7 °° 
Salmons Herbal. 
Lib. I. 
hot 
Bowels, prevails againft the Scurvy in a 
habic ot' Body, provokes Urine, and gives eale 
in the Stone and Strangury, being taken Morn- 
ing and Night. It is alfo good againtt Vapors, 
and a Flatus, proceeding tiom the Spleen or 
Diftemper of the Hvpochonders. 
XIV. The Plitp if the Yruit. It is never 
eaten raw but boiled , lor lo it more easily 
defcends and by its lenitive property, makes 
the Belly Solubjc. It has all the Virtues ot 
the Liquid Juke, and being dreft with Butter, 
Pepper, Salt, and Vinegar, it may be eaten 
in quantity, according to pleafure: it nou- 
rilhes not much, but being boil’d in Milk, and 
eaten as aforelaid, it makes a good and 
wholefome Food, cooling and grateful to a 
hot Stomach , and inward parts which are 
inflamed. The fame Pulp lliced, and tried in 
a Pan with Butter, is alfo good and wholefom: 
but Baked in an Oven with Apples, it is very 
flatulent or windy ; unlefs it be fo often 
Baked, or in luch a violent hot Oven, that the 
Pulp becomes red , then it loofes its windy pro- 
perty, and becomes very wholefom, with an 
Emollient and cooling property. 
XV. The Emulfton of the Seed. It has the 
Virtues of the Liquid Juice of the Yruit , but 
cleanles the Reins and Bladder much more, 
and more powerfully provokes Urine, being 
very good for fuch as are troubled with the 
Stone in the Reins: It is an excellent thing 
againft the Strangury, takes away the heat and 
fcalding of the Urine, and cures the pifling of 
Blood. 
XVI. The Cataplqfm of the Pulp. Applyed 
to pained Joints, and parts affefted with 
the Gout it gives eafe, and difcuJTes the 
Humor, abating the heat. It is good againft 
Inflamations, and difcuffes fimple contufions 
being immediately applyed to them. It alfo 
gives eafe in the vehement pain of the Head, 
proceeding from heat and Tnflamation , and 
takes away the Inflamation and Blood-fhot of 
the Eyes. 
XVII. The Diftilled Water. It is good 
againft an Eryftpelas by bathing the parts 
affefted often therewith, and applying Linnen 
Cloths tout or fix times double thereupon, 
wet in the fame. Taken inwardly, it has the 
Virtues of the Liquid Juice of the Yruit , and 
'Emulfton of the Seed , and may ferve as a Ve- 
hicle , for conveying other Medicaments in , 
appropriated to the Reins and Bladder: mixed 
in equal quantities, with a Spirit drawn 
from Sugar, it makes an incomparable Eye 
water, to eafe the pain of the Eyes, flop 
Rheums and Defluxions , take away Inflama- 
tions and Blood-fhot , to heal Ulcers and 
Sores therein, clear the Sight, and ftrengthen 
the part againft any future Defluxions. 
CHAP. CCCCLXXXIII. 
Of MELON - WILD. 
0 R, 
P O M P I O N - W I L D. 
I. HP 11 E Karnes. It is called in Greek , 
JL ns war iym: in Latine , Melo vel Pcpo 
Sylvejlris : and in Eng/ijh , Wild Melon or Pom- 
pion. 
II. The Kinds. There are two forts of this 
Plant, vie:. Melo vel Pepo Sylvejlris major , The 
Greater Wild Melon or Pompion. 2. Melo vel 
Pepo Sylvejlris minor. The Leffer Wild Melon or 
Pompion. 
'The Defcriptions. 
III. The fir ft , or Greater Wild Melon or 
Pompion. It hat a Root which is thick , round , 
and Jharp pointed , having feveral Yibres adjoin- 
ing to it. From which come forth rough, un- 
even Stalks , fet with (harp , thorny Prickles : 
The Leaves are alfo rough, and jagged or much 
cut in on the edges, of an unpleafing green color, 
and the Flowers are of a yellow color , 
much like thofe of the Garden Kind. The Fruit 
is thick, round, and long, almoft of an Oval 
fafhion, fharp pointed, and having a hard green 
Rind, whofe hrft Pulp or Meat is hard like the 
others : but the middle Pulp foft and flimy , in 
which is contained the Seed, which is like that 
of the Garden Pompion , but the whole very bit- 
ter in tafte. 
IV. The fecond , or Lefler Wild Melon or PCm- 
pion. This in its Root , Stalks , Branches , 
Leaves , Flowers , Fruit , Seed , and manner of 
growing , is very like the former but now 
deferibed , and differs from it only in its 
Magnitude, this being every ways much lefs 
than it. 
V. The Places. Thefe Plants grow Wild 
in Barbery , and aloft parts of the Wejl-lndies; 
but with us in England, they only grow (being 
Sown) -in Gardens . 
VI. The Times. They fpring up, and Flower 
in the fame Seafons, with thofe of the Garden 
Kinds. 
VII. The Qualities. Thefe Melons are hot 
and dry in the third Degree ; and are very 
bitter: they are alfo Abfterfive, Hyfterick, and 
Cathartick. 
VIII. The Specification. They are peculiar for 
the curing of Dropfies and the Kings Evil : and 
to provoke the Terms in Women. 
IX. The Preparations and Virtues, of thefe 
Wild Melons or Pompions , are the fame with 
thofe of the Wild Cucumber , in Chap. 479. a 
Sell. 9, ad 27. where you may have abundant 
fatisfa&ion. 
X. Note, 
