T a i b s. 5. The Theater of Tlants. Chap. 112. 
Eafaoina mas. The MalcBalfamc Apple. 
Sanmina famiita . The female Balfame Apple. 
it,yet is thought by fome to be the plant that ’Pliny in his 1 o. booke and 3. Chap, faith the Grecians called Cucur'i 
bit* Somphes. Some calleth itViticella, from the (hew ofa (mall vine it beareth; Cordsu in his hiflory of Plants 
cMethitCucamis puniceus, Gefner Balfaminapomifera, Lobel Balfamina f'sicumerina punicca, the Italians call ic 
Balfamina, and Caranza (from whence came the name farantia) and Momordica (yet differeth as Matthiolus 
noteth it from the greater kind of Geranium, with Mallow like leaves fo called alfo, whereof is fpoken before^ 
and fome Porno di Hierofolima,Pomum Hierofo/ymitanum.the French Merveille & Pome de MerveMUi,Pomnm Mi - 
rabile, the Germans Balfamopfel, and Balfamkraut, til eThstch "Balfame appel, and WC in Englijh the Male Balfame 
Apple,and of fome Apples of Hierufalem. 
The Venues . 
The Balfame Apple is dry in the fecond degree, and temperately cold, a dccoftion of the leaves in wine, or 
the powder being drunke is fayd to eafe the griping paines of the bowells, and the collicke paflion, as alfo of 
the mother if it be injedfed with a Syringe for the purpo(e:the powder of the leaves taken in the diddled water of 
Horfctaile or Plantane, is a fingular remedy for the Rupture or burding in children: the chiefelt manner of ufing 
it in Italy,, is to make an oyle of the. fmit thereof, when it is ripe by intufing the Apples, the feede being firfl ta¬ 
ken forth(and yet fome make an oyle out of the inner kernell of the feede.byexpreifion,in the fame manner that 
oyle is expreffed from Almonds ) in oyle Ollive and fet in the Sunne for certaine dayes, or digefled in TSalneo, or 
Fimo Equine which is cffedhiall not onely for inward wounds or hurts whatfoever being drunke, (the powder of 
the leaves alfo is effefhiall)but for all other outward wounds,be they frefh and greene, tofoder the lips of them 
and heale them, or old and inveterate Vlcerstodry up the fuperfluous moifture, and defluxion of humous hin¬ 
dring their healing, and to heale them quickly: the fame oyle alfo is very profitable for all prickes or hurts in the 
(inewesasalfoforcrampesand convullions, if the places bee therewith annointed, and to heale the Vlcers of 
the fecretparts in man or woman, or womens breads that arc fore or fwollen: ithelpeth alfo to eafe the paines 
of the piles: it curethlalfo fealdings or burnings by fire or water: it taketh away the fearres that remaine of 
wounds and hurts being healed, it dothalfo take alway the paines of the Ringings of Bees and Wafpes: it isfaid 
likewife to be veryjprofitable for women that arc barren by correfling the fuperfluous humidity of the mother, 
which migh be the caufe thereof, and thereby to make them fit to conceive. 
C h a ?. CXII. 
Trifolium odoratum, Sweet Trefoile. 
He name of Balfame mentioned in the lad Chapter, caufeth me to joyne this herbe next thereuntoii 
vfcxVmgP being fo called alfo of many, and the properties well worthy of that name, whereunto I thinke 
Stylljll meete to Joyne two or three other Trefoiles thereunto, this being of knowne properties, the other 
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