Chap. 
'll. 
[EngHJI) Herbs. 
3 
beauty of the Fruit, and the wonderful delight they 
•give to the Palate, alfo their inciting to Venery, 
( which molt Windy things, asjthefe are, do) are 
the great Motives which intice to the eating ol 
them : Wherefore in Italy , and other hot Countries, 
where they come to' their full Maturity, and pro- 
per Relilh, they eat them with more Defire and 
Relilh, than we do Cucumbdrs , and therefore Pre- 
pare and Drefs them in divers manners ; fome eat 
them Raw, as we do Cucumbers ; fome Roaft them 
under the Embers ; fome firft Boil them, then Pare 
and Slice them, and fo eat them as firft related ; 
fome ltrew Flower over them, and Fry them with 
Oil or Butter, and ferve them to the Table with 
Pepper and Salt ; and fome keep them in Pickle, to 
fiend in Winter, and the next Spring. Yet Avi- 
cennajib.2. cap. 4;;. Condemns them as hurtful 
things : On the contrary, Averrhoes Commends them. 
1 believe it is true, that they yield but little Nou- 
r ifhment, and breed much Wind, whereby ’tis pof- 
fible they may provoke Bodily Lull. At Toledo in 
Spain, they eat them with great Defire, Jieing Boil- 
ed with Fat Flelh, then putting thereto fome fcra- 
ped Cheefe, then keep them in Honey, or Vinegar 
and Salt Pickle all Winter, to eat as Viands, when 
they have a mind to it, to procure Lull. 
XI. The Juice. It cools the heat of the Reins, 
and the fcalding of tire Urine, taken to j. ounce in 
Arfmart Water : Applied upon Inflammations, and 
bathed upon an Eryfipe/at, and Linen Cloahs wet 
therein being laid thereon, it abates the heat of the 
inflammation, and cures the Eryfipelas -. it is alfo 
of lingular ufe againft Burnings and Scaldings, of 
what kind foever : if the Skin is not broken, dif- 
folve in it a good quantity of Salt, and bathe there- 
with. „ . „ 
XII. T be Effence. It is an excellent thing agamlt 
hot vapors of the Womb, and Fits of the Mother ; 
and is good againft Sand, Gravel, and Tartarous 
matter obftrufting the Urinary Paflages. Dofc 
from j. to ij. ounces. 
XIII. The Cataplajm. It is good to be applied 
upon Burnings and Scaldings from what caufe fo- 
ever, it takes out the Fire, and allays the Heat and 
Inflammation : It may be good alfo in an Eryfipe- 
las being often renewed ; and is prevalent againft 
the Gout in Elbows, Wrifts, Hands, Fingers, Legs, 
Feet, Toes, or any other Pain or Ach, proceeding 
from a cold Caufe 5 and is good to be applied to a 
flight Contufion or Blow, being laid on before any 
Tumor arifes. „ 
XIV. The Oil. It is good againft all forts of Bur- 
nings and Scaldings, with Fire, Water, Soap Lees, 
Oil, Pitch, Tar, Lead, Gunpouder, Efc. being anoin- 
ted’ therewith, and the Cataplafm aforegoing pre- 
fently after applied, and often renewed ; and has 
all the Virtues of the Cataplafm, except in the cafe 
of an Eryfipelas , where .Oily Bodies rather inflame, 
than do any good : It gives eafe in the Megrim, 
and Head-ach, from a hot Caufe, and takes away 
the black and blew Marks which arife from Blows 
Falls, Etc. 
XV. The Balfam. It is a lingular Vulnerary, pre- 
vents, and allays Inflammations in Wounds and Ul- 
cers, coming from what accident foever : It cleanfes 
Ulcers and Filtula’s, and fpeedily heals them after- 
wards. 
; CHAP. XXI. 
Of THORNIE APPLES. 
I. f ~r^lIE Names. It is called hi Creek , tiaerJu- 
- _L rst ? oi‘ f ( /. e. a Nut canfing 
Drowlinels : ) In Laun, Stramonium. , Alclfpinuw, 
Malum Spimfmn , Tomim Spinofttm : In E -nglijh. 
Thorny Apple , and Thorn Apple. Matthicius thinks 
this to be the Nux Mabel, of the Arabians. 
II. The Kinds. It is twofold, 1. Tb.u -Jjeb ge - 
nerally grows with us in England. 2 . That of Peru. 
And of the firft Kind there is both Angle and dou- 
ble, with variety of Colours in the Flowers. 
III. The Defcription. The Root it fma/l and threa- 
dy, from whence firings up, one great Stalk , four , 
Jive, or fix feet high, fe/dom higher ; and two or 
three Inches, or more , thick in Diameter , and fame- 
times four or five Inches thick, upright and freight, 
having very many Branches , a n d fome times but jew^ 
upon jointed Stems •, on which do grow Leaves , 
Jmooth , very broad , and cut in , or jagged about the 
edges , long and broad almoji tw a Spinage Leaf ; 
and not much differing from the Jhape of Goof e-foot. 
The flowers come forth of long Toothed Cues, gi cat, 
white, and of the form of a Bell, or like the blower 
of the great Bindweed, which fpr cads it J elf in hedges, 
but altogether greater, and wider at Mouth, and 
Jharp cornered at the brims-, of a Jirong fmtlffo 
that it offends theSenfes : After the blowers follows 
the bruit, fomctffiag of the fajhion of an Egg, fet 
about on every fide and part with Jharp Trickles, 
almoji like Thorns, within which Shell is contained 
very much Seed, of the bignefs of a very fmall Tare, 
and almoji of the fame fajhion, and of a black'jh brown, 
or black Colour . . . 
IV. The Thorn Apple of Peru has a Root thicker 
than the former , with fome thick Branches \ from 
whence runs feveral Jmall firings , and out of which 
fprings one puny thick upright Stalk , about jour 
