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.

Fig-wort is good against the hard kernells [ A] which the Grecians call 〈◊〉〈◊〉: the Latines, Strumas, and commonly Scrophulas, that is, the Kings Euill: and it is reported to be a remedy against those diseases whereof it tooke his name, as also the painefull piles and swelling of the haemorrhoides.

Diuers do rashly teach, that if it be hanged [ B] about the necke, or else carried about one, it keepeth a man in health.

Some do stampe the root with butter, and set it in a moist shadowie place fifteene dayes toge∣ther: [ C] then they do boyle it, straine it, and keepe it, wherewith they anoint the hard kernels, and the haemorrhoide veines, or the piles which are in the fundament, and that with good successe.