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The Theater of Plants. 
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need fewer fubftitutes by many in cur medicines as well Mi thr,du tKm as others, if ourAmthecaries~u^uld he 
nioft careful! and mdultrious to give inftiuaions to the Merchants travailing into thofe parts, and ouc^F thole 
Authours that have written o them togive the Arabian or Indian name, whereby they might ee r the 
™ dru S.| es! for “ 9 -™®faith there might eafily be procured fo much of this Pol urn Ir.dum, as Woudfcieal? 
EupnUx were but fought after, and fo 1 may fay likewife for divers other things. The pronert,™ are rn nr„ 
voke urine powerfully, and is very beneficiall to the ftomacke, warming and Iffenethening it a „ i L c P ' 
fweet breath, it refifteth the force of venomes and poyfons, and therefore is put into'Antidotes andmhL k 1 
portions that are cordiall or fiomachicall : it hath 1 he properties of Nardor, but more effcfluaU bef E » S 
Wine, it helpeth the inflammations and rednefle in the eyes being bathed therewith. eaced m 
Chap. XXIX. 
G-tlanga major & minor. The greater and leffer CaUnga. 
|Here are two forts ofGaUnga a greater and a leffe : the greater is the weaker and duller in 
& and groweth in lava and AUlabar, to be two cubits high, having leaves fouldinv Iho u n 
i at the lower end.beingfomewhat long and narrow, and pointed at the end fomewhir n t le ,^ 3 ke 
^ head, of a fad greenc colour on the upperfide.and paler above: the flower is white Iw t'n ' pCares 
r n- thcleed is fmalland neglefted : theroote is fomewhatgreatat :he head like chereedf^rT 7 
(im taketh it to be more like unto a Flower dc luce, thenuntoan Afphodill as ^comparethVtandllf/t 
plant may be a kind of In,) of a black.lh colour on the outfide and whitifh within, and ufekflr 1 ■ , the 
meates as well as in their medicines: Theleffer kind rifeth not above a foote high, having leave* i; J‘Ii y w ■ , 1C 
the roote is fmal and bunched, fit me and fomewhat tough, red both within and without and fmelf^r'f’ 
fweet or aromaticall, it groweth in China, where iris called Uvaniou, the gteate 7 being calfed i„^ 'r 3 
yet both of them are ufually fo called: it is mote commonly planted by the foote as Gi n S ger is, th« of fhTffd 
yet ,s both wayes encteafed : There is great . comroverfic among the later writers, concerning CaZZ 2 ‘ 
and Galanga ,for fome have held opinion, and is yet continued by many, that the Galanga major 1 s T f'm 7’ 
™ of the Ancients which is an errour eafily confuted if they that fo thinke would but compare’the ZoZrZ 
corw given by T>softer,do, with this Galanga : others deny our Calamus j n the Auothecaries ? l 
Scorns ,Which Mauhohso, Cluftm and others have moll evidently maintained,and^as I have fhew P /d K r' the ' rue 
end of the fitfl Claflis of this Worke. Some alfo have fetdowne in their writings that CatlZ f b .f° rC In tile ’ 
Schanambo ,,but I may fay onarrafto oft confutajfo. The leffer Ga/anga is both of more ufe, and ofgVetf " °[ 
indeed is to be ufed onely in all the compofitions wherein CjaUngo is appointed, and is very prS f a ' 3nd 
cold and weake ftomackes, and in the griping pames of the belly by winde, the difeafes ofthc mo he a § d fl” C ° 
Galanga major & minor. 
The greater and leffer Galanga 
Galanga major advivumut fartur. 
The Plant of Galanga as it groweth. 
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