Ioyfull newes out of the newfound world wherein are declared the rare and singular vertues of diuers and sundrie herbs, trees, oyles, plants, [and] stones, with their applications, aswell to the vse of phisicke, as chirurgery: which being wel applied, bring such present remedy for all diseases, as may seeme altogether incredible: notwithstanding by practize found out, to be true. Also the portrature of the sayde herbes, very aptly described: Englished by Iohn Frampton merchant. Newly corrected as by conference with the olde copies may appeare. Wherevnto are added three other bookes treating of the Bezaar stone, the herbe escuerçonera, the properties of yron and steele, in medicine and the benefite of snowe.

Of the Gumme Caranna.

THey doe bring from the firme Lande, by the waie of Cartagena, 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, 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 w^c paines hee had suffered a long time, 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, 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, it dissolueth, in griefes caused by defluxe or run∣ning

of cold humours or mixed, it worketh a meruellous ••f∣fect: in all paines of the Sinowes, and griefes of the head, and griefes that thereof do proceede, it profiteth much. Surely, it is a medicine to dissolue and to take away griefs of great efficacie, and doth make his worke with great cer∣taintie in new greene wounds, especially of the Sinewes: it doeth much profit, and greatly in ioyntes, in the which I haue seene done only therewith very great workes: it is an intercepting to state the fluxe and running of the eyes, and other partes applied behinde the eares, and in the temples of the head. It is very fattie and oylie, and hot more then in the second degree.

And it is to be noted, that all these Rosines the Indians doe gather by way of Incision, by geuing cuttes in the Trees, of which forthwith the licour doth droppe out, and from thence they gather it.

Notes

• Caranna.
• The vertues.
• It healeth an olde griefe of the shoulder.
• In the griefes of the ioints.
• In swellings.
• In griefes of Sinewes.
• In newe woundes.
• It staieth the running of the eyes

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