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fend all the fmall or downy Prickles about the great One’s Root 
in your at prefent infenfible Oppofite’s Face, and tho’ they light on 
his Cloaths they in a fmall Time fo work their Way thro? to his Flefh, 
‘as to torment him worfe than Cowitch, 
The bruistd Leaves are laid to disjointed, overftretch’d, or broken 
Places ‘by the Indians, Park. 
Thofe of Mexico ufe the Juice of the Leavés in Fevers inwardly, and 
‘outwardly, ‘to hinderthe burning of Cart Wheels. 1 
Hernandex Mays that ‘with ‘Chlz ‘or Indian Pepper the Leaves are 
‘boil’d ‘and ufed asa cooling Diet. | 
Oviedo in his 25 Cap. Lib. 8. of ‘his Hiftoty of Weff-India, telis a Story 
how ‘he'was put into a 'vaft Bright ‘not daring to make Water as he had Oc- 
cafion, lea{t all his Blood fhould be voided, by eating this Fruit to a- 
bout fix or feven, he piffing’red, which ‘he thought was Blood, in fome 
Time after, ‘and he farther adds, that they were uféd on the Wall of the 
Town as a Fence. 2 
The Leaves cleared of their Prickles and bruifed, are laid to broken 
Arms and Legs after Repofition, with great Succefs, whence it has fome 
of ics Names. 3 
Oviedo fays, 1 ‘Cap. Lib. vo. Aivf#. that the Indians ufed a Pafte of this, 
and fold it m the Market fora Paint, and that fo ufed it is durable. 
It is reported of fome, that the Juice of the Fruit is excellent for 
Ulcers of along Continuance. Ger. \ 
The Leaves cure admirably frefh Wounds. Lacs 
They gtow in Peru, Benz. EE TS 3BEE ef 
This is thought to be the Ficus Indica of Theophraftus by Cefalpinus, it 
which he certainly was miftaken, as may eafily appear'to any who will 
compare the Defcriptions. 
It’s'a Wonder fuch a hard Seed fhould produce fuch a Plant, Cam. 
The Fruit colouring the Urine, it may be good for Dying, Tertre, 
This Plant varies in the Length, Thicknefs or Nuémber of its Prickles, 
they fometimes being twice as long as at another,” which I fuppofe 
is occafion’d by fome accidental Difference, as in the Soil, Rains, Gc. and 
for that Reafon I will not multiply che Species on that Score. 
It likewife varies as to the GoodnelS of the Fruit, which is efteem’d 
when planted, and nor fo good when wild. Acoffa. 
That fet from Leaves has no Caudex as that of Seed (which is 
falfe) Dod. yn ore. 
»> The Fruit whole and ‘cut is figuted, Tab. 224. Fig. 1. 
Inthe Mexican Chronicle apud Purchas, 34 Tome, p. 1066. the Eagle is 
faid to have had her Haunt in this Tree, and there they fettled, call- 
ing it, or Mextco, Tenuchhtlan, or, Trial growing ina Rock. It is very 
groflely figured, in p. 1068. ; 
Robt. Thomfon ap. Hak. p, 454. obferved this Tree about Mexico, Ové- 
edo in his Swmmary, p. 208, that it makesthe Water appeat fike blood. 
The fame {peaks of Trees or Plants having certain Branches full of 
large and deform’d Leaves. Swmmary p. 21%. ap. Ede where the Leaves 
fpread on a Cloth after Beating, like a Plailter, ate faid to cute broken 
Legs and Arms, flicking no longerthan the Operation. 
Smith in his Summer-Ifles, p. 170, and p. $4. takes Notice of them 
in St. Chriffopher’s, and p. 56. i Barbados, wherethiey are faid to be good 
to eat or make Drink. 
Thefe Shrubs are in NV, Galeis in Woods fifty Leagues long, where 
they might with Culture bring forth Cochia/, Lact. # 
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