r 92 Ihe Natural Hiffory of Jamaica. 
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It isa great Cordial to fainting {pirits, and helps a {queamifh Stomach. _ Irs 
Juice and Wine is good for the {uppreffion of Urin, and Fits of the Stone, as 
alfo again{t Poyfons, efpecially Caffada he fame is done by the Root 
when the Fruit is wanting. The diftill’d Liquor, by Fire from the Fruit, 
is yet more effectual if it be given in a fmall quantity, for if too much be 
given it is hurtful tothe urinary paflages. It is fo injurious and corrodin 
that it not only hurts the Tongue and Pallar, but leaves marks on the Knife 
that cuts it, efpecially if the Fruit be not ripe. And then ’tis as prejudi- 
cial as Cararata to Women with Child. It is hurtful to people in Fevers 
to the wounded of ulcered, it is fo hot as to be very injurious to them, 
therefore 1 wonder Monardes fhould reckon it cold and moitft. Chriftopher 
Acofta {aying better, that ’tis hot and moift, and begets inflammations if 
it be muchufed. Pi/o. 
The juice is mix’d with water, and given to the fick as we pive Mead. 
Marcgr. \t corrodes a Knife in anight, if it fticks in it. Yim. Aco/t. 
Pifo {ays that the old Inhabitants of Brafile told him that this was firft car 
ried thence to Peru, and the Eaff-Jndies, and Linfchotten, that they came to 
the Eaff fromthe We/?- Indies. 
The juice takes {pots out of Cloaths  Pife. 
It is cold and dry, it is given to thofe in Fevers to cool, and excite Ap- 
petite, though aptro turn to Choler. A flice held on the Tongue quenches 
thirft, and moiftens the Tongue. Hvernand. 
Monardes was very much out when he defcribes this to have Seeds to be 
{pit out when ’tis eaten. . 
The Brafilians ufe it in their fickneffes. Thevet. 
It had its name from its likene{s to a Pine-Apple, one was carried on its 
Plant to Charles V. but not lik’d. It is preferv'd in New-Spain. ‘They are 
beft on the Ifles Acofta. 
It is crowned to fhow its excellency, and that Crown planted gives a 
better Fruit than the Succors. It makes the Gums bleed. Its Wine is good, 
it {poils after three Weeks, but recovers again, both it and the Fruit caufe 
Abortion. Tertre. “s 
It is Cordial, and Stomachic, and is good in Gravel and Poifons. The 
diftill’d water is good, but care muft be had to Correct its Acrimony. 
Roch. 7 
The Juice with Hony makes a drink in Brafile. Morifot. | 
The Leaves boil’d in Rice-water, mixt with baleasi Powder, and drank 
Purges Hydropick Bellies. The unripe Fruit given with. Vinegar expels the 
Child out of the Uterus, and eaten Corrects the {welling of the Belly from 
Wind. Hort. Mal. 
This Plant went from the Wf to the Ea/?-Jndies, where the Fruit is larger, 
and Leaves narrower. Large and ripe Fruit was in Am/fferdam Garden for 
five years paft. Comm. ib. 
The Conferve of this Fruit does not preferve its natural tafte. Boym. 
CuHap. 
