ted the beft and mofi: temperate, mild and innocent of 
common Spices 3 and fit to come into greater ufe, and to 
gain more ground than yet it hath of the Eaft. India 
Commodities of this kind , almoft all of which it far 
furpafles by promoting the digeftion of Meat, attenua- 
ting tough Humours, moderately heating, ftrengthening 
the Stomach, expelling Wind, doing thofe friendly offices 
to the Bowels we generally expe& from Spices. 
It is now commonly fold by Druggifts for CarpohaU 
famum , which I fuppofe came from Hernandez, who 
(ays it maybe its fuccedaneum^ but it is not that Fruit, 
but feems more fragrant and lefs adftringent and balfa- 
mick. Clnfius fays, that it takes away, if chew'd, a 
ftinking Breath. John de Barrios tells us , 'tis one of 
the Ingredients of Chocolate in Nen> Spain, and Francif 
€U5 TJria, who brought it from Nevt> Spain and gave k 
to Redi y faid it \Vas there commended againft the Epi- 
lepfie and Gntta ferena, which he in divers perfons try- 
ed, bur without fucceft} but he at the fame time fays, 
he thinks it a good Stomachic and Cephalick Medicine 
moderately given, Exper. Nat. pag. 132. 
It has beeii taken by Clujius for Pliny s GaryophyUon^ 
and by others for Amomum « But 'tis not likely that it 
was kno\yn to the Ancients, not bemg known to gro^r 
in the Eaft, but Weft- Indie s , whence it was brought 
into England !, and fent to Cluftur, who firft cfefcribed 
and figured it, giving it this name Amomum cptorm dam, 
An Caryophyllon Plinii, Exot.p.x?. from whence came 
that in Gerard, Amomum quorHndatft, forte Car/ophyUon 
Plinu^ p. 1 6 10. and that of Parkjnfon, Amomum aliud 
. quorundam, & Garyophyllon Plinii a Clufto fnjpkatum^ p 9 
1567. likewife that of CaryophyUus aromaticm frnBn ro- 
tun do, C. B. p. £11. & Amomum quorundam odore Caryo- 
phytti, J, B. Tom. 2. p. 194. Redi in his Exper. Nat. p. 
132. fpeaks of this ^ and figures it under the name of 
Piper Ck;ap£. And Dx.Trapham in his Difcourfe of the 
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