T heat rum Botanicum. 
thetruitcor nutsarenotufuallinour (hop;-es, but hath beene formerly appointed to bee put into Antidotes and 
Alcxipharmica i (asnamely into the EleSuarium de Ovo, according to the Philitions of Augufia their receipt: 
but fot their dangerous qualitie thought fit by our Phifitions in the Pbarmacopca Lendinenft to be expunged and 
left out ) I thought good to fhew you them and the ufes they ate put to for the moil part with us: The fruit,as is 
generally feene arc fiat, round, of the thickneffe of halfe ones finger, almoil like unto Lupines but greater, hol- 
lowiih on the one fide,and alittle bunched roundon the contrary, of a grayifh colour with a kindeof Freefeor 
ioft Cotten covering the whole,and of lo hard a horny fubilance that they will noway bee beaten intopouther, 
Lac mull be grated on a (mail Spice grater, but take heed not to grate Spice thereon after. The chiefeft uie that 
they are put unto is to kill Dogs and Cats, and other creatures, by mixing (ome of it with their meate; as alfo 
togiveunto Crowes, Ravens, and other fuch like troublefome birds that by their noyfe difquiecmens ficepe or 
fiudies, or upon pleasure to drew thereof upon flcfh, a little Iprinkled over with Aquaviu, tied fail to fotnc 
flake or other fuch like thing, which will make them alter they have eaten thereof feemcas it weredrunke fora 
time, tumbling off from thepoaftor tree upon the ground, there fluttering for a while untill the operation is 
pall and then they will (lye away. Some that give it inwardly three or foure graines at a time lay that it expelleth 
pefiilentiali vapours from the heart, and procuteth fweate but not vomit as frrreas I can learne,notwithftanding 
the name,and therefore CMattkiolw would have it called Nux Canim rather then Vomica, 
Chap. XLV. 
0 Uttummfive Tbux. White Frankumfcenfe.’ 
SagHe general! tenet both of old or ancient and new writers is, that the Fran cumfccnce tree do:h grow in 
[ M yet 'Diofcorides faith in India, but Garciae faith none groweth there; and as fonre lay, the 
Mirrheand Frankumfcnce grow inthe woods promifeuoufly together, but the defeription of the tree 
in particular was kept dole (as it was anciently related ) rtligiouflyby thole that gathered the Gnm, 
but thofe no doubt were but mcere fables and talcs to hold it in ellimation, as that of tljc icligious Affinan youth, 
flainc through envy, and therefore That the more accepted by the gods; for fince the rites of Gentilifme here 
cealed.and 1 urcilme crept in place, the knowledge thereof by acceffe unto places is as bird now as before, onely 
j heophrafiux faith the leaves are like Bay leaves : but Thevet maketh it like the Pine tree, and Garciax faith that 
it is a low tree with leaves like the Mafticke tree, and that the Gum of the mountaine fore is the bed, and Iaft— 
ly,/ obd and Pena in their Adverfaria give us the figuie of a f:range Icafe to bee the leafe of this tree which con- 
fneeth of a double fou Id from the lower end, where it is fmall and pointed, to the toppe being broad and wide, 
likeuntoa I unnell,having as ir were a fmall flippet or peece hanging down,which of all others is the mod unlik- 
>y t0 be the leafe of this tree,the forme being of luch an extraordinary iikenes.and may more likely be the leafe of 
c lafiw his Ltmtmio conger,i s I have before (hewed vou.I Athoi Tlmrifem. 
have therforc here given you the figure of the tree astap- The O'.ibanum, or Incenf: tree. 
d:t' cr.fii ierreth it forth.Some have thought that the bark 
of this tree may be the Narcaphthum (which as lome (ay 
fhould be rather Nafcaphthum) alThofcori&cs, and called 
Ihm ladaumfax the lewsulc it as Incen!e,and to fuch u- 
fes Diofcoriies faith it was applyed,and for the Mother in 
women. The Gum droppech from the tree in reafona- 
hr* : . I nrtp- i nrn t-nmiri (r\rrxr> Kternop 1 
blc pic ntie into round pecce?, fome bigger and lefler then 
others, and fcarce any exceeding the end of ones thumbe, 
the bed is pure, without cycher barke,wood or any ocher 
thing, white, yea and the whiter the better, reafonable 
gummy or fat, not dry like Ro(Tin,and conluming quick¬ 
ly and wholly into fmoake. It is hot in the fccond degree 
anddry in the firffc and binding withail. It rcflraineth 
bleedings, (foppeth the laske and the Gonon hea,helpeth 
the memory,avoideth fadneffe and melancholy, and com- 
bjitcth the heart mixed with ocher tilings for thatcaufe; 
iris alfo very peflorall and good for the cough, for thinne 
rheumes and diftillations,and the Plurifie alfo,mixed with 
conferve of Rofes and taken falling, the fumes thereof 
when it is burned,b:ing taken in at the mou'h and nofc, 
the head being covered is very availeable both for the 
Cough of the Lungs,and thole thinne diftillations thereon 
caufing it: the fumes thereof taken beneath,or the appli. * 
cation of it in ointment,helpeth the Piles and the Tcnaf- 
w^,which is a difeafe provoking one often to the floole 
without doing any thing, it is a lingular good medecine 
for the redneffeand paines in the eyes, or in the eares: 
Mirrhca ndOhbar.nm mixed with the white of an egge 
being beaten and laid on the temples helpeth the Md- 
grome and paines in the head : it is of efpeciall ufe and ac¬ 
count in Baimes, Salves, Plaifters, and Ointments for 
wounds and Vlcers, after their clenfing to incarnate and 
healethem fpeedily,and in frafhiresof the skull mod ef¬ 
fectually, fo that the pia mucr be not perifhed. The barke 
of 
