Tbeatrum Potanicum 
1540 CHAP.97. 
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T R IBE l6 
Abies’ The Firre tree. 
ripe, but alwayesftand upright, and yeeld much Roflin in the 
Summer, but being wounded yceid a yeilowifh cleare Turpiii- 
tine, which is fharperthen that of the Larch tree, aiidfitonely 
for outward medicines: the wood hereof is foft and (mooch, 
with many fouldes and the knots arc the hardeft in any Tim¬ 
ber. 
The Place and Time, 
This tree groweth in all the Countries of Germany^ 'Polonla i 
Denmarkc and MnjcoviHy and in divers other Count! ies alfo in 
Italy fireecc, &c. in Scotland alfo, as 1 have beene aflured, but 
not in Ireland or England, that I can heareof, faving where they 
are planted, and whether there were ever any growing natural¬ 
ly in England at any time heretofore is almoft out of queftion: 
The time is declared before. 
The Names. 
Tt is called in GreckcaAetT;/, and inLatine Abies, and fo called 
by all Writers without variation, but that Clfffim and fome o- 
thers make it to be the *ydbies fd.mina of Theophrajtus, as they 
would make the Pitch tree his mai, yet as I laid 'Belloniw and 
D donate doe Ihevv us another tree to be his mas, which yet is fo 
like the Pitch tree, that if it be not it, we know not what to make 
itr Bauhimu alfo confenteth unto them, and yet he calleth the 
mas, furfam Jp'ttantibui coni j.when as their figure fheweth them 
tob e dependentobw. The Italians call it Abcte,rheSpaniards Abeto 
arbol, the French Avet,Sap, and Sapin alfo in fundry provinces 
thereof, yet Pliny faith the lower part of the Firre is called Sa- 
pimu, and the knotty upper part Pnfierna, the Germanes as I faid 
Thannenbaum 2nd iveifzthanncnbaunj , the T) fitch Dennemboom , 
and we in Eng/ijb Mail tree,Deale tree, but mod generally Firre 
tree. 
The Virtues. 
The bar' e and dry R.oflin of the Firre tree, is in property ve* 
ry like ur.tj the properties of the Pine tree, but that this is 
more fharpt and more clenfing. The cleare Turpintine or liquid 
Rodin of the Firre,is hot and dry in the fecond degree, and very 
e'enfing withall, yet as I laid not fo fit for any inward as out- 
ward medicines, being fomewhat too hot fharpe andnaufious to many; and efpecially feeing we havetwootbtr 
lores of Turpint ne finer for inward griefes, it isof excellent uleinall ialvesand Balfames ihar are for the head 
or an ly other greene wound or old ulcer, clenfing very much the old filthy (ores, and helping to heale them after’ 
andfoderingupthclipsofthc frelh. * 
Chap. CXVII. 
T)e Rcfixit. Of Rodins. 
Av i ng now ^ e ’' cd F 0U t f ecs that bearc gummes or Rodins,! thinkc it r 
Qj vi a more largely of the Rodins, and Gummes themfelves apart, bochtof 
t not amide to entreatc 
_ . , -- t —, -0 (hew you the feverall 
i # forts c fthem.ind the feverall manners of drawing them forth, which I could not either well doe 
before,or were omitted to fpeake of them here, and have their names mufler all in one place, but 
1 becaufeCummes and n oflins would be too much to handle in one Chapter: I will onelymake 
the Rofltns my taskc in this Chapter, and the Gummes in the next, and for that Rodin is of two 
fans dry and moi:!, I will lpeake ofihem in each Seflion, but of the dry ones in thefiiff place, and of the moift 
Roflin is an rilinous fiibftancedilTolvingand melting of it felfe by the heare ofthe fire, and apt toburne with a 
flame,, and called jw" in Greeke, and Rejina in Latine, the dry Roflin is called p»vhu &e? Rtfma uricU and 
.. ' bcyled Roflin, that is, fuch as from the Turpintine or liquid Roffm is boyled with wa¬ 
ter in great kcitlesor cauldrons, into our ordinary yellow hard Roffincr into blacke Roflin, which is ufuallv 
now adayes called Cohfhonjt, yet fome fay that Co/t>pbonjei$ the foote of the Turpintine, after the oyle is de¬ 
fined from it,and fwi>» S3 f y-X'jiM liq« : .dj, liquid Roflin which is Turpintine. 
I. Refine Ccdri. The Cedar Roflins. 
Thee commeth. out oftbe great Cedar trec.adry Roflin of it owne accord, hardning upon the tree, which be^ 
r.i;chewed flicketh lofafttotheteeththatitcanhardlybepulledfromir. 
There is another alfo drawne from it that is liquid, and both of them called Cidria, but this liquid efpecially,' 
for that there is more (fore of it gathered, and is of more ufe alfo, and is dra wne from the tree by boring it at the 
young knots befo t e the barke be tugged, and fetting an hollow home to the hole, that it may runne out thereat 
into vcffels (et under to receive it, and is of as fweete 1 fent as the Strawberry faith LugduntnRi, and not as Din. 
fccr.dcs faith of a grievous fent, for Mjutbiolm out of a very auncienr manufeript amendeth the word to be ofa 
flrong lent, or ftrong fweete fent as Virgil his verfe doth intimate, Vrit ciir»t«m lamina Ccdrum - 
hk'r may be undeiftood of the wood alfo, but there is a tercaine liquour caljed Ctdrium by and others, 
which 
