606 Adam in Eden :. Or, 
may be cured by it, and fo may the difea/es of the Joynts, as the Gout, Stletiaaas = : 
the Nodes alfo, or hard bunches, that fometimes grow upon the eo eee o 
- fal alfoin the sdcers of the Yard,Scabs,Leprofie, Scirrous and warry Tumors.and pe 
 goodin all cold and melancholy griefes, but efpecially in the Dropfie and Gr sens 
Sicknef[e. Some fay it provokes Luft,which is very likely, but it is not to be fed in kot 
and dry bodyes, for to {uch it is very hurtful: Ic isalfo fliced into thin pitces,and. 
boyled in broth, being bound up together with a Chicken ina Linnen cloath ; The 
dofe to be put therein is from two drammes to four drammes. ees 
+ 
) CHAP. CCCXXIx, : . 
Of Prickly Bindweed,and Sarfa parila, 
ili lumaad The Names. eR se Bee 
I feiscalledin Greek ouiaat zeayeiz, and in Latine Smilex afpera, to diftins 
; guifh it from the other forts of Smilax, of which there be four befides this,vize 
two freesand two Herbs, the firft of thetwo Trees is Smilax Arcedum,alft 
Oake, the other is Smilax fimply, and by that ismeant the Yew-tree ; thefirhof — 
the two Herbs is Smilax levis, (mooth Bindweed,, the other is Smilax ce 
the French or Kidney Beane : Gaza, inbis tranflation of Theophraftws, callethit 
Hedera “ilicia becaufe the Leaves thereof are fomewhat like Ivy; andthe Hetrp- 
{cians ca\lit Hedera Spinofa, becaufe of its prickles; the Spaniards call it Zarfapas 
villa, ot Sarfa parila, which fignifieth @ fmsal or little Vine, whereuntoit is like, 
and therefore when they faw the like in Peru, they called it by the famename, fo 
that it is generally fo termed at this day in moft Languages, yet fome weite it Sarg 
Se: ee oe The Kindes. 
» rag SE x 
ex ra 
rhree farts of prickly Bindweed deficea room in this place ; 1. Prickly Bind- 
weed with red Berries: 2,Prickly Bindweed with black Berries: 3. Sar{a parila, or. 
_ the prickly Bindweed of Pers, which isthe moft ufeful, and therefore | thall des 
feribeitaswellasIcan, ia cereal Mae: 
{moaky or brownith colour. The Root; like that of Smilax 4 
and full of joynts or knots, from which fhoot other roots' 
s grow to be great a 
oe 
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the Honduras be 
