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
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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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    easily broken. Grains of Wheat chewed helpeth against the biting of a wode hound, for it draweth out the venom. Also bran of Wheat nourisheth little or else right nought, Bartholomew (^Berthelet), bk. xvii. § i68. Whelp. i. King Henry VI., iv. 7, 35. Whelps be the children of hounds. Hounds' Whelps be whelped with sawing teeth though they be full small. And all beasts that have teeth like a saw and departed be gluttons and fight, as the hound, the wolf, the lion, the panther and such other ; and all such beasts gender imper- fect broods, and the cause is gluttony, for if she should abide until the Whelps were complete and perfect, they should slay the mother with strong sucking, and therefore it needeth that kind be hasty and speedful in such beasts. And authors command to take sucking Whelps wholesomely against venomous bitings, for such Whelps opened and laid hot to the biting of serpents draw out venom. And though they be melancholy beasts of quality and of complexion, yet they be quiver and swift by disposition of numbers, and be glad and merry, and play much, and that is because of their age. Bartholomew {Berthelet), bk. xviii. § 28. Wiid-duck. i. King Henry IV., ii. 2, 103, iv. 2, 20. V. Duck. Wild-Goose. Willow. i. King Henry IV., ii. 4, 152. P\ Goose. Othello, iv. 3, 28, etc. Willow is a pliant tree and a nesh [soft], and according to binding and railing of vines and vine-branches. This tree hath no fruit but only seed or flower. And the seed thereof is of this virtue, that if a man drink of it, he shall get no sons, but only barren daughters. [Query, whether