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
Author
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 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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A01622.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 29, 2025.
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¶ The Vertues.
The floures are of most force, which being drunke with wine are good against the bloudy flix, [ A] weakenesse of the stomacke, fluxes, and ouerflowings of moist humors.
They cure 〈◊〉〈◊〉 vlcers being applied in manner of a pultis: Dioscorides teacheth that they [ B] are a remedie for eating vlcers, called in Greek 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, being anointed therewith; and that they cure 〈◊〉〈◊〉, scaldings, and old vlcers.
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Hypocistis is much more binding: it is a sure remedie for all infirmities that come of fluxes, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 [ C] voiding of bloud, the whites, the laske, and the bloudy flix: but if it be requisit to strengthen that part which is ouerweakned with a superfluous moisture, it doth notably comfort and strengthen the same.
It is excellent to be mixed with somentations that serue for the stomacke and liuer. [ D]
It is put into the Treacle of Vipers, to the end it should comfort and strengthen weake 〈◊〉〈◊〉, [ E] as Galen writeth.
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