of Plinies Naturall: Hiftorie. 511 
A Winterwhenitisa froft,certaine yfickles depending ,as the drops deftilled and grew one to ano- 
ther: whereupon this kind of Vitrioll they call Stalagmias, and a purer or clearer thing there is 
not.But looke what part thereof is whitifh of colour,but not tranfparent,and the fame enclining 
tothe wall flower or *white Violet,the fame they call Leucoion. There is a Vitriol] likewife made */i#!<a!ea, 
artificially in certaine receits andconcavities (digged of purpofe in the {tonic mines of Cope- 
rofe)by occafion of raine water therecongealed, which had been counveighed into them, and 
gathered a vifcousflime or mud in the paffage. Alfo there is a caft to make it in manner of fale by 
letting frefh water intofuch hollowreceptacles,and permitting thefame to ferment in the funne 
when heis at the height and full ftrength of his heat inthe Summer,untill it be gathered & har- 
dened as falt. And therefore fome there be who make two forts of Vitrioll, to wit,the Natural or 
-°B Minerall, andthe Artificial] : Thisthat is made bythe induftrie and art of man is paler than the 
other; and looke how much the colouris abated,fo much inferior it isin goodnefle: The Cypri- 
an Vitrioll is thought beft forto beemployed in Phyficke,. For, co expell the wormes out of the 
bellie, itis given unto the patient to the weight of one dram in honey, after the manner of an 
eleGuarie.If the fame be diflolved and conveighed up into the nofthrils, it purgeth the head. In 
like manner it cleanfeth the ftomacke, in cafe it be taken with honey or honied water. The afperi- 
tie of the eyes, their paine, and the dimnefle or mifts overgrowing the fight, it difpatcheth : and 
healeth the fores inthe mouth. Ic ftaieth bleeding atnofe, and the immoderatrunning of the 
hemorthoids.It draweth forth {pels of broken bones : and tempered with the feed of Henbane, 
it ftoppeth the courfe of a rheume running to the eyes, if itbelaid in a cloth tothe forehead in 
C manner of a frontale.Of great effeCtis it in plaftres,both for to mundifie wounds and to confume 
the excrefcence of flefh in ulcers.If the Vvula be fallen,it putteth itup againe,by touching it on- 
ly with the decoction thereof. Moreover, being incorporat with line feed, it is fingular good to be 
applied aloft upon plaftres, for to mitigat paine.Of this kind, that which is white is preferred be- 
fore any that are of a yellowifh colour like *wall-flowers aforefaid. Moreover, if itbe blown into 
the eares by the meanes of apipe,it doth remedie the hardnefle of hearing. A liniment made of * ryiaeis tHe 
Vitriol] alone,healeth up wounds, but it draweth the skar too neare together :in regard of which meancth thof 
aftringencie of Vitrioll,there hath been an invention deviled of late,to caft the pouder of Vitri- 1/3" semble 
oll into the mouths of Beares and Lions when they areto be baited:forfo great a knitter & bin- which he cal- 
der itis, that it will drawtheir chawes together in manner of amuzzle, that they fhall not bee 14 before by 
D able to bites parkitt : ease 5 
Cuap, Shi: } 
2& Of Pompholyx. Of Spodos s_Antifpodos and of Diphryges.Of the 
Trient of Serviltus, 
Here be found over and befides in braffe finithies ot furnaces,thofe matters whichthey call 
Pompholyx and Spodos: and the difference of the oneftom the other, confifteth in this, 
that Pompholyx requireth wafhing for to be prepared;Spodos never commeth into water 
ot liquour. And yetfome diftinguith them otherwife,calling the whiteft and lighteft part, Pom- 
E pholyx: holding opinion, that itis nothing elfe bus the very cinders of brafle,orthe Calamine 
{tone Cadinia,wheréof brafle commeth: whereas Spodos(fay they)is blacker and more weigh- 
tic than Pompholyx,as being {craped from the wals and fides of the furnaces ;among which you 
fhallfee many times groffe {parkes,yea,and otherwhiles coalesentermingled. Well,this Pom- 
pholyx beeing tempered or foaked in vinegre, {melleth of biaffe: andif aman touch it at the 
tongues end, hatha horrible taft thar goeth againft ones ftomack.Proper itis to enter into thofe 
compofitions which be ordained forthe eyes,forit helpeth all tlie infirmities incidentthereto : 
and in oneword, ferveth forthe fame purpofes that Spodos dooth: herein onely lieth the diffe- 
rence,that Spodos is thonght to bemore mundificative,by reafon thar the ftrength of Pompho- 
lyx isdélaied by the wafhing aforefaid.' Itis one of the ingredients alfo to thofe emplaftres 
F which aredevifedfcr gentle refrigeratives and exiccatives, And for whatfoever itfhall bee em- 
ployed,betterit isfound to be, in cafe itwere wafhed firft with wine. 
Astouching Spodos, the Cyprian is moftefteemed :and engendered it is,whiles Cadmia 
andthe braffe ore or ftone be meltedtogether inthe furnace. Exceeding lightitis, and apt to 
mount aloft with the fmoake of the bloume finithie,very {peedily,yea,and ready to fie out of ay 
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