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 1, 2024.

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Elleboras albus.

Thys Pellyter of spayne, or

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lunge worte. Thys herbe hathe le∣ues much like to pedelion, but thei be not so much slyt without and it hathe a flower as it were a Pars∣neb, hys vertue is if he be put into the nosethrylles of a man, it wyll make hym to nese. Also it healethe scabbe, the morphewe, and tetters. Also it purgethe a man of wycked coloures of the flewme, and of the Emerodes yf he be layd to ye place that is deseased. Also for the tothe ache it is good yf it be sodden in A sell and kepe it as hote as he maye suffer in hys mouthe and it good to purge a mannes stomake and wombe. Also the powder therof putte in grewell shal slee wormes and the ioyce medled wyth mylke sleeth flyes, it is hote and drye.

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