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Of the Hiflorie of Plan ts. 



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CafiiajiftuU, 



Pudding Pipe tree. 



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This tree was vnknown to the old writers or 

 lb little accounted of, as that they haue made 



eftcemed of 



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the vfe of the pulp which is found in the pipes; 

 and after them the later Grecians, as jfiuariu) 

 and others of his tirae,by whom it was nam ed 

 «.«««*«-, that is to fay in Latinc,C«yfc w^.the 

 fruit thereof,faith Altuanus^lib.^, is like a long 

 pipe,hauing within it a th icke humour oV moi- 

 fture, which is not congealed all alike through 

 the Pipe,but is feparated and diuided with ma- 

 ny partitions,beingthin woody firings. Tfrea- 

 pothecaries call it CaJfafiJiuL, and with a dou- 

 oltjffiapt fiftufa. It is called in Englifh after 

 the Apothecaries word,Caffia fiftula.and may 

 alfo be Englifhed Pudding Pipe , becaufe the 

 cod or pipe is like a pudding. But the old Caf. 

 fia fiflula or «»y>f in Greek c,is that fwectand 0- 

 doriferous barke that is rolled together after 

 the manner of a long and round pipe, now na- 

 med of the Apothecaries G»//4 lignea, which is 

 a kinde of Cinamon. 



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The pulp of this Pipe , which is chiefcly in 

 requeft, is moift in the later end of the fitft dc- 

 gree,and little more than temperat Jy hot. 



The oulo of Caflia fift 





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it may be 



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women with childe 5 for it gently purgeth choierick humors and (limy flcgme, if it be 



taken in the weight of an ounce. 



ed with hot agues,pleuri(ies 3 jaundice 



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• >un.uiuv.ui an ptiiv.giiiuus aiiia uiudUidLlu 



theaartcriajeafmg thofe parts exceeding well. 



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, hemencie of thirftinagues,orany hot difcafewhatfoeuer, efpecially if it 



betaken wirh the iuyce of Intybumfiichoreumpt Selanum^eputed according to Art. It abateth al- 

 io the intemperat heat of the reins,if it be receiued with diuretick medicines,or with thedecoai- 

 on of Licorice only,and will not fuffer the ftone to grow in fuch perfons as do receiue and vfe this 

 medicine. 



The beft Caflia for your vfe is to be taken Out of the moft full, heauy, and faireft cods or canes 

 jnd thofe which fhine without^nd are full of foft pulpe within : that pulpe which is newly taken 

 forth is better than that which is kept in boxes,by what art foeuer. 



Caflia being outwardly applied taketh away the roughneffe of the skin^nd being laid vpon hot 

 welhngs it bringeth them to fuppuration. 



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t0 my purpofe or hiftorie. 



th this Caffia,which here 



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