159 0 >% 6 , Tbeatrum Botankum. Tribe i7 
Bezir, laid that they hadnohornes) and are of areddilTi browne colcur for the mod part, fo fwiftof fooretbat 
they were onely to be caught when they were killed or fhot with their Mufquets, the (hones grow as he faith 
thcre 3 in accrtaine parte or skinnem the maw of the beaft, wherein the wholefome herbes that they cate are 
received and kept, until! by rum-natisn and chewing them anew, they paffc them into their bodies, and faith 
moreover, that the hones that breeds in the beads that feed on the mouncaincs, areofmuch more vercuethen of 
thole that feed on the plainest tlufe of the Eaft Indies as Garc'uu faith are h»d from CMaUcca, and divers other 
placcs,as well as Perjia, but none are like in goodneffc unto thofe that are brought from Perlia: The Moores he 
faith are fo excellent in the knowledge of them, that by fight they can tell of what Country breeding they be 
andwherhertheybecounterfetorno, by crulhmg them in their hand a while, and then breath on them, and 
sf any v. ind palTe through them they pronounce them falfe The ftone is called as Garciae iaith Pazar by the A- 
™ t& *‘ a ?. d bom P*f«« which i fjgnificth aGoate, but we call it corruptly Bezar, and the Indians !»««• 
(but Scaltger correfteth this ei rour in him, and flieweth that the Arabian, unanimouflycall it BaUabar, that is 
Alex.pharmacuw, for they tooke the word from the Ptrfian word Bedezahar, bccaufe it refineth poyfon and 
we thereupon cioe call all thofe things Bewdica that arc refifters of poyfon, as Antidotes and the like. But ths 
ancient Arabians hadaminerall Btzarof divers colours,'which they celebrated to be of as great or greater effi- 
cacy then this ftone, the true knowledge whereof as I thinke is either utterly loft, or as Monarch* faith of his 
owne experience of no worth. 1 his Bezat ftone is not onely ufcdagainft poyfons and venomes but aoainft the 
pcftilence, and contagious dtlealcs, in malignant leavers alfo, and in many othei difeafes to provoke fweate and 
thereby to ejtpcll evill vapours from the heart and vitall fpirits, and for fwounings, and again!! melancholly aifo 
and thedilcafes that rtfe from thence, and to preferveftrength and youth, by tilting it foure or five dayes toge- 
ther, ten grames or leffe at a time, after the evacuation of thebody: the'pouthet thereof put on the place that is 
bitten by any yenemous creature, doth free them from danger of death, and likewife put into a plague (ore that 
is opened, it doth the like, Menordm hath (et downe many experiments of the Bezar ftone, upon fundry and fe- 
veral! perfons mfefted with fundry difeaics, as who will may read them at length in that treatife which he wrote 
concerning this Bezar, and the herbe Scorfonera : but efpecially againft poyion or venome . and citing the tefti- 
monyof Rabbi C Mofcs v&yptM,, faith, thefe three are by experience the mod effeftuaU in the world there¬ 
fore, that is the feed ofthe Citron fruite. the Smaradgc or Emerald ftone, andthisBezar ftone. Thefe terti- 
monie, I ihinke are lufficienc to evince that opinion is held by many that there is no vertue, or at lead no fuch ver- 
tue in the Bezar ftone as it is related, which they thinke by fome tryall that they have made thereof, and not an¬ 
swering their expeftanon doth ednfirme them the more in that opinion •• but if they have orderly proceeded and 
needfully obferved.not for one but many times,and in many perlons.and have been (are of right and good (tones 
that they have given,and yet have done no good, I would rather fiy there is fome deleft in the confticution of o uc ’ 
bodies, by the moiitwre,uCc. or our climate,then ditable the vcricy of fuch reports of famous and worthy men. 
Chap. XXXV. 
Liquid ambar. Liquid amberi 
Iquid Amber is a thicke Rolfinlike Gumme, dropping of it owne accord oncly by incifion from 
certainc huge great trees in the Weft Indies that are full of branches, covered with a thicke a(h- 
coloured barke,hav.ng leaves like unto Ivy leaves, which gum me is of a very ftrong fwcet fent 
fomewhat like unto Scerax liqutda, and may wellbe ufed inftead thereof, but there is another 
courferfort, made by boyling the branches, andfeumming ofthe uppermoft fatncflethatis"a- 
theted there, which is thought tobe that Sterax liquid*, that is ulu.ally fold in the Dru”gifts a°nd 
Apothecaries (bops: out ofthe firftfort while it is frelh and laid in the Sunnc, theredroppeth a certame cleare 
redd.lh yellow oyle, called the oyle of Liquid Amber, and of fome that know no other, Liquid Amber itfelfe- 
which becanfe it is the purer part is more effeftuall and ofthe milder lent,fome ufing it with other fweetes to perl 
fume gloves wnhall.but is ot Angular good ule,cither of it felfe or mixed with other chings.to comfort and warme 
a cold moift braine, uled like unto an oyntment, and eafeth all paines and griefes that rile of acoldcaufe being 
applyed thereto; it wonderfully comforteth and ftrengthnetha weake ftomacke, helping digeftion and pro“ 
curing an appetite, but more efteflually if it be mixed with fome Sttrax, and a little Muske.and Amber.and laid 
as a plainer to the ftomacke : it Iikewile is profitable in all cold griefes ofthe mother, warming mollefyin" and 
diffolving all tumours, and opening the obftruftions and the courfes that are (lopped, it is hot altnolt in thertiird 
degree,and moift in the fitft. 
Chap. XXX VI. 
GAUccr grscorum. The Grecians Maecr. 
Any taking Maar tobe Mach, and both one thing,have erred egregioudy for of Maecr, Diofctri- 
aes,Galen, and Puny, nave written and fliewed the faculties; but of Mick, which is one of th» 
batkes or coverings of the fruite of the Nutmegge tree, they have not made any mention, being a 
thing utterly unknowne unto them, for if they had knowne it, they mull needes have heard and 
knowne of the Nut or Nutmegge,' whole covering it is; but Mater is as they all lay, a yellow- 
lfh barke which mull needes be underftood of fome tree, Galen faith that Maccr is of a cold 
and earthly effence, and but little hot: but MacU is of much heate and no cold. And Plini faith plaincly that it 
is the barke of a great route,and Aviccn and Scrapie, both knew the difference, and entreate of them diftinftlv in 
feverall Chapters,calling this Thalifofar. This Maccr being called OUacre by the Indians as Acofia faith, is a vafte 
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