The hope of health wherin is conteined a goodlie regimente of life: as medicine, good diet and the goodlie vertues of sonderie herbes, doen by Philip Moore.

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Title: The hope of health wherin is conteined a goodlie regimente of life: as medicine, good diet and the goodlie vertues of sonderie herbes, doen by Philip Moore.
Author: Moore, Philip, fl. 1564-1573.
Publication: Imprinted at London :: By Ihon Kyngston,; Maii. Anno salutis. M.D.lxiiii. [1564]
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Subject terms: Botany, Medical -- Early works to 1800.; Hygiene -- Early works to 1800.
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41. Sperage. Asparagus.

SPerage hath an abstersiue and scouring vertue,* 1.1 without any manifest heate or colde. This herbe nourisheth moste of all other herbes,* 1.2 also it doth prouoke vrine, openeth the obstructiōs of the liuer and the raynes, specially the rootes and see∣des of it.

Notes

* 1.1

Diosco. lib. ii, Cap. cxviii.

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* 1.2

Menses ciunt ve∣nerem stimulan•• Plinii.

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