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 Casia fistula. cap. 28.

GAsia fistula is the fruit of a certeine Trée, that beareth long séede, that waxeth in passing of time greate of thicke without, by working of heate of the Sunne, and the iuyre within is black and moist and swéet, and is medled with certeine white graines within, & diuided with small holes, as it were in the holes of is hurry combe.

The best is the greatest & most heauy, for therein is much moisture. And that that is light, and maketh noise when it is moued, shal be forsaken. For that betoke∣neth veronesse & emptinesse. Casia fistula hath vertue to make slipper and soft, and to cleanse and to abate wonderfully the sitteth of blow, and so cleanse and pure Chotera and bloud, and to dissolue and destroye Postumes of the throate, and is good for the guties, and profitable and helpeth against euills of the breast, and bringeth forth new menstrual bloud, that

commeth of fat humour, & doth away the swelling of the ropes and guts, if it hée dronke Huc vs{que} Dios. And though men vse to write, & to sound Casia with dou∣ble S. yet it should be written & sounded with one single s. & so it should be writ∣ten and sounded Casia, and not Cassia, as Authors tell.

(* 1.1Casia fistularis, the common Bur∣gation.) And so meaneth Quidiusais Methamo;

Quo simul ac Casias & Nardi leuis aristas, &c. And to saith Plinius vhio; & other also.

Notes

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  Additiō.