The Natural Hiftory of JAMAICA, : 
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Spain, and the whole World. The Way of Cure then, was 
Shavings of the Wood twelve ere two of the Bark, cr 
in five Quarts of Water, to the Confumption of two thirds, then ftrain- 
ing and keeping it for Ufe. They then. boil the Wood again in a little 
more frefh Water, till it boil’d away about a fourth Part, and {train 
it. They drank of the firft Deco€tion warm, about ten Ounces, f{weat- 
ing in Bed twice a Day after it, well cover’d for two Hours, in the 
Mornings and Evenings. They fhifted their Linen four Hours after 
eating Raifins and Almonds with Bifcuit, keeping their Chamber and 
drinking nothing but the fecond Decoétion for ordipary Drink. They 
eat after fifteen Days, a Chicken roafted, and purged eafily, as like- 
wife after the twentieth Day, and then eat Fleth and continued the 
Courfe for forty Days longer ; it roots out the Pox and all other in- 
SLE Difeafes, efpecially if the Pox have preceeded fuch Diftempers, 
On. : 
Clufivs his Defctiption is not very exact, for his Specimen feems to 
have been broken, and he has adjuited it wrong, for I never faw ia Fas 
maica more than two Pair, or four Pipng, neither. do the Flowers or 
Fruit come out fo exa@tly together in a.Bunch, as. he makes them. 
The three Sorts of this Wood differ only in Age, the paler is the younger 
and hath more Vertue, but keeps nor fo long ; its Fruit and Flowers are 
ill defcrib’d by Mathiolus, who fays the Orientalis beft, and that it was 
thought at firft dangerous unlefs taken forty Days.in the Dark, and 
with an exat. Diet; it is good. infufed in Wine. #ds..... 
It grows in St. Euftace, Tertre.. coins |, | ee: 
Pyrard. p. 2. p. 206. met with this Tree in Brafile, where it cures the 
Pox common there. 
There is another Sort of it having fix Pinne, or three Pair fet op- 
ofite, which may be that of Porto Rico, I had it from Barbados. 
_ Lobel fays it came from Calecat as well as the Wett-Indies, in which I 
fuppofe he was miftaken, p. 439. Adv. | . | | 
In 1547 there came three hundred and fifty Quintals from the Weft- 
Indies, Acoffa. It finks in Water, he calls it Lignum Sanitum, Bois de 
Guayac, or Bots @ Inde 
Jc was brought from Hi/paniola, Benz. An Indian Servant in Hifpaniola 
cured his Malter of the Pox with the Water of this, whence it became 
famous, Claveto in eundem. . | 
This isa Remedy for the Pox,and many Mountains are full of it in 
Hifpaniola, Lopez de Gomara, | 
The tenth Decottion of this Wood will be little lefs bitter, fharp and 
thick than the firft. Lugd. | 
Guayacan, con que fecura el mal de las Buas. mention’d by Oviedo Coron. 
lib. 10. cap. 2. is our Lignum Vita, the largeft of which is beft becauté 
frefhelt in Earope, the youngeft is beft in E/panmola which comes from 
the Ifland Beata ; twenty or thirty Days ufing it cures the Pox, with 
a ftrict Diet, drinking a Cup in the Morning ; it muft be boil’d to one 
third, and a Bocbetum ufed likewife; the Wood is good to make 
W heels. 7 : 
Lacuna fays the Difference of the Woods is only in their Age; his 
Plantain Leaves and their Defcription are fabulous, he thinks there muft 
be much Vertue in the Flowers and Leaves of this Tree; it has been 
oppos’d by China and Sarfa, but remain’d Victorious, Lac. 
There is a Difpute concerning Gaayacan and Liguum-Sanitam, whether 
they be the fame, the laft being not black at Heart, but all yellowifh 
and curing what the other does not; they come from different pee 
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