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Dram of it taken inwardly, mixed with Honey 
every Morning, gently purges •, provokes Urine, 
and kills Worms in the Belly, and withal gives a 
good color in the Face. It has indeed ali the Vir- 
tues of the former Dccottion , but it is faid that it 
it is taken in too large a Dofe, it caufes the Head- 
ach, and to make Bloody Urine, fo powerful a 
Diuretick it is. Mixed with Honey as afbrefaid, 
it cleanfes, drys, and heals old running Sores, 
and foul filthy Ulcers, Fittula’s, Cankers, &c. 
whether in the Mouth, Throat, Secrets, or any 
other parts foftens hard Tumors in Womens 
Breads, and draws out the Poifonfrom the Bi tings 
of Serpents, mad Dogs, &c. being applyed It is 
alfo faid to cure the Itch, break Apottems, ripen 
Carbuncles, Cjc. if made into a Cataplafm with 
Wine, and laid thereon. 
XVI. The Pultage. The Grain is firft tteeped 
in Water till its Bitternefs is gone, then parched 
till the Hulls break, and after made into Meal as 
before. This made into Pultage with Water, or 
Milk, or Water and Milk, is ufied to be eaten 
(moitly in hard times:) it Nourilhes much, and 
reltores in Confumptions. If the Pultage is made 
with the former Bitter Meal , and applyed to the 
Skin, it is laid to take away Freckles, and all other 
Deformities thereof, walhing it alfo oftentimes 
with the afbrefaid Dccottion. 
XVII. The Cataplafm of the Green Cods. Ap- 
plyed to the Hair, (as alfo their J uice) it caufes it 
to become of a black color. 
CHAP. DCCXXIV. 
Of the VINE. 
I. r T' H E Karnes. It is called in Arabick Ha- 
1 rin, Karin , and Karm in Greek, ’'a^a© 
o/popS?©- .• in Latine, Vitis, and Vitis vinif era , Vita 
Sativa in Knglilh, The Vine. 
II. The Kinds. They are to be confidered, either 
as to the Country, or the Species of the Grapes. 
As to the Countries , thofe which are chiefly known 
to us, are i. Our Eng/ifh Vines. 2. Rhenijh , or 
German Vines. 3. trench. 4. Italian. 5. Spa- 
nifh. 6. Thofe of the Canaries. 7. Portugal. 
8. Thofe of the Madera's. 9. Thofe of Florida. 
III. As to the Species of the Grapes ■, there are, 
1. The Rhenifh White , whence comes our Rhenifh 
Wine. 2. The French White , whence French 
White Wines. 3. French Ref whence French 
Clarets. 4. The White Portugal , whence White 
Port-O-Port and White Lisbon Wines, 5. The 
Red Portugal , whence Red Port-O-Port Wines. 
6. The Malaga Grape, whence our Malaga Raifons 
and Wine. 7. The Greek Black Grape , which 
gives a very fweet blackifh Wine. 8. The White 
Mufcadine Grape , which is a very great Grape, 
fweet and firm, lome of whofe Bunches, (as Par k- 
infjn fays,) have weighed Six Pounds, and fome 
ofthe Grapes half an Ounce. 9. The Red Mufca- 
dine , which is as large as the White, and differs 
chiefly in color ; from thefe two laft come the 
Mufcadine Wines. 10. The White Front iniack 
Grape , which is of a very fweet and delicate Talfe, 
and fmells like Musk, whence the pleafant Fron- 
t iniack Wine. n. T he Tent Grape , which is 
black, which yields the Tent Wine , of a very fweet 
Talfe, and black color, or very deep red, with 
which they color other Wines. 12. The A lie ant 
Grape , whence our Alicant Wine , which is of fo 
deep a red, that no other is thought to be compa- 
tible to it, and therefore is called Spaniards Blood. 
1 3. The Barabar whence our Bar abar Wine, oF 
fo deep a red, that it is commonly called Black Wine. 
14. The Sherry Grape , whence our Sherry Wine, 
iy. The Canary Grape, whence our Canary and 
Palm Wines. i 5 . The White Madera Grape , 
whence our White Madera Wine. 17. The Red 
Madera Grape, whence our Red Madera Wine. 
18. The Dam af co Grape, thought to be the Uva 
Zibea Plinij, lib. 14. cap. 3. which he makes to 
be Vitis Alexandria, deferibing it by thofe very 
words which Theophraflus does } but is a kind of 
Raifon-Grape. 1 9. The Raifon of the Sun Grape , 
which is a very large Grape, and confilts of very 
great Clutters, of a reddifh color when it is ripe 
with us, but in its Native Country, which is very 
hot, it is commonly covered with a notable Blew- 
nefs- 20. The Stonelefs Grape, which is a Syrian 
Grape, and -grows near Askalon in Palejlina , as 
By chart fays, yielding a red Wine of a very plea- 
fant Tafte. 21. The Carolina, or Virginian White 
Fox Grape, which is a fair large white Grape, of 
a box-like Smell, and a firm Subftance, which when 
fully ripe, is a very pleafing Grape, very much 
gratifying the Pallat. 22. The Carolina, or Vir- 
ginian Red Grape, which is a fmall Grape, and 
yields a very deep Blood red Wine. I remember 
that when 1 was in Carolina, one Gar rat a French- 
Man, made in one Year about two Hogfheads of 
it, (from Vines which grew Wild in the Woods,) 
which was not fo lufeioutty Sweet as Tent, but 
when I drank of it at his Houfe, I then thought it 
to be the pleafantett Wine I ever drank in my 
whole Life : It was very fine, not of fo thick a 
Body as Tent, but of a profound Red, ttaining 
every thing of fo perfeff a Crimfon color, as not 
eafily to be obliterated, tho’ upon the fpot. Thefe 
are the chief of thefe Vines or Grapes, which we 
thought good to take notice of in this Work $ and 
which are moft known amongtt us : We own there 
are a vaft number more, and polfibly a great many 
which never yet came to our Knowledge $ which 
if we could Name and enumerate them all, would 
be of as little ufe to the Pbyfician , as they are 
of profit to us who never faw or heard of them 
for which reafon, we omit any further Defcants 
concerning the fame. 
The Defer iptions. 
IV. The great diverfity of Vines, is equal to that 
of the Grapes, to many of whofe great Numbers, 
we can give no Names. John Tradefcant faid , that 
he had 20 forts growing with him, which he never 
knew how, or what to call them ■, but fiving that 
in their Branches, Leaves, manner and form of 
growing, all thefe Varieties feem to be but one and 
the fame, we fhall give but one Defcription for 
them all their great differences being chiefly in 
the feveral Forms, Colors, Tafts, and Alagnitude 
of the Grapes. The Root is woody, not very great 
or thick, but tough and long , fending out many 
Branches, which fpread tar about and deep. 
Being Manured , and where it hat grown a long 
time, it comes to have a pretty thick Body, Trunk 
or Stem, fpreading out its Branches every way ( if 
it be fuff ered ) a/mofl without end or meafure, info- 
much as fome Vines growing in Woods, and near to 
very tall Trees, of above an hundred Foot high, I 
have feen to have climbed up to the higheft parts 
of thofe Trees, and to have fpread them/ elves out 
over 
