Tribe 
The Theater of Tlants. 
Chap, 51. 
Wafpes.&c. theafhes of the woodorbarke made into a Lye with water doth core all itches, fcafches pufiiilesor 
ot her eruptions in the skinne, yea and the Lepry alfo if the places be bathed therewith. The Cjermanes Treakle 
of Iuniper berries is made in this manner. Take what quanticie you will of frefti but ripe Iuniper bei ries, brtiife 
them and boyle them in a reafonable quanticie of water untill they bee well boy led, ftraine and prefle them hard 
in a prefle with pulpe and liquor fet to the fire againe in a glafed earthen veflell and evaporate away fo much of 
the humiditie, ftirring of it continually untill it become of the thicknefle of an Hlefluary, which then put intro 
pots or glafles to be kept for your ufe, whereof a lmall quantitie taken morning and evening doth wonderfully 
helpe them that are troubled with the ftone in the Reines orKidneyes, with the Chollicke, with the paincs of 
the mother, and the (loppings of their courfts, is good againft Catarrhes and rheumes, the fhortnefle of breath 
and winde, the ftraightnefleof the breaft, the cough, thecruditie rawnefle, and indifpofition c-'the ftomacke 
againft the Plague and other infeift ious difeafes, for it preferveth and defendeth the heart and vital! fpirirs from 
infection and venome, and againft fwownings and faintneffe, the paines, fwimming and giddirrefle in the head 
againft frenfie alfo and madnefle, for inflammations and rheumes into the eyes, and pre/erving the iT ht* 
dearenefie in hearing, and ftench of the gums mouth or breaft, heipeth the Droplie, Jaundies, Falling ficknctfc* 
Paine and Goute, healetrh inward Impoftumes : in briefc it not onely heipeth all difeafes wherewith the body 
is poffefled, but keepeth it in health and free from all difeafts.This one thing is memorable thereof if it be credible 
that Virgin faith thereof in his tenth Eclogue , chat the fhadow of the Iuniper tree is hurtfull both to man and tbr 
corne in theft verfts, 
S urgamusjfolet ejfe gravis cant ant thus umbra, 
luniperi gravis umbra noccnt & fiugibus umbra. 
Chap. XXXI. 
Gxycedrus minor , The prickly or frnall Cedar. 
^Doe not intend in this place to fpeake of the great Cedar, in that it neither hath thornes nor prickly 
‘ leaves,but of fome of the lower and leffer forts which are prickly as they follow. 
1. Oxyccdrus •. The prickly Cedar. 
This prickly Cedar groweth in fome places to be a rail tree, but mod ufually not much above a mans 
height, whofe body is crooked and bending covered with a fcabbed or rugged reddifh Darke, upon the branches 
grow long and narrow, fharpe and prickly leaves like unto thofe of Iuniper but longer and bigger, three for the 
nioft part fet together,among the leaves come frnall yellow flowers which rurne into round berries greenc ac the 
M and yellowifh after, but of an excellent red colour when they are thorough ripe, larger then Iuniper berries 
Oxyccdrus, The prickly Cedar. 
r. C edrus P hanicea folio Cuprejft. 
Cyprefl'e-hke Cedar. 
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