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 May 2, 2024.
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Calamintum.
Thys herbe is called Calamint the vertue of this herbe is thus, it destroyeth a mānes talent, as ypo∣cras saieth, the be .iii. spyces ther∣of, one that is stonye, another that is of the erth, and the .iii. of the wa¦ter and all they be hote and dry, it that is wateri maketh a mā moist, it that is stony maketh a man hole yf ye drynke it, yf he haue dronke any venemous drynke, thys herbe made in a playster & lay it to a ve∣nemes wounde it draweth out ve∣nym soone. Also who so drinke the thys herbe .iii. dayes, it shall helpe hym of the yelowe euell. The o∣ther is erthly it is helpynge for le∣pery, the ioyce of thys herbe and
it be put into the eares of a man it wyll slee wormes in a mannes hed and comforteth the stomake, and helpeth to defy it, and it wythdra∣weth castynge.
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