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.

The root boiled, or made into pouder and drunke, helpeth the bloudy flix, staieth the laske, and [ A] all other fluxes of bloud in man or woman.

It is reported, that the floures boiled in wine and drunke, do take away the fits of a quartaine a∣gue, [ B] and make the heart merrie.

The leaues and floures farre excell all other strowing herbes, for to decke vp houses, to straw in [ C] chambers, halls, and banqueting houses in the sommer time; for the smell thereof makes the heart merrie, delighteth the senses: neither doth it cause head-ache, or lothsomenesse to meat, as some other sweet smelling herbes do.

The distilled water of the floures dropped into the eies, taketh away the burning and itching [ D] thereof, and cleareth the sight.

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