1652 Chap. 135 
T beatrum ' Botanicum , 
Chap. CXXXV. 
Acbatsaca Trcveti. Tta blackc Moores Gua/acam. 
He Ethiopians on both fides of the Ri¬ 
ver Senaga, neare onto Cape verd as 
Thevet laith^doe abound with the Ve- 
nereous difeafe, which holdeth them 
chiefly in the privie members which 
in men is called A fab, in women Afabatcs, the di- 
feafeic felfe Boroz+tl or Zail : but by the skill of 
the Phifitions of whom they have many, and skil- 
fullin their profeflion called Biarins , they have 
found out growing with them an herbe of affured 
helpe and remedy therefore, which groweth up 
with a great flalke asbigge as .a mans legge, and 
many great leaves thereon, cut in or jagged on both- 
edges, fomewhat refcmbling a Colewort leafe, 
but nothing lo thicke eyther in the leafe or middle 
ribbe and double pointed at the end, irom among 
whom groweth the fruit,of the bigneffc of an egge, 
and of a yellow colour, which they call Aljard i 
the deco&ion of this herbe above all others, al¬ 
though they u(c divers,is of (ufneient validitie to 
cure it, for they have no other Guajacum for their 
helpe,and therefore ufe this in Head thereof. 
Trip, e 17. 
sicharaca 7 beveti. 1 he Ethiopian rice G uajacum. 
Chap. CXXXVI. 
tt'ixtrr*r.ui cortex. Captaine kf'intert Cinamon. 
Aptair.eH'itf.’aro Winter that in a fliippe by himfclfe accompanied Sir Frantit Drake in part of his voy¬ 
age over the whole world, but left him at the Straights of Nagdhm returning from thence home into 
England againc in the ycare 15 79- in the 
parts 
trees 
thereabouts cut downe certame 
whole batke was fomewhat hke 
unto the thicker fort of Cinamon, both for ful dance 
and colour,yet for the mod part thicker, and fome of 
it of an afh colour, and fome brownilh on theoutfide 
and tuggedlikeElme barke.fome ofit having chinkes 
or riftes on the infide, and fome fmooth and firme, 
of a fmcl not unpleafant.but ofa very fliarpe tadc like 
many fpices together, h,eating the mouth more then 
Pepper; the leafe of the tree is of a whitifli grecne, 
not unlike the Afpen leafe, the berries grow inclu. 
(lets like the Hawthorne,with divers feedes in each of 
them. They at the rird knew not of any properties 
therein, and therefore boylcd fome of it in hony, to 
make it the more pleafant to be taken,and dryed other 
fome and made it into pouther, putting it in head of 
Cinamon in their mears: fur afterwards they found 
it to be lingular good againd the Scurvey, for divers 
in the flaippebeing troubled with that dilcafe found 
remedy thereby in tiling it a while. Some of our com¬ 
pany of Apothecaries, and thole not of themraned 
doe ufe to call the Caneila alba mentioned here before 
Cortex vrinterar.i, and have ufed it in their difpen- 
fation of Mithridatium as a fubliitute for Cejhtt y 
whereof I gave you a touch in the Claffis of Cardui and 
Sfinofa ,in the lad Chapter thereof fave one, but now 
by comparing the one with the other you may cafily 
fee the errour, forth zCar.ella alba is a white barke, 
fowled lake Cinamon, and not much thicker then it. 
n’mttrenui Cortex , Cjptzrncll'rnicn Cinarocn 
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