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 Lappa. chap. 93.

LAppa, the Cle••e, is an hearbe with broad leaues, and thicke about the ground, and hath in the tops of the stalke knots with crooked prickes, that oft clea∣ueth to mans clothes. Lib. 17. Isid. spea∣keth héereof and saith, that this hearb is called Lappa, because it hath great leaues disposed by the ground: & is called Phi∣lantropos among the Gréekes, for it is rough and cleaueth to mans clothes and groweth by olde walls, & is called Phi∣lantropos, as it were louing mankinde, for it cleaueth to mans clothes, by a ma∣ner affection and loue, as it séemeth.

Thereof is double kinde, sharp & round, disposed to the lykenesse of an horse foote, therefore many men call it Vngula Ca∣balina, an horse hoofe: and either hath leaues with heauie and mightie sauour and smell, as Dioscorides saith. And li. 20. cap. 22. Plinius saieth, that this name Lappa, is the name of manye manner hearbes, for it is the name of all manner Dockes, and be all medicinable, for they healé smiting of scorpions, nor they smite not a man, that is baulnied with y^e iuice thereof.

The broath thereof helpeth and also comforteth the téeth, if it be luke warme hot helde in the mouth. The séede there,

of 〈…〉〈…〉 of the stomack, and helpeth them much east blond, and them also that haue the blondie flixe for the roote thereof wi••h wiar bindeth the wombe, but the leaues medled with salte laxeth the wombe. The seede dronke, hea∣leth them which haue the stone. All the hearbe stamped with Auxungia grece, helpeth against the botch in the breast. Huc vs{que} vlinius.

And Plato. meaneth, y^e Lappa, which is called Lappatum also, is an hot hearb and a drye, and hath vertue to dissolue, and to temper and to laxe, and to open, & to kindle, and helpeth therefore against it∣ching, and also against scabs wet and dry, and against the shingles, and wasteth the humours betweene the flesh & the skin. And softneth and abateth hardnesse and swelling of Postumes, & helpeth against the cold dropsie, & against stopping of the splene: and the iuyce therof medled with the iuyce of Rewe, purgeth the braine of superfluitie of fleme, if it be dropped in∣to the nosethrilles in a bath, or in a hot aire.

(Lapathum, there are fiue kindes, Dockes and Sorrell, Patience, as Ru∣mex, Oxilapathum, s••tiuum, &c. Reade Dod. fol. 557.

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