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A11816	Naturall philosophy: or A description of the vvorld, and of the severall creatures therein contained viz. of angels, of mankinde, of the heavens, the starres, the planets, the foure elements, with their order, nature and government: as also of minerals, mettals, plants, and precious stones; with their colours, formes, and vertues. By Daniel Widdovves.; Rerum naturalium doctrina methodica. English. Abridgments	Scribonius, Wilhelm Adolf, fl. 1576-1583.; Widdowes, Daniel.; Scribonius, Wilhelm Adolf, fl. 1576-1583. Rerum physicarum juxta leges logicas methodica explicatio. aut; Woodhouse, John.	1631 (1631)	STC 22112; ESTC S117038	44,731	82

hath The nature of it round red berries upon long stalkes his fruit and leaves are colde and dry in the second degree having power to close The iuyce of the fruit taken helpeth against trembling of the heart inflammations of the bodie but chiefly it helpeth the plague his iuyce with Endive water profitteth to remove specks of the face The Rose groweth up with small twigs of a blacke Rose greene full of crooked prickes his leaves are dented The nature of it on the edge his fruit namely Roses bee of diverse colours All Roses bee colde and dry and helpe both inward and outward affections of the body The juyce 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 heavinesse 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 relieveth the heart and stomacke it keepeth the spirits and naturall heate The Bramble is full of prickes and crawleth about Bramble the leaves of sweete bryer on the one side are white on the other blacke his fruite is the blacke berry full of juyce the berry is dry colde and close His fruit The nature of it leaves or sprouts quench inward heate The top of his leaves sod in Wine stay the bloudie flixe helpe ulcers of the mouth and fasten loose teeth Poterion uva orispa Gooseberries is full of boughs Gooseberries hath ash coloured barke or white full of sharpe thornes his leaves are lesse than ground Ivie and crooked his berries from greene turne to reddish it is cold The nature of it in the first dry in the second degree his greene leaves cure inflammations and apostumes and asswage Ignis sacer Colutea in leafe not unlike to Fengreke hath a Colutea round fruit as big as a Lentle in a puffed shell It is hot The nature of it in the beginning of the second degree and dry in the first it purgeth the panch scoureth away chiefly melancholy The nature of it 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 have but a thin small Herbes stalke consisting most upon leaves These doe nourish more or lesse as Corne and Pot-herbes which nourish more Wheate is a kinde of Corne having an eare upon Wheate the blade stuffed with many graynes it is moderately The nature of it hot and dry and of much nourishment and helpefull for many diseases aswell within as without the body the best is hard to breake heavie and of gold colour smooth and groweth in fat ground Leaven of Wheate doth draw ripen and open ulcers and apostumes Bisket profitteth against rheume Barly is cold and dry in the second degree and Barley purgeth His floure and new milke in plaster cure The nature of it Biles and such tumors by easing their paine and drawing forth heate Bread made of it begetteth cold and slimie humours and nourisheth lesse than wheat Barley water maketh the skin faire and smooth Spelte or Zea is of a middle temperature betweene Spelte Wheate and Barly it is a kinde of Wheate and commonly goeth under that name Rye is not so hot as Wheate and hurteth much except Rye it be well disgested Oates are colder than Wheate and of operation almost Oates like Barley Now follow of Pulse Millet Millet is a most fertile Pulse with sharpe leaves broad below and sharpe towardes the toppe his cod hath The nature of it in it a round long fruit It is cold in the first and dry in the third degree It stoppeth the belly and nourisheth but little Rize is smaller than Millet and farre lesse it groweth Rize in moyst and watry places it bindeth Lentells grow like small pease and have a vertue to Lentels binde Pease are either of the field or garden bearing a Pease white ot a purple flower Beanes are meanely colde and moyst inflaming Beanes windie hard to disgest Pot herbes Now follow Pot-herbes Coleworts haue very broad leaves which enclosing Colewortes Their natures 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 used this onely herbe to cure all diseases His broath expelleth the stone and gravell his leaves applyed by themselves or with the flowers cure inflamations his juyce healeth festred sores it cureth the falling of the haire Broath made of his leaves with an olde Cocke cureth the Collicke and other gripings Spinagh hath an high stalke and beareth sharpe Spinagh seedes his leaves being sharpe and triangular it is The nature of it colde and moyst in the first degree His juyce expelleth hurtfull rheume It mollifieth the belly and cureth hardnesse of the backe and belly His Iuyce taketh away the paine and heate of the stomacke and liver it helpeth the byting of Spiders Lettise hath his leaves gathered into a curled roundnesse Lettise that which groweth in the field hath a shorter stalke and leafe than Garden Lettise being bitter and full of milke It is moderately moyst and colde like Spring water The nature of it it is wholsome in Summer to restore appetite to meate Yet too much of it hurteth the eyes and boyld with womans milke cureth burnings Beetes have two colours the one white the other Beetes 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 nature of it the liver especially if it be taken with vineger and mustard It also cureth those that be sicke of the splene Purslaine hath round thicke fat and white leaves Purslaine on the backe a red stalke yellow flowers like a Starre They of the Garden have broad leaves and a thicke stalke the wilde lesser and more leaves It is colde in The nature of it the first and moyst in the second degree it is tart his juyce helpeth a hot stomacke and hot diseases it being somewhat binding helpeth fluxes and evacuations of bloud if it be used with Barly flower Garden Mallowes grow with a round leafe and high Mallowes stalke his flowers be red or white wilde Mallowes mollifie and a little disgest Garden are moyst and The nature of it weaker The decoction of Mallowes drunke cureth on old cough his leaves sod and used with common oyle heale burning The Onion hath a subtile stalke round and hollow Onion arising from a round roote wound about with many fouldings it is hot almost in the fourth degree it is The nature of it of thicke partes his juyce is

a dry substance and hot An Onion all night layd in cold water and drunke killeth wormes and being beaten with salt it draweth away warts by the rootes his juyce put in the eare cureth deafenesse The Leeke groweth almost like Onions and is of Leekes the same qualitie it doth dissolve swellings and congealed The nature of it bloud being applyed like a Plaster Parsley hath leaves like Cicuta it is hot and dry in Parsley the third degree it peirceth and dissolueth provoking The nature of it urine the seede is more effectuall than the herbe It dissolveth the stone it consumeth ill moysture and sores of the head These hearbes following are used for Garlands or physicke some of them smelling sweetly The Violet hath leaves lesser and thinner than Ivie Violet 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 The nature of it places wilde but not sweete it is cold in the first and moyst in the second and cooleth hot diseases and inflammations Of it there be divers kindes and colours as the Pancey or Harts-ease The Daisie hath leaves somewhat round above and Daysie The nature of it small below and the roote in the ground wheeling about it is cold in the second degree The Ielly-flower hath sharpe leaves growing like Ielly-Flower grasse with flowers of sundry colours it hath an attractive The nature of it force and the juyce healeth wounds in the head Maioram hath almost a woodden stalke with many Maioram The nature of it rough round leaves 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 Rosemary smelleth like Frankincense It mollifieth disgesteth The nature of it and dryeth Spicknard is hot in the first and dry in the second degree Spicknard The nature of it Lavender heateth and dryeth in the second degree Lavender White Daffodill is hot and dry It is of diverse Daffodill kindes Rose Campion is an hearbe with an Ash coloured Rose Campion stalke as it were cotton long leaved and white bearing purple flowers growing up like the Prim-rose The nature of it his seede is hot and dry almost in the second degree it prevaileth against the stinging of Scorpions Herbes used in medicine are Aromatike or ordinary Aromaticke doe comfort and strengthen the spirits Thence they take their name Saffron is hot in the second and dry in the first degree Saffron it a little bindeth and concocteth it may with good keeping be preserved five yeares The nature of it It comforteth the heart and stomacke it maketh pure bloud and provoketh vrine it scowreth the brest it is deadly if it be taken too much Ginger waxeth greene twise or thrise in the yeare Ginger it heateth in the third and is moyst in the first it is of The nature of it more subtile parts than Pepper Zadury or Wormeseede heateth and dryeth in the Wormeseede second degree it is that we doe call the roote of China like Ginger but not so biting The nature of it Gallingall is the roote of a plant growing in Memphis Gallingall and Syria it groweth like the flouredeluce but with prickes and is broader and thicker from the The nature of it roote It is hot and dry in the third degree as is the roote of Cyprus Calamus Aromaticus is an hearbe of India growing Calamus Aromaticus The nature of it like reeds or figs. It is hot and dry in the second degree and a little binding Acorus is a plant growing with leaves like Iris but A corus The nature of it smaller or like segges the roote is white sweetly smelling It is hot and dry in the second degree There be sexes of hearbes as of other living things some of which more helpe namely the Male or Female according to their kindes CHAP. VIII Of humane Creatures MAn is a creature that hath reason as he is most What man it and the manner of his generation excellent so hath he a more perfect shape in body than others His members are formed and beginne to appeare distinctly about the six and twentieth day And they are all perfect in Males at thirty dayes and in Females at 36. dayes About this time the Childe beginneth to live and to feele The Male is moved in the third Month but the Female in the fourth Month then it is nourished and increased till the ninth Month and after the ninth Month when it is growne great it is brought forth This is the forming and procreating of Man for whose sake all other creatures were made A feeling soule is a power apprehending and What a feeling soule is perceiving things placed without the body of living creatures This facultie is exercised by the sences and by motion accompanying the sences The sences are outward or inward The outward onely Sences outward perceiving things present And every one of these have their proper subject and the most have a middle instrument of all which if there bee a certaine mutuall consent and just proportion the sences become of more force but if any one of them have too excellent an object or his instrument bee corrupt they are dull and unfit to be used This is the cause of blindnesse to those that walke in snow and of deafenesse unto Smithes c. Furthermore sences are common to the whole body or proper to some part thereof The Touching sence in the whole body 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 nerve like a hayre dispersed throughout the whole body In man for the abundance of nerves is this sence most quicke his meanes is flesh and skin for though the skinne be removed yet a man feeleth hurt Sences of certaine parts are more or lesse noble The nobler are Seeing and Hearing whose meanes are the water Geeing and ayre Sight by the eye perceiveth bright and coloured things The subject thereof is light c. Greene a most temperate colour is most acceptable to the sight His instrument is the nerve Opticke which from the braine commeth to the eyes Hearing is a sence perceiving soundes his instrument Hearing 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 covereth a little bone like an Anvile another above containing a little bone as it were a small Mallet The upper striken by the soundes striketh the lower and stirreth up the spirits in the nerves to perceive the sound The more un-noble sences are Tasting and Smelling Tasting Tasting apprehendeth tastes His instrument is a

greene the ayre neare about it the stone of Brytaine The nature of it is the best It preserveth the wearer from the falling sickenesse eyght graines of his shaving drunke expelleth poyson c. as some affirme The Sardonyx is a cleare gem representing in coullours Sardonyx the nayle of a mans hand it preserveth chastnes The nature of it and healeth vlcers about the nayles The Selenites is a transparent gem like glasse it Selenites seemeth to increase and decrease with the moone The nature of it whose shape in the night it beareth and is called therefore the Moone-stone c. It is of a white blacke and yellow coullour His scrapings heale the falling sicknesse Bright shining Gems doe follow The Carbuncle is a gem shining in the light like Carbuncle fire it is the noblest and hath most vertues of any precious The nature of it stone The Calcedonian is of a purple coullour shining Calcedonian The nature of it like a starre it expels sadnes and feare by purging and chearing the spirits It hindreth all visions The Astarites is a Crystalline stone having in the Astarites The nature of it middest like a full moone Bright stones not shining do follow or the lesse shining Rubie The Rubie is a red gemme shining in darke like a sparke of fire it cleareth the sight it expelleth sad The nature of it and fearefull dreames The Topaz is of the colour of gold casting Topaz beames in the Sunne being layd to a wound it stancheth The nature of it blood or cast into hot water keepeth the hand from scalding Hiachinth The Hiacinth is of waterish colour it is exceeding hard and cloudie in the darke but pure and cleare by The nature of it day It is colde moderating the spirits of the heart and of the other parts and causing mirth which being worne obtaineth favour Precious stones of lesse shining be Corrall Asbestos Magnes and Galacte Corall is a stone growing in the Sea like a slimie Corrall shrub which by the ayre presently is made hard It is The nature of it taken up full of mosse but being unbarked it appeareth cleare in his proper colour The spongie Corrall is white and colde The solid is more stonie and is red and blacke Red and full of branches is the best which worne of one shortly to be sicke waxeth pale His tender substance is affected by the bad vapour which yet is unable in the body to afflict it It is good for sore eyes for the stone and falling sicknesse Asbestos is of an Iron colour being once fiered it Asbestos The nature of it cannot be quenched it is found in Arabia Magnes or Loadstone is of a skie colour or an Iron The Loadstone The nature of it colour It draweth Iron It hath like vertue with the Adamant It purgeth the dropsie belpeth the flux respecteth the North and South pole Galactites is of an Ash colour it seemeth to sweat Galactites The nature of it as it were milke it increaseth milke and helpeth running of the eyes and ulcers Now follow stones of divers colours Achates is a stone of divers colours resembling a Achates The nature of it 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 colour Eagles lay it in their nests to preserve their young from poyson Turcois is darke of a skie colour and greenish Turcois It helpeth weake eyes and spirits The nature of it Corneolus is like water of washed flesh It helpeth Corneolus against the Pyles in the fundament and to stop fluxes The nature of it In a ring it restraineth anger Chrysoprasus is of a greene colour with golden Chrysoprasus spots It shineth a little in the darke it is rare and deare The nature of it It comforteth the heart helpeth dim sight c. Hematite is of an Iron colour with bloudy veynes Hematite It is cold and dry cooleth hot waters stancheth bloud The nature of it and helpeth against the scorching of the Sunne as Authors write Also the qualities of other stones depend rather upon authoritie than upon proofe Stones be found in Beasts Birds and Fishes Stones found in Beasts be 1. Chelidonius is a small stone in the belly of yong Chelidonius Swallowes It is found in those of the first hatching in The nature of it 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 cloath carried under the left arme expelleth madnesse the falling sicknesse and getteth favour say some 2. Alectorius is of a christall or watrish colour Alectorius 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 five yeere The nature of it olde This stone quencheth thirst being held in the mouth It maketh warlike and couragious 3. The Rubet or Toadstone groweth in the head Toadstone of a Toad It is of a white browne colour sometime The nature of it it hath a skie coloured eye in the middle It is to bee taken before the Toad touch any Water It is a remedie against all poyson If it come neare poyson it changeth colour 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 Crabs eye it dissolveth bloud congealed and expelleth The nature of it stones 5. The Perch stone found in his head is white and as Perchstone big as Hemp-seed 6. The Carpe stone found in his chap is trianguler Carpestone white without yellow within It helpeth against The nature of it aboundance of choller Thus farre of precious stones These following are of price because of their beautie but not so rare Porphirite is a Marble shining like purple Alabaster Porphirite Alabaster is a marble like in colour to spotted Honny At this day it is cleare and smooth like Plaster The Ophite is a most hard marble of a sad greene Ophite spotted and serpent-like colour Common stones are of unpure slimie earth thicke Common stones and darke some be solid as the Flint Boulder the Whet-stone c. Some be full of pores as the Pumise Gravel-stone and free-stone Salt is a fryable mettall begotten of a waterish and Salt what it is earthy moysture mixt and decocted together It The nature of 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 under the hotte Salt Amonaick The nature of it sands of Cyreniae It is hot and dry in the fourth degree and serveth to purge slimie humors That which Apothecaries sell in blacke clods

the barke and wood of this tree floweth a gumme like Rozen The Firre tree is a kinde of Pitch tree but somewhat Firre tree whiter his leaves on one side are of an Ash colour from this floweth also a Rozen which sod with honey profitteth against the destillations of the head and throat against the Quinsey and other maladies it asswageth the inflammation of woundes and joyneth them it sodden with Barley bran and wine cureth hard kernells The Larix is a high tree with a thicke barke clifted Larix tree on each side his boughes grow by degrees about the trunke his leaves are thicke long soft and hairie his fruit is almost like the Cypres and hath a pleasant The nature of it smell The wood of this for that it is dry and full of Rozen burneth vehemently and soone melteth mettall His Rozen is in smell taste and working better than common Turpentine In colour it is like honey tough but not hard In the body of the tree groweth Fungus Agaricus a swamp or mush rome The best is white thin full of pores light and easie to breake it purgeth fleame Now follow trees that bring forth no fruit of note called Barren-trees The Elme is tall with rough leaves and sharpe his Elme tree wood is yellow hard deformed the barke boughes The nature of it and leaves have a healing facultie in scabbes It also closeth woundes The Alder hath a long straight trunke his wood is Alder tree soft his leafe like Peare-tree but greater thicker and rounder it groweth in moyst places and by rivers His wood is hot and dry and indureth long under the The nature of it earth or in water His thin and fat leaves layd upon tumors with hot water cure them and helpe all swellings The Teile is a large and broad tree with a thicke Teile tree stalke his leaves like Ivie but softer and sharper It The nature of it bindeth his other qualities are like the wilde Olive The Boxe hath little round leaves alwayes greene Boxe tree his stalke is rough for most part full of knotts and blacke the wood is hard and heavie it sinketh in water and never decayeth with age Of this boxes are named because most of them were wont to be made of Boxe It is dry and binding the powder of his The nature of it leaves with Lavender and water profitteth against madnesse Lye of Boxe maketh yellow hayres The Birch is a tender tree his barke is blacke at Birch tree first but after white his wood is soft and weake above other It hath a sweete sap In the rude age his barke was used for paper His sap taken in the Spring helpeth The nature of it the stone Iaundies and rottennesse of the mouth also being put in milke preserveth the Cheese made of that milke from Maggots Willow groweth apace it endureth long for Willow tree The nature of it though it bee hollow and rotten yet it liveth It is of two sorts solid or brittle the solid is blacke or yellow the blacke is the greater and better and is most apt for binding The yellow groweth chiefly neare water it is sometime white The brittle Willow is most white and unapt for binding Willowes are dry and thicke his leaves and barke sod in Wine helpeth gripings of the belly The Poplar delighteth in moyst and watrish places Poplar tree It is white or blacke the white hath a long straight trunke and a smooth barke his leafe round and after sharper greene beneath hoarie above and do continually shake it is moderately hot and dry The roote taken in drinke defendeth from gripings in the belly Blacke Poplar is like the white but greater softer and hath narrower leaves and greene below and of an The nature of it Ash colour above It is hot and dry the boughes held in the hand some say forbid wearinesse of hand and foote his gumme stamped helpeth loosenesse Now follow shrubs which spring up with many Shrubs stalkes and are noble or lesse noble The noble as first Cinnamon which is a barke of a shrub of that Cinnamon name growing in India of a blacke colour with thin boughes which if they be broken cast forth a sweete sent His barke is of two sorts thicke and thinne The thinne is of the sharpest and best taste The thicke is more slowly digested it comforteth the heart the best The nature of it is red and sharpe with some sweetnesse It is of subtile parts hot in the third and dry in the second degree It helpeth a colde stomacke it strengtheneth the sight heart and liver and begetteth pure blood Cassia Fistula is a round great and purple Cane Cassia Fistula having a very blacke pith the heaviest and reddest Canes are best Of the blacke pith is made a good and The nature of it gentle purgation called Cassia extract This helpeth much against feavers 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 Hasell and full of white spots His leaves are broader and have more gashes than the Alder. The tree beareth the The nature of it Filberd and the Nut these Nuts are hot and moyst and make fat but hurt the stomacke and procureth a laske If stamped in water and sugar they bee applied 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 boughes of an Ash colour and Elderne in it is store of pith and his leaves are much like to those of the Wal-nut tree it beareth purple berries having red iuyce Dwarfe Elderne is low short with a foure-square stalke these plants are hot and dry and have power to The nature of it purge and digest Also it healeth and closeth the roote or leaves of Elder sod in wine purge the dropsie and nothing is more effectuall to that purpose than the roote of Dwarfe Elderne Water in which the leaves of Elderne are sod helpes to rid the dry cough The Pitch or an electuary of the berries expelleth sweate and all poyson Barberries are not much unlike the wilde Peare although Barberries they bee farre lesse and in the boughes some two or three prickes grow together His leafe is like The nature of it Quince leaves but narrower Barberries bee hot and dry in the second degree The iuyce of the berryes profitteth against inflammation of the Liver as also against inward impostumes if it be applyed with nightshade 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 Feavers and all inward diseases of much blood The small Raisin hath purple boughes and pampin Small Raysin leaves but lesse and of blackish greene it