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C h a p.i. Tbeatrum Botanicum. Tribe 3, 
beaftes doeufe to dippe the heads of their arrowes they fhoote,or darts they throw at the Wilde bcafts, which 
killcth them that are wounded therewith fpeedilyjyet it is laid that the flefh of the beads fo ki lied,is no whit poy- 
fonotts but fafe, and eateth more tender than ofothers of the lame kinde, not killed in the lame manner, fo as ir 
abide undreffed for a day and a night. The ordinary phyficall remedies that is to be uled for any that have taken 
of thefe hetbes, is fird to procure vomiting,with all the fpeede poffible, to avoid as much of the evill fubltance 
that remaineth in the ftomacke as may be; and fecondly gliders, both to clenfe the bowe 11s, and to draw the evill 
quality downetvards that way : and thirdly prefervatives to defend the heart andvitall lptrtts from fuftocati- 
on, or the bloud from putrefaftion or congelation ; which areeftefted by taking Mithridate, or rather Venice 
Treakle, which is more appropriate for poyfons; asalfo to drinke the decoftion of Origanum, Rew, Hore- 
hound, Wormcwood, or Wormewood wine; as alfo Southernwood, Chatnapstys, or ground Pme, arid Gcnti- 
am : a dramme of the true Opobalfamttm taken with hony is much commended, and lo is Cador, Pepper and 
Rue, of each a little quantitie taken in wine. Some commend alfo to drinke that wine, wherein iron, or gold, 
or fdver, made red hot hath beenc quenched. Tetrus Aponenfis in his Booke of poifons, commendeth the ufe of 
Terra, lemnia a drammeor two, thereofto be taken in warme drinke ; but above allhee faith that Arijlolachtu 
Imttt, or the long rooted Birthwort.is the mod efpcciall antidote or remedy againfl all Aconites : But behold the 
wonderfull goodnefle of God ; who although he hath given to thefe plants fo deadly faculties, yet hath he endued 
them alfo with other properties, very bencficiall to mans health •• as that the juice or diddled water of Acamtum 
Ponticum of both forts,dropped into the eyes, taketh away the inflammation or rednefle in them, as alfo cleareth 
them from any haw,or pinne or webbe,growing in or uponthem.lt is faidlikewifeby fVbrj',that if any be dung 
with a Scorpion, or other venemous Serpent,or nave taken any other poifon, that to take of this in warme wine 
will expell the other; for finding another enemy already polfelling the part that he would worke upon, he ftri- 
veth to overcome his malignity, and fpendeth his force wholely upon it,and thereby freeeth nature from mine, 
(But this were a delperate cure for a defperate difeafe ) and that by the couch onely of this Aconite, Scorpions are 
dulled, and redoredagaine by white Hellebor; how true this is I leave to every one to judge or trie as he lhall 
thinkc bed himfelfe i but certaincly if either the rootesor feedcs of thefe Aconites,or ofche other Helmet flowers 
be beaten into pouder, or the juyee of them boy led with oyle, orHogges fat, and the head and body anointed 
therewith, it will kill lice and vermine breedingtherein : the lye alfo wherein the leaves, rootes, or ieede, hath 
heene boyl’ed, doth the lame.and elenfeth the head alfo from feurfe and dandraffe. Galen faith that they are ufed in 
foulc ulcers and fores,to conlume the dead flefh, fo as the foresee not in the mouth ot privities,which by reafon 
of their vicinitie, to the fpirits and life are not to be dealt with in fuch fort: and for the Helmet flowers (they are 
all thought ro be of one nature,howfoever it is fpoken but of one that is the more common) Anicra preferibeth an 
Antidote or remedy againfl the poifon thereof, to be made with the Moufe that feedeth upon the roote of the 
Napellus, or Helmetflower, faying, that that Moufe is the Treakle thereof, and being taken in the whole fub- 
ftance, refifteth the venome of the Napellus , and freeth them from all danger; which Moufe diiatthiolus faith 
he hath often found, and faith it is that which A wen calleth Napellus Moypi, having the fame propertic againlt 
the poifon of Napellus, that the plant it felfe fo called hath. Petrus Aponenfis alfo faith, that this Mnfe that fee¬ 
dethupou the rootes of T(apellut is the SBczoar againfl; the Napellus , if it be dryed and two drams of the pouder 
given in drinke ; but Antonins Guainerius, a famous Phylitian of Pavia, in his Treatife of poifons thinketh that 
It cannot be a Moufe, that Avicen maketh mention of to feede upon the roote of TiapeUw, but that they are cer- 
taine great Flies that feede upon the flowers, whereofhis Antidote ismade that expelleth the poifon. For hee 
there reporteth the induftry of a certaine ftudent in Phylofophy, defirous to know the truth hereof, who fought 
diligently for this Moufe, but could neither find or fee any, or that any rootes had beene eaten or bitten by any 
Moufe or the like thing, but found abundance of Flies feeding upon the leaves, which therefore hee cooke, and 
with them in Head of the Moufe he made an Antidote, which he found to be very effeftuall, not onely againltio- 
tHer poifons, but chiefely that of the Napellus ot Helmet flower : Tetrus Pena, and Mattlnolus de Label confir- 
meth this opinion, and experience of Guainerius his fludent by their owne triall alfo, who not finding any Monle, 
nor hearing thercofby any the Shepheards, arid others livinginthofemountainesof Switzerland, where the 
Napellus groweth in abundance, or that ever they had feene any Moufe to feede thereon, found as they fay great 
ftore of certaine great Flies, with blewiflr greene heads and wings, like unto Canthariaes feeding upon the 
flowers, when as they could not finde any other living creature, to touch or eate ir; the grade every where be- 
ing eaten by the cattle that fed thereby, but not any part thereof once touched. And therefore much lufpefted 
that this pvtmus, was miitakenby the Arabians forjuhte mufeus the Greeke word as well as the Latine, being fo 
neare in letters the one unto the other ; ( for the roote of this Napellus killeth Mice as the name MyoUonon and 
Myopbonon doth import i ) of which Flies as they fay, and not of any Moufe, is made an antidote mod preva¬ 
lent againfl the poifon of the mod venemous Spider called Tarantula, as alfo againfl all other Epidemicall gene- 
rail, or contagions difeafes, and is made after this manner. Take twentic of the Flies that have fed upon Napel- 
lus, of Ariftolocbia md 'Bolearmonicke, of ach a dramme, whereof a dramme is to be taken at a time, Guainerius 
his Antidote is to be made with Terra lemnia, Baybcriesand Mithridate ofeach two ounces, xxiiij". of the 
Flies that have fed upon Napellus, ofhony and oyle a fufficient quantitie, to make it up into an Eleftuary you 
may fee hereby the various opinions and Writings of men, Mattlnolus and A ponenjis faying they have found and 
ufed the Moufe, that fed on the Napellus ; and Guainerius, Pena and Label denying it, which whether is the 
truer, and more probable, is in part Ihcwed before, and in this may be confirmed, that Diofcorides and others doc 
write, that the Aeanitum LycoElanum ( whereof Napellus is a kind and as flrong ) is alfo called MyoUonon or 
Myopbonon, that is dfKwiir.becaufe it killeth Mice, as well as Wolves, and therefore they could not live upon it 
if it wonld kill them. The Antlsoraor Counterpoifon Monkes hood, is faid by all Authors that it groweth, with 
or hard by the Napellus or Thora, although Gerard faith the contrary, and advifeth that it be not planted neare 
the 2{apellu, or Helmet flower, for feare of drawing the venemos qualitie thereof unto it. The roote is faid by 
Jingo Solemn,to purge the body very ftrongly,ofwaterifhand vicious humors,both by vomit and by the ftoo!e,if 
the quantitie of a bcanc,be taken in broth or in wine: by reafon of the exceeding bitternelfe of the roote, it killcth 
all forts of wormes in the body : it is alfo faith guainerius, by mine owne experience andfif’ht, as effeftuall as 
V iElamnut unto all the purpofes whereunto it ferveth the powder of the rootes taken in wine, is a moft fpee- 
die and fpcciall remedie, againfl the winde collicke, which the Savoyards about Diam, where it groweth abun¬ 
dantly, 
