Near
the end of Act 5.3 in Macbeth, we
have him saying:
That should applaud again. Pull’t off, I say,
What
Rhubarb, Cyme, or what Purgative drug
Would
scour these English hence: hear’st thou
of them?
We
know that Bacon was fanatic about studying herbs as drugs. Was William of
Stratford also?
Bacon
wrote when listing purgative herbs:
“Astringents
purgative, which, having by their purgative or expulsive power
thrust out the humours, leave behind them astrictive virtue:
RHUBARB, especially
that which is toasted against the fire: myrobalanes, tartar, tamarinds, an
Indian fruit like green damascenes.”
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