Book of Herbs

A hand-colored woodcut illustration depicting the myth of Pyramus and Thisbe. A woman in a red dress stands with arms outstretched near a mulberry tree. Beneath the tree lies a man (Pyramus) who has fallen on his sword. A lion is visible on a hill in the background. The image is significantly damaged by a large, irregular cutout in the center.

This history of Pyramus and Thisbe is to be read in the Acerra philologica, cent. 3, chapter 5.

Rister wood, chestnuts, and wild pear trees. And if one grafts the mulberry sprigs onto ball-trees or service trees original: "Sarbaum", they shall bear white mulberries.

Of the names.

Mulberries are called in Latin Mora Celsi, in Serapio Tut, and the tree Morus and Morea or Sycaminea. Yet we will write nothing of foreign Egyptian mulberries (since they are unknown to us). Whoever is curious may look at the old Theophrastus, book 3, chapter 2.

Serap. ea. 132.

Of the power and effect.

Mulberries have two properties, for when eaten ripe, they laxate and soften the hard belly; conversely, the dried, unripe mulberries constipate the same. They are chosen for food and medicine.

Galenus lib. 7. Simplic.

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