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jltcion: the Apothecaries, Fifiici : the Spaniards, Alhocigos, and Fifiicos in \ta.\hn, Ptftacchi .■ in 
Englifh, FiftickeNut. 
D ^y The Temperature and Venues. ^ 
The kernels of the Fifticke Nuts are oftentimes eaten asbethofeofthePine Apples ; theybe 
of temperature hot and moiftjthey are not fo eafily conco£fed,but much eafier than common nuts : 
the iu ice is good, yet fomewhat thicke ; they yeeld to the body no fmall nouri(hment,they nourifh 
bodies that are confumedithey recouer ftrength. g 
They are good for thole that haue the phthificke,or rotting away of the lungs. c 
They conco<a,ripen,and clenfe forth raw humours that cleaue to the lights and chert. 
They open the (loppings of the liner ,and be good for the infirmities of the kidneies ; they alfo 
remoueout of the kidneies fand and grauell ; and aflwage their painerthey are alfo good forvlcers. 
" The kernels of Fifticke nuts condited, or made into comfits, with lugar, and eaten, doe procure 
bodily lull, vnftop the lungs and the breft, are good againft the fhortnefle of breath, and are an ex- 
cellent preferuatiue medicine being miniftred in wine againft the bitings of all manner of vvilde 
beads. 
Chap. 88. Oj the Bladder 
Nux vejlcaria. 
The Bladder Nut. 
^ The Tefcriptiom. 
cdT(X-< 
T His is a low tree-, hauing diuers young 
fprings growing forth of the rootithe fub- 
ftanceof the wood is white, very hard & found j 
thebarkeisofalightgreeneithe leaues con- 
fift of fiue little ones, which be nicked in the 
edges likethofeof the Elder, but lelfer,not fo 
greene nor ranke of fmell. It hath the pleafant 
vvhitifh ftoures of Bryonie or Lahrufca, both in 
fmell and fhape, which turne into final corne- 
redbladders ofwiirer Cherries, called Alka- 
kengie.but of an ouerworne greemfh colour: 
in thefe bladders are contained two little 
nuts, and fometimes no more btitone, lelfer 
than the Hafell nut, but greater than the Ram 
Cich,with a wooddie fhel and fomewhat red: 
the kernellwithin is fomething green ; in tafte 
at the firft fweet, but afterwards lothfome,and 
ready to prouoke vomit. 
^y The Place. 
It groweth in Italy, Germany and France ; 
it groweth likewifeat thehoufeof fa Walter 
Culpepper neere Flimmewell intheWeildof 
Kent, as alfo in the Frier-yard without Saint 
Paules gate in Stamford, and about Spalding 
Abbey, and in the garden of the right honou- 
rable the Lord Treafurer my very good Lord 
and Mafter,and by his houfe in the Strand. It 
groweth alfo in my garden, and in the garden 
hedges of fir Francis Caretv neere Croydon, (e= 
uen miles from London, 
qy The Time. 
This tree floureth in May, the Nuts be ripe in Auguft and September. 
fy The Thames. 
It is commonly called in high Dutch, ^tmpetnuf? which fignifieth in low Dutch $t'mpeniO= 
ten- diuers call it in Latine Pifiactum Gerrmmcum : we thinke it bell; tocall itThuxveficar/a. Mat - 
thio'ut in his Epiftles doth iudge the Turks C.oulcoul and Hebulben to agree with this -.Cdielmus gua- 
cr/Waffirmeth,Coulcoultobevfedofdiuers in Conftantinople for adainne, efpecially when 
they be new brought out of Egypt. This plant hath no old name, vnlefle it be Stapbyltxtendrm Pliny 
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