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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Saluia.
Sage is hote in the fyrste de∣gre and drye in the seconde degre the leues onely be taken in medecy¦nes both grene and dry, he may be kepte a yere, there be two manners of Sages, the garden and ye wilde Sage, yf thou wilt haue Sage in for medecynes take ye leues of gar∣den Sage, for that cōsumeth more and comforteth more thā the other dothe. For the palsy, sethe the leues of sage ī wine & vse to drīke it. For the same sethe ye leues ī wine & plai¦ster it to ye greuaūce, also it is good
to put in sauce, for the strangury, ye flux, & the matrice it clenseth, sethe the leues in water & let the pacient set ouer it & receyue ye hote fume of it and it shall do hym much good. Also it is good for venym or poy∣son, sethe Sage in ale or wine and vse to drinke it .iii. dayes and thou shalt be hole, bi ye grace of god. for the stomake drynke ye ioyce of sage with water and honye, & it is good to clense a mannes bodye to vse it bothe rype and grene, it wyll make a mānes bodye clene, therfore who that vseth to eate of thys herbe, or drynke it, it is meruayle that anye inconuenyence shulde greue them that vse it, If ye haue an ytchinge on you, wasshe it wel wyth ye ioyce of this herbe & it shal slee ytchyng. Also drinke sage with wyne & a li∣tell worme wode and it shall cease the ache vnder the sydes, the wōbe and the stomake, it is good for the