The old English herbals by Rohde Eleanour Sinclair

Author:Rohde, Eleanour Sinclair
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Medicinal plants, Herbals, Herbs, Botany, Plants, Medicinal, Botany
Publisher: London ; New York : Longmans, Green and Co.
Published: 1922-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

endure, whereof no small profite doeth followe to those of our tyme, and also unto them that shall come after us, the whiche I shall be the first, that the rather the followers maie adde hereunto, with this beginnyng, that whiche thei shall more knowe, and by experience shall finde. And, as in this Citee of Seuill, which is the Porte and skale of all Occidental! Indias, wee doe knowe of the more, then in any other partes of all Spaine, for because that all thynges come first hither, where with better relation, and greater experience it is knowen. I doe it with experience and use of them this fourtie yeres, that I doe cure in this Citee, where I haue informed myself of them, that hath brought these thynges out of those partes with muche care, and I have made with all diligence and foresight possible, and with much happie successe."

Then he begins straightway to tell us of various herbs and gums brought from the New World, and of what the herbalists had been able to learn of their medicinal virtues. He writes of " Copall" and " Anime " (varieties of rosin), and tells us that the Spaniards first learnt of these from the Indian priests, who " went out to receive them [the Spaniards] with little firepottes, burnyng in them this Copall, and giuing to them the smoke of it at their noses." " Tacamahaca " (the Indian name for a rosin) is " taken out by incision of a tree beyng as greate as a Willowe Tree, and is of a verie sweete smell; he doeth bryng forth a redde fruite, as the seede of Pionia." The Indians used it for swellings in any part of the body and also for toothache. " Caranna," another gum brought from Nombre de Dios, is discovered to be of sovereign virtue for gout—" it taketh it awaie with muche easines." The balsam of the New World, " that licour most excellent whiche for his Excellencie and meruerlous effectes is called Balsamo, an imitation of the true Balsamo that was in the lande of Egipt," is " made of a tree greater than a Powndgarned Tree, it carrieth leaues like to Nettles : the Indians doe call it Xilo and we do call the same

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