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mightily openeth the obftrnftions of the Mother: Mefues faith it purged, tough flegme, and o her clammy hu- 
™ S y an d is heloeftill to all the cold difeafes of the bratne, bread,and lungs,the joynts, aches alfo be they never 
fo far remote-taken in what manner foever.it doth wonderfully expell the water of the dropl.e taken withyellow 
Mvrobalanes" it abateth the hardnelfe of the fpleene, and expellcth the windinefle thereof being drunke. and 
diLlvcth the nodes knots, and hard tumours being dilfolved in Vinegar and the juyceof Capers, GMtmtm doth 
moreheate draw auddifeuffe humours than Sagafcn, and is more powerfull and availeable for the bread and 
lungs, and'for hardnelfe in breathing, for burdings, cramps, and1 convulhons: it is more powerful! to refid poy- 
fonfbeing taken in wine with Mjrrha. and eafeth the tilings of the mother thegiddinefle m the head,the paines 
in the fides, and the falling fickneffe: a little of the gumme fpread like a plaifter will breake and draw any bile or 
hard fore,being laid thcron.efpecially if a little Turpentine be put to itnt is alio of great good ufe in many pladers 
and fal-es, to felpe to warme thofe places or joynts that are cold, to difcttffe the humours gathered to the places, 
and to bring to maturitie contumatious fores, and to heale them afterwards. Becaule I have:/aid that C,M m 
and Swapinam are gathered from the rootes of thefc Fen,la s and that Khali drew you in divers places hereaf¬ 
ter, that other gummes are taken in like manner from other plants I thmke it fitted to (hew you the manner of 
drawing ont, and gathering the gummes from the rootes of all forts of herbes which is m this manner. After 
that you have digged an hole on one fide of the roote of any plant in manner of a (mall trench, and the bottome 
and fides cleared from loole earth and’dones, that they benot mixed with thegumme; wound or cut the roote on 
thatfide is open,or makean hole therein, thatfo the gumme iffumgout be not flopped by afmall onficeor cut. 
and (o let the juyee or gumme diftill forth of it owne accord, but this mult be done in the hotted and dried time 
of the yeare, that no ra?ne or moidure take it for fpoiling it, and to have the place or trench the clearer, it were 
neceffary to lay fome flat fmooth dones, or the like in the bottome to keepe it the clearer; it the juyee or gumme 
come out in droppes and doe not runne together of it felfe it ts accounted the better.Some alfo wound the lower 
part of the (kike, and take the juyee that commeth from thence, but that is nothing comparable to the other, this 
being called ScapariM, and the former Ttgdicaria, fuccus. 
Chap. II. 
Thappa. Scortching Fennell. 
Ithough there is but one true Thapfia, yet for the relemblance of other plants jo neare thereunto j 
Clnfim hath referred fome unto it, and entitled them Thapfia, which Lobel and others have cal¬ 
led by other names. „ , ,. 
i. Thapfia faniculifolia, The true 'Thapfiaof fcorchmgFennell. 
The true Thapfia hath a fmaller and lower dalke than F erula, with fome what broader and 
fhorter leaves then it alfo, and'nothing fo much winged or branched, the flowers are yellow thac 
