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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Pencedanum vel Feni∣culus porcinus.
☞ This herb is call maysh Hog∣ges fenel or mayden wede thys her¦be is hote and drye in the .iii. degre whan thys herbe is gathered for medecynes the roote is better than the herbe whan the rotes be gathe∣red they may be kepte all a yere, it hath a purginge vertue, it is good for the strangulyō or the flyxe and good for stoppynge of the splene & the lyuer, boyle this herbe in wyne or water and gyue it to the paciēte to drynke. Also sethe it in oyle and wyne and playster it to the share &
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it wyll helpe the strangulion or the flix. Also the same playster is good for hardnes of the splen it molyfi∣eth that. Also agaynst the cold hu∣mours of the spyrytuall membres gyue hym to drynke water wt bar∣ly and thys herbe sodden to gyther and if it be a feruent cold humour than sethe the Barly and the herbe in wyne, and gyue it to the pacyēte to drynke with Lycoryce.
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