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.

It healeth all outward and inward wounds of the brest, and the enterocele also, if for some reaso∣nable [ A] space of time it be put in drinkes, or boyled by itselfe.

These plants are of the nature and temperature of Primula veris, and are 〈◊〉〈◊〉 amongst the [ B] Sanicles by reason of their vertue.

Those that hunt in the Alps and high mountaines after Goats and Bucks, do as highly esteeme [ C] hereof as of Doronicum, by reason of the singular effects that it hath, but (as I said before) one espe∣cially, euen in that it preuenteth the losse of their best ioynts (I meane their neckes) if they take the roots hereof before they ascend the rocks or other high places.

‡ The root of Damasonium (according to Dioscorides) taken in the weight of one or two drams, [ D] helpeth such as haue deuoured the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 marinus or sea Hare, or haue been bitten by a Toad, or ta∣ken too great a quantitie of Opium.

It is also profitably drunke, either by it selfe, or with the like quantitie of Daucus seeds, against [ E] gripings in the belly, and the bloudy flux.

Also it is good against convulsions and the affects of the wombe. [ F]

The herbe stayes the fluxes of the belly, moues the courses, and applied in forme of a pultis as∣swageth [ G] oedematous tumors. ‡

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