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Tribe. z» l The Theater of'T/tints. Chap, U 
it inoft commonly groWeth nearcthcSea, many doe fuppofe: it tooke the name either from that is , a.fate 
fait, or from «^©-’ a Sale, the Sea it felft.with whofe breath it is much delighted. The hardned juyee thercofis alfo 
iifually called Aloe, and becatife the beft and pureft is made, as Garcias faith, in the. Hand Socotora, it is called Aloe 
Socotorina, and corruptly in the Apothecaries (hops Aloes Succotrinas, or Sacco citriAa. It is alfo called Aloes bepa- 
tica, becauie the beft is browne and red like a liver. It is called alfo iy-uSm:, becaufe it not onely groweth in the: 
ground.butwiUliveaHooiitoftlieground. Some of themoderne Herbarifts doe call it Sempervivam marinum , 
from the thickneffe of the leaves and likeneffe unto Scdiim, called Sempervivam. Columella in his verfes by naming 
.Wotb among the bitter juyees, is thought to meane this, and called it Sedumamarum, for there is no Sedum that 
hath a bitter Joyce but this onely. Another fort of Aloe was formerly wont to be brought, (before wee became in- 
duftrious, to chufe onely the bell for ourufe) which was called Ofo/Kiw, either becaufe they gave it horles, being' 
the courfetl, or becaufe it was not fit for men but horles, the knowledge as well as importation whereof, is almol? 
utterly forgotten and negleaed. It is called in Englifh hearbe Aloes after the Greeke.andSea Houfleeke after the 
Tatinename, and Aygrecne, that is Evergreene. Pliny and others have written ofan Aloe metaUka, or foffilis in hi. 
daa and other places, bnt it is found by divers Writers to be an errour in them, and no fuch thing to be found. Thit 
fecond as Cjomara in the end ofhis Mexican H tilorf faith, is called of fomc of the Indians Adel l: and of feme others 
eJMagary \ of fome Spaniards Cardan, becaufe of the prickes about and at the end of the leaves, and of others Ft / y 
Agmtla, that is to fay, thread and needle, becaufe it fupplieth both their ules; the fharpe end thornes fervino as an 
aule or needle, and the threads running within the leaves being fpunne, (erving as thread, da fins calleth it Aloe 
Americana, and fo almoft all other Authors after hint, onely Label calleth it Aloe folio mucronato. Fragofus faith 
that the pricke of the thornes hereof are venemous. 
The Venues. 
The firft hearbe Aloe is ufually hung up in houfes to bee ready at hand upon all occafions, to apply a little of the 
juyee of a leafe prelently cut of, or the peece of a leafe it felfe, upon any cut or frefh wound, which is found to bee 
lingular good to foder and heale them: even as Diofcorides faith, that that fort which grew in Afia, Arabia,cf-c. 
5 s of more life to glue or foder wounds, than that which commeth out of Indio. .- the leaves alfo are found to be ex¬ 
ceeding cold in the hot Countres, and of very great ufc and effefls for all manner of fealding with water, or bur¬ 
ning with fire, gun-powder, or the like, healing them quickly : the nature of the juyee, or Aloes it felfe, is fit to 
thicken, fo dry, to procure fleepe, and moderately to heate; it openeth the belly, purgetii the ftomacke , and the 
yellow jaundife, and ftayeth the (pitting or vomiting of blood, if a dramme thereof be taken in faire water a it is 
not onely a good purger of it felfe, but is added alfo with other purgers to caufe the Icffe trouble in the llomack ; 
it healeth greene wounds, and bringeth old fores to cicatrizing, as alio thofe of the genitors, it healeth the chappce 
ofthe fundament, the piles and breaking forth of blood from them,being nled outwardly • but affuredly it is found 
not convenient for thofe that are troubled with the piles, to take thereof inwardly, becaufe it hcateth, and rnaketh 
the blood of them to be the more fharpe and fretting. It is alfo found to be more helpefull to flegmaticke, than to 
hot, dry, and cholericke contentions. 11 eafeth the paines of the head to bee taken in pills, or being diffolved to 
anoynt the forehead and temples: diffolved in wine and honey, it helpeth the foreneffe of the reynes and gums, and 
all ulcers in the mouth : being torrified in a cleane earthen veffell, it is an efpeciall good medicine to be uled with 
others for the eyes, t/rftelheweththatitishot in the firft degree compleat, or fecond inchoate, and dry in thfi 
third, and hath a little aftringent faculty therein alfo, but exceeding bitter; it openeth the belly and pnrgeth mode¬ 
rately tlie ftomacke chiefly, whereunco it is mod friendly and comfortable above all other medicines, (for where¬ 
as all other purgers doe trouble and weaken the ftomacke, this onely is found to comfort and (Ircngthenit:) and 
thofe humours that are in the lower parts next unto the paffage, for it is noftrong orgenerall purger ofthe whole 
body, to expell grofle humours, but thofe onely that be in and about the belly. And for this purpole the Aloes (im¬ 
ply it felfe, is fitted to be ufed, for if it be wafoed, it lofeth the moft part of the purging quality, and hath onely a 
comforting and ftrengthening property left. And therefore if Aloes that is wafht be given toxhofe that are feverifh, 
howfoever it may doe fmall harme to fome, yet it is found to doe much to others. Mafticke or Cinamon are ac- 
connted, the beft correftors or helpers to be mixt therewith when it is given : It healeth alfo thofe ulcers that are 
hardly cured, and efpccially thofe iu the fundament and fecret parts. CMefnes faith it cleanfeth the head and fto¬ 
macke, and eafeth thofe paines are incident unto them : and that the continuall u(e thereof preferveth any ffotn 
dangerous and deadly diieafes, and with Mirrhe preferveth die bodies, not onely of the living but of the dead, fromi 
all putrefaftion and corruption : which effefls long before his time were well knownetothe world, for the man¬ 
lier of embalming the bodies of the dead, with Aloes and Myrrhe, which Was nfed among the Iewes, ‘as appearcth 
in the 19. Chapter of Saint /ofou Gofpell, the 39. verfe, where it is faid that Nicodemus brought about 1O0. pound 
weight of Mirrhe and Aloes mixed together which was laid with the bodyofotir Saviour Iefm in the Sepulchre a 
But the Aloes that is mentioned in all other places of the Scriptures, is underftood to bee the Lignum aloes, which 
the Apothecaries ufe in their (hops, in many medicines, appointed both by Greeke and Arabian°Authors, as well 
inward as outward, for fweetoyntments, perfumes, and other compofitions: and the Aloe tree is onely once or 
twice named, as in the 14. of Numb, and the 6 . verfe. The parable of Balaam concerning the beauty of Jacob or 
the children of//rar/,in the faire fpreading of their habitations, to belike valleies ftretched forth, like gardens'by 
the River fide, like the Aloe trees, (which Saint Ierome tranflateth Tabernacles) that God planted, as the Cedars be« 
fide the waters. And in the 45. Pfalme where Saint Icromes tranflation hath dldyrrba Gr/ttacr Cafia, it fhouldbe: 
tAiyrra Aloe & Capa, for the Hebrew word Ahalod, which themoft judicious doe tranflate Agallocham into 
Greeke, and Lignum aloes into Latine. It is often given to children for the wormes, either of it felfe, or in a few 
Kaifons ofthe Sunne opened, and the ftones taken forth and fome put therein, or outwardly appl'yed to the belly, 
tinder the navill, made into a plaifter with a little oyle of Wormewood.or fome other fuch thing. Aloes alfo is of¬ 
ten ufed in medicines for the eyes, with a little honey to allay the heate in them, to cleanfe the inward rouehneffe 
ofthe eye-lids, and cleate the dimneffe of the fight, that commeth by moift humours diftilling info them, by drying 
it up without fnarpneffe or offence ; it healeth alfo the itching in the corners ofthem. Being mixed with a little vi¬ 
negar and oyle of Rofes, and the temples and forehead anoynted therewith, about the time of reft, doth much helpe 
the headach, and is a meanes to procure fleepe to thofe that want: if it be diffolved in wine, and the head walbed 
therewith, itftayeth the falling of, or (Redding of the baire ufed with honey and wine,it clcanfethall fouie ulcers,' 
