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of Plinies Naturall Hiftorie. 525 
A heating alfo and exceeding corrofive: and the principall vercue that it hath, is to fret and putrifie 
whatfoever it worketh upon: in a liniment with vinegre, it caufeth the haire tocomeup thicke 
againe in places defpoiled thereof by any difeafe. Ir entreth into collyries or eyefalves: reduced 
intoa lohoch with honey, it cleanfeth the throat, and maketh a cleare, fhrill, andlowd voice: 
eaten by way of abolewith turpentine, it is a gentleand pleafant medecine for thofe that bee 
fhort-winded and troubled with the cough :a perfume alfo made with it and cedar togither, is 
good in the fame cafes, fothat the fmoke bee received up at the mouth. As for * Arfenicke, it is * Yellow or- 
of thefame ftuffe: char which isbeft of thiskind,refembleth burnifhed gold in colour :the pa- P™“"" 
ler kind enclining to the colour of Sandaracha, is thoughtto be the worfe, A third fort there is; 
of amiddleand meddled colour, compounded as it were of goldand Sandaracha, Thefe two 
B Jaterkindsbe skalic aloft:as for the firft, which is drie and pure, it is full of {mall veines running 
hereand there, whereby itis apt to cleave as the veine goeth, Of the fame operationis Arfe- 
nicke as the reft,but that it is more hot and biting; in which regard, itis ufed in potentiall cau- 
teries, and depilatories: it taketh away the carnolities and apoftemations about the nailes of the 
fingers: the fuperfluous flefh alfowithin the nofthrils : the biggs that hang foorth of the funda. 
ment: and in one word, it eateth away any excrefcence whatioever, To concludeymuch better it 
is and more powerfull in operation, in cafeit bee calcined in anew earthen pan, where it muft 
torifie fo long untill ic chaunge the colour. 3 
ania uci ve rmurananEN 
SOIC Fe OLCOTT 
Meme oe) BOORE OF 
> THE HISTORIE OF NATVRE, 
3 WRITTEN BY C. PLINIVS 
vhs SECVNDYS. 
gq T he Proce. 
He difcourfe of Mines and Mettals, wherein principally confifteth the wealth of 
the world : of other minerals alfo growing to them, with the natures, operations; 
A|| aud effects of them all,ts an argument fo knit and annexed to Phyficke, that the 
| 2esQu|| Bandling thereof (which I have alreadie well-neave perfourmed) not onely difco- 
25S by) || vereth a world of holefome medicines profitable for the life and bealth of man, but 
SE alfa inferreth anumber of hidden fecrets; couched within the Apothecaries [hops ; 
yea and openeth the way untothe curious Art and fubtile devifes of Gravers, Painters and Diers,in- 
ducing me withall totake them alfo before me,and totveat thereof accordingly : which when I have 
done, there remaineth yet for meeanewworke totakein hand; namely, to write of fundrie kinds of 
Earth and Stone, and thofe linked togither and carrying with them alonger traine by farre, than the 
former mintrals,Concerning which, other authors and the Greeke writers ¢fpccially shave fo particn- 
Larized, that of each one of them they have written many volumes, For mine owne part, Imeane not 
F to follow their fleps but by way of compendious brevitie, toprocecd as Ihave begun, and yet to omit 
nothing that is neceffarie, profitableyand pertinent to nature. 
¥ y ij Cuar. 
