A boke of the propreties of herbes called an herball wherunto is added the time [the] herbes, floures and sedes shold be gathered to be kept the whole yere, wyth the vertue of [the] herbes when they are stilled. Also a generall rule of all maner of herbes drawen out of an auncyent booke of phisyck by W.C.
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A boke of the propreties of herbes called an herball wherunto is added the time [the] herbes, floures and sedes shold be gathered to be kept the whole yere, wyth the vertue of [the] herbes when they are stilled. Also a generall rule of all maner of herbes drawen out of an auncyent booke of phisyck by W.C.
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[Imprynted at London :: In the Fletestrete at the sygne of the Rose Garland by me Wyllyam Copland for Iohn wyght,
[1552?]]
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Botany, Medical -- Early works to 1800.
Herbs -- Early works to 1800.
Materia medica -- Early works to 1800.
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"A boke of the propreties of herbes called an herball wherunto is added the time [the] herbes, floures and sedes shold be gathered to be kept the whole yere, wyth the vertue of [the] herbes when they are stilled. Also a generall rule of all maner of herbes drawen out of an auncyent booke of phisyck by W.C." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A03040.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 15, 2024.
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Lilium.
Thys is called the Lylie, ye ver∣tue of thys is yf it be stāped wyth talowe & oyle and a playster made therof and layde to a place there as the postume is, it shall rype it & make it to breke. Also take a great quantyte of the rotes and the sede of the Docke, & the more of Loua¦che and putte al these in wine, and oyle, the space of .ix. dayes and af∣terwarde sethe it and clense it, and do therto wexe and make therof an oyntment, and that is good to hele the sore & the hardnes of the mylte. Also ye ioyce therof is good to hele the venym of adders. Also laye the ioyce therof to a wounde that is
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bytten and it wyll hele it, also take the rotes and roste them and tem∣per them with oyle of Olyue, and laye it to a place that is brent, and it wyll heale it. Also this herbe is good for many other thynges and deseases yf it be dronken wyth ale, wyne or water. Also it healeth and comforteth muche a mannes sino∣wes. The vertue of thys herbe is in the Mores, and thys herbe is hote and drye.
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