¶ The Temperature and Vertues. [ A]
This herbe is counted to be very dange∣rous and deadly, hot and drie in the sourth degree, as Thcoph. in plaine words doth testi∣fie concerning his owne Aconite; for which he saith that there was 〈◊〉〈◊〉 found his An∣tidote or remedie: whereof Athenaeus and Theopompus write, that this plant is the most poisonous herb of all others, which moued Ouid to say Quae quia nascuntur dura vivacia caute: notwithstanding it is not without his peculiar vertues. 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Camerarius now liuing in Noremberg saith, the water dropped into the eies ceaseth the pain and burning: it is reported to preuaile mightily against the bitings of scorpions, and is of such force, that if the scorpion passe by where it groweth and touch the same, presently 〈◊〉〈◊〉 becommeth dull, heauy, and sencelesse, and if the same scorpion by chance touch the white Hellebor, he is pre∣sently deliuered from his drowsinesse.