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.

¶ Dragons.

DRagons stampt with oile and put into the eyes, taketh a∣way their ache. 2 The root stampt with the root of a white Onion and hony healeth all wounds that the kanker hath bene ri∣sen in. 3 He that rubbeth his hands with the root in May, take adders, and they shall not venim him. 4 Eyes dull, anoynt with the iuice. 5 Lust to auoide, drinke the iuice with wine. 6 Bi∣ting of a Dogge or Adder, drinke Dragons, Rue and Betony. 7 Chollike, seethe it in wine or water, and drinke it. 8 Mouth griefs, apply the iuice. 9 Drinke the iuice against all venimous bitings, poison and venim. 10 The seed drunke, helpeth the sight. 11 Dragons bound to the priuity of a woman in labour, causeth present deliuerance, but take it away speedily lest the ma∣trix follow. 12 The root boiled or rosted, and mixt with hony, and licked, is good for the straitnesse of breath, dangerous coughs,

and catharres, conuulsions, and cramps, they consume grosse and tough humours, and scowre and clense the inner parts: they haue like power, being sodden three or foure times, till they haue lost their sharpnesse, and then eaten in meat. 13 The same dried and mixt with hony, scowreth malignant and fretting sores that are hard to cure, especially mixt with the root of Briony: and it ta∣keth away all white spottes and skurfe being rubbed therewith. 14 The iuice of the root putteth away all webs and spots of the eyes, and is good in eye medicines. 15 The same dropt into the eares with oile, taketh away their paine. 16 The fruit cureth malignant vlcers, and the polip in the nose, kankers, & malignant vlcers that consume. 17 The fresh leaues heale green wounds. 18 The leaues layde among cheese, keepeth it from perishing or rotting. 19 Some holde that he that carieth the leaues or roots about him, cannot be hurt of vipers & serpents. 20 New cheese wrapt in the dry leaues, will not molde nor putrifie. 21 With the roots & leaues are made oiles, ointments and plaisters excel∣lent good to heale vlcers, biles, fistulaes, pocks, kankers, fretting and consuming sores, and all such like. 22 The leaues with hony take away the spots of the face. 23 The leaues applied to veni∣mous bitings, draweth out the poison, and healeth the wound. 24 The root purgeth all the inner parts. 25 The water drunke with Venice treacle or mithridate, is good against the pestilence. 26 The sauour of the herbe is hurtfull to women newly concei∣ued. 27 The wine wherein it is sodden, healeth kibed heeles. 28 The herbe bruised with Planten, healeth a newe wound. 29 Apply the iuice with lint to the nolimetangere in the nose. 30 Kanker in the body, drinke nine peny weight of powder of the root with white wine three mornings warme. 31 Nose stinke, put in the iuice. 32 Eares ache, put in the seede with oile. 33 Head purging, put in the iuice with wooll into the nostrels. 34 Stingings, drinke it, and apply it.

• Adder 3. 6
• Biles 21
• Bitings venim. 6. 9. 19. 23. 34
• Breath straight 12
• Cheese to keepe 18. 20
• Chollike 7 Cough 12
• Catharr. 12
• Crampe 12
• Dog biting 6
• Deliuerance 11
• Eares paine 15. 32
• Eyes ache 1. dull 4. 10. 14
• ...

• Face spots 22
• Fistula 21
• Head purge 33
• Kanker 2. 16. 21. 30
• Kibes 27
• Lust to void 5
• Mouth griefs 8
• Nose nolimet. 29 polip 16
  • stincke 31
• Plague 25
• Poison 9. 19
• Purgat. 12. 21
• Pocks 24
• Rume 12
• Skin defor. 13. 22
• Skurfe 13
• Sores 13. 15. 21
• Stinging 34
• Venim 39. 19
• Vlcers 15. 21
• Wounds 2. 17. 23. 28