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rjfe vtntnat-um homini. Canibus autem letiferum eJfefcio y nonfolumfi 

 fitmart. And beforehc hiA^quafinov alia mult a cam bus fi> 



r J turn ft vnitifPOnacrcjHmam . n.u« v^mv. uw i+iu^uap mt* ana mnua lamuns jim vcnm^ qu& norm- 



Mtu (nnt • vt dt aftaragofcrtur. Of the fame opinion with Gefner is Pen a and Lobd^ who 2 A duet f. 



190&29 1 - do lar S cl y handle cIlis natter, and exceedingly derideand fcoiTe at xMMkMm for 

 hlsVeberncnt declaiming again ft the vfe thereof. Now briefcly my opinion is this,That the Dm- 

 mam here mentioned is not that mentioned and written of by Serafio and the Arabians : neither is 

 it the Admin* i\irda!ianchcs oiDiofcorides^ nor offo malignant a quality as M U tbiolus would haue 

 u. tor I my fclfe alfo hatic often eaten of it,and that in a pretty quantity,vvithout the lea ft offence.f 



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I haue fuificicntly fpoken of that for which I haue warrant to write, both touching their natures A 

 and vcrtues^ for die matter hath continued fo ambiguous and fodoubtfuIl,yea,and fofull of con- 

 rroucrfies, that I daredaot commit that to the world which I haue read.-thefe few lines therefore 

 foall (office 'fo w r this prefent • the reft which might be faid I refer to the greatand learned Doftors, 

 and to vour oivnc con (ideration. 



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Thefc herbes are mixed with compound medicines that mitigate the paine of the eies, and by B 

 rtafon of his cold quality : being frefh and greene, it helpeth the inflammation or fiery heate of the 



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w could hardly beleeue,but that at length he found it out to be true by a manifeft example, as he 

 confefTeth in his Commentaries. 



X I hane(faith Gefner) oft with very good fuccefle prefcribed it to my Patient?, both alone, as 

 womixed with other medicines, efpecially in the Vertigo and falling ficknefle : fometimes alfo I 



ix therewith Gentian, the pouder of Mide-toe, and Utfirmti : thus it workes admirable effects 

 "ine fcpilepfie,if the vfe thereof be continued for fome time. ± 



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hap. 2^5. Of Sage 



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I He great Sage is very full of ftalkes, foure fquarc, of a wooddy fub fiance, parted into 



JL branches,about the which grow broad leaues, !ong,wrinkled,rough, whitiils, very like 



"^knclo 1° ! heIcatles of wilc *e Mullein, but rougher, and not fo white, like in roughneflc to 



faail h ust iS of a P ur P Ie bIew colour jin the place of which doth grow little blackiih feeds, 

 •» ti .2* The root is hard and wooddy, fending forth a number of little firings. 



r Sage is alfo a fhrubb v olant. fpred into branches like to the former, butkfler: 



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footed bcafb,ivithin the compaffe of one day, not by taken it inwardly onIy,but if the herb or rooc 

 be tied vnto their priuie parts. Yet hee writeth further, That the root being drunke is a remedy 

 agaioft the flinging of Scorpions 5 which fheweth,that this herbe or the rooc thereof is not deadly 

 toman,buc to diners beafts only : which thing alfo is found out by triall and manifeft experience * 

 fotC<mr*deGe{ner(& man in our time Angularly learned, and a moft diligent fearchcr of many 

 things)ina certaine Epiftle written two Adolf hut <w,ftieweth, That he himfelfe hath oftentimes 

 inwardly taken the root hereof greene,dry, whoIe,preferued with hony,and alfo beaten to pouder ; 

 and that euen the very fame day in which he wrote thefe things, he had drunke with warme water* 

 two drams of the roots made into fine pouder, neither felt he any hurt thereby : and that he often- 

 times alfo had giuen the fame to his ficke Patients, both by it felfe, and alfo mixed with other 

 things, and that very luckily. Moreouer, the A pothecaries in ftead of Doronicum doc v fe (though 

 amine) the roots thereof without any manifeft danger. 

 That this Aconite killeth dogs,it is very certaine, and found out by trial! : which thing Matthio- D 



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