Tribe 3, 
The Theater of Tlantes. 
CHAP.35, 421 
hubrimt Virgmiana, 1 have kept the fame Enghjb name, untill another of better rcfpedf may be given unto it. Bu t 
«-here is a cornuted Carnutm that among his American plants, calleth this (a home plague oil his head for his la¬ 
bour) Snaoroel or Snagroel not hr Anglia. the envy vvas bafe, whereby he wrote fo, yet would colour it in that he 
j tould not'write true,"but falfd SngliPi and Latine too, it were not amiffe therefore that he were wliipt at the 
iiifchoole for it. 
The Vert net. 
j It is both a mofl certaine and prefent remedy againft the venome of the Rattle Snake, which is a Serpent of 
[»large fife, farre greater then any Snake or Adder with us, having naturally under the throate, certaine loofe 
shard skinny fealesi which by motion grate one againft another, making a creking noife, which our people called 
lia rattle, not that it hath any rattle indeed, but thisnoyfeit maketh, ftirre itfelfe never fo little, yet ufually it is 
ffoquickeand wary in leaping at any, that it doth it not but luddenly: Now the manner of the ufing hereof, is 
[this (God ofhisgoodneffe providing a remedy,out of the fame place and ground, from whencesthecvill doth 
.proceed,) as foone as any is bitten by. that creature, (for oftentimes it happeneth that fome arc bitten, before 
'they can avoid the Serpent, the manner of them being to leape fuddenly upon one, that the rattle cannot be heard 
ilbefore they be bitten) they cake of this herbe and chaw it in their mouches, and fwallow downe the juice there¬ 
of, andalfo apply of the herbe to the wound or bitten place, which inftantly cureth them ; for being taken 
(quickly after they be bitten, it doth fo defend the inward parts, that the party feeleth not fo much almoft as any 
(outward paine, much leffe any of thofe inward Symptomes, are incident to thofe that doe not prefcntly ufe this 
(remedy, this is the prefent helpe of the prelent hurt, but if it fo happen that any being bitten, cannot get of this 
rherbe in any reafonable time, he dyeth certainely, yet if within twelve homes after the biting; he doe ufe this 
iremedy, it will afiuredly recover him, but with more trouble and paine, and with longer time, before it hath 
iwought a perfeftcure, for itis evident, that the poyfon ofthis Serpent piercech the blood, which runneth with 
all the fpeed it can unto the heart, the chiefeft fortreffe of life and health, which being infedfed, death mult ne- 
Iceffariiy and fpeedily follow, but if it be defended by the vertue and force of any medicine, it preferveth the 
lone, and expellerh and untterlydefeateth the intent of the other. The powder of the herbe and roote taken in 
wine or other drinkc, hath beene found a certaine and prefent cure for the biting of a madde dogge : as alfo to 
icure both the quartaine ague within three times taking, viz., halfe a dramme, or if neede be a whole dramme 
at a time before the accede of the fit, and any other ague,or peftilentian feaver, or the peftilence it felfe. 
Chap. XXXV. 
Alexiphttrmacttm Indicum five Contrayerva Hifpanorum. The Indian Spanillr Counterpoyfon. 
engendred, but we in viewing many dryed rootes thatcame 
from Spaine unto us, have obferved no good forme of any 
Tlowcr-deluce in the roorc, nor have feene any roote to ex¬ 
ceed the bignefie of ones thumbe, and not one of many to be 
fo great, but for the mod part of the bignefie of a finger or 
leffe, and not any fo long, but ufually no longer then a joynt 
or two at the moft, not fo fmooth on the outfide as the roote 
of white Orrit or the Flowerdeluce,but more rugged in all,& 
in fome more knobbed, (that is, with fmall knobs or bunches 
flicking out allalong the roote) then in others, which are of 
an even fife, and fome againe are greater at the one end, and 
fmaller at the other, divided as it were by little fpaces, in the 
growing almoft like the greater Figgewort roote,or the roote 
of DentariaCoralloides, being of a yellowifh browne colour 
on the outfide, and in fome more blacke, but white on the 
infide, with many fibres or firings growing from them, this 
roote lyeth or creepeth under the upper cruft of the ground, 
JikeastheFlower-deluce, Tormentill,Biftort, and the like 
Oo 
