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tertian seues: but they laya great charge, that it fhould in any wile be plucked tupwith the left’ G 
hand, and the parties precifely named for whofe fakethey gather it! but in any cafe ‘they who 
placke it,zmuft not looke behindthem: which done, a leafe of the hearbe muftbe pur under the 
tongue of the fick Patient; and when it hath been held fo a little while, ir muft anonbe fwallow? 
ed downe in acyath of waters’ At ed 0! 0. HOLS SU gett oitis) ROUT a0 ; 
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CY by the: name of Trychaos: would toGod thar che ‘guirland-avakers of Agypt had not 
emploied and ufed in‘ their chaplets the flours of twokinds of them, induced’ thereto-by 
therefemblance that they have to the Lvie flours : of which, the fecond that hath red’ berries like 
cherries of a {carletcolour, conteined within certaine bladders, and thofe berries full of grains 
oo or feeds, fomename * Halicacabus, others Callion ; but our countreymen here in Italy call it 
wor racer for *Veficaria, becaufeic is good for the {tone in the bladder. Certes this plant is more likea fhrub 
tharehefaid or littletrec full of braunches,than any hearbe:bearing great and large bladders, and thofe fa- 
bere Vt fhioned likea top, broad & Aut at one end, and fharpe pointed at another; enclofing within it a 
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ikea bladder great berie,which ripeneth in the month November. [he third kind of Strychnos or Solanum, 
hath leaves like to Bafill: but I muft burlightly touch this hearbe, and not ftand long about the “I 
defcription either of it or the properties which it hath; fince my purpofe.is to treat cf holefome 
remedies to fave folke, and not of deadly poifonsto kill them: tor certes,this hearbe is fo dange- 
rous,that a very little of the juice thereof isendough to trouble a mans braine, and put him be- 
fides his right wits. And yet the Greeke writers have madé good {port with'this heatbe, and re- 
ported pretie jeafts of ic: For (fay chey) whofoever taketh adram of thejuice, fhallhave many 
ftraungs fancalies appearing evidendy ustothem ia their dreams; ifthey be men, that they 
_ dally with faire women ; if women, that they bewantons playing and roying with men, withoue 
allfhameand modeftie;and a thoufand fuch vaine illufions: burin cafe they take this dofe dou- 
ble, then they fhallproove foolith indeed, broad waking, yea and goe befides themfelves: let 
them take never fo little more, it is mortall and noremedie then but death, This is that poifon, 
which the mott harmeleffe aad beft minded writers that ever wrote, called fimply Dorycnion: - 
for that fouldiers going to battaile, ufed to annointand envenome therewith the heads of theit 
arrows, darts,and {peares, growing as it did fo commonly in every place. But cther writers,who 
had not fought fo tar into the matier, nor advifedly confidered of it, gave it the name of Mani- 
con, Bur thofechat of anaughiie mind, cared not fecretly to empo:fon the whole world, have 
hidden the daunger chereof,and tearme it by a name pretending no harme;fome calling it Neu- 
ris; others Periflon, Butas I protefted before, [thinke itnot good tobe too curious and bufie 
about the defcription of this bearbe notwithitanding I might feeme to give a good caveat of it, 
by further particularizing thereo!, Well, the very fecondkind which they call Halicacabus,isbad 
enough, tor itis more foporiferouls than Opium, aud foonercafteth aman intoa dead fleepe, L 
thar he fhallnever rife againe, Some name it Morion, others Moly: and yet it hath not wanted 
thofe that have thougit ic praife- worthie: for Drocles and Evenor have highly commendedit: 
and Timar:ftus verely hath not thucke to. write verfes inthe commendation of it: A wonderfull 
_ thing thar men fhould fo farre over-paffe theafelves,and forget all honeftie and plaine dealing: 
for they fay (forfoorh)thar a collucion made of this hearbe, confirmeth the teeth that be loofe 
inthe head, if the mouth be wafhed therewith? And one onely fault theyfoundin Halicacabus, 
(otherwife it might be praifed without exception) that if the faid collution were long continued, 
“iewould trouble the brain,and bring the partie that uled it,to foolerie and idlenefle of head But 
formine owne patt,my meaning isnottofet downeanyfuch receits and remedies y which may__, 
bring afurthér daunger with them,than the-very difeafe iefelfe for which they are devifed. The M 
_ thirdkind alfoiis commendea for to be eatén as meat, although the garden Morell is preterred 
.) -beforeitin -pleafaatneffe of tat Moreover; Xevecyates avoucheth, Thatthere isno maladie in- 
vol. eident ro our bodie, butthe faid Morell is eeod for it .- Howbeit, | make not fo great reckoning 
joup-.) and account of allthelielpschur thele and {isch like hearbs may affourd, as [do make confcience 
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