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. he Seed thereof contrarily doth bind the belly, and helpeth to ftay Laskes and : 
the bloody flux, and fo doth the coor of the true Rubarbe, if it be toafled atthe 
fire, and.dtunk with Plantane water, or, thick redwine. . The diftiilled warer 
__ thereof is very profitably nfed co heal Scabs as alfo foul ulcerons {ores and to 
allay the inflammations ef them, The jnyce of the Leaves or roots, of the de- 
coction of them in Vinegar is ufed allo as amoft effeétuall remedy to heale 
Scabs and running Sores. "The two laft forts of Rubarb are feldom nfed, their 
qualities being more aftringenc then opening. 
Of Turmerick. 
ens ae =, «The Names. 
” Tis in uncertain vehedher éhis Drug were known to the Grecians or nor, 
there being no pofitive Greek name for it upon record: fome think it ro be 
, the Cyperus Indicus of Diofcorides,becaufe ic hath the fame colour & taft,the 
root being like Ginger; but why he fhould referr ittoa Cyperns, is (ome- 
what Arange, the root of that having no fuch form, colour, or tatt. Gare ias and | 
Chriflopherus Asofta call it Crocus Indicus, but the Common Latin name isCur- 
cwma,borrowed as.is moft probable from the Arabians, who call ic Cufeum, yet 
this is not theCwrcuma of sf Serazis or Avicen 2s Matehiolns hath well notedwhich 
er ther eater: ne whofe. root 1s yellow, and therefore the 
wma, and put itincothe Compe 
re 2 neon chet peepee fore al Pas: ! 
Fo creeenek (aie: Leaves then Mallet,and ee ae Cn, 
onr, which afterwards ‘when the ftaik, is gone up, do likewife PR ala 098 - 
another thereupon up to the top; What flower Sobers J find nomention, 
The Roog is fomewhat like Gixger, in to 2 ate 4 
within and withowe yet it is nor ee ; 
~The Places and Time 
: . a where but in the Eap-Badertoe that 
doth bee the names above mentioned do cleerly intimate. Ican fay no- ee 
thing of the time, having not yet met with any Author to direct mein this Sid 
The Temperature, ye 
