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 root drunke with wine is good for those that be bitten with Serpents, and it keepeth such [ A] 〈◊〉〈◊〉 being stung as haue drunk of it before: the leaues and seeds do the same, as Dioscorides writes. 〈◊〉〈◊〉 in his book of Treacles makes Vipers Buglosse to be one of those plants which cure the biting of serpents, and especially of the Viper, and that driue serpents away.

If it be drunke in wine or otherwise it causeth plenty of milke in womens brests. [ B]

The herbe chewed, and the iuyce swallowed downe, is a most singular remedie against poyson [ C] and the bitings of any venomous beast; and the root so chewed and layd vpon the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 workes the same effect.