¶Dragancia feminea.
DRagancia feminea is an herbe called, dragons femall it hath leues like to yue but they haue white spectes & it hath a yelowe
A newe herball of Macer, translated out of Laten in to Englysshe.
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- A newe herball of Macer, translated out of Laten in to Englysshe.
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- [London :: Imprynted by me Robert Wyer, dwellynge in Saint Martyns paryshe, at the sygne of Saynt Johån Euangelyst, besyde Charynge Crosse],
- [1543?]
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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 newe herball of Macer, translated out of Laten in to Englysshe." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A03046.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 31, 2024.
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stalke the lenght of .ii. cubyttes other whyle as it were a croked stafe and lyke to a snake & she beryth her sede as it were a cluster of grapes, and when the sede is rype it is yelowe this her be groweth in darke places. ¶ The vertu ther¦of is that yf the sede be punyd with oyle & put to a mans eron it heleth the akynge of eron.* 1.1 Also the ioyce of this herbe with a lytyll wole put in to the nostryll clensyth the nose from al fylth.* 1.2 Also the more of this herbe punyd with white wyne & hōny,* 1.3 heleth all woundes & the canker therein. Also he frotyth his hande wel with the rote of this herbe he may take eddyrs without any peryll.* 1.4 Also the ioyce of this rote destroyeth the darkenes of the eyen yf they be anoynted therwith Also this herbe drōke with wyne styreth a man to lechery.
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* 1.1
Eres.
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* 1.2
Nose.
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* 1.3
woūde
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* 1.4
For so∣re iyen