daue ſpoken beere hath biene fo gine relation ofthe leaues, 
and flowers of it, whieh they haue now bꝛought me. 
One thing z would they ſhould be aduertiſed of, that when 
wee are commaundedto pine Canafſtola, to lighten and fof, 
tenthe belly, and that the tcammon matters may be vopded 
dane is ment that they ſhoulde take it a mall time before 
meate be eaten, at the molt halſe an houre kefore, fo2 the 
meate being mingled ispntlie with it woꝛketh with it and 
in this ozder it makettz a bery good wooꝛzke, and purgeth ves 
ught from che WeltIidias: — Folio 
Nate. 
ry wel, z withont painesitebichts not done with that which 
is taken any long time beloꝛe meate as tio 02 thre honres 
be foze, as nol many do vſe it, foʒ that the meate beeing dis 
lated, it maketh an ende or woꝛking. And as it is a thing 
without ſtrength and weake,it goeth al into vapours, and fo 
Headeth it telfe abꝛoad thꝛoughont allthe bady:and if it tary 
lang, it is conuerted into meate, and ſubſtaunce, which 1 
haue ſeene by experiente manpe veeres wherein J haue 
pꝛadiſed, that alwapes as 1 gaue it halfe an houre before 
meate at the moſt, it maketh a good woꝛke, and if it be giuen 
many houres befeze meat, it purgeth, and euacuateth litle, 
Concerning mingling of medicines, which doo purge, with 
Hipocrates treateth of it in many partes, and 
Galenein bis Commentaries. And trueth it is, that when 
we wil that the Cenafi/te/a ſhould not euatuate, but that the 
bapours ſhoulde bee ſpꝛed abzoade by the reines, and all the 
bodpe, wer gine it many heures before meate, and then not 
wartung mee effec that wa | 
~~ Ofthe Balfamo of Tolu. 
Oꝛoninte which is betweene Cartagena, Numbre 
8 ep neta bing nto com the Frais lande rana 
N eee which the Indians call Lol, a Ballamo, 03 3 
: ian that isthe be thins, tue of areata — ae 
