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 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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A01622.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 27, 2025.
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¶ The Vertues.
The root taken in the quantitie of two drams is good for them that be bursten, or spit bloud; [ A] against the crampe and shrinking of sinewes, the shortnesse of wind or difficultie of breathing, the cough and gripings of the belly.
There is not any part of the herbe but it rather worketh miracles than ordinarie cures in greene [ B] wounds; for it ioyneth together the lips of simple wounds in the flesh, according to the first inten∣tention, that is, glewing the lips together, not drawing to the place any matter at all.
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The root of this Plant (saith Dioscorides) is a remedie for ruptures, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, and cramps, ta∣ken [ A] in the weight of two drams, to be giuen with wine to those that are without a feuer, and vnto those that haue, with water.
Galen saith, that the iuyce of the leaues thereof performeth those things that the root doth; [ B] which is also vsed in stead of Lycium, a kinde of hard iuyce of a sharpe taste.
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