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 May 2, 2024.
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Thys herbe is called Malow the vertue of it is good yf the lea∣ues be stamped and layd to a man¦nes stomake it wyll breake a hote postume in the begynnynge, or els medle thy herbe wyth fre••she swy∣nes grece and laye it on a hote tyle and lay it al hote to the postume & it shal rype it and breake it. Also it is good to destroye the hardenes of a mannes liuer and mylte. Also it wyll make a man laxatyue, and it is good for playsters, it is colde and moyste.