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empty and idle : this beareth alio cercaine red hollow skinny bladders, like long homes, full of a clammy black - 
ifli liqueur, which breed final! flyes or gnats in themiThis being wounded in fundry places yeeldeth forth a liquid 
R.oflen or clecre Turpentine,but nothing fo thinne as that of the Larch tree. ' ^ 
2. Terebinthut angufiiorefolio vulgatiore. ' Terebinths ctsmfltrre cbnictelo. 
The narrow leafed Turpintine tree. T,1C Tarpinrinc tree flooring a„d W j t h the home thereof. 
This tree is in all things like the former, but that it never ri- 
feth fo high, and the leaves are long and narrow, much fmalier 
then the former, theberryes are many of them red on theffalkes 
at their full time, which declareth them to be empty huskea,and 
no good feed, and but fome that will be full and good. 
The Place and Time, 
The Turpintine tree groweth in Narbone, and Provence in 
France, in fundry places of Italy, and Spaine, Cyprus and 
Greece, where for the mod part it abideth fmall, and low, but 
groweth very great and high,in Syria, Arabia, Cilicia, Armenia, 
and other thofe Levant Countries, as Tellonim hath obferved : 
thefecondas Lobellaitb, is much the more frequent in all the 
places about Provence : They flower fomewhat earely in the 
Spring, and the fruite is ripe in September and October. 
The Names, 
It is called in Sreeke ■n'fiuvll©-, and ; n Latine Terebinthut, 
and the Turpintine furin ttifurStyn, refina terrbinthina, the true 
Turpintine tree w as not knowne in clivers of thefe later ages be¬ 
fore ours,for as Matthiolut faith, the liquid Roffcn of the Larch 
tree had by time obtained the name of Turpintine, and fo was 
ufed, no man thinking that there was any truer to be had, untill 
the fearch of diligent men, had brought the true Turpintine to 
light againe, that fo long time had lyen hid from our Prcdecef- tf'j , 
lots. TheRrdis theTerebinthsu of cMatthiolut, Lugiunenfis, 
and others, and the Terebinthut Lentifci folio of Label. The o- 
theristhe PifiachU folio of Label, and the Terebinthut major of 
others. The esirabietns cMitTotin and Albotin, the Italians 
Terebinto, the Spaniards Cornicabra, the French Tereminthe, the 
Dutch Termentijn boom,mi we in Snglijh the Turpintine tree. 
TheVertttes 
The leaves,the barke.and the fruite of the Turpintine tree are 
hot and dry in the fecond degree,and doebinde,ftrengthep,and 
repell,but the Turpintine doth heate,clenfe,and purge, draweth, 
and mollefyeth and excelleth all other Rodens, yet Galen for 
fome caufes preferreth Mafticke, that is, in binding and (leng¬ 
thening ; the berryes being dry are very neere unto the third degree of dryneffe fo that they provoke urine, and 
are good for thefpleene,and for the biting of the Spider Phalangium : of theberryes is made anoyle, as out of the 
berryes oftheLentiske tree,which heateth and bindeth, and is good in crampes, convulfions, hardnefleof the (I- 
newes, and to dole wounds: the berryes themfelves are much eaten b y the people iri Tttrkje where they grow 
and make them their daily food, warming, comforting, and opening the uritory paflages, andwithall provoke 
luff: the Turpintine heateth, mollefyeth, refolveth, digefteth and der.feth: if a dramme or twote takenin a 
rearc egge it wonderfully helpeth the cough, which commcth by flegme, flopping the iungs, wheefmgs, and 
fbortncffeofbreath.and all imperfeftions of the chcft by flegme : it clenfeth the backe and reines, and ffayeththe 
gonorrhea,with a little dryed Rubarbe in pouther put thereto : it provoketh urine, and helpeth to breake and ex- 
pell the flone and gravdl, itripenethimpoflhumcsand helpeth to expell them, and mightily diffolveth winde 
in the paines of the chollicke, of the flomackeor fldes, and is good aifoagainfl the gout, Sciatica,and all paines 
in the j'oynts, as well to tak e it inwardly with fome Chamspitit, Sage,and Stachas, as to be made into a fearcloath 
and applyed thereto : it is a fpeciall ingredient into thofe Balfomes that are to heale any greene wounds, and is 
lingular effefluall in all wounds,and fraftures in the head,all pundures in the flefh or finewes, and all breakings 
out in theskinne,be it itch or fcab,bethey piles,pufhes or whealcs: it draweth forth fplinters,thornes or the [ii:e 
out of the flefh, and healeth the chaps of the lips,hands,fundament or other parts.* briefely it is put into ail halves, 
oyles,oyntmcnts,or plaifters,that ferve to clenfe ulccrs,to draw and heale any fores,or to warms and comfort any, 
cold or weake parts t thefe things the true Turpintine performeth better then any other,which from hence hath 
drawne both the name andufe: che Chymicall oyle of this Turpintine is wondrous effeftuall in many of thefe 
difeafes, if it be carefully applyed, for it is by farre of more fubtill parts, being the purer and more fubtill fpirits, 
whereby they heate and penetrate much more,and therefore inwardly or outwardly mufl be ufed in idler quan¬ 
tity, and as it were but by drops. There ate in the Eafterne Countries of TwrfiV.as Bdlonm recorded], much ufe 
made of the young homes of die Turpintine tree,before they are growne great,for he faith many thoufand pounds 
weight of them are gathered while they are no bigger then Gaulles, to (erve the Dyers there to dye their filkc 3 
Which Hull hold the colour freflier and firmer then any that is Dyed without them. 
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