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 Carlo Sancto.

IN the second parte wee entreated of the vertues of a Roote, that then they had brought from the newe Spayne, which they cal Carlo Sancto, & now in these ships they haue brought it, with great venerati∣on and estimation: and the roote is called Indica, and they bring written many ver∣tues of it more then they are woonte too reporte of the Rosemarie. Nowe that which hath beene experimente••, and seene since that I wrote of it, I will speake,* 1.1 of this Roote, which being made into Pouder, geuen to women that newly brought Children, who for euill keeping haue taken greate colde and be numbe, it profiteth muche to pro∣uoke them to sweate, and maketh them remayne cleere: it profiteth muche geuen with Wine, or water of the floures of Orenges, vnto them that haue a harde labour. There was a Frier which had paynes of the Stomake,* 1.2 and no tast of his Meate, but had an euill breath, and much windynesse, and all did proceede of colde that hee had ta∣ken, and little natural heate. He sodde of these Rootes in wa∣ter at his discretion, as the water of the Sarcaparillia is sod∣den, and so he dranke it continually, at dinner & supper for a long time, and it did so well with him, that he amended his stomake, and increased the heate of it, whereby hee did digest, and consume his meate very well, and tooke from him his euill breath, and consumed the windes, and in ta∣ken 〈2 pages missing〉〈2 pages missing〉

from twoo to three Ounces of it, it purgeth well and easily, and euen as it is good to take, so it is good to worke, for that I haue purged many people with it, and it maketh a very good woorke, and purgeth without paynes. One thing they doe euill in those partes, which is, that they ne∣uer bring them hither made with good Sugar, if they come so, they woulde be the better, and of better tast. They bee purges for delicate people, they euacuate the same humor that the Canafistola doth. Of the Canes of the small Canafistola there is made an other Conserua verie good, which is an excellent purge,* 1.3 and delicate: for they take the small Canes, which are growing of a small time, and seeth them in Sugar, and with the seething and Su∣gar, is taken from them the sharpenesse and the drinesse which they haue, and they are made tender and softe, and of a very good sauour. These beyng taken, make a very good woorke, and purge without griefe or molestati∣on, and without all accidentes and faintnesse that purges are vsed to procure, for that they are full of good tast, at the taking of them, and light of woorking. They are geuen from two Ounces to three, I haue geuen them many times with very good successe, and haue taken them beyng sicke, and they haue wrought verie well with mee. Of these Conseruas they bring hither euery yeere from Sancto Do∣mingo, and Puerto Rico many Barrelles full. The Ca∣nafistola that is perfect and rype, is the moste excellent Medicine for to purge withall, of as many as haue been knowne to this day, and that doeth his woorke best in that which it serueth for, and with most assuraunce, as it is wel knowne not onely to Phisitions, but also to all the world, and doeth his worke without the hurtes and accidents which other Purgatiue Medicines are vsed too doe, and it is a generall Medicine, and amongst them that are called blessed, is the most blessed of all, whose vertues and properties wee doe treate of particularly, in the first part, and that which we

haue spoken heere, hath beene to geue relation of the leaues, and flowers of it, which they haue now brought mee.

One thing I would they should be aduertised of,* 1.4 that when we are commanded to geue Canafistola, to lighten and sof∣ten the bellie, and that the common matters may bee voyded downe, is ment that they shoulde take it a smal tyme before meate be eaten, at the most halfe an houre before, for the meate being mingled ioyntly with it, worketh with it, and in this order it maketh a very good woorke, and purgeth ve∣ry wel, & without paines: which is not done with that which is taken any long time before meate, as two or three houres before, as now many doe vse it, for that the meate beeing di∣lated, it maketh an ende of woorking. And as it is a thing without strength and weake, it goeth al into vapours, and so sheadeth it selfe abroade throughout al the body: & if it tarry long, it is conuerted into meate, and substaunce, which I haue seene by experience many yeeres wherein I haue practised, that alwayes as I gaue it halfe an houre before meate at the most, it maketh a good worke, and if it be giuen many houres before meate, it purgeth, and euacuateth little. Concerning mingling of medicines, which doe purge, with the meate, Hipocrates treateth of it in many partes, and Galene in his Commentaries. And trueth it is, that when we wil that the Canafistola should not euacuate, but that the vapours shoulde bee spred abroade by the reines, and all the body, wee geue it many houres before meate, and then not working, it performeth the effect that wee haue spoken of.

Notes

• * 1.1

  The vertues thereof.
• * 1.2

  Historie.
• * 1.3

  Of the Canes in Conser••••.
• * 1.4

  Note.