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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$Whosoever is stricken or hurt of any venomous worm, or other thing, or else bitten with a mad dog, let them take heed diligently that the same thing that did hurt them see them not until they be perfectly whole. For the Hebrew Physicians say that the party hurt shall then die, or else be in peril afresh ; yea, though they begin to wax whole when they see them. Lupton, Notable Things, bk. v. ;^ 72. Vine. Comedy of Errors, ii. 2, 176. Vines be perched and railed and bound to trees that be nigh to them. The crooks of the Vines holdeth things that be nigh thereto, for [so that] boughs and branches of the Vine should not be slacked far for the succour, and shaken, and disparpled \or disparkled, i.e., scattered], and hurled with blasts of wind, but they should so come to bear and Sive the fruit without peril. Rain gendereth and breedeth certain worms and malshrags [caterpillars] and snails, that grow and fret burgeoning and leaves of the Vine, and leaveth lightly the Vine so spoiled, gnawn and eaten ; and this evil breedeth in moist time, easy and soft. And of evil blasts of winds cometh and breedeth as it were cob- webs, and beclippeth [surrounds] and wasteth the fruit, and burneth and grieveth it. Also the Vine hateth the radish, and all manner cole, and hateth also hazels, for when such be nigh to the Vines, then the Vines be ailing and sick, and nitre—much like to salt—alum and sea-water, and beans, and vetches, and namely [especially] in the last, cutting be venom to Vines, and destroy them. \Bartholomew—-fab^ ac vici^ piitamina ultima ei maxime interimentia vitium sunt venena^ And in some parts and countries be so great Vines, that they make images, posts and stocks of Vines ; as it fareth in the image and mammet [idol—from Mahomet] Jupiter in the city of Populonia. And men stied [climbed —Bartholomew^ upon a Vine to the top of the temple of Diana of Ephesus. Also posts and pillars made of such Vines dure and last without corruption long time. The juice [of the Vine] with oil laid to an hairy place in a plaster-wise doth away the hair. The rind of the Vine doth away warts. Moreover the ashes of the Vine healeth$