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24.2 The Natural Ehifiory of Jamaica, 
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AL Capficum cordatum propendens. Park, Cat. P3114. dn Solanum mordens 
fructu dependente fubrotundo cralfo. Pluk. Alm. p. 3532 Vel Solanum mordens 
filiqua cordiformi pendula. ejufd. ib 2 Piper Indicum cordatum majus filiqua plana 
ce propendente Hort. Reg. Parif. p.142? 
This Capficvm is like the others in every thing, only the Leaves come out ia 
oppofite Tufts along the Branches at an Inches diflance. The Fruit is 
Conoidal, and inftead of being fharp at point, is blunt, very thining, po- 
lift’d, and {mooth, exactly like that of a Womans Nipple. | 
It is planted as the other Kinds. 
A Peflary is made of this kind of Pepper, of. dawriz. Gentian and Cotton, 
which Valve oriimpofitum, purgationes Menftruas deperditas revocat. Taken to 
a Scruple it cures Pains of the Uterus, if it be boil’d in Wine, and with it 
the Hernia aqnofa be bath’d it curesit. If the Fruit be infufed in Wine it 
takes away ftinking Breath, and mixt with Flydromel, usd as an Evrhinum, it 
takes away the fmelling of the Nofe. If infus’d in Aqua Vite it helps the 
parts grieved with the Palfie if rub’d with it. Mixt with Vinegar it refolyes 
Apoftems and hard Spleens. Drank with the Decodtion of Bay-Berries it 
cures the Colick. Chaw’d with Raifins and Stavifacre, it draws Flegm from 
the Head. Boil’d in water the Decoétion cures the Tooth ach. Drank 
with Wine it cuts tough Flegm in the Breaft, Lungs, or Guts. It takes away 
the cold Fits of Agues if mix’d with ung. de Alabaftro, if it be rub’d on the 
Back-Bone. With Hens Greafe it refolyes Apoftems and Buboes, it cures 
the Gout and Nodes, and voids Hydropick waters. Mixt with pil. aloephance 
with Decodtion of Mallows it is Diuretick. It takes away the Flegm in the 
Kidnies, being drank with Saxifrage water. Given to a Scruple with Broath 
every morning, it warms the cold Stomach, difcufles Flegm, and diflipates 
Tough Humours of the Stomach. Taken three days together with Decoéf, 
Pulegii, it expels the dead Child. Gregorius de Regio. 
This is one of the three Fruits figured by Zragus on the fame Stalk, and 
from him in Cordus ¢ Tab. ernemontanus. 
It raifes Blifters. Park. | 
Thofe ufing it are troubled with their Stomach and YellowifhnefS. Roch. 
The Root or Fruit bruifed and applied to the Bite of a Mad Dog; cures 
ab. fd. M1. : 
This Pepper is us’d all over the We/-Zndies, it is hot in the fourth, and 
dry in the third Degree. It excites Flatulency, and Venery. It’ purges 
with griping in thofe not ufed to it, from its Acrimony, but eatily in others; 
it helps the Catamenia, and is Diuretick; it is good againft the Sciatica 
made into a Plaifter with Honey. The Zndians help Hecticks with pricking 
their Bellies or Loins with Necdles or Pins dipt in this; but immoderately 
ufed it caufes Inflammations of all forts: it is eat by the Zvdians for ordinary 
Food, by others for Sauce. Xim. 
Infufed in Spirit of Wine it is Diuretick, and cures Palfies if the parc 
be often wafhed with it, Mix’d with Hens Suet it refolves Apoftems that 
ay cold. Inward Apoftems and Abfcefles are caufed by its immoderate ufe. 
Pifo. 
Five Grains of this Pepper makes pleafanter Potage than twenty of the 
other from the Eaft-Indies. Martyr. 
It kills Dogs if cat by them. Chair. 
EUsrnandez and Ximenes are {o confufed in their Defcriptions, and Names, 
that, although the Figures are good, yet the Defcriptions are fo very bad 
that I cannot make any thing of them. | 
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