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IJgntim Nrpbriticsm. The tree a;ainlt the hone. 
S^SRomHIfW^ndiheparts thereabouts hath becne.often fcnt many yeares (mce as well as of late, 
foFpWs though now in farrelefTeefl'eetre.a certaine fmooth light and white wood, the tree whereof is at bigge 
as a Peare tree, without knots: the wood thing IT iced find and potto fleepe in pare Conduit or Spring 
water will within halfe an hours, or thereabouts (if it be right) difcolour the water into a fine light 
blew colour .which lying longer therein will taulc it grow’of a deeper colour, this infufion fomade, although it 
be altogether infipideand without any taitc a: if nothing had beene put into ihe water, is found yet to be hot and 
dry in the firli degree, and lingular available againit the Done in thekidneyesand the difficultie in malting urine, 
and h found alio by good experience to open the obftruftions of the Liver and Splcene,the water or infufion is 
1 cing drunke oi it felle, or mixed with wine and fo taken: but there is another wood very like unto this, which 
often obtruded on many in Head thereof which,being infufed in water in the like manner will difcolour the water 
yellow,and therefore without tryall the right is hard to bedifeerned. 
Chap. C XL T. 
Lirnxm Mslncerijr. TheMoluceas treeagainft venomeandpoyfou, 
IN the Hands o( the Moluccas isaerrtaine tree rather planted every Wherein Orchards thengrow- 
I ing naturally being as bigge as a Quince tree,whole leaves are broad and cut intodilivions, fomc- 
, what like unto thole of the Mallow, the frurt is like to H aUl nuts btitlelTer, and wrh,a Coftcr and 
blacker fheil, whereof the natives make fo great account that they wilH'carfe fuffer any grangers 
1 to fee it,much lelle to kn aw any of the properties of it, which they kcepe from others as fectet as 
may be : but yet this their fecrefiehith caufedic to be fought for and learched into nearer then othcrwile perad- 
ventureit would havebeene : For fome ft-wj* have found out in part by the fight of the cures the Indians 
per to: med.andpartly by their relations,which by meanes they made unto them they obtained of them, and partly 
by their owne judgement and praftife alfo at lundry times in the Spittles there, and in the firippes among Ma¬ 
riners, that the wood made into pomher and taken in a convenient quantitic, according to the lirength of the 
venome and the patient that fhali take it, foastheq uantitie for a cimecxcecde not ttngraines taken m broth or 
water, or other liquor ,is a molt certaine fpeedy remedy againll the venome of the moll virulent Serpents that ar c, 
even the Viper Rcgtilw (that it a Serpent that hath like a eappe or crowne on the head) thccf/wor any other’ 
and the pouther [hewed on the bitten place : they ufc to file the wood final! cither with the Seadogges skinne, or 
a fire Iron file : in the lame manner like wile they give halfe a fcruple of the pouther in warme water, or’the 
broth of a Chicken or Hen to them chat are wounded with poifoned arrowes, which they much ufe one againft 
another and put on the pouther into the wour.d: being taken in the morning berimes falling,having made a (pare 
fupper overnight before .-ithclpetb to evacuate all tough thicke and melancholy humors, and hetebe helpeth 
quanaine and quotidian Agues, prtvaileth againft the Iliacke and Chollick pafiione of wirideor humors, the 
droplie alfo,the graved and done in the hacke or kidneyes, thediffoukie of urine and the mod ctuell chollerick 
pillion,and other old grtefes hkewile in the j'oynts and leggcs.as well fchitrous as fcrophulous ,that is, have hard 
lwellings or nodes and knots in them, the fame alfo killeth the worrnes in the body of all forts: it regained) a 
dejcflcd or loft appetite, and if the purgation wen ke toofiercely Upon any to the patient is given halfeafmalf 
cup frail of Canh (chat is the decoftionof Ricejto (fay the working fuddenly, orelle byeatinga finall Birdc fo 
that it is in the r-htficions or :he Patients power to be purged as much as they will: by thetaking of this medc- 
cinc there not hath btnfound any trouble to theltomack, or other ill fympeomes,although taken' without obfer- 
vinganydret, ordefmmng their bufincfleabroid, yea in the working thercuf living Vftloofely : it is obfer- 
ved Ukewifeto be avaleable in the old paints and gtiefes of the head, the Megrime, Tailing fickneffe and Apo- 
p:exye,in tne diteales of the belly and wombe, a: alfo the fhortnefie of breath,the noyfc and' fingings in tbceares, 
and the goute or joynt aches j it is given in all lcaions to all ages to differing natures or dilpoficions, and that with¬ 
out tytherdattgehor trouble tbtrt that onely in cholierick perfons and that have hot flomackes and Livers, ic 
breedeth fomV perturbations m.tbem untffi that they have taken fome meate, and infomeit hath procured a vo- 
mitjburtochehotavd cholierickepdrlons being given with the Syrupc of Vinegar or in the fruit of a Charambola 
being prefttved,orin aPtll With Conlerre of K0fes.1terketh away all thofe troubles. In fome alfoitcaufcthan 
itch in the fundament, and fometiussexcoriation, and the Pries alia « fome, but very few, which are fame 
helped by other temedies. Thcfecures bave-btens often performed, and yet the Indians perfoimemany other 
no,doubt,which they concede from the Chriftians all that they can. This wood is called by them Pmav*, the 
Cede hereof is touch ufed through all chc Provinces of the Indies to catch birds, being carryed thither tobee 
(old, for fome thereof mixed with boiled Rice and calf to the wild Birds caufeth as many as taker ic to fall 
do wne to the ground, as being ftoned for a time, but if any take thereof too greedily, it will kill themifthey 
bee not hdp^dby cold water put oh their heads, but Dawes above all other Birds arc foonc.lt ki'd hereby. 
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