Natural history in Shakespeare's time : being extracts illustrative of the subject as he knew it / Made by H. W. Seager, M. B., &c. Also pictures thereunto belonging.

Seager, H. W. (Herbert West), 1848-

Date:: 1896

Credit: Natural history in Shakespeare's time : being extracts illustrative of the subject as he knew it / Made by H. W. Seager, M. B., &c. Also pictures thereunto belonging. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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$The Radish is hostile to vines ; for though they be sown round them, they [the vines] turn away from them, because of repugnance of nature. It helps against the bitings of vipers. With honey it restores hair in baldness. Hortus Siuiitatis, bk. i. § 384. We will have a bunch of Radish, and salt, to taste our wine. Beti 'Joinoii's Every Man in his Humour, i. 5, ad fin. So Randolph, The Jealous Lovers, iii. 5. Raisin. Raisins o' th' sun. Winter's Tale, iv. 3, 26. Raisin is made in many manner wise. For sometime the stalk thereof is woven and wound, and so the grape in certain days is for-dried by heat of the sun. And this is best to eat. And sometime the grapes be wounden in vine-leaves, and be bound with thread, for the grapes should not seed, and be put in an oven so bound and wrapped, and be dried when the heat is temperate. In such manner sometime Raisins be made in chimneys. Bart/.okmezv {Bertkelet), bk. xvii. § 183. [The first mode of preparation will produce raisins of the sun.] Almonds and Raisins. Anthony Miaiday., English Roman Life, ch. iii. (1590). Malaga Raisins to make him long-winded. JVebster^s Devil's Law Case, iv. i. Ram. As You Like It, iii. 2, 87. The Ram is a beast that beareth wool, pleasing in heart, and mild by kind, and is duke, prince and leader of sheep. Therefore kind giveth him great strength passing other sheep. The Ram hath a worm in his head, and for fretting of that worm and itching, the Ram is excited and busheth full strongly, and smiteth full hard all that he meeteth. He is more cruel in heart than the ewes, and his cruelness abateth if his horns be pierced nigh to the ear. If his right gendering stone be bound, he gendereth females, and$