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=2. 7 ~ - j little finger,crei‘ted and filled with a {bit pith like the {talks of Elder, or more like th ofe of the bf“

Docke : the tait of the root is bitter,with fome acrimony,which alfo Diofcorides requires in h . 0:

he faith the raft fhould be biting and hot3Th_u_s much for the iirfhbeing Ca_/hi; dam‘: of the fh0P5'.

I Coffw Inditmfim otloramsi 2 Cofim officimzmm L055?’-N Indian or fweet fmelling Cofiusi Bitter Coflus.

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a The fecond,which is the Cojlm amarm, am: it may be the Indian ofDz’afcorir1er,and N13” 0’ Pliny,is a root black both within and without_.,light,yet very denfe. It feemeth to be of form mg, r00t,f0r that it is brought ouer cut into large pieces,of the bigneffe ofones finger,fometiI~I155 its gegforrrtimes le{Ter,which it feems is for the more conuenient drying thereofifor a large r0_°'=V”tc, it be cut into pieces can fcarfe be well dried:the tafle of this is bitter fomwhat clammy 861” '3 ' the frnell is little or none. , 3 6

There are fome other roots which haue bin fet forth by late writers for Ctflus, but becau fe ‘fin’: are neither in vfe,known here with vs,nor more agreeable to the defcription of the anfielmzl ha ’

Hing I0 an Cfldram willing to paiie them ouer in filence.

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A it hath aheating and attenuating faculty, and therefore was vfed in oile to annoint the b°‘u‘;;‘ %‘“_“P‘ the cold 5“ Of Agues,the Sciatica,and when it was needful to draw any thing I0 the fa ' ficies of the body ~ , _ 5

B It is alfo Cofluenicnt to moue vrine,to procure the termes,to help f’crains,convulfions,0‘ “amp and pains in the {ides,and by reafon of the bitterneffe it kils wormes. _ fl-C of It is good to be drunk agairifl the bite of the viper,again-ii pains of the chefi, and wind“

F1!“ fl9‘}_‘.%€kaF31§¢fl, in Win‘: and wormwoodsand it is vfed to be put into fundry Antidotes-

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H/;hfe’i:I~i~[_’—tbrie of Plants.

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CH A P. 27, 0fDm/{,eri‘{o__otor Contra:-yerbzz. it; The Defcription.

H t 7h. 1 5 I I .~ known in fomc {hops by the _Spanifh name Co_mra:ycrva,is the tame

h W'i'?i(2ri(1)(()l't/t:}z'u\:Ch]at0h fgc <i:‘C§:th by the title OfD'4k"”“ "“1’f‘ " Whflforel ""11 gm‘: Y?“ ‘I19 11130» rie ofclrt/5:44 and thereto adde that which M””"”{"" wmes of the C‘m.'m'7”'v”' for a1‘h°“8h

3 xmm/is _feeme to make thefe Eliffergnt 5_ yet 1. fin dc that

Oth c1 1; 5 d h'f{orie exactly agree with the roots ent rfs tom paine by that title. heretgcfifg I {lhal%Lr‘rri:l:2 thelrn one,till fome {hal thew me how they differ : and C’/ufim feems to be,

Of this minde alfo,who defired but the degree of heate which Mmmdw Ewes thefeaand that is but

the fgcond degmc : now thefe haue no taiie at the firihvntill you haue chewed them a prety while,

and thm you man finde agmanifcfi heate and acrimonie in them,which Clujiza did alfo obferue in

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1 h f - h C; 3 “the generous Knight_S‘ 1?:ram‘:; Drake gaue me at London cer=_ tain‘;(‘)0:s))’v€;‘:3=](t;!]:tQe Orflggtje rljiruvian Beazor (’cones,which in the Autumne before (hauing firii- flied his voiage wherein paiiing the firaights Of Magellan he had m°°mP3(_r°d the Wmld) 1366 had brought with haimfiflirming them to be of high efleem amongftthe Peruvians. Now for his fake

that befiomd thefe mots vpon me,I haue giuen them the titli‘.::‘§})fDr4/tena radix,ot Drake: r00t,and haue made thcm to be ex pte {fed in a table,as you may here fee them.

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I Dmirem radix‘, Anothfl fort of Comrabyewa.

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_ There ,Oo,_.S were for the man part f_ome halfe inch th_icke,lo‘ngi(I1, now and then _bu‘nching oug into knots and vncquall head5,and their tops looked as if they werecompofed of thicke fcalc s, an. tnoft like thofe om-R, ‘D,,,,,m'4t emzeapby/lo: 5 blackiih without,wrinckled and hard, becaufe dried; their inner part was whit-e,chey‘had {lender fibres here and there growing out of them _, and fome more thick and large,—hard alfo and tough?‘ which hung °th<‘-1‘ kflots.-~ I0b'f'cruc.d’ no manifefi fine! the)’ had,but found them to haue a ta (te fomwhat aitringfintzmd drymg the ‘°“%“c at the fi'rI¥;but being long chewed they lefta quick and pleating acrimony in the ngiouth.

.. It feemed to haw greag aflinitie with the Radix S .He/.e».¢,vr_rhereofNzt. Mgngrdw fpeakes in his b°°ke of the Simple Medicines brought from the V\_/'e£’e Indies:but feeing N_.Eliat(who a_CCO'mpa.

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