162 The Natural Hiftoryof JAMAICA. 
The Bark of this Tree or its Roots bail’d in Water, the Decottion 
is good to ftop Fluxes, cc. and is reckon’d one of the beft Adftrin- 
gents in Famaica, being accounted cold and dry, : 
The Fruit the lefs ripe the more aditringent, and when they are 
very ripe, or foft and rotten, they foofen the Belly. : 
hey came to Brajfile from the Northern America, Marcgr, _ 
The Leaves are good for aditringent Baths of all Sorts, curing the 
Scab. 
The Decoétion of the Bark cures fwell’d Legs and fiftulous UIl- 
cers. 
The Fruit being hot and dry, helps Digeftion; a Syrup is made of 
the Infufion and Deco€tion of the Leaves, which isa very good Re- 
medy in all Fluxes, to be taken according to the Patient’s Need, being 
as good as Syrup of dry Rofes, Xim. 
Gomara and Monardes were much out when they defcrib’d this Fruit 
with feveral Concamerations. 
It is reckon’d no good Fruit, fmelling ill like Punaifes or Bugs, they 
are very much fpread by all Creatures voiding their Seeds, it is unwhol- 
fome, and was not till lately found in E/pazola, When not ripe they breed 
Worms, Benz. 3 
The purple Sorts are beft, which roafted cure the Flux, Fragos. 
A Syrup is made of the young Shoots, which is excellent in Fluxes, 
Tertre. 
This Tree hinders Porto-Rico from having rich Paftures, for the Grains 
being numerous, fpring up and choak the Grafs, Laet. : 
After fix Years Growth the Guavas grow leffer, Oviedo Coron: 
It bakes well, may be codled, and makes good Pies, Dampier. 
They propagate this by the Branch in China, Boym, Prafat. 
Guayabes like Filberds, as big as Figs, ‘were obferved by an Axnony- 
mus Author ap. Parchas, p. 1529, or Portugal of Elusas, p. v0. at ‘St. 
J4g0 on Cabs. By Rob. Tomfon, ap. Hakl. P- 454. about Mexico. . 
Here (at Meftitlan within forty Leagues of Mexico) our Men were‘ve-: 
ry fick of their Agues, and with eating of another Fruit ‘called (in 
the Indian Tongue, Guiacéos,:which Fruit did bind us fo fore, that 
for the Space of ten or twelve Days we could not: eafe our felvesy 
Philips ap. Hakl. ee Pe 4770 GF | , oT 
We travell’d: there feven Days and feven Nights before we came to 
Psnuco, feeding on nothing but Roots and Guzavos, a. Fruit like Figs, 
Hortep ap.. Hakls.p..3..p. 491. 1S 3 ! 
Turner takes:Notice of them. in Ste. Luciz, Purchas, p. 1265. libs 6. 
cap. 1§- and that when they are not ripe. they are’ binding, and when 
ripe fcoweringy with Probatum in the Margin. Toot] | 
Datiies ap. Purchas, lib. 6, cap. 18,: p 1287. obferved them ‘by: the — 
seamen) 
and ¥1.- where 
ur, fome: rank; 
Plantations, which troubles th 
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Layfield ap. Pantie lib. 4. ft L172: ‘faye that rhey are good againtt 
the Flux, and that the Pulp is of a Sanguine Colour, Haghesy pags 
that the Fruit is cooling. 1 Bigom,’p. 1x. shat they grow inthe Cape-Verd 
» Ps 56. they were found in Barbados. . 
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