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 16, 2024.

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¶ Diagridium.

DIagridium, sixe grayns taken purgeth downe vehemently chollericke humours, and is good for the Iaundies, pluxi∣sie, frensie, hote feuers, and all griefes comming of heate. 2 Ap∣ply it with hony and oyle to dissolue all colde swellings, 3 And with vineger to heale all spreading scabs, & hardnesse of the skin. 4 Head ach old, apply it with oyle of Roses & vineger, put it into the matrix, to prouoke the termes, and expell the seconds & dead

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birth. 5 Take it with the pulpe of prunes, or with conserue of roses, or with masticke, and the iuice of quinces. 6 The best is shining and blacke. 7 There is good that is whitish, but much is sophisticated with the iuice of spurge Colophonie &c. 8 Cast the powder of it on a bruised mallowe roote, and put it into the Matrix to bring downe the flowers. 9 Costiuenesse, seethe a good quantitie in water, and seethe therein a capon and eate it and sup the broth. 10 Hecktike, drinke a litle of the powder with the decoction of Lycoras.

  • Belly bound 9
  • Consumption 10
  • Feuers hote 1
  • Flowers stopt 4. 8
  • Frensie 1
  • Headach 4
  • Hectike 10
  • Hote griefes 1
  • Iaundies 1
  • Plurisie 1
  • Purgation 1. 5. 9
  • Scabbes 3
  • Skin deformed 3
  • Swellings 1. 2
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