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into pouther & put . . . water will colour the water blew within an hour. All 

 fowle ulcers eyther of the mouth or privy partes of man or woman beinge washed 

 will presently cleanse them & take away or restrain their virulancye. 4 gr. in 

 p. to jij aq* rosaijL p hora. 



Coque ... is a certaine tree well knownen to all in Brasill growing plentifully 

 in the woods about Pernambuco very like unto the Lentisk or Mastick tree 

 whose barck being boiled after a pound thereof hath ben cut small in 16 poundes 

 or pintes of water to the halfe, adding therto 3iij of allom in the boiling, wc^ 

 when it is strained & setled will become of so pure a purple colour as if it 

 were made of ostriim or the purple fishe, or of the colour of the red Feild 

 Poppye. The face washed with this water besides that it coloureth the black 

 spotts in the face, it geveth to the face & lips so beautifull a Rose colour that it 

 would be a brave fucus for women : but this colour will not abide above eight 

 dayes although before that tyme it will not be blemished by many washings, but 

 after that tyme the colour fading it will change into a dark Rose colour and 

 after 4 dayes more will be quite consumed ; yet those black spots that were 

 in the face before will no more appear, but by using this water againe upon 

 the face etc the fresh colour will be apparant againe : If this barck were 

 brought us it would redound much to the good of women, who to beautifye 

 them selves with Arsenicum sublimatum, Cerussa, Camphire & other such 

 thinges doe exchange their good for wrinckles, fowle ulcers in their gums, 

 blacknes of teeth, rottennes and stincking of the breath. 



The Cabbage Tree groweth to an incredible height neere unto 200 foote bare 

 without branches unto the very toppe as most of the kindes of Palme-trees doe, 

 where among the long leaves groweth this round heade or cabbage, to gett 

 which they usually cut downe the tree at the roote. The stemme or bodye 

 therof having not much above 2 inches thickness of wood, the rest being of 

 a pithy substance. From this tree likewise they drawe wine as from the Coco 

 &; other Palmito trees by boring a hole tS: applying a tappe or other convenient 

 thing with a gourd or the like to receave the liquor that droppeth therfrom, & 

 in 12 howres will by droppes fill the vessel & so will it doe from tyme to tyme 

 by boring new holes one after another beginning above & so descending: what 

 fruite this tree doth beare, our men that have had the benefit herof were never 

 so wise or industrious to observe, feeding like swine on the mast but never 

 looking higher. 



The water destilled in glasse vessels from Cloves while they are greene, 

 besides the excellent smell they yeld, it hath ben found by good experience not 

 onely to expell windye humours in the bodye, but that disease also called 

 Priapismus and that effectually. The like is thought may worke the destilled 

 water of the fresh flowers taken from the Cinamon trees or from the fresh 

 Cinamon itselfe. 



The fruite or nutt called Cola growing in Guiney & like a chesnutt hath 

 ben often used and found very effectual for chapt lipps, and the descomities of 

 the skin, the itching of womans partes, the raggednes of the nailes, the rednes 

 of face, much Dickwek often castings, the falling of the haire, . . . and many 

 other diseases that proceed from the heate and distemper of the liver, as 

 also against fevers &; burning agues, very profitable drincking some endive 

 water after it. The tree is like to the Chesnut tree & so is the nut both 

 for forme & greateness but of a pale reddish colour on the outside & a little 

 bitter in taste. 



