Batman vppon Bartholome his booke De proprietatibus rerum, newly corrected, enlarged and amended: with such additions as are requisite, vnto euery seuerall booke: taken foorth of the most approued authors, the like heretofore not translated in English. Profitable for all estates, as well for the benefite of the mind as the bodie. 1582.

Of a Whetstone. cap. 23.

A Whetstone is called Cos, and hath that name, for it whetteth and shar∣peth yron to cut and to carue. For Cotis is Greeke, and is to say, caruing, as Isi∣dore saith. And there be diuerse manner of Whetstones. And some neede Water and some neede Oyle for to whet, but Oyle: maketh smooth, and water maketh the edge right sharpe, as Isidore sayeth, lib. codem. capitulo. 3. The Whetstone hath this propertie, that it serueth ano∣ther thing in whet••ing, and wasteth him∣selfe some and some, as Gregory sayeth. The powder of the Whetstone helpeth well in medicine, and hath vertue of dri∣eng, and of smiting againe repercussiue, and of staunching of bloud, as Constan∣tine saith.

(* 1.1The ponder of a Whetstone is as good for a fresh wound to stape the blée∣ding, as is a Pigges turde to the nose of him that bléedeth: for the gréet of the one is a pricking in the wound, & the stench of the other, anoyance to the head.)

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