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ae ite) The foure and thirtieth Booke 
| _isanexcelléntremedic againft the paines of fides orbreaft, which come with fuddaine prickes G 
and fticches. An adtuall cauteric of yron red hor,cureth many difeafes, and efpeciallythebiting 
— of amaddog ; in which cafe itis fo effeCtuall, that if the poyfon inflicted by that wound, have — 
prevailed {o far,that the patent be fallen into. an Hydrophobie thereby, and cannot abide drinke 
-orwater,let the fore be feared therewith,the partie (hall fiid helpe prefently. Gads of fteele or o- 
ther yron red hot quenched in.water,fo Jong untill the fame water be hot,caufeth ittobe a hole- 
fome drinke in many difeafes but principally in the bloudie Aix. ; 
The very ruft of yron alfo is counted medicinable : for fo Achilles isfaid to have healed T e/e- 
phus : but whether the head of his{peare were yron or brafle,of which he ufed the ruft, [donot 
certainely know. Certes,hee is painted thus : with his {word {craping and fhaking off the ruft in- 
tothe wound.But if you would fetch off theruft from any old nailes,fcrape it with aknifewetbe- yy 
fore in water. As touching the vertues thereof, It is cleanfing,exiccative,and aftringent; it reco- 
vereth the haire in places defpoiled thereof, if they be annointed therewith in the forme of a li- 
niment : being reduced into a falve with wax and oyle of Myrtles incorporat together, many ufe 
it forthe roughnefle about the eye-lids: the pimples alfo breaking forth over all the bodie. For 
fhingles and S. Aatonies fire, itis fingular good to applic it in an unguent with vinegre:: likewife it 
killeth fcabs,and healeth whitflawes of the fingers,and the excrefcence orturning up ofthe flefh 
about the roots of the nailes,if linnen rags wet therein be applied conveniently. [he fame con- 
.veighed up in wooll after the manner of a peffarie into the natural! parts of women, ftayeth the 
immoderat flux both of whites and reds. The ruft of yron tempered in wine, and wrought toge- 
ther with Myrrhe,is good for a greene wound : put thereto vinegre,and then it helpeth the piles 
and {welling biggs of the fundament. A liniment made with it, mitigateth the paine of the 
our. 
E As touching the skales of yron that flie from the edge or point of any weapon, wrought in 
the fmiths forge : they ferve in the fame cafes,that the ruft dooth, and have the like etfeds, fave 
onely this, that they have greater acrimonie,and worke more eagerly: inwhich regard they are 
employed about repreffing of the flux that falleth into watering eyes.Bue marke thisone thing : 
Yron beeing that which woundeth moft and {heddeth bloud, yet the skales that come fromit, 
ftaunch the {ame : a propertie they have befides to ftop the flux in women: and being applied to 
“the region of the fpleene,they doe open the obftrudtions thereof, andeafe other infirmities in- 
cidene thereto : the running hemorrhoidsthey reprefle, and {uch ulcersas are giventofpread K 
farther and corrode as they goe, Reduced into a fine pouder, and gently {trowed upon the eye- 
lids,they are good for the accidents thereto belonging. Butthe principall ufe of them, and for 
which they are moft commended, is ina certaine liquid plaftre called Hygremplaftrum ; which 
ferveth to mundifie wounds, ulcers, and fiftulaes: to eat away all callofities, and toincarnat and 
engender new Ae(h about bones thatare perifhed, And this is the receit of that compofition + 
Take of the fcouring Tuckers earth che weight of two oboli,of braffe fix drams, of the skales of 
yron as much,and no lefle of wax,incorporat all thefe according to artin one fextar of oile.But 
in cafe there be need to mundifie any fores,or to incarnat,there would be put thertofome plaine 
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a dee Of the mines of lead ore : of *whitelead and blacke, | 
Pinal binsty Ow enfueth the difcourfe of lead, and the nature of it ; of which there be two principal 
lead. kinds, the blacke, and the white, The richeft of all, and that which carieth the greateft 
price, is that which we in Latine name Plumbum candidum, 7.the white bright lead, and 
the Greekes Ca/siteron, ButI hold it a meere fable and vaine tale,that all of it is fetched asfarre - 
as from the Iflands of the Atlanticke fea,and that the inhabitants of thofe parts doeconveighit — 
in little twiggen boats,covered all over with feathers, For the truth is,that there is found of it in 
thefe dayes within Portugall and Gallacia,growingebbe upon the upmoftface oftheearth, be- pg 
ing among the fands,of a blacke colour, and by the weight onelyisknowne from thereftof the = 
foile: and here and there among, aman fhall meetwith {mall ftones of the fame ftuffe, moft of a 
all within the brookes that bee dric fometimes of the yeare. This fandie and gravelliefubftance, 
the mine maifters and mettall finers ufe to wath, andthat which fetleth downeward, they pe 
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