-IB. 2. 
Of the Hiftory of Plants: 
1007 
» ff The Names. 
It is called in Latine Lafirpitittm : in Engtiih,Lalcrwoort, andMagydarei the gum or Iiquour 
that iflueth out of the fame is called Lafcrpat that which is gathered from thofeplants that doe 
grow in Media and Syrians called Jfifxtida. 
ThcNjture. 
Laferpttium,e {\ pecially the root, is hot and drie in the third degree : Lifer is alfo hot and drie in 
the third degree, but it exceedeth much theheateof the leaues, ftalkes, and rootes of Laferc,,. 
Hum. J ‘ 
The Vert ues. 
The root of Laferpitwm well pounded, or ftampedwithoile,fcattereth clotted bloud, talcetha- a 
way blacke and blew markes that come of bruifes or (tripes, cureth and diffolueth the Kin °- s -cuiIl A 
and all hard fwellings and botches, the places being annointed or plaiftered therewith. b 
Thefame root made into a plaifter with theoileof Ireos and wax, doth both a flwage and cure B 
the Sciatica, or gout of thehiporhucklebone. 
The lame holden in the mouth and chewed, doth alfwage the tooth-ache ; for they are fuch roots C 
as draw from the braine a great quantite of humors. 
The liquour orgum of Lafefytium, efpecially tJieZa/trofCyrene broken and dilfolued in wa- T> 
ter and drunken, taketh away thehoarfenelfe thatcommeth luddenly .-and being fupt vp with a 
xeare egge, cureth the cough : and takenwith fome good broth or flipping, is gooefagainft an old 
pleurifie. 
Lifer cureth the iaundies and dropfie, taken with dried figs : alfo being taken in the quantitie of r 
a fcruple,with a little pepper and Myrrhe,is very good againft fhrinkingoffinevves,and members E 
out of ioint. 
The fame taken witlihonieandvineger,orthefyrrupofvineger,isvery goodagainft thefallino- , 
fickne/le. ^00 3 r 
1 1 is good againft the flux of the belly coftiming of the debilitie and weaknefle of the ftomacke r 
(called in Latin eCaliacus morbus) if it be taken with raifons of the Sun. . 
It driueth away the fhakings and fhiuerings ofagues, being drunke with wine, pepper, & white H 
Frankincenfe. Alfo there is made an eleftuarie thereof called Antidotus txjucco Cyrenaict, wh ich is H 
a lingular medicine.againft feuer quartaines. 
It is excellent againft the bitings of all venomous beafts,and venomous (hot of darts or arrowes I 
not onely taken inwardly, but alfo applied outwardly vpon wounds. ’ 
It bringeth to maturation, and breakethall peftilentiall impofthumc-s,botchesand carbuncles, fr 
eing applied thereto with Rue, Salt- peter, and honie : after the lame manner it taketh away corns 
after they haue been fcarified with a knife. 1 
.1, B n in n g e l tf ? with C°PP eras and Verdigreafe,it taketh away all fuperfluous outerowinss of L 
tne ficlhjtne Polypus that happeneth in the no(e,and all feuruie mangineffe. - 
ling oft b of a t hehafte Vith vincgeripe P per and vvinc > ic Cllr «h the naughtie icurfe of the head, and fal- m 
The gum or liquour which groweth in Armenia, Lybia and fundry other places, is vj 
that (linking and Iothfome gum called of the Arabian Phy fitions ^Afa and A fa as alfo with vs in 
ihoppes -Afafrtida : but the Laftrpitmm growing in Cyrene is the beft,and of a reafonable pleafant 
lmell,and is called Lifer to diftinguilh and make difference betweene the two iuices- though 
fznda be good for all purpofes aforclaid.yet is it not fo good as Lifer of Cyrene : it is good^alfo to 
imell vnto,and robe applied vnto the nauels of women vexed with the choking, or riling of the mo- 
t That figure which formerly was in this place, wa» of the 
common Lovage deferibed in the fallowing chapter. 
Chap. 59 z . Of common Lounge. 
5f T he D efeription. 
A Ntient writers haue added vnto this common kinde of Louage,a fecond fort yet knowin® 
that the plant lo fuppofed is the true Siler montanum , and not Leuifticttm , though others haue 
, a aI '” l ' ! ‘ ;emed i c Laferpitium . Thefetwo fuppofitions are eafily anfvvered,fith they bee. ftmdrie 
-metes 0l plants, though they be very neere in (Rape and faculties one vnto another. This plant 
beinsr 
