Lib. 2. Of the Hiftory of Plants. Sjy 
I all the bowels, and is nothing changed; as alfo the skins, which are nothing at all altered in the 
body, orvery little. 
Thofe grapes which haue a flrong talk of wine are in a meane betweene foure'and fweet. A 
Such grapes as haue little iuyce do nourifh more, and thofe leffe that haue more iuyce : but B 
[ thcfe dofooner defccnd ; for the body receineth more nourifhmcnt by the pulpe than by the iuice ; 
j by the iuyce the belly is made more foluble. 
Grapes haue the preheminence among the Autumne fruits, and nourifh more than they all, but C 
• yet not fo much as figs : and they haue in them little ill iuyce , efpecially when they be thorow 
l ripe. i . 
Grapes may be kept thewhole yeare, being ordered after that manner as louhimus Comer trios jj 
r reporteth. You fhall take (faith he) the meale of milliard feed, and ftrew in the.bottome of any 
s earthen pot well leaded ; whereupon you fhall lay the faired bunches of theripeft grapes , . the 
r which you fhallcouerwithmoreoftheforefaidmeale,andlayvponthatanother fort of Grapes, 
I fo doing vntill the pot be full. Thenfhallyou fill vp the pot to thebrim with a kinde of fweete 
Winecallcd Mud. The pot being very clofecouered fhall be fet into fome Cellar or other cold 
place. The Grapes you may take forth at your pleafure, wafhing them with faire water from the 
i powder. 
Of Raifins l 
O F Ilaifms mod are fweet ; fome haue an auftere or harfh cade. Sweet Raifins are hotrer ; au- E 
Here colder : both of them-dp moderately binde, but the auftere fomewhat more, which ’doe 
n more ftrengthen the ftomacke.The fweet ones do neither (lacken the ftomacke,nor make the belly 
H foluble, ifthey be taken with their (tones, which are of abinding qualitie : othei wife the ft <$nes 
. taken forth, they do make the belly loofe and foluble. 
Raifins do yeeld good nourifhment to the body, they haue in them no ill iuyce at all, but doe p 
i ingender fomewhat a thicke iuyce, which notwithftandingdoth nourifh the more. 
There commeth of fweet and fat Raifins moll plenty of nourilhment : of which they are the Q 
a beft that haue a thin skin. 
There is in the fweet ones a temperate and fmoothing qualitie, with a power to clenfe mode- pj 
j rately. Theyaregood forthecheft, lungs, winde-pipe, kidneyes, bladder, andfor the ftomacke; 
I for they make fmoorh the roughneffe of the winde-pipe, and are good againft hoarfenefle, ftiort- 
i nefle of breath, or difficultie of breathing : they ferue to concoct the fpittle, and to caufe it to rife 
a moreeafilyinany difeafewhatfoeuerofthecheft,fides,andlungs,anddomitigate the paine of 
the kidneyes and bladder, which hath ioyned with it heate and iharpenefleofvrine : they dull and 
allay the malice of lharpe and biting humors that hurt the mouth of the ftomacke. 
Moreouer, Raifins are good for the liuer, as Galen writeth in his feuenth booke of medicines, I 
; according to the places affedted : for they be of force to conco.lt raw humors, and to reftrain their 
j malignitie,and they themfelues do hardly putrifie ibefides, they are properly and of their owne 
1 fubftance familiar to the intrals.and cure any diftcmperature,and nourifh much ; wherein they are, 
j chiefely to be commended, for Raifins nourifh, ftrengthen, refift putrifadtion, and if there be any 
i diftemperaturebyreafonofmoiftureorcoldnefle, they helpe without any hurt, as the faid Galen 
j aifirmeth. 
The old Phyfitians haue taught vs to take forth the ftones, as we may fee in diners compofiti- ft 
! ons of the antient writers ; as in that compofition which is called in Galen, <^frurtaca Mithridatis, 
which hath the feeds of the Raifins taken forth : for feeing that Raifins containe in them a thicke 
fubftance, they cannot eafily paflb through theveines,butareapt to breed obftrudlions and (top- 
pings of the intrals : which things happen the rather by reafon of the feeds ?for they fo much the 
harderpafte through the body, and do quicklier and more eafily caufe obftrudtions, in that they 
are more aftringent or binding. Wherefore the feeds are to be taken out, for fo fhall the iuyce of 
| tile Raifins more eafily pafte, and the fooner bediftributed through the intrals. 
Dicfcoridcs reporteth, That Raifins chewed with pepper draw flegme and water out of the head. 
Of Raifins is made a pultefle good for the gout, rottings about the ioynts, gangrens,and morti- 
j fiedvlcers-: being damped withtheherbe All-heale it quickly takes away thenailes that are loofe 
| in the fingers or toes, being laid thereon . 
% o/MuJi. ' 
VI Vft, called in Latine Muftum, that is to fay. the liquor newly ifluing out of the grapes when M 
, ^ they be trodden or prefled, doth fill the ftomacke and intrals with winde^itis hardly dige- 
I ftedjitis of a thicke iuyce, and if it do not fpeedily pafte through the body it becommeth mote 
hurtfull. 
