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Broome, have the like qualities, and may be conducible for the fame difeafes, but every one in his owne proper i 
exiftence, fome being weaker or ftrongcr than other. The Spamjb Broome over and above the lame properties, 
as alfo to purge downewards and to provoke vomits, efpecially thefeede taken to thequantitieof a drammein i 
mead or honied water, purgeth by vomit as Hellebor doth, without trouble or danger; the flowers thereof 
boyled in meade and drunke, or the pouder of them taken in a reare egge, or the juyee of the young branches 
drunke fading doe cure the Kings evill and the hippe goute, and an oxunell made of them and the feed, often 
ufed,breaketh and healeth all impoftumes of the Spleene, by caufing the corrupt matter to void it felfc upwards i 
often, and drawerh alfo flegme and raw humors from the j'oynts. 
Chap. XXXIII. 
Cajpa folutiva, Purging Cajfia, 
N former times there was onelyone fort of purging Cafsia knowne, but there hath beenefince 
brou°ht to ouf knowledge an other, whereof 1 meane to give you the relation in this place. 
, cafsia folutiva vulvar™. The t,„rcrino Cafsia. 
s to be a wonderfull 
oreat tree, ipreadmg DOtn in ncignt ana orcaatn very much, but mo^rama, Egypt and Italj much 
! fle'ver prowtn" to be a tree of a large fize or bignejfe, whofe wood is folid and firme, yellowifh towards 
he fanne or outfide, and blackifhlik e Lignum vita at the heart, covered with a fmooth foft and afli coloured 
h rke verv like unto the Wallnut tree : the branches are not very great,and but thinly ftored with winged leaves, 
r nliflinv of eisht or tenne leaves, for the moft part five (landing on each fide of the llalke, without any odde one 
t tl e end each whereof is larger and longer pointed than the leaves of the Carob or fweete Beane tree, that 
l i|L,, t h’in the next Chapter to be deferibed : the flowers ate yellow and large, many growing together ona 
1 °(lalke and hanging downe fomewhat like as the Laburnum or Beane Trcfolie doth, confiding of foure 
,° n? for the moft part or fometimes of five leaves, with many greenifti threads inthemiddlc, handing about 
fmallloup crooked umbone or home, of a very fweete fent, efpecially in the morning, before thcSunnc 
n ' (Minnnthem but grow weaker in fmell, as the Sunne groweth hotter upon them: the fmall home in the 
mine t po > ° th to be the pod, which while it is young is greene, but in time commeth to be of a 
darkenutDlceolourJ and being fuffered to grow longer, or taken at the time and kept turneblache, being ofdi- 
i f for length and greatnefte, fome being fmaller and fome greater, fomeafoote, orafooteana a 
vers lize [ on g with a hard round wooddy wrinkled (hell,not very thicke or very hard to breake, with 
naite,or tw or a u t he length thereof at the backe, eminent to be feene and with another fmall one a~ 
Tt upon the other fide, which caufeth ittobceafily broken intotvvo parts by the middle long wayes, and 
Tin ordinary purging Cajfuk 
Cajfia Brafiliana. 
The great Cajfia of BrafiB. 
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