i6io> C h a p. 53, Tbeatrum Botanicum „ T r ib e 17. 
profitable, and fomepeeces, buc noc all gummy at che ends having no manifelt talk) which by bruifing of it 
whileitisgteene,ashe faith,yeeldcth forth a juycethat hardcnethintoagumme ; yet doth (jarcias appropriate 
this Turbith in his following difcourfe to that which was with them of daily ufe, laying that the Arabians,Per. 
fans,ini Turk's call it all by the name of Turbith, by the Indians in Surras, where it groweth plentifully 3 «r- 
camar., and in Car,am, whereof t/oaisa part Tigmar : Itgrowethalfoashcfaith in other places of India natu¬ 
rally wil'de: but that of Bifnager oc Cjoa, isnotufedby the Phyfitions there, but that of Guratate, which is the 
bed, from whence alio as he faith,it is tranfported into Perfia, Arabia,/!];* minor and TortugaU. In this difcourfe 
of Orci.K, I finde lome contrariety as Itake it, at lead luch intricacy, as maketh me doubt it was not lb advifed- 
ly written, as (o worthy a man ( whofe Workesandla- 
bours were as directions to pofterity ) (liould have done; 
for firft he faith that the (hike is of ufe, the roote is un¬ 
profitable, and yethc faith this very fame is both called 
Turbith, and ufed by the Phyfitions there, of all nations 
as the Turbith of the ancients, whichthatthe Indiansga- 
ther it to fell to the Merchants, that carry it into their 
Count' ies, and yet it was never feene that any fuch gum¬ 
my (hikes were breught into thefe parts of Chriftendome 
that I can learne, and iold by the name of Turbith. A- 
gaine.G,arena faith that this his Turbith is farre differing 
tro n that which the Arab:**: deferibe, and namely that 
of Mefetcs, .which he defccibcth with thofe notes that 
are mofi agreeable unto that Turbith that is every where 
to be found in all ou" (hops, and yet Cjarcia taxech him 
of erroniousdefenbingofit, as though thofe notes did 
not agree to the true Turbith that is brought out of the 
Eatt Indies,by the PoriugaUs, into Chriiiendome, when 
as we never law any other brought from thence, fothac 
I cannot fee how Qarciai can be ireed from the imputati¬ 
on of much overfight, thattooke his Turbith to be the 
(lalkes, and not the rootes of the Turbith plant: 
fori verily thinke his Turbith and ours to be all one, and 
that his errour rofconcly from being too confident on his 
Kinfmans relation thereof, to be the (lalkes, who ashe 
faith, informed him of the plant, the manner ofthega- 
thefing and ufage thereof by the Indians, and thathim- 
felfe was prclent with the Indians, and law the whole 
ordering of it, and is probable was but his ownc conceit 
and fained to make Garcia belceve it: for how elfe could 
that be differing from that of Mcfues, which verily is 
the fame with that, which as I thinke hath beenealwaies 
broughc us for Turbitb, and yet be the fame the Portugal 
brought with them from thence, to ferve all Chrilfen- 
dome. The notes of Afe/aa his Turbith, whichaslfaid 
agree fo juflly with ourTutbith.that you may know how 
to chafe the bed are thele ; but firit he faith that it is the roote of an herbe, which hath Ferula like leaves but lefie 
(which horn true it is I cannot fay, Me fuss peradventure never having feene the plant growing, giveth that note 
rather by information, which Garcias it may be fheweth by his owne fight but ol the roote, which ferved him 
for his daily ufe, he was an eye witnefleand teffifyethof it) and was of the kind of thofe plants that give milke 
(and yet not of any Tithymall for divers other plants give milke that arc not hot intaftc asthe Tithymalls) and 
was of divers forts, manu;ed.and wild,great,fmall,whi'e,blacke,and yellow, and growing in dry places as may 
be perceived by the thickeneffe of the juyee (the gumminefle he mcaneth) and both greater and fmaller tootes, 
white, and blackilh, and yellow, are many times feene altogether with us ( which blackneffe or ycilownelfe 
may come hy the ill dry ingot the roote, or the taking of fome wet in the drying or afcer)he maketh two markes 
sf the choyfeit : that it be w hitc (within ) hollow within like a reed or cane (that is when the hard pith of the 
roote is taken out) gummy with an alh-coloured barke or ouefide, fmooth, and noc rugged, cafie ro be broken, 
frefii, and not very great or thicke, which is not lo good, thefe notes doe all agree to our Turbith officinarum. 
Turbith is more ufed to be given in pou- her, and that leldome alone but mixed with ocher things, or elfe made 
into aneledtaary.then in decoCtion, and putgeth flegmc very notably, and tough clammy humours that fall on 
the joynts, or on thofe pacts that are more remote: it looleneth the belly of thofe excrements that (lickcclofe 
thereto, and clenfeth the bred from thicke flegme: it is very profitably given to thofe that haveadropfie, the 
Ieprofie, or the French difeafe, as alfo thofe that are troubled with thofe difeafes that tile from adult humours, 
the blacke jaundife and the like, it helpeth day agucspmd in generall all other difeafes bred oi flegmc, 
Turbid) ojfuin hum. Tlx ufuall Turbith. 
