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 Bezaar stones of the Peru.

ALthough in the second parte I treated of the Bezaar stones, that haue been founde in the mountaines of the Peru, for that they haue beene sent me by the first disco∣uerer of them, the best of as many as from those partes haue come, yet I would say in this thirde parte some thing of them, which he sent me for knowledge, saying: that because I wrote of them they had kno••ledge of them: and the booke which I wrote of them, was the guide to finde and discouer them, as we haue sayd, as he sheweth by his letter, which we haue set in the second parte,

Those which hee sent mee too prooue bee verie ex∣cellent in their coullour, making, and greatenesse, whereof I haue broken some, and finde them as excellent as those of the East India: and so they prooue in pouder, or in one little graine as the other doe, and in coullour well neere they are the same. Truth it is, that those which haue this qualitie and goodnesse, and haue all the qualities that the Bezaar stones ought to haue which are fine, shoulde bee those that are taken out of the beastes, that are fedde in the Moun∣taynes, for those which are taken out of them that are bredde in the playne groundes, are not so good, nor haue any Medicinall vertues, because the Beastes a••e not mayntayned by those healthfull Hearbes, whereby these stones are ingendered, for as they bee Beastes and chewe tha•• which they eate of the iuyce, that proceedeth from the herbs, the stones are ingendered. Which thing that Gentle∣man gaue well to vnderstande, who was the first discouerer

of them, who did see where they lay, and were bred within the beast, and with his owne handes made the Anatomy of him,* 1.1 and wrot vnto mee that the Bezaar stones are grow∣ing in those beastes, after the manner of a garde made of flesh, of the length of twoo spannes, little more or lesse, and of three fingers breadth, which is ioyned neere vnto the Mawe of the inner parte, and in the garde the stones are set in order one after an other, like vnto button holes, in a coate, in this forme.

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And they open that garde of flesh being closed, and take out the stones, that surely it is a maruellous thing to see, what Nature hath created there, for our health & remedie of our euils And as I haue vnderstoode, that these which are brought from the East India, be founde after the same ma∣ner, so I speake the truthe, for they bring very many which are false, that amongest one hundred there are not to bee founde tenne that are true, and their wryters of the East India doe confesse, that there be made many indeed which are false.

The people of the East India take them cut also of a certaine kinde of Goates,* 1.3 that bee for the most parte redde as ours be: they are the best stones which are takē out of y^• cattel, which goe in the Mountaines of Persia: and like∣wise they take them out of other Goates, that goe in the playne Countries of Malaca, and these are not had in such estimation, nor haue the goodnesse nor the vertues that they of Persia haue, because those Goates of Ma∣laca doe serue for cattell to bee eaten, and they be not main∣tained by healthful hearbes of the mountaines, as they that 〈2 pages missing〉〈2 pages missing〉

yet it taketh away the accidentes of it, the faintnesse & sadnesse,* 1.4 and the griefe of the harte, which in these Feuers are common. Surely they feele with the vse of it notable profite, in al long and importunate diseases I do geue it, & they finde profite in it,* 1.5 chiefly those which stand in feare, of any malice of disease, or windinesse, whatsoeuer it bee. For I haue seene, that in this it hath a greate propertie, and of this it commeth, that it is good to cast into pourges, some graines of it, that if the Pourge doe carry venomous qua∣lities, it may rectifie them, and amende them, and if not, it giueth force, and strength to the harte, and they woorke the better. In the oriental Indias they haue a custome to purge themselues twyce euery yere, and especially the noble peo∣ple of estimation, and after they haue purged themselues, they take euery morning fasting foure graines of the Be∣zaar stone,* 1.6 with Rose water, or with water made for the purpose, and they say that this doeth conserue their youth, and strengthen the members, and preserue them from dis∣eases: and it is a good vse, for it cannot choose, but doe them much good. For Wormes they geue this Stone with most happy successe, and surely I haue giuen it to many people, and especially to Children, and Boyes, that are tormented with this euill, and I haue seene such workes as are not to be beleeued, if they were not seene. I geue it by it selfe, and also mingled with this pouder, in this forme.

I doe take hearbe Lumbrigera the wayght of twelue pence,* 1.7 the seede of Santonico the wayght of sixe pence, the Horne of a Harte burned, and the seede of Verdolagas, and Carlina, of euery one the waight of three pence, and the Bezaar Stone of the Peru, the waight of three pence: of these thinges let there be small Pouder made, and let them bee wel mingled. These Pouders are maruellous and of greate effect, to expell Wormes, and very much experi∣mented in many people, and they haue wrought in this case

greate effectes, and they must be giuen in the morning fa∣sting, as to the Phisition shal seeme good, according to the age of him that shall take them, vsing some Medicine of Milke, and Sugar twoo houres after they bee taken. And vnto children being sicke of it, wee geue this stone mingled with milke; and without it, if they doe sucke, and it doeth a maruellous worke: and to them that be in yeeres, by it selfe, or mingled with other thinges appropriated for the disease. In conclusion, we geue this stone in al long diseases, and im∣portunate, where the ordinary medicines haue not profited, in which it doeth manifest profite, and if it doe no profit, yet it can doe no hurte.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Where thes•• stones doo growe.
• * 1.2

  How ther are set in order.
• * 1.3

  They of the Oriental In∣dias.
• * 1.4

  In quarterne Agewes.
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  In long euils.
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  A custome of the Orientall Indians.
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  Pouders to be meruelled at for the wormes, and al kindes of them.