¶ Allgood.
ALlgood, or wilde Mercurie, taken in meates or brothes, doth soften the belly, and prouoketh to the stoole: the greene hearbe stampt and applied, healeth olde sores and greene wounds,
The garden of health conteyning the sundry rare and hidden vertues and properties of all kindes of simples and plants, together with the maner how they are to be vsed and applyed in medicine for the health of mans body, against diuers diseases and infirmities most common amongst men. Gathered by the long experience and industrie of William Langham, practitioner in phisicke.
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- The garden of health conteyning the sundry rare and hidden vertues and properties of all kindes of simples and plants, together with the maner how they are to be vsed and applyed in medicine for the health of mans body, against diuers diseases and infirmities most common amongst men. Gathered by the long experience and industrie of William Langham, practitioner in phisicke.
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- Langham, William.
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- Imprinted at London :: [By the deputies of Christopher Barker],
- 1579 [i.e. 1597]
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- Botany, Medical -- Early works to 1800.
- Materia medica -- Early works to 1800.
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"The garden of health conteyning the sundry rare and hidden vertues and properties of all kindes of simples and plants, together with the maner how they are to be vsed and applyed in medicine for the health of mans body, against diuers diseases and infirmities most common amongst men. Gathered by the long experience and industrie of William Langham, practitioner in phisicke." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A05054.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 23, 2024.
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and killeth and bringeth foorth wormes ingendred in the same. 2 The iuice of the roote with vineger killeth skabbes, and taketh away the filthie spots of the skinne. 3 The same is good against venemous bitings: for wormes in the eares and spots in the eyes, put in the iuice. 4 Face deformed, seethe the roote in water, and wash therewith, but beware it come not neere the eyes. Belly bound, (See Mallowes.) 5 To heale a kanker, stampe Mercury, and apply it: wartes to kill, rub them with the iuice of it. 6 Eies brused, apply the iuice with the white of an egge. (See Borage.) 7 Headskald, vse the iuice with other medicines. Wilde tetters, frie it with oyle Oliue and hard Sope, and anoint therewith.
- Belly bound 1
- Bitings venem. 3
- Bruses 6
- Eares wormes 3
- Eyes brused 6
- Face deformed 4
- Head skalde 7
- Kanker 5
- Skabs 2
- Skin cleansing 2
- Sores 1
- Spots 3
- Tetter 7
- Venime 3
- Wartes 5
- Wormes 1
- Woundes 1