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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Title: 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
Author: Gerard, John, 1545-1612.
Publication: London :: Printed by Adam Islip Ioice Norton and Richard Whitakers,; anno 1633.
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Subject terms: 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.

The decoction of Pylosella drunke doth cure and heale all wounds, both inward and outward: it [ A] eureth hernies, ruptures, or burstings.

The leauès dried and made into pouder, do profit much in healing of wounds, being strewed [ B] thereupon.

The decoction of the iuyce is of such excellencie, that if steele-edged tooles red hot be dren∣ched [ C] and cooled therein oftentimes, it maketh them so hard, that they will cut stone or iron, be they neuer so hard, without turning the edge or waxing dull.

This herbe being vsed in gargarismes cureth the loosenesse of the Vuula. [ D]

Being taken in drinke it healeth the fluxes of the wombe, as also the diseases called Dysenteria [ E] and Enterocele: it glueth and consoundeth wounds, stayeth the swelling of the spleene, and the bloudy excrements procured thereby.

The Apothecaries of the Low-countries make a syrrup of the iuyce of this herb, which they vse [ F] for the cough, consumption, and ptisicke. † 1.1

Notes

† 1.1

I haue in this chapter omitted two figures and one description: the first of the two omitted figures, which should haue beene the third, differs little from the first but in the smallnesse of the stalke, and fewnesse of the floures at the top thereof: the other, which was in the fourth place, was figured and described by me formerly in the fourth place of the 54 chapter of this booke.

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