The herball or Generall historie of plantes. Gathered by Iohn Gerarde of London Master in Chirurgerie very much enlarged and amended by Thomas Iohnson citizen and apothecarye of London

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The herball or Generall historie of plantes. Gathered by Iohn Gerarde of London Master in Chirurgerie very much enlarged and amended by Thomas Iohnson citizen and apothecarye of London
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Gerard, John, 1545-1612.
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London :: Printed by Adam Islip Ioice Norton and Richard Whitakers,
anno 1633.
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Botany -- Pre-Linnean works -- Early works to 1800.
Botany, Medical -- Early works to 1800.
Gardens -- England -- Early works to 1800.
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¶ The vertues.

Camels Hay prouoketh vrine, moueth the termes, and breaketh winde about the stomacke. [ A]

It causeth aking and heauinesse of the head, Galen yeeldeth this reason thereof, because it hea∣teth [ B] moderately, and bindeth with tenuitie of parts.

According to Dioscorides, it dissolues, digests, and opens the passages of the veines. [ C]

The floures or chaffie tufts are profitable in drinke for them that pisse bloud anywayes: It is [ D] giuen in medicines that are ministred to cure the paines and griefes of the guts, stomacke, lungs, liuer, and reines, the fulnesse, loathsomenesse, and other defects of the stomacke, the dropsie, con∣uulsions, or shrinking of sinews, giuen in the quantitie of a dram, with a like quantitie of Pepper, for some few dayes.

The same boyled in wine helpeth the inflammation of the matrix, if the woman do sit ouer the [ E] fume thereof, and bathe her selfe often with it also.

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