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 Olcastio. cap. 113.

OLeaster, is a wild Oliue tree & hath that name for it is like to the Oliue tree but the leause thereof be somwhat smaller then Oliue leaues. And this tree is barren and bitter, and not filled. And if a graffe of Oliue he graffed thereon it chaungeth the qualitie thereof, and turneth it into his owne analytie as I∣sidore sayth libro. 1••. This Tree hath double dropping. The one is like to Gumme without anye biting qualitye:

and the other is bitter, and lyke to gum Ammonicum, as Isidore saith. Though this trée Oliaster be a wilde tree, yet the rinds, gums, and branches therof accord to medicine, for the leaues therof be bin∣dium, sowre, & bitter, & healeth botches of the head & of the mouth with hony. The iuyce of the rind & of the branches ther∣of, is sowre & binding, & stauncheth all flure & running of humours & of bloud, as he saith. And the gum thereof is good to many things, & namely y^t that is most biting. For it cleanseth & healeth woūds, & helpeth the gums that be gnawen and corrupted & strengthneth and comforreth the teeth, and putteth of and healeth the euil that is called Erisipila, and the holy fire, that commeth of wood Cholera, and gnaweth & fretteth flesh & bone. And hel∣peth against falling of haire, and dyeth haire, and hideth or tarrieth hoarenesse of haire, as he saith.

(* 1.1Oliues, condise in salt liquor, taken at the beginning of a meale, doth che∣rish the stomacke, stirreth appetite, and looseth the belly, béeing eaten with vine∣ger. They which be ripe are temperatly hot; they which be greene, are colder and drie. Sir Tho. Eliot.)

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