i^ z Of the Hiftory of Piants. Lib. 3. 
D Moreouer, there is gathered out from the Rofins as from Frankencenfe,a congealed fmoke, called 
in Latine Fnligo ; in Greeke Hyw. and in Englifh,Blacke, which ferueth for medicines that beauti- 
fie the eie lids, and cure the fretting fores of the corners ofthe eies, and alfo watering eies, fork 
drieth without biting. 
E There is made hereof faith Diofcorides, writing inke,but. in our age not that whichwe write 
withallj but the fame which ferueth for Printers to print their bookes with, that is to fay, of this 
blacke,or congealed fmoke,and other things added . 
Of Pitch andTar. 
The manner of drawing forth of Pitch. 
Out ofthe fatteft wood of the Pine tree changed into the Torch Pine, is drawne Pitch by force 
offire. A place muft be paued with ftone, or fome other hard matter, a little higher in the mid- 
dle about which there muft alfo be made gutters, into which the liquor {hall fall ; then out from 
them other gutters are to be drawne, by which it maybe receiued •being receiued, it is put into 
barrels. The place being thus prepared, the clouen wood of the Torch Pine muft be fet vpright; 
then muft it be Couered with a great number of Fir and Pitch boughes,and oneuery part all about 
with much lome and earth : and great heed muft be taken, leaft there be any cleft or chinke re- 
maining, onely a whole left in the topofthefurnacc,thorow which the fire may be put in, and the 
flame and fmoke may pafle out: when the fire burneth the Pitch runneth forth, firft the thin, and 
then the thicker. 
This liquor is called in Greeke - in Latine,P/.v : in Engliih,Pitch,and themoifture,euen 
the fame that firft runneth is named of Plinie in his i 6.booke,i r. chapter, Cedria. There is boyled 
in Europe, faith he, from the Torch Pine a liquid Pitch vied about fliips, and feruing for many 
ocher purpofes; the wood being clouen is burnedwith fire, and fet round about the furnaces on 
euery fide, after the manner of making Charcoles : the firft liquor runneth thorow the gutter like 
water: (this in Syria is called Cedrinm , which is of fo great vertue, as in Aigypt the bodies of dead 
men are preferued, being aj I couered ouer with it) the liquor following being now thicker, is made 
Pitch. But Diofcoridis wftcthfnii. Cedriah gathered of the great Cedar tree, and rameth the li- 
quor drawne out of the Torch tree by force of fire, : this is,that which the Latines call Pix 
liquida . the Italians, Peceliqmda : inhigh Dutch, tt?ttclj bad) tin low Dnrch, ^CCt: in French, 
Poix foudire : in Spanifh, Vex liquida ■ certaine Apothecaries, Kttran : andwe in Englifli, Tar. 
And ofthisjyhen it is boiled is madea harder Pitch : this is named in Greeke : in La- 
tine, Arida, or ficca P/x : ofdiuers, • as though they fhould fay, Iterate Pix , or Pitch iterated : 
becaufe it is boiled the fecond time. A certaine kinde hereof being made clammic or glewing is 
named emir- in ihops, Pix n audis pi Ship Pitch : inhigh Dutch, 23ftti):in low Dutch, ^rtfCtipCClt' 
in Italian, Peccfecca ■■ in French, Poixfcchc : in Spanifh, Peffcca : in Englifli, Stone Pitch. 
•j The Temperature and Vert ties. 
A Pitch is hot and dry,Tarre is hotter,and ftone pitch more drying,as Galen writeth. Tar is good 
againft inflammations ofthe almonds of the throte, and the uvula, and likewife the Squincie, be- 
ing outwardly applied. 
B It is aremedie for mattering eares with oile of Rofes : it healeth the bitings of Serpents, if it be 
beatenwith fait and applied. 
C With an equall portion of wax it taketh away foule ilfauoured nailes, it wafteth away fwel- 
lings of the kernels, and hard fwellings of the mother and fundament. 
D With barly mealeand aboies vrine it corifumeth x'^^or the Kings euill : it ftaieth eating vl- 
cers.ifit be laid vnto them with brimftone,and the barke ofthe Pitch Tree, or with branne. 
E If it be mixed with fine Frankincenfe,anda cerote made thereofiit healeth chops ofthe funda- 
ment and feet. 
p StonePitch doth roo! lifie and foften hard fwellings : it ripens and maketh matter, and wafteth 
away hard fwellings and inflammations of kernels : it fillethvp hollow vlcers, and is fitly mixed 
w ith wound medicines. 
G What vertue Tarre hath when it is inwardly taken wemayreadein Diofcondis and Galen, but 
we fet downe nothing thereof, for that no man in our age will eafily vouchfa fe the taking. 
H There is alfo made of Pitch a congealed fmeke or blacke 3 which ferueth for the fame purpofes, 
as that of the Rofins doth. 
C HA P. 
