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Of the Hiftoric of PJ am 



Cuminum fativum Diofcoridit 



Garden Cumin. 



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Cumin xs husbanded and feme in t. , 



Spame, and is very common i^oE h*>* 

 tries, as in Ethiopia, Egvot C ;i ° tco * 



the Ieffer A C„ V * Cg yP t ' Clh cu, and all 



and hot foiles i I JE £Hffi £F 

 garden^ here they haueLugh Jfaff ' 



putrifiei 



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It is to be fown in the middle of thefiA, 

 howreofrainprefently following nJS 



de S th r t , h ^^ th thereof > «**2 

 My (elf did fow it in the midft of May »b4 



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« is cauca in ureeice»>uwv.B»,tluti$ tame 

 or garden Cumin, that it may differ from fc 

 wild ones : it is named in Latine Cumnum-.t 

 (hops, Cymimm : in high-Dutch, l&OHUfy 



kpmmcl t in Italian.Cwww. in Spanifli,Oa» 

 f^w .• in French. Cow/» .• in Enelifli. Cumin. 



f TA* Tmftnturt. 

 The feed ofgarden Cumin, as G4lt»hit\i$ 



hoc and dry in the third dcgtcvDiofcmdci &ich 

 that it hath in it alio a binding quality. 



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A The feed of Cumin fcattereth and breaketb all the windinelTe of the fiomacke t belly^uts, and 

 matrixritisgood againft the griping torments,gnawing or fretting of the belly,not only recciued 

 inwardly by the mouth, but alfo in clyfters,an4 outwardly applied to the belly with wiwaod bar- 

 ley meale boiled together to the forme of a pultis. 



Being handled according to art,either in a cataplafn^pultis, or plaifter,or boiled ill wine and .0 



applied,ittakethawaybIaftings/wellingsofthecodsorgenitors:k^ 

 ^ in the joints,and fuch like. 



c Being taken in a fupping broth it is good for the cheft and cold lungs,and fuch as are oppfctted 



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with abundance of raw humors. 



It ftancheth bleeding at the nofe, being tempered with vineger and fmelt vnto. , 



Being auilted in a little bag with fome fmall quantitie of Bay fait , and made hot ¥"*~J 

 pan with fire or fuch like,and fprinklcd with good wine vinegcr,and applied to die fide very n > 

 taketh away the ftitch and paines thereof^ nd eafeth the pleurifie very much. 



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h a p. 42.0, Ofmlde Cumin, 



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T? Cf f j e di . uers P iants differing very notably one from another in fhape , and yet* 

 * hendedvnder the wilde Cumin. 



^ The Defcriptie*. 



1 np He wild Cumin hath fmall white roots with fome fibres thereto {PP^ff^dS 



1 * hich *«ferundry little jagged leaues, confifting of many icfltf Ieajw, .n ^ f in . 



£eth vp a (lender bending ftalk a foot hieb.like vnto fe&en Veneris JxxnZ at the top u. ^ 



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