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 16, 2024.

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et primo de nux muscata.

NUtmygge is hote & drye in the .ii. degre, ye best groweth in ynde and in the time of his ripinge, it is gathered and .vii. yeer it maye be kepte, they that be playne & heuye after theyr kynde be beste to be chosen. Also whan they be broken they fall nat to powder, but they haue a swete

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and sharpe sauoure, yf they lacke any of these aforesayd, they be nat good for medecynes, he hathe ver∣tue of comfortynge by his swete sa¦uoure, or coldnes and feblenes of degestyon of the stomake, take in the mornynge halfe a Nutmige or a hole Nutmegge and eate it. Also for a colde stomake that is feble of degestyon and for the lyuer gyue hym wyne that the Nutmegges is boyled in. Also for the same boyle Nutmegges, and Mastyke ī wine and drynke it, thys is good for the deseases in the stomake, and in the bowelles to breake in wynde. Also in the recoueryng of a syckenes to cōforte the spyrytual mēbres boile Nutmegges and mastike in wyne and drinke it. Also take a Nutmeg and smell to it, and it wyll cōforte the spyrytuall membres.

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