Emblems of rarities: or Choyce observations out of worthy histories of many remarkable passages, and renowned actions of divers princes and severall nations With exquisite variety, and speciall collections of the natures of most sorts of creatures: delightfull and profitable to the minde. Collected by D.L.

The Bathes called Badenses in Germany.

THe waters of the Bathes Baden, have this property that feathers of Fowles bei•••• boyled in this water, may 〈◊〉〈◊〉 cleane taken away from t•••• skinne, and Swines haires fro••

their skinnes, whether they bee cast living into this Water, or chafed with it being dead. These waters have the proper∣ty of Alum, Salt, and Brim∣stone: therefore they be good for such as have hard fetching of their breath, and stopping of the breast, which things rise of cold fluxes of the braine; they bee medicinable for moist eyes, and hizzing and ringing of the eares, for trembling parts and a∣stonied, for the crampe, and o∣ther diseases touching the si∣newes, which come of cold hu∣midities: they be good for such as have a cold stomacke, moyst and ill of digestion, and those that suffer griefe of the liver and splene through cold. Also for such as are troubled with the dropsie, or have any griping in the guts, they helpe such as bee

troubled with the stone, and wo∣men barren and unfruitfull, they take away the griefe of the mother, and doe represse the evills of the wombe, and the in∣flation of the thighes, they heale scabs, wheals, and scars, and have a very good property in helping the gout. See the third booke of Munsters Cosmo∣graphy, for the nature, vertue, and wholsome properties of the Bathes in Valesia.