Maces.
This spyce is hote & drye in the .ii. degre maces be ryndes or huskes
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 8, 2024.
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it groweth aboute the Nutmegge as ye rinde groweth about the Ha∣sel mutte, it maye be kepte .x. yere ī his vertue it is confortynge, dissol¦uynge, and consuminge, the know¦lege of fine maces is thus, it shuld be in coloure lyke to fyne golde or els like to golde, that syluer is gylt with, the whiche hath a sharpe ta∣lage with a bytternes, & it lokethe lyke to earthe, & it is to be refused, for it hath no sharpe sauour, for a colde stomake that maye nat defye nor degeste well, take maces and boyle them in wyne and drynke it, Also a good plaster the whyche is best for a feble stomake, make ••ou¦der of Mastyke and of maces and medele them with oile of roses and wexe and make a playster therof & lay it on the stomake of ye seke per∣son. Also to clense the braine of su∣perfluous humours, take a quan∣tyte of Maces and chewe thē well
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in thy mouth and holde them there a whyle, and that shal lose the fu∣mosite of humours that ryse vp to the braynes and purge the super∣fluite of it. Also for feblenes of the stomake & ye lyuer of a colde cause and for ye colyke, and for the desea∣ses of the spyrytuall membres, or flewme, boile maces in the ioyce of Fenell and in the ende of the boy∣lynge, put in a lytell wyne, than strayne it and drinke it for it is the beste remedy for the fore said desea¦ses. And for the ache of the herte, vse powder of maces in thy metes and drynkes.