Motherworte or Mugworte,
❧ Thys herbe in latyne is called Artemesia, and it is hote and drye in the .iii. degre, thys herbe helpeth a woman to cōceyue a chylde, and clen••ethe the mother and makethe a woman to haue her flowers and to
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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destroyeth the Emeroydes on this maner, Fyrste they muste be gathered, thē take pouder of Mo∣therworte and of Horehounde to gyther and strawe it on ye pappes. Also yf a childe be dead in the Mo¦thers wombe take Motherworte & stampe it small & make a playster therof and laye it to her wombe al cold, and with the grace of god she shall haue haue deliueraunce with out perell, It is good for the stone and the grauell in the raynes of a man or of a woman, yf a mon bere thys herbe vpon him there shal no venemous beste greue hym. It is good for the yelowe yaundes and yf it be dronken wyth wyne, for, it comforteth the stomake & makethe a man or woman to haue good co∣loure.