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 Guacatane.

[illustration]

THey haue brought in these Shippes ••n hearbe from the newe Spayne that the Indians cal Guacatane,* 1.1 and it is lyke to our wilde tyme, sauing that it hath no smel, it is a litle hearbe, whitish, I know not whether it carry Flower or fruyte, the hearbe I haue without the roote: the name that it hath amongst the Indians, is as aforesaid, and the same name the Spaniardes also haue geuen it. The In∣dians doe vse it for their infirmities whereof we wil speake, and for the same the Spaniards doe vse it likewise there in the Indias, and they also which haue brought it hither, with notable profite.

* 1.2In griefe of the Pyles they vse it in this manner: they grinde or stampe the hearbe very small, and wash the Piles with wine, in the which there is sodden this hearbe,

and if there bee heate in them, they seeth it in water, & with that hot seething they wash them, and then they dry them softly, and cast the Pouder of this hearbe vpon them, & sure∣ly the effect that it worketh is maruellous. Thus after I saw the good efects therof, I much esteemed the hearbe.

Whensoeuer you haue any griefe of colde or of windines in any parte of the body wheresoeuer it bee,* 1.3 apply Turpen∣tine vnto all partes, wheresoeuer the griefe is, and cast the pouder of this hearbe being smal ground vppon it, and lay a Linnen cloth vpon that, that it may cleaue fast as a Plai∣ster, in such sorte, that it be not taken away, vntil the griefe bee gone. And of this there is manifest experience, by them of the Indias, and also by vs of Spayne. The pouder of this hearbe cast vpon lit∣tle sores, and especially in the se∣cret places doeth mundifie, and heale them.

Notes

• * 1.1

  The descrip∣tion of the Guacatane.
• * 1.2

  In the disease of the Piles.
• * 1.3

  In griefes of colde and windines.