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C h a p.15 , T hsatrum Botanicum. 
Tribe ly . 
quality,of tbin parts &did participate of a kind of fweet- 
nes, and is good in the difeafes and weaktnes of the fto- 
macke, the ill difpofition of the Liver, the fainting of 
the heart, and the riling of the mother in women, and 
as Diofcoridcs faith is good alfo for the falling fickneffc, 
to burne them under their nofes, that the fumes may eafc 
their fits, and that none of thefe qualities were ever at¬ 
tributed to the purple Periwinckle (hell. ‘Diofcoridcs 
writeth that the beft come from the red fea, and are 
white and fat, that is, will eafily burne (but fuchdidl 
never fee ) and that chofe that come from Bubjlm are 
blacke, but the fumes of both are like unto Csjlorcutn^ 
which argues thofe not to be right that are in our (hops, 
although lbrnc doe differ from others in the fife, as 
is expreffed inthe table. Yet {JWatthiolw fcitcth forth 
in his Commentaries on Diofcoridcs, a certaine fmall 
long hollow fhell, almoff like a tooth, which I rathet 
tike robe the ‘Dcrtali of the ancients for Vngttu odors- 
rKf.being likely fuch as were ufed in his time, which I 
have here expreffed, in the fame table with thofe forts 
that our Drugifts impofe on us, being of two forts, of 
broad and fomwhat hollow brown fhels,the one fmooth, 
and the other rugged, and the one fmaller then the other. 
Blatta By^antiafive vn^uu odoratiu. 
Thcfvtecte Indian Sea fifh fhcil. 
Chap, XV* 
BoIm Armenia] Bolarmoniacke. 
He fever all forts of Bole or Bolarmoniacke that arc to be feene at fundry times with as', doe teftifi# 
that we fcarce know whiih to accept for the right, for Galen faith it is of a pale colour, and Pliny 
making three forts, red, andleflered, and a middle fort, (heweth that both red and pale were lo 
called, and ufed alike,and moft of the forts that we have, have the notes and mar kes of the true, that 
is, icisafirmeorclofeearthjheavy without graved or (tone, and for the mod part wholly of one 
colour, without difcoloured parts* which doth (hew that not onely that "Bolus Armenia which fome call OrU 
entail*, but many other of the finer forts, found in other places, not onely as a mine of it lelfc, but in the mines 
chiefly of iron, and fome in thofe both of gold, filver, and copper,may fafely be ufed for lome of the lame purpo- 
fes; but becaule they all or moft of them doc colour the hands or fingers of them that touch them, many have 
fuppofed that it may not unfitly be referred to Galcm Rubica Lemnia } which was differing from the Terra Lemma , 
becaufc it coloured the touchers hands, which Terra Lemnia did not: or may be th e Rubric a Sinopica of Thofco- 
rides. which w'as of a liver colour, although peradvencure in his time the Alexipharmicall qualities were not 
knownc to him or in his time; as his Rubric a Fabrilijy fo called becaule Carpenters diduletoftnke their lines 
therewith, as we doe now with chalke, may be our common Bolarmoniacke, which is courierjtnore brittle,and 
ufed onely outwardly to ftanch bleedings. All the beft forts of Bole with u?, have fuch cl«mmy cr flicking 
quality, which the ancients mention not, that i», if it be touched with the tippe of the tongue , it will cleave ve¬ 
ry fail thereto, and the ftronger it deaveth,and the harder it commeth from the tortgue, the better is the Bole ac¬ 
counted of. And is ufed as a fpeciall remedy in all contagious difeafes of the peftilence, fmall poxe or the like, 
and in peftilent feavers,and againft poylons,and the venome of Serpents .• it hath alfo a binding property to re* 
ftrainc allfi uxes of the belly or of the fperme,or of womens courses. 
