owne stones But Sextius who hath written most exactly in Physicke denieth it flatly He saith moreouer that these cods be small knit short and trussed vp so as they stick close vnto the chine bone and canot possibly be taken from the beast but the life goes away withall By his saying also they are sophisticated and the kidnies of the Beuer which are big be obtruded and foisted to vs many times in stead of their stones which indeed are neuer found but very little slender Furthermore he affirmeth That they be not the right stones of a Beuer when they are seene without a twofold burse or skin which no liuing creature hath besides In these two bags there is found saith he a certain oleous liquor which ordinarily is kept preserued with salt And therefore among other marks to know false and sophisticat Castoreum is this If you see a paire of cods hanging as it were knit together by one string in one bag And yet the best may be falsified by the fraud and cunning of such as put gum therto with salt Ammoniack because the true Beuers stones ought to beare the colour of Ammoniacke to be enclosed also within their seuerall tunicles and to lie in a certaine liquor resembling cereous hony standing much vpon wax to haue a strong and rank smell a bitter hot and fiery tast and withall apt to crumble between the fingers The best Castoreum most effectuall is brought out of Pontus and Galatia next to it is that of Affrick or Barbarie The vertue of Castoreum is to prouoke sneesing if a man hold it to his nose and smell thereto If the head be annointed with Castoreum incorporat with oile of roses and Harstrang it will procure sleep so will it do alone by it selfe giuen in water to drinke in which respect proper it is for the frensie And yet the perfume or vapor thereof will raise those that lie in a sleepy lethergie like a suffumigation or pessarie put vp into the natural parts of women is soueraign for the rising of the mother in which fit they lie as it were in a trance and out of the world Costoreum giuen to the weight of two drams with Peniroyall in water to drink moueth womens monthly sicknes and forceth the afterbirth to com away It helpeth those that haue the dizzinesse or swimming of the braine bee drawne backeward with cramps tremble and shake are plucked with spasmes and convulsions diseased in their sinews troubled with the Sciatica sick of a weak and feeble stomacke that keepeth nothing which it takes and lie bed-rid of the palsie if they be annointed throughly therewith in parts conuenient Or if Castoreum be reduced into pouder and together with the seed of Agnus Castus be incorporat with vineger or oile rosat and so reduced to the consistence of hony which being taken as an electuarie is singular not only for the former maladies but also for the falling sicknes and if the same be giuen in drink it discusseth ventosities appeaseth the wrings and torments of the belly yea and represseth the malice of any poisons But in this case of poisons it ought to be prepared mixed and vsed diuersly according to the sundry kinds thereof for against the venome of scorpions it would be drunk in meere wine to withstand the danger of the Phalangia and such venomous spiders it ought to be giuen in honied wine especially if the intention bee to cast vp the said poysons by vomit or with Rue if the drift and purpose be to hold and retain all still To preuent the perill of the Lizards or venomous wormes

were Consuls by most voices surpasses in this kind if it be true that a number of men report of him namely that he serued in 120 foughten fields 8 times maintained combate with his enemy giuing defiance and euermore got the vpper hand carrying before him the glorious markes of 45 skarres receiued by wounds and neuer a one in the backe parts of his body Moreouer he woon the spoile of 34 seuerall enemies and had giuen him of his captains for his prowesse and good seruice 18 headlesse speares 25 caparisons and furnitures of great horses 83 chains 160 bracelets for to adorne his arms 26 crowns or triumphant chaplets whereof 14 were ciuick for rescuing of Roman citizens in jeopardy of death 8 of beaten gold 3 other murall for mounting first ouer the enemies wall and last of all one obsidionall for enforcing the enemy to leuie and breake vp his siege and depart also with a stipend or pension-fee out of the Exchequer chamber of the city and lastly the prise or ransom of ten prisoners with 20 oxen besides to make vp the reward and in this glorious pompe and shew he followed nine captain Generals going before him who by his means triumphed all Ouer and besides which I suppose was the worthiest act that euer he did he accused in open court before the body of the people one commander and great captaine named T. Romulus notwithstanding he had bin a Consul and conuicted him for his ill management and conduct of the wars As for Manlius Capitolinus he wan as many honourable testimonies of valour but that he lost them all again with that vnhappy end of his life that he made Before he was full 17 yeres of age hee had gained already two complete spoiles of his enemies He was the first Roman knight or man of armes that was honored with a murall crowne of gold for scaling ouer the wall in an assault with six ciuicke chaplets for sauing the life of citizens six times out of the enemies hands Moreouer he receiued 37 gifts of the people for his good seruice and carried the skars in the fore-part of his body of 33 wounds He rescued P. Seruilius Generall of the Roman Cauallerie in the rescue was himselfe wounded for his labor in shoulder and thigh both Aboue all other hardy acts he alone guarded and defended the Capitoll and thereby the whole State of Rome against the Gaules a braue piece of seruice but that he marred all againe in aspiring to be king ouer the same In these aboue rehearsed examples certes vertue hath carried a great stroke but yet fortune hath been the mightier and preuailed more in the end And in my iudgement verily none may right iustly prefer any man before M. Sergius albeit Catiline his nephewes son discredited that name of his derogated much from the honor of his house The second time that he went into the field and serued his had was to lose his right hand and in two other seruices hee was wounded no fewer than 23 times by meanes whereof hee had little vse of either hand and his feet stood him in no great stead Howbeit thus maimed and disabled as hee was for to be a souldiour hee went many a time after to the warres attended with one slaue onely and performed his deuoire Twise was he taken prisoner by Annibal for he dealt not I may tell you with ordinary enemies and twise brake he prison and made escape notwithstanding that for twentie moneths space he was euery day ordinarily kept bound with chaines and fetters Foure times fought hee with his left hand onely vntill two horses one after another were killed vnder him Then hee made himselfe a right hand of yron which he fastened to his arme and fighting with the help of it he raised the siege from before Cremona and saued Placentia In France he forced 12 fortified camps of the enemies All which exploits appeare vpon record in that Oration of his which he made in his Pretorship at what time as his Colleagues and companions in gouernement would not permit him to be at the solemne sacrifices because he had a maim and wanted a lim But what heaps of crowns and chaplets thinke you would he haue gathered together if he had bin committed and matched with any other enemies but Annibal Certes to know a man of worth indeed much materiall it is to consider in what time hee liueth and is imploied for the proofe of his valour For what store of ciuick coronets and garlands yeelded either the battell of Trebia and Ticinus or of Thrasymenus the lake What crowne could haue bin gained and woon at the iourney of Cannae where the best seruice was by good footmanship to flie run away To conclude all others may vaunt verily that they haue vanquished men but Sergius may boast that he hath conquered and ouercome euen Fortune her selfe CHAP. XXIX ¶ The commendation of some men for their quicke wits WHo is able to make a muster as it were of them that haue been excellent in wit so difficult a matter it is to run through so many kinds of sciences and to take a suruey of curious handi-workes in such varietie of most rare and singular artisanes Vnlesse haply we agree vpon this and say that Homer the Greeke poet excelled all other considering either the subiect matter or the happy fortune of his worke And hereupon it was that Alexander the Great for in this so proud a censure and comparison I shal do best to cite the iudgment of the highest and of those that be not subiect to enuie hauing found among the spoils of Darius the king his perfumier or casket of sweet ointments and the same richly imbellished with gold and costly pearls and precious stones when his friends about him shewed him many vses whereto the said coffer or cabinet might be put vnto considering that Alexander himself could not away with those delicate perfumes being a warriour and slurried with bearing armes and following warfare when I say his gallants about him could not resolue well what seruice to put it to himselfe made no more ado but said thus I will haue it to serue for a case of Homers bookes judging hereby that the most rare and precious worke proceeding from that so admirable a wit of man should be bestowed and kept in the richest box and casket of all others the same prince in the forcing and saccage of the citie of Thebes caused by expresse commandement That the dwelling house whole family of Pindarus the Poet should be spared He built againe the natiue city wherein Aristotle the Philosopher was borne and in so glorious a shew of his other worthy deeds would needs intermingle this testimony of his bounty in regard of that rare clerke who gaue light to all things in the world The murderers of Archilochus the poet the very Oracle of Apollo at Delphi disclosed and reuealed When Sophocles the prince of all tragicall Poets was dead in