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troubled with the cough or with fhoreneffe of breath by adding thereto fome fweete wire, and putting Tome 
Saffron alfo therein, it is good for thofe that are hoarfe,or have loft their voycc,helpeth all the defedts ofthe longs 
and thole that vomit or (pit blood. Twodrammes thereofgiven inthejuyee of Lemmons, or of Radifh, is good 
for thole that are troubled with the ftone it is faid fame given in Plantaine or Pu; flane warer. ftayeth the calling 
or (pitting of blood: the kernels of the ftones doe wonderfully eale the paines and wringings of the belly, 
through winde or fharpe humours, and are much commended to be effe&uall to breake and drive forth the 
ftone, which that they may the more powerfully worked commend this water unto you todrinkeupon occafion, 
three or foure ounces at a time. Take fifty kernels of Peach ftones, and an hundred of the kernels of Cherry 
ftones,a handfullof Elder flowers,frefh or dryed,and three pints of Mufcadine, fetthem in a clofedpot, into a 
bed of Horfe dung for ten dayes,which alter wards Hilled in claffe, with a gentle fire, keep:’ for your ufe : The 
milkeor creame of theiekernells being draw ne forth, with fome Verven water being applyed to the forehead 
and temples,doth much hclpe to procure reft and fleepe to ficke perfons wanting it r the oyle likewife drawne 
from the kernels doth the fame being annointed, the laid oyle put into glifters doth cafe the paines ofthe chol- 
licke proceeding from winde, andannoynted on the lower part of the belly do:h the like, and dropped into the 
eareseafeth the paines of them, the juyee of the leaves doth the like, killeth the wormes and ulcers in them, 
being alfo annoynted on the forehead and temples; it helpeth the Megrome and other paines in the head: If the 
kernels be bruifed and bcyled in vinegar untill they become thicke,and applyed to the head, or other places that 
have fhed the haire,and are bald it doth marvelloufly procure the haireto grow againe. The Peaches themfelves 
being eaten, by reafon of their fweeteneffe and moiftare, doe fooneputrefie in the ftomackc; and therefore Ga¬ 
len advilcth that they be never taken after but before meatc al waies,fo (hall they make the reft to piffe away the 
more fpeedily with them *• or e'fe taken after, they corrupt the reft in the ftomacke with themfelves. The 
N ctftarin hath a firmer fubftance, and a more delc&able tafte, for which it is moft accepted, being of no ufe in 
phy ficke that I know. The Perfea is not ufed with any. 
Chap. LXXXII. 
Amygaltu, The Allmond tree. 
! He Almond is foKkeunto the Peach in every part thereof, and yet differing from it, that I can doe 
noleffethen joyneitnext, inafeverafl Chapter, and although there are fundry forts of fweete 
Almonds,fame great and fome fmall, others long and fame fhort; and a bitter kinde alfo, yet 
being in the whole lurface,lo like one unto another, that they can be diftinguifned bynoother 
thing then the Allmond, I will onely give you one defeription, and fhew youtheir differences 
herein, which 1 thinke fhall be Effici¬ 
ent. The Allmond tree groweth greater and higher 
then any Peach (and is therefore ufually planted by it 
fclfe, and not againft a wall, and never grafted that I 
have feeneandknowne, that would take and abide, 
but is alwayes planted of a ftone put into the ground, 
where you would have it to grow, far it hardly fuffe- 
rethatranfplanting ) the body thereof becomming 
very great, whereby icfheweth to be of long continu¬ 
ance, fpreading greater armes and fmaller branches, 
but brittle, with long narrow leaves on them, very 
like unco the Peach tree : the flowers 2re of a paler 
purple colour then the Peach bloffomcs, and not fo 
bitter, and the f ruitc very like the Peach, for the out¬ 
ward forme,before it be ripe, but the outer rinde is a 
dry skinne without any cleft in it, cr edible fubftance 
under it, as the Peach hath, and the fhell under it is 
fmoot h and not rugged like it, and not fa thicke a k er- 
nell within, being bitter in one kinde, which are 
fmall like the Barbery Allmonds, and fweete in all the 
reft, whereof fame are fmall, and called Barbery All- 
Tnonds, others long and (lender, and are called Jord n 
Allmonds,and others fhort and broad , called Val'entta 
Allmonds : ir is obferved that thole that grow in the 
Jfte of Cyprus ,bcn& downe their heads, contrary to all 
in any other place. 
The Place and Time. 
They grow in all places planred.ihat I know,or can 
heare of in Syria, Barbery'Turkic, Spaine , Italy , and 
wherefaever, wc have both the bitrer and the fweete 
ofthatfortjthat is,thicke and fhort, growing in many 
places of our Land, and bloffome earlier then the 
Peach of any fort,and the fruite ripe alfo before them 0 
The Names, 
It is called in Greeke*w/«A.» |an d the fruite 
s/k'AD and ciixuyJtihovjn Latine AmyqdaltM , and the fruite 
Amygdalum ?and AmygdAhum } fame thinke that Gato 
Amjgdalus, The Allmond tree. 
meant 
