1294 Salmon J" IlerhaL Lib. L 



gives eafe in old painful running Sores ana Ulcers, 

 allays their Inflamations, digelts, cleanfes, incar- 



XIV. The Balfam. ' It digelts and cleanfes ad- 

 mirably all running, putrid or filthy, and foul 

 running Sores and Ulcers ; and with the Mixture 

 aforegoing, quickly incarnates and heals them. 



XV. The Cataplafm. Beaten up with Nitre ir 

 finePouder, adding thereto a little Wine Vinegar^ 



er, and fo applyed to a Simple recent Contufion; 

 away a hot Fluxion if prefent : It d'ifcuffes ho! 

 Tumors alfo, eafes Pain, and is truly profitabk 



CHAP. DCCLII. 

 O/YUCCAj HlUCCi 



OR, 



C A Z A V L 



l.'-r^HE -Names. It being to us a Plant 

 ± new Invention, it cannot be fuppofei 



Mexica/m, fol'ijs Cannah'ink , The True Indian 



Jua7, ZeHetich T/^^w!^L«j^The'*Mailow^ 



3. ncca, fc/ijs 'Aloe's, five ^ucca India purTtl 

 The Suppofititious Indian Casavi : This is not the 

 True Tuua, or Cazavi of OvieSut, Thever, and 

 others, of which the Bread Cafavi is made, as 

 Monardus has plainly demonftrated 1 for the True 

 Jucca is the Hemp-Leav-d Tucca, firft Named, its 

 Leaves being divided into 7, 8, or 9 parts, ftand- 

 ing on long Footftalks, as immediately Vrill be 



The Defcriftions. 



III. The firft, or True Indian Yucca, or Cazavi. 

 Ji VM a pretty great long Root, oi great as that oj 

 a large Carrot, brovin on the out fide, and very white 

 zcithin, alfo Sappy, and full of a Juicy Flejhy 

 Subftance. ThisRoct is Flant/d every Tear, or 

 every other Tear, and quickly grows to be very great 

 or large, and long voitlal. From this Root Springs 

 forth one or more vmdy Stalks, of a^ $, or more 

 feet high growing up to be as tt were a fmall 

 Shrub. Upon the Stalks grow many fair broad 

 Leaves, each upon a long Footjialk, and divided 

 into s, i, 7, or more parts, or fingle Lemes as it 

 z,ere, not much unlike to HeUeborafter, or Hemp- 

 Leaves, (whence it hoj part of its Name,) which 



Cazavi, or Potato-like Cafavi, or Yucca. tL 

 times longer] great and thick at its top, and /harp 

 pointed at the bottom, very like to thofe of th 

 great long Turneps ; Thit Plant is of two forts 

 viz. one which is yellowijh, and another which u 

 white, when they are Boiled or Baked into Bread 

 ^nendlr'l?nder^"eSBrflh"^'/L'^ """^ '""^^ 



not a half, and fome not a third part of the /wTj 

 of (he longer Stalks of Leaves. _ Thefe Stalks have 



iSj-1 



d of the Stalk ; all u 



both greater and f mailer, are roitndijh, with fome 

 refemblance of a Mallow-Leaf; whence come part 

 of the Name. Thefe Stalks of Leaves arefo weak. 



1n^ml'e!nmuch''n?vt 



be veryjhortejl 

 •rfeaiy upright, 



V. The third," 0:" Suppofititious Indian Cafavi. 



iding it felf out ill time, into many other Tube- 



; andholk^ornar%wlutte7edLe^l, "of I 



Yucca Suppofititipus. 



i1Z''Z'LSKj,°L','J,fJZ Z "i^.'Z'd 



f:lX''^^%,fA.t.iri/fP^ 



.iiJa. .Iwof, Cr,„. Tfc StM h li^bl ■„,. 



iz:;j;Zzti;XiTZL"Z'si 



ijh gren color, abiding fiefi continually, or Ja- 



dom falling away, with f ever al hard Threads, un^ 



»r//'K:'£;'7fsv^ 



sAii^;is?n^f'i;^ 



'.bite color on the out fide ; fo that it « a Ihwer 



with. Worn the middle of th^ Bunch of Leaves 



of no great Beauty, and ts only to be ej]eemed <u 

 ^Ixoiick raray. 



fprings up a Jirong round Stalk, and that every^ 



