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 leaues and barke of Withy or Willowes do stay the spitting of bloud, and all other fluxes [ A] of bloud whatsoeuer in man or woman, if the said leaues and barke be boiled in wine and drunke.

The greene boughes with the leaues may very well be brought into chambers and set about the [ B] beds of those that be sicke of feuers, for they do mightily coole the heate of the aire, which thing is a wonderfull refreshing to the sicke Patients.

The barke hath like vertues: Dioscorides writeth, that this being burnt to ashes, and steeped in [ C] vineger, takes away cornes and other like risings in the feet and toes: diuers, saith Galen, doe slit the barke whilest the Withy is in flouring, and gather a certain iuice, with which they vse to take away things that hinder the sight, and this is when they are constrained to vse a clensing medicine of thin and subtill parts.