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.

Whilest they are yet yong and tender they are eaten as other pot-herbes are; but whether they [ A] be eaten, or outwardly applied in manner of a pultesse, they do euidently coole: therefore they be good for all inflammations or hot swellings, if they be laid thereon.

Sow-thistle giuen in broth taketh away the gnawings of the stomacke proceeding of an hot [ B] cause; and increase milke in the breasts of Nurses, causing the children whom they nurse to haue a good colour: and of the same vertue is the broth if it be drunken.

The iuyce of these herbes doth coole and temper the heate of the fundament and priuy parts. [ C]