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Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 
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5 There is alfo another kinde of Poppie which oft times is found wildc 5 the fialks, leaues 
floiires,and heads are like, but leffe thanthofe of the precedentrthe Retires are of an cuerworn blcvv- 
ifli purple color-after which follow heads {Port and round, which vnder theircouerorcrowrethaue 
little holes by which the feed may fall out ; contrarie to the heads of the former, which areclofe 
and open not of themfelues. There is alfo a double one of t his kinde. | 
The Place. 
Thefe kinde of Poppies are fowne in gardens, & do afterward come of the fallings of their feed . 
«J[ The Time. 
They floure moft commonly in Iune.The feed is perfefledin Inly and Auguft. 
5 Papauer fylueflre. 
Wilde Poppie. U The -Names. 
/utTL- f Poppie is called of the Grecians /««•» ■ of the La- 
unes,Papatier .- the (hops keepe the Latine name : it is 
called in high Dutch, £J^cigfaiMCtT. in low Dutch 
Cl and dlpatltoptin Englifh, Poppie & Cbeefcbowls: 
in French,?, mot, and O/ielte, by the Wallons. 
The garden Poppie which hath blacke feeds, is fur- 
named of Dio(cortdes or wildc, and is as hee faith 
called becaufe Opium f.owes from it : of Pliny and 
of the Latines, Pap nucr nigrum . whereof there be ma- 
ny variable colours, and of great beautie, although oi 
euill fmell, whereupon our gentlewomen doe call it 
lone Siluer pin. 
The Temperature. 
All the Poppies are cold,as Galen teftifiethin his 
booke of- the Faculties of Ample medicines. 
«([ The Vcrtucs. 
This feed, as Galen faith in his booke. of the Facul- 
ties of nourilhments,is good to feafon bread without 
the white is better than the black .He alfo addeth,that 
the fame is cold and caufeth fleepe, and yceldeth no 
commendable nourifhtnent to the body ; it is often v- 
fed in comfits, ferued at the table with other iun. 
kettingdifhes. 
The oile which is prelfed out of it is plealantand 
delightfull to be eaten, and is taken with bread or any 
other waies in meat, without any fence of cooling. 
A greater force is in the knobs or heads, which doe 
fpecialiy preuaile tomooue fleepe, and to day and re- 
preffe diftillations or rheums, and comeneerein force 
to Opium, but more gentle.O/>/«?#,or the condenfed iuice of Poppie heads is ftrongeft of all : Me. 
ionium (which is the iuice of the heads and leaues) is weaker. Both of them any waies taken either 
inwardly, or outwardly applied to the head,prouoke deep e.opium fomewhat too plentifully taken 
doth alfo bring death, as plrne truely writeth. 
iD It mitigateth all kinde of paines : but it leaueth behinde it oftentimesa mifehiefe worfe than 
the d rfeafe it felfe,and that hard to be cured, as a dead palfie and fuch like. 
£ The vie of it, as- Galen in his r i .booke of medicines according to the places affe&’ed, faith, is fo 
offenfiue to the firme and folide parts of the body, as that they had need afterwards to be reftored - 
p So alfo collides or eie medicines ntadewith Opium haue beene hurrfull to many ; infomuch 
' that they haue weakned the eies and dulled the fight of thofe that haue vfed it:vvhatfoeuer is com- 
pounded of Opium to mittigate the extreeme paines of the eares bringeth. hardnefle of hearing. 
Wherefore all thofe medicines and compounds are to bee fhunned that are to be made of opium , 
and are not to be vfed but in extreme neceffitie; and that it is, when no other mitigater or aflwager 
of paine doth any thing preuaile, as Galen in his third booke of Medicines, according to the places 
affe&ed, doth cuidently declare. 
q The leaues of poppie boiled in water with a little fugarand drunke, caufeth fleep:or if it be boi- 
’ led without fugar,and the head, feet, and temples bathed therewith,itdoth effeft the fame, 
pj Thebeadsof Poppie boiled in water with fugar to a furup caufeth fleepe , and is goodagainft 
rheumesandcatarrhes that diftill &fal downefrom the brain into the lungs, & eafeth the cough. 
I The greeneknops of Poppie damped with barley meale,and a little barrowes greafe,helpeth S. 
Anthonies fire, called Ignis facer. 
I The 
