A 



B 



D 



E 



26$ Of the Hiflorie of Plants. L 



JB.l. 



roots 



feth. 



glnily 



mcrca. 



hath very many long branches ramping and taking hold of fuch things as do «row neei fvn? i" 1 

 of a darkift aft coloar : whereupon do grow leaues (harp pointed,crooked atthe fettinpT r > 

 ftalke like thofe of the blacke Bryony,and likewife of anafhe colour.fet together by cou I c thc 

 the bofome whereof thruft forth fmall tender foot-ftalkes, whereon are placed fmall whit C fl 

 ftar- faOiion : the feeds are contained in long cods,and are wrapped in downe,like as thofe of? 1 ? 

 low- wort. The root is very long, {lender, and creeping,like that of the fmall Bindweed Co rL r 

 once take in any ground,itcan hardly be deftroied. ' tflatlt 't 



i 1 



€[f The Place. 



It doth grow in hot regions.in a fat toilers in Mifia,Syria,and other like countries of Afo > * 

 likewife found in thelfland of Candia>as Bellow witnelTeth^from whence I had forae feeds of X' h 

 feed I receiued two plants that profpered exceeding well • the on^ whereof I beftowed vpon a ] e 

 ned Apothecary of Colchefter 3 which continueth to this day, bearing both floures and ripe feed* 

 But an ignorant weeder of my garden plucked mine vp, and caft it away in my abfence, in ftcad of 

 a weed : by which mifchance I am not able to write hereof fo abfolutcly as I determined ; it like- 

 wife growethneerevnto the feafide about Tfipolis in Syria 3 where the inhabitants doe call it 



tJHeudheudi. 



qf The Time. 

 It floured in my Garden about S James tide, as I remember, for when I went to Briftow Fairc 

 I left it in floure j but at my returne it was deftroied as aforefaid. 



^J The Names. 



The Greekescallit 3 ^*w*™«: thch^tints^Scammonium, fo naming not onely the plant it feJfe,bu£ 

 alfo the hard and condenfed juyce : of the Apothecaries^ cammMeapnd when it is prepared,!)/^. 



Rhafi. 



^ The Temperature. 



The juyce doth mightily purge by theftoole, and is the ftrongeft purge wha*foeuer ;foras Oru 

 bafius faith, it is in no part ouercome by thofe things which ftir and moue the body. Itworkethtbc 

 fame not vehemently by any hot quality, but by fome other hid and fecret property of the whole 

 fubftance : for there is no extremity of heat perceiued in it by tafte : for with what liquor or thing 

 foeuer it is mixed, it giueth vnto it no bittewelTe, biting,or other vnpleafant tafte at all, and there- 

 fore it is not to be accounted among the extreme hot raedicines,but amongft thofe thatare mode- 



rately hot and dry. 



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times flcgme,yet is it as P mitts teacheth,more hurcfull to the ftomacke than any other medicine. 

 OUefues thinketh that it is not onely troublefome and hurtlull to the ftonsacke, but alfo that 'f 



ihaueth the guts,gnawing and fretting the intrails ; openeth the ends of the veincs,and th rougl i t« 

 eflence of his whole fubftance,it is an enemy to the tieart,and to the reft of the inward parts.i/ii 

 vfed immoderately and in time not conuenient,itcaufeth Avounings, vomitings, and ouerturnicg 

 of the ftomacke, fcouring,the bloudy flux and vlcers in the lower gut.which bring a continuaii 



fire to the ftoolc. . . -i,^ 



C Thefc mifchiefes are preucnted if the Scammonie be boiled in a Quince and mixed wi 



oirRB, 



a flimiejnyce,with a little maftickeadded 3 or fome other eafie binding thing. . m niooic 



Pliny affirmeth that the hurt thereof is taken away if Aloes be tempered with it i L^caro 

 (faith he) ouerthroweth theftomack, purgeth choler, loofeth the belly vnlefletwodranis ^ 



put vnto one lcrupleof it]which alfo Orihafi. 

 the feuenth booke of his medicinall Colkaions. 



to 

 thout 



F 



beeaten 3 hauing caft away the Scammony :and this quince fo taken doth moue ™ e J,^], fee 

 any hurt vnto the ftomacke, as Galen in his firft booke of the Faculties of Nouniwnt 

 downe,and likewife in his third booke of the Faculties of fimple Medicines. ^ nafT * 



The Apothecaries do vfe Scammonie prepared in f ^-— ■*"* as wc Iuue 

 Diarridium* and do mix it in diuers compofitions. 



Quince, 



They 



