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Of Galbano. cap. 77.
GAlbanus is an hearbe, and the iuyce thereof is called Galbanum, and is like in branches to ye hearb Ferula: and as Varro sayth, Galbanus is the iuyce of ye hearb Ferula, as Isid. saith, li. 18. This hearb is cut in Summer, & iuyce cōmeth out thereof, yt is gathered & dried. Also ye best Galbanum is most cleane with ma∣ny drops, & is like to Thus in colour, wt smooth grains, & the graines therof is not too dry, as Pli. & Dios. meane, & is dried in Sūmer about ye stalk. The vertue therof is firy & hot in the third degrée, & moist in the first degrée. And is feined with pou∣der of Colophonie, that is called Pitis in Gréeke, & with Beanes shalled & broken, & the shalles throwen away, & then that pouder & the leaues medled with ye best Galbanum is softned and tempred. Uery Galbanum and pure may be kept long time, & hath vertue to dissolue & tempet, to swage, to drawe, to make smooth, and to laxe. Smoake thereof awaketh them that haue the sléeping euill, and helpeth ach & stopping of the splene with vine∣ger, & bringeth a dead child out of ye mo∣thers wombe, & cleanseth & purgeth the mother, with hony the pouder of Galba∣num slaieth long wormes in the womb, smoake thereof constraineth menstruall bloud, and driueth away Serpents & ve∣nimous beasts, & wormes, & abateth tooth ach, as Diosc. & Plini. meane, & Plat. also. And there it is sayde, that if Galbanum shall be put into medicine, it shall first be purged of superfluitie, & shal first be molt in a shell on the fire, and then put in water, then the pure Galbanum shall fléete aboue, and the filth, as rind & gra∣uell shall sinke to the bottome. But Di∣oscorides saith, that Galbanum shall bée put in scalding hot water, & what sink∣eth shall be gathered, & what fléeteth shal be throwne away.
(* 1.1Galbanum is also a gum or liquor drawen forth of a kind of Ferula in Sy∣ria, called Metopium, griffly or crispe, not moist, nor too drie. Galbanum grow∣eth vpon the mountaine Amanus in Sy∣ria.