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^ GalU miner. 
The little Gall tree. 
Of die Hi Rory of Plants. 
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• * This groivestothcheightOf a tall 
man, hailing Icaties deepcly diuided on the ed- 
ges like the Oke, and they ate green aboue,but 
hairy and hoary below : it catties a great Gall 
ofthe bigneflTe of a little Apple, and that in 
great plenty, & without any order. This o-row- 
eth indiuers'patrs of old Caftilein Spain and 
in all the mountainous woods about Vienna in 
Auftria.t 
3 The leffer Gall tree differech not from 
the former, failing that it is altogether lelfer • 
the fruit and Gallis hkewife Idler, wherein e- 
fpecially confiftcth the difference. 
% The Pi acc. 
The Galls are found in Italy, Spaine, and 
Bohemia, and mod of the hot regions. 3 
The Timt. & 
The Gall, faith / > //»y ; appeareth or corn rneth 
forth when the Sun commeth out of the fiane 
Gemini , and that generally in one night. & 
The Names. , 
The Gall tree is called autre*, Rohur, and 
GalU arbor : the Gall is called in Greeke w, • 
the Apothecaries and Italians keepe the name 
Gallo, for the fruit : in high- Dutch, dBalopffel 5 
Galha, and Rugalha : in French , Noix de Galle in E ng 1 i ih^G^ules^ a^G a Us” * S T’ anull > ' , & Alh ‘‘ 
% The Temperature and Tertnet, 
. , The Ga ' 1 caIlcd Omhackit as Galen writeth, is dry in the third degree, and cold in the fecond • A 
it is a very hujh medicine, it faftneth and draweth together faint and flacke parts,as the ouergrow- A 
mgs in the flelh : it repellcth and keepeth backe rheumes and fuch like fluxes, and doth efFelual- 
other places ofthe mouth* ^ w ^ en tlley baue a de ^ cent i nt0 the gums,aitnonds of the throat, and 
■ r , he . 0th , er Gal ';l ot , h df y and sbut fo much lefler, by how much the harfli or choking ft 
qualrne is dtmimfhed: being boyled, beaten, and alfp applied in manner ofaplaifler is laid with * 
good fucceflevpon the inflammations ofthe fundament, and falling downe thereof: it is boiled 
requhe nfthere ^ ° fallUlc aftri ^o« jandrnwrne,efpecially in auftere wine, if more need 
o, Sr p.ffion.bci^ in „l„e, C 
Galls are vfed in dying and colouring of fundry things, and in making of inkc n 
Laft ofall, burnt Galls doe receiue a further facultic, namely to ftanch blond, and ate of thin R 
parts, and of a greater vertue to dry than be thofc that are not burnt : they mult be layd vpon hot 
and wife C ° 65 ^ ^ “““ WhitCj ^ then the y are t0 be quenched in Vineger 
Moreouer, Galls are good for thofc that are troubled with the bloudy flix and common Iaskes, p 
being taken in wine or water, and alfoapphed or vfed in meats : finally, thefe are to be vfed as oft as 
need requireth to dry and binde. 
force' e '^PP' esarealucbof tbc natLT re of Galls, yet are they fatinferiour to them, and of lefler q 
tl, toVriK 21 “' S * J '° 1 W.S tup, ; fat loogffl., 
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