Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 
Lib. i 
154. 
C Itis alfofncha fpeciall remedic forthofe that haue confumption of the lungs, andare, as wee 
terme it, at deaths doore, and almoft paft breathing, that it bringeth breath again, and prolongeth 
life for certaine dayes, if ten, or twentie graines at the moft be giuen with new or fiveet Wine. For 
we haue found by often experience, that being taken in that fort, it prefently and in a moment re- 
moiieth away diificultie ofbreathing, which moft dangeroufly andfuddenly hapnerh. 
D Dio [cor ides teacheth, That being giuen in the fame fort it is alfo good againft a furfet. 
g Itis commended againft the ftoppings of the liner and gall, and againft the yellow Iaundile : 
And hereupon Dw/fwVfewriteth, That it maketh a man well coloured. Itis put into all drinkes 
that are made tohelpe thedifeafes of the intrailes,as the fame Authour affirmcth,and into thole 
efpeciallywhichbring'Hownethe floures, the birth, and the after burthen. It prouoketh vrine, 
ftirreth flelhly luft, and is vfed in Cataplafmes and pultelfes for the matrix and fundament , and 
alfo in plaifters and feare-cloaths which feme for old fivcllings and aches, and likewife for hot 
fwellings that haue alfo in them S . Anthonies fire. 
£ 7 Crocus montanus ^Auttimnalis j lore 
major c albedo canileo. 
Autumne mountaine Saffron with 
a large whitifh blew floure. 
F It is with good fucccfle put into compofitions for infirmities of the cares. 
G The eyes being annointed with the fame diffolued in milke, or fennell or rofe water are prefer ' 
tied front being hurt by the Imall poxand mc-afels, and are defended thereby from humours that 
would fall into them. 
H The chiues fteeped in water, ferue to illumine or (as we fay) limne piftures and imagerie as al- 
fo to colour fundry meats and confeftions. It is with good fuccelTe giuen to procure bodily luft 
The confedhons called Crocomagna, Oxjcroceum, and biacurcuma, with diuers other emplaifters 
and ele&uaries cannot be made without this Saffron. * 
I T he weight of tenne graines of Saffron, the kernels of Wall-nuts two ounces, Fisges two oun ' 
ces, Mithndate one dram and a few fage leaues, ftamped together with a fufficient quantitie of 
Pimpernell water, and made into a maffe or lumpe, and kept in a glaffe for your vfe , and thereof 
twelue graines giuen m the morning falling, preferueth from the Peftilence and expelleth it from 
thoic that arc mfeded. r ^ 
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