Anatomia sambuci, or, The anatomy of the elder cutting out of it plain, approved, and specific remedies for most and chiefest maladies : confirmed and cleared by reason, experience, and history / collected in Latine by Dr. Martin Blochwich ...

I. The Name.

'Tis called by Dioscorides, and o∣ther Greeks, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, because it is a lover of brinks, and shadowy banks, as is thought by Pena and Lobel, in their Advers. of Plants, p. 434. which name Theophrastus Paracelsus hath re∣tain'd, in whose, and the modern Chy∣mist-writing, you will find frequent mention of Granorum Actes, and of Medicines prepared of them.

'Tis called of the Latins, Sambu∣cus, or by others, chiefly of Q. Sere∣nus, as witnesseth Hugh Frida, Val. l. 2. de tuend. san. c. 26. Sabucus, from the likeness the musical Instrument called Sabuc, or Sambuck, hath with its hollow and pith-emptied rods; Pe∣na and Lob, in the place before cited. Whence till this day 'tis called by the Spaniards, Sabuco, or Sabugo; by the Germans, Holunder; or by contracti∣on, Holder, albeit there be some which imagine 'tis from the many vertues

thereof called Holder, as it were de∣duced from Hulder, Or Hulderich; but in this we will not contend with any. The Italian names it Sambuco; the French, Susier, Suyn, and Susau; the Bohemians, Bez; the English, the Elder tree; the Scots, Boor tree, or Bore tree; the Low Dutch, Ulier. See Ta∣bernomontanus Herbal, part. 3. sect. 1. c. 62.