Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 
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The Venues. 
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The juice of Spoonevvoort giuen to drinke in Ale or Beere,is a fingular medicine againft the :i 
corrupt and rotten vlcers, and flench of the mouth : it perfedlly cureth the difeafe called of Him. i 
ZtZ-oluulus Hematites : of Pliny, Stemauce , of MarcelU, Ofeedo .and of the later writer s,ScorU. 
turn - of the Hollanders and Fritians, Scuerbuyck : in Englifh,the Scuruie - either gmmg the 
juice in drinke as aforefaid,or putting fix great handfuls to fteepe,with long pepper, graines, an . 
nife-feede and liquorice, of each one ounce, the fpices being braied, and the herbes hrufed with 1 
your hands and fo put into a pot, fuchas is before mentioned in the chapter of baftardRubarbe, , 
and vfed in like mancr ; or boiled in milke or wine and drunke for certaine dales together it wor- 
kC Tht mie dauSe once in a day falling in any liquor, ale beere or wine, doth caufe the forefaid i 
medicine more fpeedily to worke his effeft in curing this filthy, lothfome heauy,and dull difeafe, , 
which is very troublefome,and of long continuance . The gums are loofed, fwo ne, and exulce- ■ 
rate the mouth greeuoufly (linking; the thighes and legs are w.thallvery often full of blew fpors, 
not much vnlike thofe that come of brufes : the face and the rell of the body is oltentimes of a 1 
mlf* colour • and the feet are f\volnc»as madropfic. . . . , 
' There is a difeafe (faith OUusmagnus in his hiftorie of the Northerne regions) haunting the . 
campes, which vexe them that are befiegedand pinned vp: and it feemeth to come by eating ofli 
fait meates, which is increafed and chenfhed with the cold vapors of the (lone walls. The Ger- 
manes call this difeafe(as we haue faid)Scorbuck,the fymptome or paffion which hapneth to the . 
mouth is called of pLy Stmtcace.and that which belongeth to the thighes 
cc ll HS old writer nameth the infirmities of the mouth ofeedo : which difeafe commeth ot a 
arofte' cold and tough bloud, fuchas malancholy juice is, not byaduftion but offuchabloudas: 
fs the feculynt or droffie part thereof : which is gathered in the body by ill diet flothfulnelTe to 
worke laifinefte (as we terme it) much fleepeandreft on flupboord, and not looking to make i 
cleane’ the bifquet from the mealinelfe, and vneleane keeping their bodies, which are the caufes 
oft his difeafe called the feuruie or fcyrby-which difeafe doth not onely touch the outward parts, ; 
but the inward alfo : for the liner oftentimes, but mod commonly the fpleene, is filled with this 
k inde of thicke cold and tough juice, and is fwolne by reafon that the fub (lance thereof is flacke, 
fpungie and potous, very apttorecttiue fuch kinde of thick and cold humors. Which thing alfo ; 
TppLt's hath written of in the fecond booke of his Prorrhetikes : their gums (faith he) are in-, 
feaed and their mouthes ftinke that haue great fpleenes or milts: and whofoeuer haue reati 
milts and vfe not to bleed, can hardly be cured of this malladie especially of the vlcers in the legs,' 
and blackc fpots. The fame is affirmed by Paitlus i&gineta mhis third booke, 49. , chapter,where ;| 
vou may eafily fee the difference between this difeafe and the black jaunders & which many times 
arc fo confounded together, that the-diftindion or difference is hard to be known, but by t he ex- 
pert chirurgiomwho oftentimes feruing in the (hips, as wel her Maiefties as merchants, are greatly; 
peftered with the curing thereof: it Hull be requifite to came with them the herbe dried : the 
water diftilled, and the juice put into abottlewith a narrow mouth, full almoft to the necke, and. 
the reft filled vp with oiIeoliue,to keep it from putnfa£lion . the which preparations difcreetly 
vfed will (land them in great (lead for the difeafe aforefaid. ... 
The herbe ftamped and laid vponfpots and blemifhes of the face, will take them away w lthm 
fix houres but the place muftbewafhedafterwithwaterwherein bran hath beenfodden. 
C H A P. 87. Of T vay blade, or herbe Bifoile . 
The Defcriftion. 
H Erbe Byfoilehath many fmall fibres or threddy firings, fallened vnto a foall knot ^ 
r ' 1- -u ^ (\nrtAf°r A^m nr Anllre.rpnder. fat. and full ofjiucc *. lntne 
:rbe Byfoilehath many lmall notes ortnreuay - • 
root, from which rifeth vp a {lender ftem or ftalke, tender, fat, and full of,u ice in the 
middle whereof are placed in comely order two broad leaues, ribbed and chamfered^ 
in fhane like the leaues of Plantame : vpon the top of the ftalke groweth a (lender greenifti fpiho 
in (hape like the ieauesot 1 lanu V rP f/ m Klimr a ™r nr little sofline newly hatched: 
'"T llk dp*?r«/*r,M TifoUeTw e ffiblade,hath roots, tender ftalkes and abufh of flouBhkethd 
precedent : but differeth in that, that this plant hath three leaues which do clip * 
