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or lpirituous Principles. The Deers Earth-balls 
ieem to be temperate in Quality, as to Heat or Cold, 
Moifture or Drynefs and are Alexipharmick, Ga- 
levdogenetick and Spermatogenetick. 
VIII. The Specification. The Common , if much ; 
eaten, are Paid to breed Wind, and to engender the 
Pally and Apoplexy. The Deers are laid to pro- 
voke Lull to the laft Degree. 
IX. The P reparations. The firftare ufed moftly 
in, 1. A Pickle. 2. A Decottion in Wme. The 
Deers Earth-balls are ufed in, 3. A Ponder. 4. A 
Decottion in Wine. 5. A Fumigation. 
The Virtues. 
X. The Pickle of the Common kind. They are 
ufed asSawce, and are very pleafant to the Palate, 
but breed grols and melancholy Humors more than 
any other Food ^ they are hard of Digeftion, and in 
lome People rife again in the Stomach. Some eat 
them rolled in the Embers and fome boiled in 
Broth, and fo eat them with Pepper, Salt, Vinegar 
and Oil -, they certainly encreafe Lull. 
XI. The Decottion in Wine. It provokes Lull, 
as the Sallet before does : but after the Deco&ion 
is made, you may drefs the Subftance with Pepper, 
Salt, Vinegar and Oil, to be eaten as before. Pam- 
phyh/s or Diphulus in Athenxus will have it, that j 
they yield a good Juice, eafe the Belly by excreting 
the Excrements, are windy and encreafe Seed. 
XII. The Pouder of the Tubera Cervina. They 
are firft cut into pieces, then dried by hanging them 
on a String ^ after which they are reduced to Pou- 
der, by beating in a Mortar. Dofe of the Pouder 
a dram and half in a Glafs of generous Wine, or 
fame other Vehicle provoking Lull : it wonderfully 
incites to Coition, by breeding much Seed, and en- 
creafes Milk in Nurfes Breafts : it may be taken al- 
io in fome Ptifan, with a little Sugar and Long 
Pepper added thereto. 
XIII. The Decottion in Wine. It has all the fame 
Virtues with the Pouder, more elpecially if a dram 
or dram and half of the Pouder be given at a time 
in it. Thus taken, the Medicament expels Poyfon, 
and defends againft the poyfonous Bitings of veno- 
mous Creatures. 
XIV. The Fumigation. If the dried pieces of the 
Tubera Cervina be put upon live Charcoal, and the 
Fumes be received up the Womb by a Funnel, help 
Women troubled with the Mother, and open the 
Palfages of the Womb when they are clofed, there- 
by in fome meafure provoking the Terms. 
CHAP, ccxxxix. 
Of EART H-N UTS, 
0 R, 
G R O U N D-N UTS. 
I. H E Names. Some Authors fay, that this 
X Plant has no Greek Name, but what it has 
acquired from the Latin , which is, ’A^e^Vavov, ^ 
B:kCoyJ.? a vov^ which laft word is taken from T Talli- 
nn us lib. 7. in Latin, Agriocaftanum , Bolbocaftanum 
and Nucula Terrefiris : in Englifh , Earth-nuts , 
Ground-nuts , Earth Chefi-nuts , and Kipper-nuts. 
II. The Kinds. It is twofold, viz. 1. ’CW^n, 
Matthioli ( folio 627.) of Bauhinm his Edition, Bulbo- 
cafianum majus , Agricaftanum majus , 'Apt os Tunie- 
ri , Pancafeolus Cafalpi/n , (becaufe the Vulgar eat 
the Root of it infiead of Bread and Ciicele) Buibo- 
cafianon grand/us Lugdunenfis , Nucula Terrejlris 
major , The gieater Earth-nut, • or Ground-nur. I 
am almoft ot Opinion, that this E'iauc or Species is 
the true Oenanthe DiofcoriJis. 2. Agricajianum , 
vel Bulbocafianum minus , Bulboca/fanum mas Tral- 
hani , Bulbocafianum a/terum Joins t> bulbis minori- 
bus Camerarii -, Ornilhogali Species Loniceri , J\ucu- 
la Terrejhis minor , The Idler Earth or Ground 
Nut. 
III. The Defcriptions. The firft, or Greater 
Ground-nut, has a large tuberous Root , not jully 
round or fmooth , but bunching out in one place or a- 
nother, and fomeznhat rough, of a blackifh brown co- 
lor on the out fide, and white within, of a pleafant 
Tafte, between a Cheft-nut and a Filberd ^ for the 
moft part eaten raw, by reafon of its Pleafantnefs , 
thd fome have alfo roafled it by the Fire, or under 
the Embers. From this Root come forth levcral 
long Stalks of Leaves, of a bright green color, 
which are finely cut in and divided, fomerhing like 
unto Parftey Leaves, which grow on the middle or 
top of the Stalk, as Dodonxus fays, when he com- 
pared them ^ but they are larger than the next, or 
Small Earth or Ground Nuts : from among thefe 
Leaves rifes up a {lender Stalk, a foot or moie high, 
having many Leaves like our Englifh Saxifrage, 
bearing at the tops many finall white Flowers in an 
Umble, which turn into fmall, long, blackifh Seed, 
fmelling fomething fweer. 
IV. 'Lhe fecond, or Ldfer Earth or Ground Nut, 
has a fmall tuberous or roundifh brown Root, like the 
former, but leffer from whence rifes up a long, fen- 
der, whitifh Stalk or String, ( call it by which Name 
you pleafe ) which Is as it were the Clew, which leads 
you from the upright Stalk to lhe Root in the Giound, 
and runs four or five inches deep into the Earth, bur 
folding or crumpling it felf to and f ro unto the top of 
the Ground , from whence it rifes up a little bigger, 
but naked or bare of Leaves for aa inch or two, and 
then 
