The fecond part ofthe thinges that 
tyme that tye Arabiens did wꝛite, and they made ſome res 
coꝛde of tze Medicines, andthinges which they wrote of, 
iberofthe ancient writers made no mention: one of them 
18 Ambar , which the olde Phiſitians xnewe not befoze the 
Arabiens, foʒ they made no mention of it. 
Thesomple. The vertue therofis to heale, diſſolue ⁊ tõloꝛt any maner 
xion therof. ol wap, wherin it is applied: $02 that the complcrion therof 
te cẽforteth 
the braine 
cr Sinowes. 
What ehe 
is hot and due, with ſome latnes and it hath vertue to mols 
liße, and make ſoft, with other vertues that it hath beũides. 
And being applyed tothe Bꝛaines, in the manner ok an 
oyntment, and melting it with the eſtel of a moꝛter being 
hot, and mingled with the oyle of the flowers ez Dꝛenges, 
in this ſoꝛt it taketh away the griefe of the bead, it comłoꝛ⸗ 
teth the Sine wes, it diſſolueth anx maner of cold. which it 
in them, with a great pꝛerogatiue and help, aſwel in it own 
tozme, as in making a plaiffer of Alpta Afu/cara, which is 
made of certaine campoundes, that it bee applied centinu⸗ 
allp to that parte. 8 | 
Smelling to it in the psece , a making a Pomander 
forelofthe fit mingled with Mulke, and Lign ale, i comfoztethths — 
Amber doth baaines, and apeneth the vnderſtandinge, in the one 
lezte, ox the other, being appiped bnto it, it maketh a 
Good memoꝛis, ans helpeth the vnderſtanding that it may 
better and moze perfite, and it is conuenient that wee 
bf it moze then women, forthe hurte which the goed 
ſmell doeth vnto them, which bee grieued with the Po⸗ 
ther, foz they ought nat to vle it, it there be not a deſtending 
of the other te the lower partes: foꝛ in ſuch cafe it were 
conuenient to ſmell muche to it, fo2 it tauſeth the Bother 
to ryſe vp to his plate, withthe good ſmell, taking ſame 
euill ſauour by the inferioz partes. And like wiſe by {mel- 
ling vnts it, it comtfozteth the heart, and maketh the Spt 
rites valiant and ſtrong: and fo2 this pur poſe it pꝛafiteth, be⸗ 
ing carried abaut ſmelling ta it e time of the 
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