plant a Medici. 125
arculas veterum Mumiarutn Memphiticarum ex fycowori arbore
fabricatas dic.
Stratiotis Ægypti incola eft. Celebratur 4øfrw,inqvit Plinius
Lxxiv.c. xviii,€<4 Gratis ftratiotis fed ea in Ægyptotantuminun-
datione Nili naflitur, aeizoofimilis, ni majora -haberet folia, Refri-
gerat mire, & vulnera fanat ex aceto illita: item ignes facros ac fup-
parationes: fang^incm <fi>oqvet tftoi defluit a renibus ^gota cum thure
maflulomirifice fißit. Diofeoridesl.lv, c» CII« adjicit, ßratiotin vulne*
ra, eryfipelata, & oedemata ab inflammatione præfervare. Veslin-
gitu in Profp. Alpin, agnofcit fe vidifle candevnflratiotin aqvis Æ-
gyptiacisincubantem, ci<jj eximiam fanandorum vulnerum effi-
caciam attribuit.
Thuris arbores Sabæis feré propriæ, vifæ tamen & inCarma-
niå; immö in Ægypto fatas effeftudio Ptolemaeorum regnantium
tradit Juba Rex apud/7/»/«wltxii. c. xiv« Vires thuris medicas laté
profeqvitur Diofcoridesi. i.c. lxxxi.
UrticaÆgyptia feqvitur,de qvå ita P//»wl.xxn.£. xm. Urti*
ca epid efle invifitu pote Pl l at iHa prater oleum, epod in Ægypto ex ea
fieri diximus, vel plurimis flatet remediis. Semen ejus cicuta contra-
rium e fle Nicander affirmat: item fungis, & argento vivo, &C.
Ethæc hadenuSjUtleve (pec i men tantum ederetur planta-
rum Ægyptiarum, fervatarum velut ex naufragio in (criptis Grae-
corum, Latinorumqve veterum j qvdd fi qvis vel cx Galeni libris
de com p, Medie, per gen, arißolochiam^panacem, myrrh am y caßoreum,
galbanum ^flicam^ cyperum, juniperum, bdellium, alia freqventata Æ-
gypeiis; vel ex Proflero Alpino>Veslingio, ^^»/«»aliorumqvereccn-
tiorutn monitnentisfqvanqvam illi non nili Celeriora deferibant]
tum germinantia hodie in Ægypto, tum ex vicina Arabia, & Æ-
thiopiåiftuc qvotidie allata, adeoqve ibidem qvafi domcfticagcr-
mina memorare inftitueret , in immenfum propé excrefccrct
commentatio. Tantum velim hic e« ungve leonemxftimari,ac-
qviefeensjudicioProfleri Alptnitvr. c. vm.deMedie. R^t.Apud
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