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 decoction of three leaued Grasse made with honie, and vsed in a clyster, is good against the [ A] frettings and paines of the guts, and driueth forth tough and slimie humours that cleaue vnto the guts.

The leaues boiled with a little barrowes grease, and vsed as a pultis, take away hot swellings and [ B] inflammations.

Oxen and other cattell do feed of the herbe, and also calues and young lambs. The floures are [ C] acceptable to Bees.

Pliny writeth, and setteth it downe for certaine, that the leaues hereof do tremble, and stand right [ D] vp against the comming of a storme or tempest.

The medow Trefoile (especially that with the blacke halfe Moon vpon the leafe) stamped with [ E] a little honie, takes away the pin and web in the eies, ceaseth the paine and inflammation thereof, if it be strained and dropped therein.