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Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 
Li B.3. 
The Names. 
The Apple tree is called in Greeke^i*.- in Latine, Malm and Pomus : in high Dutch, tppffgja 
baum: in low Dutch, 3fppclb00m: in French, Pommicr : in Englifh, Apple-tree. 
The Grecians name the fruit [JMk'-l : the Latines ^Malum or Pomum : in high Dutch, ©pfeR.-in I ora 
Dutch,3ppel • in French and Spanifhp JMartfanas. in Englifh, Apple. 
•f The Temperature. 
All Apples be of temperature cold and moift, and haue joined with them a certaine excrement 
tailor fupcrfluous moifture: but as they be not all oflike coldnefle,fo neither haue they like quan- 
titieoffuperfluous moifture. They are fooneft rotten that haue greateftftore of moifture, and they 
nray be longer kept in which there is Idle llorc : for the abundance otcxcrementall moifture is the 
caufe why they rot. ..... „ , , , , , ... 
Sweet Apples are not fo cold and moift, which being rolled or boyled.or otherwife kepr,retaine 
or keepe the foundnefle of their pulpe. 
They yeeld more nourifhmenr,and not fo moift a nourifhment as do the other Apples, and doe 
not fo ealily pafle through the belly. 
Soure Apples are colder and alfo moifter : the fubftance or pulpe of thefe when they be boiled 
doth run abroad, and retaineth not his foundnefle : they yeeld a Idler nourilhment, and the fame 
raw and cold. 
They do eafily and fpeedily pafle through the belly, and therefore they do mollifie the belly, 
• cfpecially being taken before meat. 
Harfli or Auftere Apples being vnripe, are cold ; they ingender grofle bloud,and great ftore of 
winde, and often bring rhe Collicke. 
Thofe A pples which be of a middle tafte containe in them oftentimes two or three forts of tails, 
and yet do they retaine the faculties of the other. 
cr The Virtues. 
A Rolled A pples are alwaies better than the raw, rhe harm whereofis both mended by the lire, and 
may alfo be corrected by adding vnro them feeds or fpices. 
B Apples be good for an hot ftomackeithofe that are auftereor fomewhatharlhdoellrengthen a 
weake and feeble llomacke proceeding ofheat. 
C Apples are al fo good for all inflammations or hot fwellings , butefpecially for fuch as are m 
their beginning, if the lame be outward ly applied. 
D The iuice of Apples which tefweet and of a middle tafte, ismixed in compofitions of diuers 
medicines,and alfo for the tempering of melancholy humours, and 1 ik ew i fe to mend the qualities 
of medicines that are dty:as are Scrap turn expomu PegisSapons^onjedio Alkermes, and fuch like com- 
pofitions. . 
E There is likewife made an ointment with the pulpe of Apples and Swines greafe and Rofe wa- 
ter, which is vfed to beautifie the face, and to take away the roughnefle of the skin, which is called 
in llr ops Pomatum : of the Apples whereof it is made. 
p The pulpe of the rolled apples,in number foure or flue, according to the greatnefle of the Ap- 
ples efpecially of the Pome water, mixed in a wine quart of faire water, laboured together vntill it 
come to be as apples and Ale, which wee call Lambes Wooll, and the whole quart drunkelaft at 
night within the fpace of an houre, doth in one night cure thole that pifle by droppes with great 
angui’lh and dolour-the flrangurie,and all other difeafes proceeding of the difficult^ of making 
water-bur in twife taking it, it neuer faileth in any : oftentimes there happeneth with the forefaid 
difeafes the Gonorrhea, or running of the Raines, which it likewife healeth in thofe perfons, but 
not generally in all • which my felfe haue often proued, and gained thereby both crownes and 
G The leaues of the tree do coole and binde, and be alfo counted good for inflammations, in the 
H ^Anplescut in pieces, anddiftilledwithaquantitie of Camphere and butter-milke, take away 
the markes and fcarres gotten by the fmall pockes, being wafhed therewith when they grow vnto 
their ftateand ripenefle : prouided that you giuevnto the patienta little milk and Saftron,ormilk 
and mithridate to drinke,to expell to the extreme parts that venome which may lie hid, and as yet 
not feene. 
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