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Lib. 2. 



Of the Hiflorie of Plants, 





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Rht Pontic urn Siccaium. 



Rubarb of Pontus dried 





^ The Nature. 



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Rubarb is of a mixc fubftance , tempera- 

 ture,and faculties : fbme of the parts thereof 

 are earthy , binding and drying ; others thin, 

 airous, hor^and purging. 



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Rubarb is commended by Diofcorides , a- A 

 gainft windinefle^weaknefle of the ftomack, 

 and all griefes thereof, Convulfions, difeafes 

 of the fpIeen J liuer f andkidnies D gripings, and 

 inward gnawings of the guts , infirmities of 

 the bladder andcheft, fvvellings about the 

 heart, difeafes in the matrix, pain in the hue- 

 tie bones, fpit ting of b loud, fhortnefle of 



breath,yexing,or the hicket, the bloudy flix, 

 the laske proceeding of raw humors 3 fi ts in a- 

 gues , and again ft the bitings of venomous 

 beafts. 



Moreouerhee faith, that it taketb away B 

 blackeand blew fpots, and Tettars or Ring- 





wormes^f it be mixed with vineger, and the 



place anointed therewith. 



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cramps^nd convulfions, & for thofe that are 



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becaufe it was not vfed in thofe days to purge 

 with. Gdtn held opinion, That the thin ai- 

 rous parts do make the binding qualitie of more force, not becaufe it doth refift the cold and ear- 

 thy fubftance,but becaufe it carrieth the fame, and maketh it deeply to pierce,and therby to work 

 the greater effe& • the dry and thineffence containing in it felfe a purging force & quality to open 

 obftruaions,but helped and made more facile by the fubtill and airous parts.P4«/*» ^Egineta fee- 

 mcth to be the firft that made triallof the purging facultie ofRubarb j for in bis firft book,^. 43 

 ik 'kS" m f nCl0n tnere °i>here he reckons vp Turpentine among thofe medicines which make 

 the bodies of fuch as are in health foluble : But when we purpofe(faithhe)to make the tnrpenti ne 

 more itjong we adjvnto it a little Rubarb. The Arabians that followed him brought it to a farther 

 vfcmpbyficMs chiefly purging downward choler,and oftentimes flegme. 

 1 he purgation which is made with Rubarb is profitable and fit for all fu 

 cuoier^nd for thofe that are ficke nf fkar™. *rM r,»rt-;<m f*,„»,c ™n*.,„ ,u n . 





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nJjn 1 ^ 8 ? ^^ 1 * againft AepleuriGc.inffamroation of the lungs.the fqinancy or Squincy, 

 rainft C c : , ? rie,, " flammation o^hekidnies,bladder,and all theinward parts, and efpecially a' 



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beSE^«-? doubt f; dIy a nefpccialIgood medicine for theliuerand infirmities of the gall • for 

 ^mriat it purgeth forth cholericke and naughty humors, it rcmooueth ftoppings out of the 



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d iucr s thH!| h ^ ! f 7 K ft r ngth , ncth the intrals thcmfeiuesjnfomuch that Rubarb is iuftly termed of 

 kinds of mrdt?^ )f? <***&. i i -of the method or manner of curin-^mrmeth, that fuch 



%SS ^ fi f 30d P fofitabIe for thc Iiuer > aS haxle io y ncd wl & a purging and one 



<° S^lSr ° r bindin g/r 5- Th f qUandde that is t0 be § to " &* oJc dram 

 T» .-c ? "»tuuon from one and a lialfe to three. 



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End aA'rT ' fte , e P ed > and th « in hot 

 ^"diu.cor fot ne other of rh* I iu n„„r* 



ifeafes 



g'ueninwine. 

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imes giuen beeing dried at the fire, but fo, that the lead or no part thereof** all 

 •eing fovfed, it is a remedie for the bloudy Flix, and for all kinds of Laskcs : for 



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