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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¶Mastyke.
☞Thys gūm is hote & dry, in the secōde degre It is a gūme of a tree growinge in a parte of the countre of Grece in the latter ende of Uere the men of that countre slit the tre∣es and than make the grouude cle∣ne aboute and lay clothes rounde aboute the trees, or some other con∣ninge to kepe the gumme from the grounde in closynge of it, to know whiche is beste to take, the beste is whyte and clere, the whyt coloure is nexte the best & yt is medled with erth & sūwhat da••ke, y• beste masty¦ke he hath vertue of cōstraynīg, cō¦fortīg clēsīg & losing of humours descendynde fro the head aboue to the eyes and to the tethe, and for the deseses of the temples made of and ascendynge wynde fro the sto∣make
to the head. Take pouder of Mastike, wyth whyte swete wyne and the whyte of an egge & medle them wel togyther and ye wyll ye may put in frankensence and play¦ster it to the themples. Also sethe Mastike in water and drinke it & it wyll comforte well the stomake, and make good dygestyon, and it comforteth and relaxeth ye stomake and put to it Fenel sede, and it put¦teth out wynde out of the stomake Also a playster made of Mastyke and Bole Armoniake & the whyte of an egge and vyneger and lay it on the forke of the stomake or brest it wyll cōstrayne well the coloryke vanite. Also seth Mastike in rayn water and drynke it wt warme wa¦ter and thys medecyne is good for the Flux of ye wombe that cōmeth of a sharpe laxe that was taken be¦fore to stoppe hym. And boyle Mastyke in rayne water, or Rose∣water
with two or thre cloues and drynke it warme and that comfor∣teth the vomyte and ye Flux of the wombe that cōmeth of sharpenes and violence of the medecine. Also Mastike must haue but lytel boy∣lynge for hurtyng of his vertue & it shulde be gyuen warme, for it cō¦strayneth more whan that it is gi¦uen warme, Than whan it is ouer much hote.
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