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Of the Hiftorie of Plahts. 



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Vicen and Seraph make Nux vomica and time CMetbcl to be one, whereabout there hath 

 been much willing : yet the cafe is plain, if the text be true, that the Thorn Apple is 

 Nu v MctbeLOl the tree that beareth the fruit called in (hops Nux vomica axdNux me- 

 thelx* haue no certain knowledge : fome are of opinion that the fruit is the root or *n herb, & not 

 the nut of a tree : wherefore fince the cafe among the Learned refteth doubtful!, we leaue what els 

 might befaidtoafurtherconfideration. The fruit isround,flat like a little cake of a ruflctoucr- 



colour,fat and flrme, intafte fweet, and of fuch an oily fubftance, that it i* not poflible to 



jvorne 



ftatnp it in a mortaTto pou^cr,but whenit is tobe vfed it muft be grated or fcraped with (bone in- 



ftrnment for that purpofe. * v . . 



2 There be certain nuts brought from the Indies,called Purging nuts,of theif quality in pur- 

 ging grofle and filthy humors:for want of good inftruftion from thofe that haue travelled to the 

 Indies,we can write nothing of the tree it felfe : the Nut is fomwhat long,ouaI,or in rtiape like an 

 t gge,of a brovvnc colour : within the fhell is contained a kernell, in tafte fweer, and ofa purging 



facultie. 



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^f the Place and Time. 







Thefe Nuts do grow in thedefarts of Arabia,and in fome places of the Eaft Indies : we haue no 

 certain knowledge of their fpringingor time of maturitie. 



4$ The Names. 



Avicenzfatmtxh the Vomiting nut tobe ofa poifonous qualitie, cold in the fourth degree, ha- 

 iling a ftjjpify ing nature,ahd bringing deadly fleepe. 



€[J TheFertues. 





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y Hefe fruits areof diuers forts and kinds.wherofwe haue little knowledge more than the fruit* 



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. plentifully etm.oL, Sffi^ y. ul g«terf^fe in ui 



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 laoa whefe they 



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them tothe other poitsTtflndV The^VnT?" u fe tobu y them in Uo '* nd Sun " 



* ' - - ' Tt3e PIant which carrieth this fruit hath leaues 



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Of the phyficall vertues of the Vomiting Nuts we thinlce it not necefTaric to write, becatf fe the 

 danger i$ great, and not to be giuen inwardly, but mixed with other Compofitions, and that very 

 curioufly by the hands ofa faithfull Apothccarie. 



The pouder of the nut mixed with fome flefli and caft vnto Crowes and other ravenous Fowles, B 

 doth kill,at the leaft fo dull their fences,that you may take them with your hands. 



They makealfo an excellent fallet, mixed with fome meat or butter, and laid in a garden vvhere C 

 Cats vfe to fcrape to bury their excrements, fpoiling both herbs and alfo feeds new fovrne. 







