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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11815	Naturall philosophy, or, A description of the world, namely, of angels, of man, of the heauens, of the ayre, of the earth, of the water and of the creatures in the whole world.; Rerum naturalium doctrina methodica. English	Scribonius, Wilhelm Adolf, fl. 1576-1583.; Widdowes, Daniel.; Wydowes, I.	1621 (1621)	STC 22111; ESTC S971	34,963	68

are best Of the blacke pith is made a good and gentle purgation called Cassia extract This helpeth much against fevers and many other diseases if one ounce of it be taken with as much Rose water Shrubs lesse Noble The Hasell is an high shrub with a slender stalke and full of white spots His leaues are broader and haue more gashes then the Alder. The tree beareth the Filberd and the Nut these Nuts are hot and moyst make fat but hurt the stomach and procure a laske If stamped in water and sugar they be applyed they helpe an old cough The Ashes burnt with Swines or Boares grease and applyed to the head causeth the hayre to grow The Elderne hath boughs of an Ash coullour and in it is store of pith and his leaues are much like to those of the Wal-nut tree it beareth purple berries hauing red iuyse Dwarfe Elderne is low and short with a foure-square stalke these plants are hot and dry and haue power to purge and digest Also it healeth and closeth the roote or leaues of Elder sod in wine purge the dropsie and nothing is more effectual to that purpose then the roote of Dwarfe Elderne Water in which the leaues of Elderne are sod helpe to rid the dry cough The Pitch or an electuary of the berries expelleth sweat and all poyson Barberryes are not much vnlike the wilde Peare although they be farre lesse and in the boughes some two or three prickes grow together His leafe is like Quince leaues but narrower Barberries be hot and dry in the second degree The iuyse of the berryes profitteth against the inflamation of the liuer as also against inward impostumes·if it be applied with night shade it quencheth thirst The barke of his roote or fruit stamped plucketh out a thing fast in the flesh his syrrope tempered with sugar comforteth the hart restoreth appetite profiteth against burning Feuers all inward diseases of much bloud The small Raisin hath purple boughes and pampin leaues but lesse and of blackish greene It hath round red berries vpon long stalkes his fruit and leaues are colde and dry in the second degree hauing power to close The iuyse of the fruit taken helpeth against trembling of the heart and inflamations of the bodie but chiefly it helpeth the plague his iuyse with Endiue water profiteth to remoue specks of the face The Rose groweth vp with small twigs of a black greene full of crooked prickes his leaues are dented on the edge his fruit namely Roses be of diuerse coullours All Roses be colde and dry and helpe both inward and outward affections of the bodie The iuyse sod in Wine helpeth griefes of the head eyes and gums Honey and Rose water strengthen all parts and purge melancholy and fleame sodden with Fennell and Salt his oyle healeth burnings and layed on the forehead taketh away heauinesse and hot sicknesses The funge of wilde Rose trees in powder with wine expelleth the stone Water of Roses helpeth sore eyes comforteth and cooleth the braine it being drunke relieueth the heart and stomach it keepeth the spirits and naturall heate The Bramble is full of prickes and crawleth about the leaues of sweete bryer on the one side are white on the other blacke his fruit is the blacke berry full of iuyse the berry is dry colde and close His fruit leaues or sprouts quench inward heate The top of his leaues sod in Wine stay the bloudie flixe helpe vlcers of the mouth and fasten loose teeth Poterion vua crispa Gooseberries is full of boughs hath ash coulloured barke or white full of sharpe thornes his leaues are lesse then ground Ivie and crooked his berries from greene turne to redish it is cold in the first dry in the second degree his greene leaues cure inflamations and apostumes and asswage Ignis sacer Colutea in leafe not vnlike to Fengreke hath a round fruit as big as a Lentle in a puffed shell It is hot in the beginning of the second degree and dry in the first it purgeth the panch scoureth away chiefly melancholy without trouble from the head braine and the Instruments of the senses Thus farre of·Plants growing from a trunke or stalke c. Now follow Herbes which haue but a thin small stalke consisting most vpon leaues These doe nourish more or lesse as Corne and Pot-herbes which nourish more Wheate is a kinde of Corne hauing an eare vpon the blade stuffed with many graynes it is moderately hot and dry and of much nourishment and helpefull for many diseases aswell within as without the body the best is hard to breake heauie and of gold cullour smooth and growing in fat ground Leauen of Wheate doth draw ripen and open vlcers and apostumes Bisket profitteth against rhume Barley is cold and dry in the second degree and purgeth His floure and new milke in plaster cure Biles and such tumors by easing their paine and drawing forth heate Bread made of it begetteth cold and slimie humours and nourisheth lesse then wheat Barley water maketh the skin faire and smooth Spelte or Zea is of a middle temperature betweene Wheate and Barley it is a kinde of Wheate and commonly goeth vnder that name Rye is not so hot as Wheate and hurteth much except it be well disgested Oates are colder then Wheate and of operation almost like Barley Now follow of Pulse Millet is a most fertill Pulse with sharpe leaues broad below and sharpe towardes the toppe his cod hath in it around long fruit It is colde in the first and dry in the third degree it stoppeth the belly and nourisheth but little Rize is smaller then Millet and farre lesse it groweth in moyst and watry places it bindeth Lentells grow like small pease and haue a vertue to binde Pease are either of the field or garden bearing a white or a purple flower Beanes are meanely colde and moyst inflaming windie hard to disgest Now follow Pot-herbes Coleworts haue very broad leaues which enclosing one another round about become Cabbedges These be colde and moyst and in Egypt be very bitter The Romanes for the space of six hundred yeares vsed this onely herbe to cure all diseases His broath expelleth the stone and grauell his leaues applyed by themselues or with the flowers cure inflamations his iuyse healeth festred sores it cureth the falling of the haire Broath made of his leaues with an olde Cocke cureth the Collicke and other gripings Spinagh hath an high stalke and beareth sharpe seedes his leaues being sharpe and triangular it is colde and moyst in the first degree His iuyse expelleth hurtfull rhume It mollifieth the belly and cureth hardnesse of the backe and belly His Iuyse taketh away the paine and heate of the stomacke and liuer it helpeth the byting of Spiders Lettise hath his leaues gathered into a curled roundnesse that which groweth in the field hath a shorter stalke and leafe then Garden Lettise being bitter and full of milke It is moderately moyst and colde like Spring water it is wholesome

in Summer to restore appetite to meate Yet too much of it hurteth the eyes and boyld with womans milke cureth burnings Beetes haue two coullours the one white the other blacke and red both of them for their salt disgest and cleanse but the white is more salt and bindeth yet being boyled it looseneth It cureth obstructions of the liuer especially if it be taken with vinegar and mustard It also cureth those that be sicke of the splene Purslaine hath round thicke fat and white leaues on the backe a red stalke yellow flowers like a Starre They of the Garden haue broad leaues and a thicke stalke the wilde lesser and more leaues It is colde in the first and moyst in the second degree it is tart his iuyse helpeth a hot stomacke and hot diseases it being somewhat binding helpeth fluxes and euacuations of bloud if it be vsed with Barley flower Garden Mallowes grow with a round leafe and high stalke his flowers be red or white wilde Mallowes mollifie and a little digest Garden are moyst and weaker The decoction of Mallowes drunke cureth an old cough his leaues sod and vsed with common oyle heale burning The Onion hath a subtell stalke round and hollow arising from a round roote wound about with many fouldings it is hot almost in the fourth degree it is of thicke partes his iuyse is a dry substance and hot An Onion all night layd in colde water and drunke killeth wormes and being beaten with salt it draweth away warts by the rootes his iuyse put in the eare cureth deafenesse The Leeke groweth almost like Onions and is of the same qualitie it doth dissolue swellings and congealed bloud being applyed like a Plaster Parsley hath leaues like Cycuta it is hot and dry in the third degree it peirceth and dissolueth prouoking vrine the seed is more effectuall then the herbe It dissolueth the stone it consumeth ill moysture and sores of the head These herbes following are vsed for Garlands or physicke some of them smelling sweetly The Violet hath leaues lesser and thinner then Ivie but more blacke his stalke commeth from the midst of his roote beareth a purple flower and a seed full of graynes It springeth in woods and shadowie places wilde but not sweete it is colde in the first and moyst in the second and cooleth hot diseases and inflamations Of it there be diuers kindes and cullors as the Pancey or Harts-ease The Daisie hath leaues somewhat round aboue and small below and the roote in the ground wheeling about it is colde in the second degree The Ielly-flowre hath sharpe leaues growing like grasse with flowers of sundry coullours it hath an attractiue force and the iuyse healeth wounds in the head Maioram hath almost a woodden stalke with many rough round leaues and it smelleth sweetly It is hot and dry in the fourth degree it is of thin parts and of a disgesting facultie It healeth disgesteth and prouoketh vrine Rosemary is hot and dry in the third degree and smelleth like Frankincense It mollifieth disgesteth and dryeth Spicknard is hot in the first and dry in the second degree Lauender heateth and dryeth in the second degree White Daffodill is hot and dry It is of diuerse kindes Rose Campion is an herbe with an Ash coulloured stalke as it were cotton long leaued and white bearing purple flowers growing vp like the Prim-rose his seede is hot and dry almost in the second degree it preuaileth against the stinging of Scorpions Herbes vsed in medicine are Aromatike or ordinary Aromatike doe comfort and strengthen the spirits Thence they take their name Saffron is hot in the second and dry in the first degree it a little bindeth and concocteth it may with good keeping be preserued fiue yeares It comforteth the heart and stomacke it maketh pure bloud and prouoketh vrine it scowreth the brest it is deadly if it be taken too much Ginger waxeth greene twise or thrise in the yeare it heateth in the third and is moyst in the first it is of more subtell parts then Pepper Zadury or Wormeseede heateth and dryeth in the second degree it is that we doe call the roote of China like Ginger but not so biting Gallingall is the roote of a plant growing in Memphis and Syria it groweth like the flouredeluce but with prickes and is broader and thicker from the roote It is hot and dry in the third degree as is the roote of Cyprus Callamus Aromaticus is an herbe of India growing like reeds or figs. It is hot and dry in the second degree and a little binding Acorus is a plant growing with leaues like Iris but smaller or like segges the roote is white sweetly smelling It is hot and dry in the second degree There be sexes of Herbes as of other liuing things some of which more helpe namely the Male or Female according to their kindes A Feeling soule is a power apprehending and perceiuing things placed without the bodie of liuing creatures This facultie is exercised by the sences and by motion accompanying the sences The sences are outward or inward The outward onely perceiue things present And euery one of these haue their proper subiect and the most haue a middle instrument of all which if there be a certaine mutuall consent and iust proportion the sences become of morce force but if any one of them haue too excellent an obiect or his instrument be corrupt they are dull and vnfit to be vsed This is the cause of blindnes to those that walke in snow and of deafenesse vnto Smithes c. Furthermore sences are common to the whole bodie or proper to some part thereof The sence in the whole bodie is touching This is a sence by meanes of flesh full of sinewes apprehending tactill qualities His instrument is flesh full of sinewes or rather a nerue like a hayre dispersed throughout the whole bodie In man for the aboundance of nerues is this sence most quicke his meanes is flesh and skin for though the skin be remoued yet a man feeleth hurt Sences of certaine partes are more or lesse noble The nobler are Seeing and Hearing whose meanes are the water and ayre Sight by the eye perceiueth bright and colloured things The subiect thereof is light c. Greene a most temperate coullour is most acceptable to the sight His instrument is the Nerue Optick which from the braine cometh to both the eyes Hearing is a sence perceiuing soundes his instrument is a little skin in the lowest winding or turning of the eare dry and full of holes the skin is double one below which couereth a little bone like an Anvile Another aboue containing a little bone as it were a small Mallet The vpper striken by the soundes striketh the lower and stirreth vp the spirits in the nerues to perceiue the sound The more vn-noble sences are Tasting and Smelling Tasting apprehendeth tastes His instrument is a nerue stretched like a Net vpon the flesh of the tong which is full of little pores His meanes

vnable in the bodie to afflict it It is good for sore eyes for the stone and falling sicknesse Asbestos is of an Iron coullour being once fired it cannot be quenched It is found in Arabia Magnes or Loadstone is of a skie coullour or an Iron coullour It draweth Iron It hath like vertue with the Adamant It purgeth the dropsie helpeth the flux respecteth the North and South poole Galactites is of an Ash coullour it seemeth to sweat as it were milke it increaseth milke and helpeth running of the eyes and vlcers Now follow stones of diuers coullours Achates is a stone of diuers coullours resembling a Lyons skin sometime it is blacke with white veynes and yellow sometime it is as it were sprinkled with bloud it is very variable in coullour Eagles lay it in their nests to preserue their young from poyson Turcois is darke of a skie coullour and greenish It helpeth weake eyes and spirits Corneolus is like water of washed flesh It helpeth against the Pyles in the fundament and to stop fluxes In a ring it restraineth anger Chrysoprasus is of a greene coullour with golden spots It shineth a little in the darke it is rare and deare It comforteth the heart helpeth dim sight c. Hematite is of an Iron coullour with bloudie vaynes It is cold and dry cooleth hot waters stancheth bloud and helpeth against the scorching of the Sunne as Authors write Also the qualities of other stones depend rather vpon authoritie then vpon proofe Stones be found in Beasts Birds and Fishes Stones found in Beasts bee 1. Chelidonius is a small stone in the belly of yong Swallowes It is found in those of the first hatching in the new moone if two be found the one is red the other blacke The best is of a sprinkled red The red in a linnen cloth carried vnder the left arme expelleth madnesse the falling sicknesse and getteth fauour say some 2. Alectorius is of a christall or watrish coullour It is found in the Maw of an olde Capon as big as a beane in one of nine yeere old small in one of fiue yeer olde This stone quencheth thirst being held in the mouth It maketh warlike and couragious 3. The Rubet or Toadstone groweth in the head of a Toad It is of a white browne coullour sometime it hath a skie coulloured eye in the middle It is to be taken before the Toad touch any Water It is a remedie against all poyson If it come neare poyson it changeth coullour and sweateth as it were drops In fishes are found stones which are made of the cold hardening their matter 4. The Crabs eye of the female is like an eye it dissolveth bloud congealed and expelleth stones 4. The Perch stone found in his head is white and as big as Hemp-seed 6. The Carpe stone found in his chap is trianguler white without yellow within It helpeth against aboundance of choller Thus far of precious stones These following are of price because of their beautie but not so rare Porphirite is a Marble shining like purple Alabaster is a marble like in coullour to spotted Honny At this day it is cleare and smooth like Plaster The Ophite is a most hard marble of a sad greene spotted and Serpent-like coullour Common stones are of vnpure slimie earth thicke and darke some be solid as the Flint Boulder the Whet-stone c. Some be full of poores as the Pumise Gravil-stones and Free-stone SAlt is a fryable mettall begotten of a watrish and earthie moysture mixt and decocted together It bindeth scowreth purgeth disperseth represseth maketh thin and hard It is gotten in pits or waters The sorts of digged salts be Salt Amoniack is found in plates vnder the hotte sands of Cyreniae It is hot and dry in the fourth degree and serueth to purge slimie humors That which Apothecaries sell in blacke clods is made of Camels stale and because store of Camels be in Armenia it is called Armeniack Salt Peter is found in dry places vnder the ground and in hollow Rockes It is sometime called Nitre of a Region in Egypt Of this kinde is the salt called Borax Salt Gem is a white kinde of Euen-salt shining like Christall It is also called Stonie marbly salt Sarmaticke or Dacian Salt of Indie is a blackish Salt or ruddy It is in clods cut out of mount Oremen Salt of Water is taken on the Sea coast or from some lakes and springs and it is sod and congealed of the Sunne or by fire Allome is a salt sweat of the earth it is either liquid or hard Liquid Allome is called Roch or Rock-Allome with it is paper washed c. Hard Allome or Allome Sciffile is thicke and cleaueth It is as it were gray Bitume is a fat and tough moysture like pitch and is called Earthy pitch Liquid is like an oylely moysture flowing and is of diuers coullours after the varietie of the place of which Naphtha is a white fat of Bitumen which enflamed by water doth easily draw to it fire through store of oyle that is in it Naphtha Petreolum is found in rockes It is for his fatnesse of some called Oyle Ambar of Arabia is Bitume of an Ash coullour Hard Bitume is tough like foame swimming on the water but being taken forth it waxeth hard of this kinde is Asphaltus which is blacke Bitume hard like stone pitch The best is gotten in the dead Sea of Iudea c. Pissaphaltus is Asphaltus smelling of Pitch mingled with Bitume It is called Mummie Where this wants they sell vs counterfeit of Syria for poore men that die there be stuffed with Bitume but the rich are dressed with Mirrh Alloes c. It also is found in clods roling from mount Cerauine into the Sea Succinum is Bitume like a stone exceeding hard named Ex succo the Iuyce of the earth It is white or yellow which is called Ambar or blacke as Iet His fatnesse is so great that it burneth like a Candle and smelleth like the Pine tree It draweth to it chaffe and such other light stuffe by a certaine hid nature Metallar Earths which are digged forth of mines be Terra Lemnia an exceeding red Earth of Lemnos I le digged in a red hill It is sometime vsed for Armenian· In old time this had Dianaes seale vpon it printed by her Priests who were onely wont to wash this earth It is of force to expell poyson it healeth wounds festred and olde and poysoned Bole Armenian is earth of Armenia it is of a pale red coullour smooth and easie to breake as chalke It is a dryer and profitteth against all fluxes Terra Samia is white stiffe and tough comming from the I le Samos Ampelite is a pitchie Earth cleauing and blacke it is named of anoynting vines to kill the Wormes This earth is like that we call Stone or Sea coale Chalke is white earth of Creet and there is found of it in many other places There is also some sound that is blacke which is called Pignitis