are brought from the Welt Indias. Fol. 10. 
an Indian, which was Seruaunt toa Spaniarde called 
John Infant. Mee was the firſt that vſed it, they did call it, 
and doo call it at this pꝛe ſent dap: The Hearbe of lohn In- 
fant, This hearb is little, they gather it greene, and beate 
it, and ſo they lay it imply vpon the wound: it doth reſtrain 
and ſtoppe the blood, and it᷑ it bee a wound in the fleſhe, it 
booth cauſs it to grow together, and healeth it by gle wing 
the partes. The woundes of the Sine wes, and other parts 
it dootg tomlozt, mundifie; and ingendzeth fleſhe in them 
vntil they be whole, and becauſe they do not finde this hears 
in all places, theꝝ bꝛing it made into powder, fo; that it 
woozketh the fame effect as well as beeing greene, and the 
pouder, as fome fay, doth it better then the hearbe. 
As this bearbe, fo like wiſe haue vou manꝝ other in all 
the other partes ofthe Indias, that haue the fame and other 
properties, and doo woꝛke maruelous effeces: ⁊ to wʒite of 
enerie one of them perticulerly, it were needfull to make a 
greater volume, then we Boo pꝛetende of this that we Mall 
entreate ol. : 
Cher thinges they being frem our Decidentall Andi⸗ 
as, which at this day be celebzafed in all the woꝛlde, and 
with them they haue made ¢ doo make the greateſt woꝛks 
that euer were made in medicine, z there were neuer p like 
made, by anyother medicine that vnto this day bath berne 
known, fo that the nature of al thee is to cure infirmities 
which without this remedy be incurable, and to wozke the 
effectes that doo (ame to bee thinges of woonder, and theſe 
are notoziens, not onsly in theſe parts, but in all the woʒld: 
the which thinges are the wd that is called Guasscan, the 
China undthe Sarcapariiia. And foꝛ that it ſetmeth that 
the China death come from Peꝛtingall, and that the Poꝛtin⸗ 
gales do bꝛing it from the Oꝛientall Indias, and not from 
surs,3 wil ap What is tu he ſaid heraſter whe we da ſpeak 
thereof, And thereloꝛe let vs beginns with Gusiacan, as of 
nm ee tat canes ne tbe ee, 
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