The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
Nicolás Monardes (1493 - 10 Oct 1588)
Spanish physician and botanist Other biography: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monardes BotanistRelevant locations: Lived at or near Spain, Europe
References in Documents:
These Nuts work strongly both by Vomit and
Stool; a)
Tom. 1
(a)
four or five of them a great
Dose. Being eaten tosted,
or injected in Clysters, (b) b)
des
them, they are a present Remedy in the
Cholick. One
thing, very
observable, is mention'd by Mr. c) c) In his
Book of the
Origine of
Forms
since, also by Mr. d) and that is, That the Cathartick Power of the Nut, although so great, yet lies only
or chiefly in
that very thin Filme above-said, by me
affirmed
to be the Kernel: for this
being taken out, the rest may be
eaten, as any other Nut.d) Hist. of
Barb
b)
c. 184
out of
Monardes
mostly of
parts of a dark Green; yet glossy; and firmly
cohering. Yet so
as in several conspicuous pores to con
tain a soft
whitish substance.
This Stone, although of no beauty, yet is placed amongst
Gems, for that it is highly esteemed, as an
Amulet against
Nephitical Pains, and the Stone and Gravel in
the Kidneys.
Of the admirable effects whereof, in divers Cases
of this
Nature, see the Relations of
a) a)
c.
110
Green one with black spots, is
commended by many. But
b) b)
de LapHoney,
which, upon frequent experience, he found to do all that
Houswifery and Houshold-stuff.
of the Root of the
Hyjucca Mexicana. They first pound it,
and press out the Juyce; which is of a noxious (say some,
of a deadly) quality: and the
Pulpof the Root is reduced
e)
De script.
Hort. Farnes
Out of
Out of
nerdes
and
Oviedus
to a
Cake. These
Cakesthey fry, or rather bake over a gen
tle fire, and so set them in the Sun to dry, for their
Bread.
The thicker
Cakes, called
Cassavi, and eaten by the poorer
sort. The thiner, called
Sciam Sciam, by the
Rich. (
e) In
f) all the Ships that were bound from
f)
Americ. l. 4.
c. 28
with
Cassavi-Bread. That is, instead of
Bisco't.