Kt»'p5> in Greike, is called tJMilium in I-itinc, amiliariafummaderivatum ait VeSitt>,Cjalen calleth it Pafpales, 
and others Pajpale, Varro thinketh ic is tMeline ■, hwtpiofcorides and Galen make Adeline ro b e Panicum, All 
Authors call the two firfl forts Milium with their diftin&ions of blackeand white : the laftis called cMilitem 
Ittdicum, by Adatthiolus and others, and Sarafemciim by ‘ Fnebjhu, and Melica by Dodtmaus, Sorghum alfo, and 
Sorgho Iralorttm by Label , Cjefr.tr callcth it P anicum lndicum^ndTragnt Par it urn ‘Diofcoridit and Pliny, Bellonius 
alfo faith that in Cilicia they call h Harearner 1% the Arabians doe, whereof they make their Bread orPultage,and 
oftheftalkes their fire in want of otherfeweil, it is called Adaenco di Congo by the Portugalls finding it in that 
Kingdome :the Arabians call it Cjegners and Cjiavers % the Italian Adiglie and Sorgho, the Spaniatds Adilho and 
Migo, the French AdiUini Millet, the Germancs Htrfr., the ‘Dutch Hits, and wee is Sngltfh Millet; and the laft 
T urkie or Indian Millet,and of fome Italian Millet, 
The Virtue;. 
Galen faith itcooleth in the firfl: degrteapd dryeth in the third almolt.and hath withal! a little tenuitie of parts; 
thegraineiJith Theophrajlm if it be kept from winde and weather will ever lall and abide : it is fometimes made 
into bread but it is very brittle, not having any tcnacitic in it whereby it nourilheth little, but dryeth upmoid 
humors, yet is it much ufed in Germany boyled in milke with fome Sugar put unto it: Matthiohu faith that at 
Verona the bread thereof is eaten with great delight while it is hot, by realon of the fweeteneffe, but brin" old 
it is hard and utterly unplealant: thegrttell or pultagc faith‘Pio/coridrsbindeth the belly and provoketh unne ; 
the Apozeme made thereof called Syrttpue Ambroftar.irs, or as Wccker hath it Sjrupus Ambrofit, taken warme with 
a little white W ine procureth fweating mightily,being covered in bed, and is effecTuall to coole hoc Fevers and 
to quench third: being put into a bagandfryed hot cafeththe griping paines of thcCollicke and of the fides if 
it be applyed, the paines alfo in the joyntsand finewes: in Italy and other places they give thegraine ro their 
Pullen and Pigeons to fatten them. The Indian Millet dalkes faith Mattbiolta arc good co hdpe thole that are 
troubled with Kernclls under the earcs or elle where, in this manner: Take the pith out of ten of the joynts of 
the (hikes of this Millet, which being burned with a new red fponge, take the powder of them with twelve 
graincs of Pepper,and an ounce of W heate Pafle or Dowe, all which being made up with a new laid Egge in¬ 
to a cake, let it be baked under the embers, this cake being divided into fix parts, let the patient take one part of 
it every other night when the Moone is in the wane as they go: to bed, and not drinkc after it that night: this 
mud be repeated twoor three Moones, and hereby faith he hath knowne many to be cured : the red flowers faith 
he taken in red wine tothe weight of a dram cureth women of the reds, as the white flowers doth the whites • ic 
is alfo good for allfluxes of the belly. 
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