A most excellent and learned vvoorke of chirurgerie, called Chirurgia parua Lanfranci Lanfranke of Mylayne his briefe: reduced from dyuers translations to our vulgar or vsuall frase, and now first published in the Englyshe prynte by Iohn Halle chirurgien. Who hath thervnto necessarily annexed. A table, as wel of the names of diseases and simples with their vertues, as also of all other termes of the arte opened. ... And in the ende a compendious worke of anatomie ... An historiall expostulation also against the beastly abusers, both of chyrurgerie and phisicke in our tyme: with a goodly doctrine, and instruction, necessary to be marked and folowed of all true chirurgie[n]s. All these faithfully gathered, and diligently set forth, by the sayde Iohn Halle.

Zingiber.

OR Gingiber, in Greeke 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, hath of an olde opiniō been iudged the roote of pepper: but that doth Pliny denie. And Dioscorides describeth ginger in a seue∣rall chapiter, after he hath spoken of pepper, saiynge. Gingi∣beris,

is a plante of his owne kynde, growyng in Arabia Tro∣gladytica, which they vse grene for many thinges, as we doe Ruta, mixing it with their first meates and drynkes. The rootes of this are little,* 1.1 lyke the rootes of Cyperus, whyte, and odoriferus, and in taste lyke pepper: they oughte to be chosen that are without woodwormes. They ar kept with salte, because they will otherwyse soone putrefie: and are brought into Italie, in earthen vesselles. Ginger is con∣uenient in meates and in sauces, hauyng healyng and con∣coctiue power. It gently mollifieth the belly, is vtile for the stomache, And efficatious for the dymnesse, or dulnesse of sight. It is put in medicines against venym, and answereth in summe, to the vertues of pepper. Hetherto Dioscorides.

Galen sayeth it heateth,* 1.2 but not at the first as pepper, & therfore is to be estemed of subtiller partes: and semeth to retayne in it selfe a certeyne grosse and vnlaboured humi∣ditie,* 1.3 lyke Piperi longo: And therfore doth the heate continue longer, that is made by ginger or longe pepper, then of the whyte, or blacke. They that haue seen Ginger in India, (saith Ruellius,) affirme it to haue a creping roote, with knottes and ioyntes: From the whiche, and from the stalke, commeth often new rootes, geuing twise or thryse in the yeare leaues lyke a reede, but not so long: and that it re∣sembleth wholy Gramen, neither is there any thing in that region more com∣mon.

FINIS,

Notes

• * 1.1

  Cyperus.
• * 1.2

  De sym. lib. 6.
• * 1.3

  Piper longum.