I B. 2. 
Of the Hiftory of Plants. 
57 The Place. 
Thefe plants do profper beft in hot Regions : they are ftrangers in EnglantLand doe with c-rem- 
abour and induftrie grow in thefe cold Countries . & 
57 ThcTime. 
They mu ft be fovvne in the beginning of Aprill in a bed of hot horfe dung,euen as Muske 
Melons, Cucumbers, and fuch like cold fruits are - and replanted abroad from the faid bed into 
he moft hot and fertile place of the Garden at fuch time as they haue gotten three leaues a 
pcece. 
| 4 *Jf The Names, 
Diuerfly hath this plant been named • fome calling it by one name,and fome by another euerv 
pne as it feemed good tohts fancie. Baftifta. Sardis callcth it Balfamina Cucumenm : others viti 
■f//a,and Charantta, as alfo Pomttm Hierofilymitamtm, or Apples of Hierufalem : in Englifh Balme 
'Ippleun Italian farariU : in the Germane tongue, ©alf am opffel : in French ,Merueille • fome of 
:he Latines haue called it Pomum mrabile , or maruellous Apples.lt is thought to be named BalTa 
mm, becaufe the oile wherein the ripe Apples be fteeped or infufed,is taken to bee profitable for 
.Tiany things, as is Opobalfamum, or the liquour of the plant Balfamum . 
1 The female Balfam Apple is likewife called Balfamina , and oftentimes in the Neuter Gender 
M a rnmum Gefner choofeth rather to name it Balfamina amygdaloides : Valerius Cordus BalCimrO,. 
oihtx^dalfaminafcemina : in Englifh, the Female Balme Apples. ’ 
5 [ TheHature. 
The fruit or apples hereof, as alfo the leaues, doe notably drie,hauing withall a certaine mode 
fecond de ree *** ^ “ 3 meane tem P cratl,re > that is after fome hor,in the firft,and drie in the 
5f The Vertuis. 
The leaues are reported to heale greene wounds if they be bruifed and laid thereon • and taken A 
K h w me they are laid to bea remedie for the collicke^ and an cffcdtuall medicine for bindings ' 
and convulfions or crampes. 
The leaues of the male Balfamina dried inthefhadow , and beaten into ponder and -men in 
te Colhcke 0 ^ that 3re m0rUl y woundedin thc body, doth cure them inwardly, and helpeth alfo 
^r The ,^ e ,; vhichi \t aVV u ne [° rCh0f tbe fruit doth cure all greeue and frelh wounds as the true C 
pointed fheremth!' P Crampe5 COnvuIffons > and Stinking of f.newes, being an- 
""Tu « iatare ™ great extremitie ofchilde-birth in taking away the paine of the n 
' - A i U 1 ^ ea ^ e dehuerance beeing applied to the place, and annointed vpon their bellies or 
-aft into the matrix with a fyring,and eafeth the dolour of the inward parts 5 
:into7oidcSut? em ° rrh0ideS and 311 ° thCr PamCS ° Ptbe fundament, being thereto applied with E 
The leaues drunken in wine, heale ruptures.' 
Whtro d™ °n n ° thing VV r r ca° f the P ro P ert y or vertucs of the female kinde, but that it is f 
' C T ? . vv ne ^ r f vnto the firft in temperament and vertue. ^ 
make ni?i of th f Pruit ( the feede taken forth) is either fet in the Sun, as we do when wee H 
Trh fcS,0r boiIed in a double § laflrc fet in hot water, or elfe buried in hot horfe dun- ta- 
neat forcern Pucc a Pphed vnto wounds, prickes and hurts of the firtewes.lt hath jg 
fit and coniiLien^'rl^f S b f barren are made Pruitfull herewith, if the woman firft be bathed in X, 
nth and the woman nmf Ti ^ P ur P°^ e ’ & tbc P arts about the fhare and matrix annointed here- 
utn,and the woman prefently haue the company ofher husband. 
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Chap'. 
