¶ The Names.
The inhabitants of the lake of Geneua, & the Piemontoise do call it Anthora, and the common people Anthoro. Auicen calleth a certaine herbe which is like to Monks hood, as a remedy against the poison thereof, by the name of Napellus Moysis, in the 500 chap. of his second booke, and in the 745. chap. he saith, that Zedoaria doth grow with Napellus or Monkes hood, and that by reason of the neerenesse of the same, the force and strength thereof is dulled and made weaker, and that it is a treacle, that is, a counterpoison against the Viper, Monks hood, & all other poisons: and hereupon it followeth, that it is not on∣ly Napellus Moysis, but also Zedoaria Auicen∣nae: notwithstanding the Apothecaries do sell another Zedoaria differing from Anthora, which is a root of a longer forme, which not without cause is thought to be Auicens and Scrapio's Zerumbeth, or Zurumbeth.
It is called Anthora, as though they should say 〈◊〉〈◊〉, because it is an enemie to Tho∣ra, and a counterpoison to the same. 〈◊〉〈◊〉 and Anthora, or Tura and Antura, seeme to be new words, but yet they are vsed in Marcellus Empericus, an old writer, who teacheth a medicine to be made of Tura and Antura against the pin and web in the eies: in English, yellow Monks-hood, yellow Helmet floure, and Aconites Mithridate.