Of the Gumme Caranna.
THey doe bring from the firme Lande, by the waie of Cartagena,* 1.1 and number de Dios, A Rosin of the coulour of Tacamahaca, somewhat cleare, and thinne, called in the Indians language, Caranna, and this woorde and name our Spaniardes haue geuen it, and it hath in maner the smel of the Tacamahaca, although it bee somewhat more strong of smell, it is very oylie, and it cleaueth fast without melting, for the clamminesse that it hath. It is a newe Medicine, and brought hither about a tenne yeeres past, and the Indians doe vse it in their infir∣mities against swellinges, and in all manner of griefes, and now in our partes it is much esteemed, for the great effects that it doth worke.
It doth profit and heale the same infirmities, that the Ta∣camahaca doth,* 1.2 but it woorketh more speedily, so that many infirmities, wherein the Tacamahaca doth not so much ef∣fect, the Caranna doth easily heale. There was one that did suffer paines in his shoulders, the wc paines hee had suffered a long time,* 1.3 in such sort, that he could not stirre his Armes, & hauing vsed a great time the Tacamahaca, yet hee was not healed, vntil hee had put thereunto the Caranna, and there∣by in three daies he was made whole. In the griefes of the Iointes,* 1.4 and the Go••t Arthetica, it hath a maruellous ef∣fect, being applied vnto the grief, so that it be not an inflam∣mation, of very hotte humour, for it taketh it awaie, with much easinesse. In old swellinges, as well in humours as in windes,* 1.5 it dissolueth, in griefes caused by defluxe or run∣ning