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 7, 2024.
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☞Pollipodium.
Thys is called pollipodye, it is hote in the .iiii. degre and dry in the seconde degre. Thys Pollypodye is ferne that groweth vpon Okes or on walles, or stones but the pol¦lypodye that growethe on okes is the best. Gather the rotes of it and lay it a day in the sonne, chose that is grene, and that which appereth dry whan it is broken it is to be re¦fused, he hath vertue of dissoluing of drawyng of purging flewme & specially melancoly, wherfore com¦munely he is put in boylynge and to sleumatyke and melancolyous hole men, he is gyuen to preserue theyr health, and knowe well that
in ye boylynge of pollypody shuld be put in some thynge to exclude & put out ventuosyte as Anyse sede fenell sede, or Comin or els al these a foresayd sedes for thei exclud out muche wynd and vnbynde the hu∣mours. Also for the E••tidian and for Ilica passio and to kepe a man¦nes helth, do thus stampe halfe an vnce of polypody or an vnce yf ye wyll haue it muche laxatyue, than boyle it with Prunes nnd vyolet∣tes in Fenell water or Anyse, in a great quantyte than strayne it and gyue it the pacyente at mornynge and euenynge. Also stāpe it & sethe it in water with Fenell sede and wt water, & make a broth wt a chekin therin with swet sauored spyces & gyue ye pacyēt to eate. Also make a drynk therof after this maner stāp it & boyle it ī wine & after put mor wyne therto and so make vp your drynke with swete sauored spyces
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