* 
19 4 
® MuGo,or 
Miflo, id es#, in 
fom made or 
compound 
wine, 
% Thought to 
be Acacia. 
* Ourla lies 
thiftle. 
The foureand twentieth Looke 
Asconcetning gums, I have heretofore declared how many kinds thereof are tobe found. G 
To fpeake of them in generall, The better that any gum is, the more effeQuall bee the operati- 
ons thereof: hurtfull they are to the teeth :they have a propertie to thicken or coagulat bloud, 
and therfore be good for thofe who caft and reach up bloud : likewife they be fingular for burns, 
as alfo for the windpipe and inftruments of refpiration, The {uperfluous and corrupt urine with- 
in the body ,they provoke and give paflage unto. They dull and diminifh the bitternefle of other 
medicines wherin they be mingled, howfoever otherwife they be aftringent and do fortifie other 
qualities. That which commeth from the bitter almonds, and is of a {tronger operation to thic- 
ken and incraflat,hath vertuc alfo to heat the bodie. The beft gums be thofe of plumtrees, che- 
rie trees, and vines: they have all of them adrying and aftringent qualitie,ifany partbe annoin- 
ted with them :and diflolved in vinegre, they kill the tettars or ringworms in children,and heale 
them up. Being drunke to the weight of foure oboli,in* new wine,they be good for any invete- 
rat cough.Moreover,they be thought to make the colour more freth,lively,and pleafant;to pro- 
cure and ftirre up the appetite to meat ; alfo to helpethofe who be pained with the ftone;in cafe 
they bedrunke in {weet wine cuit. And toconcludewith fome particularitie, The*gum of the A: 
gyptian thorne is foveraigne for wounds, and all accidents of the eyes. 
, C HAP, XII, 
CS Of the Arabian thorue : of the * white thiftle Bedegnar : of Acan- 
thinm and Acacia, - 
Ouching the Arabian Thorne or Buth, andthe commendable qualities thereof, [have 
futficiently fpoken in the treatife of perfumes and odoriferous confeGions: yet thus much 
morcover I have tofay of the medicinable vertues, That it doth thicken and incraffat thin 
andrheumaticke humors, itreftrainethall catarrhs and diftillations, itreprefleth the reaching 
up bloud, and f{taieth the inmmoderat flux of womens monethly tcearms:for which purpofes the 
rootis more effetuall than any other part of the plant. 7 i 
The feed of the white Thiftle is fingular for the fting of {corpions:a garland madeof it and * 
fet upon the head, affuageth the paine thereof. Much I:ke unto this, is that Thiftle which the 
Grecks cal] Acanthion, but thatthe leaves be much fimaller, and thofe are {harpe pointed and 
prickly all about the edges, and covered witha downe refembling a cobweb; which the people — 
of the Eaft countries doe gather, and therof make certaine cloth for garments,refembling filke. > 
The leaves or roots drunke in fubftance, are {uppofed to bee afingularremedie for the crampe 
or convulfion which draweth the necke and bodie backeward,. on 
Moreover, there is akind of Thorne, whereof commeth Acacia, and itis the juice thereof. Ie 
is found in Agypcto iflue from certaine trees, which be white, blacke, and greene: howbeit,the 
beft Acacia by furre, is chat which the former (that 1s to fay, the white andthe blacke) doe yeeld, 
Thereis made likewife a kind of Acaciain Galatia, which is moft foftand tender; and the tree 
that affourdeth it,is more prickie and thornie than thereft. The feed or fruit of all thefe trees, ts 
like unto Lentils,bur onely that the graine is leffe,and the cod or huske wherein it lieth, fmaller. 
Therightfeafon to gather this fruit,is in aurumune ; for ifit be caken before, it istootoo ftrong, - 
Forto draw this juice which we call Acacia,the cods wherin the grains lie; oughtto bethrongh- 
ly fteeped firft in raine water: foone after, when they be punned orftamped ina mortarythe faid 
juice is prefled foorth with certaine inftraments ferving for the purpofe :which doneythey let it 
remaine within mortarsin the fun, and there take the thickening 5 and fo at length reduceitin- 
tocertain trochifchs,andreferve them for ule. There is a juicelikewife drawne out of the leaves, 
butthe fameis not fo effeGuall asthe other. The curriours ufe to drefle their skins withthe feed 
or grains thereof, in lieu of Galls, The juice which the leaves of the Galatian thorne abovefaid 
doth yeeld, (and namely, the blackeft) is reje@ted for naught; like as that alfo which is ofa deepe 
red colour. Contrariwife,that which is either purple or afh-coloured and rofler to fee too,as allo 
that which will foonc be diffolved, is of exceeding efficacie to thicken and coole withall;andis h : 
preferred before all otherin colyries or eyefalves. Now for thef ufes, fome are wont to wafhthe 
trofches aforefaid, others torrifie and burne them, They are good to colour the haire of the head 
blacke: they heale S. 4xthonies fire, and corrofive fores; yea and all grievances of the bodie that 
confit inmoifture: they cure any impoftuines, joynts that arebruited kibed heels,and thetur. — 
ning 
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