Lib. 2. 



Of the Hiftorie of Plants* 



407 



«|[ The Vert ties. 



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made 



The berries of Herbe Paris giuen by the fpace of ttventie daies, arc excellent good againft poy- A 

 fon ot the ponder of the herbe dnmke in like manner halfc a fpodnefull at a time in the morning 



a The "lame is miniftrcd with great fucccflc vntofuch as are become peeuifh 3 or without vnder- B 

 ftanding,beingminiftredasisaforefaid 5 euery morning by the fpace of twenty daies, as S^-* 2 - 

 Ssrdus and UAatthiolm haue recorded. Since which time there hath been further experience rc 

 therof againft poy fon, & put in pra&ife in the citie of Paris,in Louaine,and at the baths in Helue- 

 tia,by the right excellent Herbarifts Matthias dt LoM, and Petrm Pcna, who hauing often read, that 

 it was one of the Aconites^called ?Arddunches y zxA lb by confequence of a poyfoning quality,they 

 gaue it vntodogs and lambes, who receiued no hurt by the fame : wherefore they further profecu- 

 ted the experience thereof,and gaue vnto two dogs faft bound or coupled together,a dram of Arfe* 

 nickc,and one dram of Mercury fublimate mixed with flefli ( % in the ^yiduerfaria it is but of each 

 halfc a dram,and there/aj.i o 5 .you may finde this Hiftory more largely fet downe. t ) which the 

 dogs would not willingly eate,and therefore they had it crammed downe their throats :vnto one 

 of thefe dogs they gaue this Antidote following in a little red winc,whereby he recouered his for- 

 mer health againe within a few houres: but the other dog which had none of the medicine^ died 

 incontinently. 



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R. vtriu^ut^Angdiu (innuit) domtjticAm,&filueftrtm,VicttQxici^vd^ 



^Mezerei 



<fi 



i^dlthtey&VrtiUtana^. 

 joliorum ejufdtm cam w*,2tymt. 36. Ejcmaceratis in acetoradtcUvs &fi 





nds. 



very good,as Iodchimns Camerarius reporteth • who likewife faith,that the po 

 to drinke,doth fpeedily ceafe the gripings and paine of the Collicke. 



Small Moone- woort is lingular to heale greene and frefh wounds ; it ftaieth the bloudy flix. It 

 hath beene vfed among the Alchymifts and witches to doe wonders withall, who fay, that it will 

 loole lockes,and make them to fall from the feet of horfes that grafe where it doth grow, and hath 

 beeoc called of them itor/*^, whereas in truth they are all but drowfie dreames and illufions-buc 

 it is fingular for wounds as aforefaid. 



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hap. po. Of Winter ^Greene. 



% The Defcrimo* 



1 



Ty^h hath many tender and very greene Ieaues,aImoft like the leaues of Beet,but rather 



X in my opinion like to the leaues of a Peare-tree, whereof it tooke his name PjnU, for 



that it is Pyriformis. Among thefe leaues commeth vo a ftalke sarniffied with n«>tr;* 



Valley 



i root is imall and threddy, creeping far abroad vnder the ground . 



the leau« ,n? fl r 0rn ? e Iaft defc " b ^n the flenderneflc of the (hikes, and fmalnefle of 



iWdo i„S T S : c the Ieaueso ^his are not fo thicke, and fubftantiall, but very thinne 



^^^^^„ras.r« vnder the rao{rc - u &°™ ^ «* ass; 



and Qntru a 1 7 „ ilWTC P ucs V P new " ai 



, ^ A1 P«, and floures in Iune and Iuly. 



growing vn^ a l!i e i a ^ plant > and t ometim « becomes * rabb yi fo r <oe new and 



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t-l 9— --"^uwuc Dytne 



re^T^ lv «-chpI, 



II 



lbo «t the ed 



«icaues,aimoitm tormeand magnitude like to the leai 

 •tatery drying tafte, and thenbitterifo. From among th 



foure 



grow 





