Clmpuund Purgm. Memb.z.Subf.z. Lapis A.rme»ru and Lazuli are ~eh_ magnified by k Ale.«amler lib. I .cap. · _3_4~ I6.. 4vitenna,o/Ettus,an~ A~liartNs, 1fthcy bewell walhed, tharrhe wa~er k Papor~sahbc no more colourcd,fifue umes fome fay. 1 ThAt good Alexander ( fa1rh jlergir a vt-. Guianerilu)putsfochcon(idenceillthis one medicine, that hee rhought all me- ~:~'"' pamlancholy p•f!ions might be cured by tt,•ndlfor ~ypm~haMe often.umes hap- !Trail. , 5.c. pity u[ed it,~nd wtU never dec~t~cd mthe opermon ofzt. The like may beef,~~~~~;.~.~ fald of Lapu LA\_t<lt,though lt be fomewbar weakc~ then the other .Garcr,u tanlapide ab H1rto hijt.lib. I ,cap .6 5,relates, that the"' Ph y fi uans ot the_<.}';! oorts, ta. Ar>mnocONfi· miliarly prefcribe it to all melancholy paflions, and <.}';tatthrolru ep.ltb. 3• d'"'14 '" M•·. a brags ofrbat happy fucccffc,which hellil! hadi'n tl~c adminifirarion of it. ~~~.~'h:J:,. NicholM Meripfo putsitamon~ftthebcft remedies,jefl.I. c•p.tz. in Anti· palfio•es•>•• doti&,•andi{this will not [erue([aith Rhajis)then there remaims nothing,but ;~::;:,~:{:. Lapis Armenus,and Hellebor it (elfe. ralefcus & I afon Pratenjis, much corn. ego inde f•pifmend Pulvis Hali,which is made ofir.James Dan,.fcen,z, c•p. 12. Hercu- fm•~•fi•Jum, le s 4e Saxonia,&c.fpeaks well ofir.p Cwo will nor appove rhis,' it, &both f;;.;,~;~;~::: Hellebors,he[airh are noberre1 then poyfon.Yifl~r Trincavelius,lib. z.cap. quamfr•udaI 4.found it in his experie~ce,qto be very noyfome,to trouble theflomack,alld :::' t;/.~'""" httrt thetr bodies that take tt overmuch. mcdict h" la· Black Htllebor,rhat moll: renowned planr,and famous pur~er of mclan- pide plerum<f. choly,which all antiquity lo UlUch ufed and admired , was tuft found our ~::ft:1;:;~ by Melanpodius a lhepheard,as Pliny rccords,lib.z).cap.;. r Whofecing it &c. ' to purge his Goats when they raved • pracHfed it upon Elige and Calene- n~oegof~· ·King Pr.etus daughrers,thar ruled in Arcadia , neer rhefounraio Clitoriru; %,~~":.~:;. •· and reftoredrhem torheirformer health·, In Hippocratu rime it was in on- wagn~ cum ly requefr,infomuch that he writ abook of ir,a fragment ofwhich remains ~";d"· h yer.Theophraflus/Galen,Pliny,C.tlins Aurelianus ,as ancient as Galen.lib. r. nih;l~:ftat::: cap.6.Llreteus tib.I .cap.5 .oribajius lib. 7, co/le/1. a famous Greek, VEtifls fi tielkborns, f~r.J-Cap.uz.& I r ,.r.vEzineta,Galens Apc,li~·7·"f-4·At111ari~ss,r,.t. ;:;~:f.~;:;j., , lunus lrb,5 .cap.r5 .Corneluu Celfus only remammg of the G!d Launes,/ib. •S..scolitij. 3.cap.z3. exroll and admire this excellent plant, and it was generally fo pNui:J:or· . much cficemed of the ancieors for this difeafc amongft the re !I: , rhat they ~~'ff;:, ;J;.":· fenr allluch as were crafed, or any way doted to rhe Anticyr.., or to Phucu litara,e- . in '!ckaia ~o be purged,_ where this plant was in abundace robehad.In Stra-1:;:::};:;:_1~ hoes 11me lt was an ordmary voyage, Navtget Anttcyras; acommon pro- qCum~iJiffit verb amocgrhcGreeksandLatines,tobid a difardora mad man goe rake ab eo curari HeOebor; as in ;uciaN,Menippus to Tant•IM, T•ntale Jefipis,helleboro ep11o ::r:;f."""~ ttbllft<S efl,eo!ltfane meraco, Thou art out otrhy lmle wu 0 T•t~tal11s and r l.ih.6 fimpl. mu~ needs drink H elleb~r ,and rhat without mixture. AriHophanes ;, v~ffn r;~ J t n · drink Hellebor,&c.and Harpa.Y in rhe ' Con:10!dian, roldSim~aod Batii/ 4.r!e~:.1:.' • two dormg fellows,that they had need to be purged wich rh is plant. Whe~ hekeo~obifthat proud Menacrateso l:•l<,had writ an arrogant letter to Philip of Mace- :;,~:~;:••• Jon;he fent back no other anfwerbut this, Confielo tibi ut aJ Antic1ram te &onferAl, noting thereby that he was erafed, at#r elleboro indigere)lad much need of a good purge. Lili11s Ger•ldt~s fairh,that Hercules after all his mad pranks upon hiswife and childre11,was perfectly cured by a purge of He/- leb~r ,which an Allticyria1J adminiftred unto bim , They that wer<: found commonly took it to quicken their wits, (as EnniH4 ofold, t Jl!!.i non nifi tll.... 'f1tH4 AJ •rmA···P"filt~it di(entl.z, and as our Poets drink fack to improve Bbb 3 · · · their
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