Et primo de Pruna.
AL plumines be colde & moyste, some be whyte some be blacke & some be redde. They that be blacke and some what harde be the beste, they be called Damsons, and whan they be rype gather thē and slet them & sprynge
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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Uyneger vpon them, and so they may be kept•• in a vessell of woode a yere, and fyrste whan they be cu•• they must be layde in the sonne .xv dayes to dry, these Damsons haue vertue of coldnes and clensyng of the inwarde partes wherfore they be good in feuers that be sharpe & for costyfenes of the belye that cō∣meth of drynes or of Colorike hu∣mours dryenge, if it be newe gyue it hym to eat, if it be dry boyle it in water & gyue ye pacyente to drynke therof, thys is good for the Feuer tertian, for stoppynge of the lyuer, for the yaundes and sharpe feuers it soteth the bely, it is good for de∣faute of appetyte, and for many o∣ther deseases.