¶ The Names.
The French Physitians haue accepted the root of Thapsia for a kinde of Turbith, calling it 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Cineritium; notwithstanding vpon better consideration they haue left the vse thereof, especi∣ally in purging, for it mightily hurteth the principall parts, and doth often cause cruell gripings in the guts and belly, with 〈◊〉〈◊〉 and cramps: neuerthelesse the venomous qualitie may bee taken away with those correctiues which are vsed in mitigating the extreme heate and virulent qualitie of Sarcocolla, Hammoniacum, and Turpetum: but where there be so many wholesome Sim∣ples, and likewise compounds, they are not to be vsed.
Of some it is called Turpetum Griseum: it is called Thapsia, as some thinke, of the Island Thap∣sus, where it was first found; or as we deeme, of the likenesse it hath with Carrots.
Of the people of Sicilia and Apulia it is called 〈◊〉〈◊〉, where it doth grow in great aboun∣dance.