216 APPENDIX. 



And tills was translated out of French into English by 

 Mr. Henry Lyte, and set forth with figures, Ann. Bom. 

 1578; and divers times since printed, but without figures. 

 In the 3^eare 1552 Dodonseus set forth in Latine his 

 ' Frugum historia,' and, within a while after, his * Florum 

 purgantium et deleteriorum historia.'' And afterwards he 

 put them all together, his former and those his later 

 Works, and diuided them into 30 books, and set them 

 forth -with 1305. figures, in fol. Ann. 1583. This edition 

 was also translated into English, which became the founda- 

 tion of this present Worke, as I shall shew hereafter. It 

 hath since been printed in Latine, with the addition of 

 some few new figures; and of late in Dutch, Ann. 1618, 

 with the addition of the same figures, and most of those in 

 the Exotichs of Clusius, and great store of other additions." 



Kam's Little Dodeon. 



"'A briefe Epitome of the new Herball, or History 

 of Plants out of the most exquisite,' " &c. The author 

 of this curious little work, of which there is a copy in the 

 British Museum, was, I suppose, the William Ramme, 

 alluded to by Gerard in his chapter on the Thorn-apple : — 

 " The iuice of Thorne apples boiled with hogges grease to 

 the forme of an vnguent or salve, cureth all inflammations 

 whosoeuer, all maner of burnings or scaldings, as wel of fire, 

 water, boiling lead, gunpowder, as that which comes* by 

 lightning, and that in a very short time, as myselfe haue 

 found by my daily practise, to my great credite and profite. 

 The first experience came from Colchester, where mistresse 

 L'obel, a marchants wife there, being most greeuously 

 burned with lightning, and not finding ease or cure in any 

 other thing, by this founde helpe when all hope was past, by 

 the report of master William Ramme, publike notarie of the 

 saidc town was perfectly cured." 



