the Paradife of: “Seon : 3 
_ The Temperature, 
Dodoneus is of Opinion, that rhe freth Nuts are cold ss moiit, but Puch is 
faith, they are drying in the firlt degree, and heating in che fecond: the bark of 
the Tree doth binde and dry very much, and» the leaves are near of the fame 
temperature; but when the Nuts are old, they are hor and dry inthe fecond 
degree, and of thin parts, and of harder digeftionthen wien they are fre(h, 
Ww hich by reafon of cheir iweeenefic, are more plealane and better digelting in in 
the ftomack. yi 
The Signatures and Vertues: cima ee 
wall-nuts have the perfe& Signature of the Head: The outer husk or greent 
Covering, reprelent the Pericraniam, or oucward skin of the skull, whereon the 
hair groweth, and therefore faltmade of chofe husks or barks, are Saitiy: 
eee g for wounds inthe head.. The inner wooddy fhell hath the Signature o 
the Skull, and che litele yellow skin, or Peel, chat covereth the Kernell of the 
hard Mensnga, & Pia Mater,which are the thin fcarfes that envelope the brain, 
The Kernel hath the very figure of the Brain, and therefore it is very proficabh 
for the Brain, and refifts poyfons ; For if the Kernel be. brui‘ed, and moylinge< 
with the quinceffence of Wine, and laid 00f athe Crown of ithe Heady ic 
forts the brain and head mightily. _2f ch : Peels be takes off, hey ‘aretho ght 
to be good forthe imack, and lomerntrat Tooling the belly : and mixt with Su- 
io nourifirtet perately, whileft they are new 5 but when they begin 
to stow old c ey grieve the Stomack,and caute in hor bodies choler to abound, 
and the Head- ach, and are an enemy to thofe which have a Congh; but. the 
are le(fe hurtfull to thote which have colderftomacks, and are faidto kill the 
broad Worms in the ftomack or belly. They are reckoned in Schola fa Sette 
for one of thofe fix things which are good againft poyfon - 
Allia, Ruta, Pyra, & Raphanus ¢ cum Theriaca Nux, 
Hac fi unt Antidotum contra mortale venenum., 
And true itis, that two dry Wall-nuts, and as many Figs, and cw: en leaves 
of Rue, bruifed and beaten together, with cwo or three Corns of falt were Kir 
Mitbridates Medicine againtt F poyion, which after he had long ufed daily, at latt 
he fought co poyfon himielf, but could nor. And no marvel for che water of 
green Wall-nuts, caken about Midfummer, being drank two or three ounces, 
cooleth and refifteth the Peftilence. And che watet of the outer Husks of 
Wall-nuts being pen Oe cd in September, is given to drink again the 
Plague, witha tain experiment; and the juyce of the - 
fame;boyled up with Honey, i 18 ve excellent garsle forfore mouths, the heat 
and inflammations in the throat or {tomack.~ Though the old Kernels are not 
fo fit to be eaten, yer they are ufed co heal rhe wounds of ~~ finews, Ganerensy 
and Carbuncles , and being mixed with Figs and Rue, t ahey cure old Ulcers of 
the Breafts, and other cold impofthumes, with Rweand Oy/, they are eee 
be laid to the Ouifie. The leaves with Boars a » ftayeth the b _ 
falling, and maketh piace the like allo will i thes 
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