- of Plinies Naturall Hiftorie. 
A andinoneword, toworkeallthofe effets which I fhall attribute hereafter tolead. 5 obi} 
Furthermore, braffe it felfe may be burnt 5 and being fo prepared, it ferveth for all thofe. put- 
pofes beforenamed : over and above, it cureth thepearls, filins and skartes in the eyes: if it be in 
corpotatwith milke, irhealeththe ulcers in the eyes :the fame jlikewife they ufe to grind upon 
hard ftones,after the. manner of the Egyptiancollyric : taken as a lohoch inwardly wich honey, 
it canfech vomit. Now astouching copper, the manitiet isto burne.it in unbaked earihen pans, 
with the like weight of brimftone; but all the breathing holes of the furnace, ought to bee well 
clofedand luted up where they muft ftand, untill fueh ume asthe faid pans be throughly baked » 
hard:fome putfale thereto: others in ftead of brimftone take alume: and there be againe, who 
ufeneitherthe onenor the other,but fprinkle it well with vinegréonely : when itisthuscalcined, . 
B_ they punitin amorter of Thebaicke marble; andthen wath it inraine water.Howbcit, this firtt 
Jotion of it maketh itbut weake and of {mall cffect :and therefore it had necdof a fecond wat 
ing, in a greater quantiti¢iof water; and to be braiéd againe therein, and lete fo ftanding vatillit 
be fetled. This would be reiterated often, null fuch time as it be brought toluoke like unto Mile 
niuni; after that,it ought to be dried inthe Sun,and faved in abrafen box. | , Jats sibs 
Caap -X1 | : sche gies 
2& Of the drolfe or refule of brafse : of the skalesof bralve : of Verdegreace or Spanifh +21 
| greene : of Stomoma of Verdegrence which is the ruft of © 208 olyi9e 
Cc Mises ; Braffe, and of Hieracium, J eno horlaashs 4 
"He droffe of Braffe is wahed after the fame manner, bur of leffe effect it is than Braffe ic 
felfe: howbeit the floure of brafle or verdegreace, is much ufed in phyficke: and engendred 
itis, when brafleis melced by much blowing, and then transferred out of the furnace into 
other receptacles; and there, are {haken outcertaine skales of millet,and this they call Flos zris, 
7. Verdegreace, Now thefe skales nfe to fall off, when as the maffes of brafle be cooled with water 
and bexred. Likewife of the fame maffes, there is made that which they call Lepis; and thus, the 
verdegreace may be fophifticated, fo as the faid Lepis or skales bee {ofd for it. Now thefe skales 
come,by being driven and fmitten off from thofe nails which they ufe to forge of the faid mafles 
and lumps of braffe, and all thefe moft commonly are found in the Cyprian forges:herein on- 
D ly isthe difference ;that the forefaidskales are driven forcibly and {mitten from the faid pains or 
mafles of brafle, whereas the floure of verdegreace falleth off by itfelfe.And yet thereis afecond 
kind of thefe skales more fine and-fubtile than the other, to wit, driven and {mitten from theve- 
rie oucfide and uppermoft part of the brafle, and this they call * Stomoma. 7 
Howbeit, Phyficians in thefe daies (withreverence to their profeffion and with their good 
leave be it{poken) are ignorant wholly of all thefe things; yea and the greater part cf them bee 
not fo much as acquainted with the tearms and bare names,({o farre be they from the truecom- 
pofition of medecines: ) and yetin times paft,it belonged properly unto Phyficians, fot to.be 
acquainted with the tearms of all fimples, andto be periect inthe knowledge of them. But our, 
Phyficiansin this age,when they are to make any compofition of fimples, they have recourle 
E ftraightwaiesto their books to be direGted by them, that is to fay, they wie experiments by the 
hazard of their poore patients; and there finding the names of thisand that, they fetdownea 
receit, and for the making theroftruftthe Apothecaties,as alfo for the ingredients; which.com- 
monly they-doefophifticatand corrupt by all deceitfull means that poffibly they can devife;fel- 
ling their emplaftresand collyries that are old made,and {uch drugsas are paftallgoodneflefer- 
ving the bills of the Phyficians with the verie refofe of theirfhop. And thus the deceitful wares 
thatchey have,they ridaheir hands of, tothe difcreditof the Phyfician and daunger of the ficke... 
But tocome againe unto our skales, and floure of brafle or verdegreace ;themanner is, fire 
tocalcine both the oneand the other, either upon earthen veflels or brafle pans;then, to,walh 
the fame, asis beforefaid,and for the fameufes, But over and above, thefe being prepared thus 
507 
byey 
3 
* Stomoma is 
nothing elfe 
but fteele and” 
therfore Phiny 
here doth err, 
like asin moft 
of this chapr. 
F accordingly, are fingular forthe carnofities and excrefcences within thenofthrils, or the funda- .... 
ment: for hardnefie alfo of hearing, ifthey be blowne into thofe parts by meanes of a pipe: and 
the fores or cankers of the mouth they doe heale, by application of their powder; thispowder 
alfo taketh away theinflammations and accidents of the tonfils or almonds. about the throat, if 
it be rempered and incosporat with hency,and ufed in a collution or gargarifme « Thereis be- 
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