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.

¶ Aloes.

ALoes purgeth cold flegmatike and chollerik humours, espe∣cially from the stomacke, and is the chiefe of all purging me∣dicines which for the most part doe hurt the stomacke. 2 But this doeth comfort, clense, and dry vp and driue foorth all super∣fluous humours two drams thereof being taken with water, or with Cinnamom, Ginger, Maces, Cubebs, Galingale, Aniseeds, and such like spices, as asswage and take away paine from the sto∣macke, and cause flegme to be expulsed. 3 It is also good a∣gainst the Iaundies, spitting blood, and all other issues of blood except emerods. 4 The powder thereof strawed on new blood∣dy wounds, stoppeth blood, and healeth the wounds, and layd vp∣on old sores it closeth them vp, and is excellent against vlcers of the secret partes and fundament. 5 Boyled with wine and hony it healeth the outgrowings & rifes of the fundament, and stoppeth the abounding fluxe of the emerods being layd vpon them. 6 But receiued into the body, it causeth them to bleede and breake out: with hony it dispatcheth all dead blood of bruises. 7 It is good

against all inflamations, hurtes and skabs of the eyes, and the running and darknesse of the same. Mixt with oyle of Roses and Vineger, and layd to the forehead & temples, it swageth the head∣ach. Mixe it with wine, and rub the head often therewith to keepe the haire from falling. 8 Apply it with wine to the sores and pustules of the mouth, gums and throat, and the kernels vnder the tongue. 9 Apply it outwardly to stop bleeding of wounds, and to clense and heale them. Mixe powder of Aloes Cicatrine with iuice of Colworts, and make pils thereof as big as Beans, and take them to bedward three at once, to auoyd all paine of the head. 10 Temper it withoyle of Roses, to prouoke sleepe. Mixe it with Malmesey and apply it, to ioyne together againe the skin that co∣uereth the knop of boyes yards. 11 For agnayles cut them off and apply Aloes. For riftes and hard lumps of the fundiment ap∣ply Aloes. Eyes skabd, bleared & itch in the corners, vse Aloes, burne it in a burning hote vessell, and stirre it often with a feather till it be all alike rosted, and so it is a good medicine for sore eyes. 12 Mixe it with Dragons blood and Myrrhe, to heale stinking sores & old sores. With Myrrhe it keepeth dead bodies from pu∣trefaction & corruption. Mixt with y^e white of an egge it stoppeth bleeding both of the emerods & of any cut or wound. 13 It is euil for them that are of a hot nature, but good for them that are moyst and colde. 14 Aloes Cicatrine is the best being bright & brittle. A litle of it tempered with Rose water, and put into the eyes that are dropping and watry, cureth them. Mixed with Saffron and Myrrhe and made into pilles, it is the most excellent medicine against the plague. 15 With hony it taketh away the marks of stripes, and doeth clense sores and vlcers. It is not good to be ta∣ken in Winter but in the Spring and Haruest. 16 The waight of a French crowne mixt with Meed, and drunke in the mor∣ning doeth purge choller and flegme. The course Aloes is to be giuen halfe an ounce at once to Horses and great beastes tem∣pered with ale. Drinke a little Aloes with warme water to a∣uoyde vomiting. 17 For rubbing and itch by night, purge and bleed, and anoynt with Aloes and Myrrhe dissolued in water of Hony. For imposts of the yarde, and winde in the bottome of the belly, let blood, and anoynt with Aloes dissolued in wine: and for the winde foment with water of the decoction of Aristolochia

rotunda. 18 For the Feuer quarten take Aloes often, for losse of speech in sicknesse mixe it with water, and role it in thy mouth. 29 For swelling of the belly, mixe Myrrhe, Aloes Epatica and Saffron with the iuice of Beans and apply it, or take foure peny waight of Aloes Cicatrine, with faire water first sodden & sweet∣ned with Sugar. Apreseruatiue, take Aloes Cicatrine two oun∣ces, Saffron fiue drams, red Myrrhe foure drams, make them into powder, and take thereof three peny waight with one spoonefull of water of Scabious, & another of water of Worme∣wood before meate euery moneth once. 20 To draw an Eare∣wig out of the eare, put in powder of Aloes with vineger. 21 Mix powder of Aloes Cicatrine with white wine, and let it stand all night, then streine it, and put thereof into the eyes to destroy the pearle and webbe, apply it with hony to the griefes of the gums and the exulcerations of the yard. 22 Headach, temper two parts of Aloes with a third part of Mastik, and some iuice of Worme∣wood, and make pilles thereof as much as Peason, and take fiue or seuen of them to bedward. 23 Kanker, mixe powder of Aloes, quick Lime, and Orpiment, & vse it til the dead flesh be eaten out, and then temper Ceruse with oyle, & vse it til it be whole. Sores, temper Aloes with yolks of egs and apply it: it killeth worms, in the body. 24 Liuer and milt griefes, take Aloes Epatica, with the iuice of Smallage warme. 25 Wormes, take powder of A∣loes with hony, or mixe it with the iuice of Wormewood, & strike it on a red lether three fingers broad, and apply it to the nauill three dayes. 26 Warme as much Aloes Cicatrine on a kniues point as a Beane, make it into three pilles with a little Red rose water, and take it with the pap of an Apple and Sugar, and with∣in halfe an houre take a draught of possit ale to purge well: Head∣ach and watching vse powder of Aloes with oyle of Roses, or take three pilles as much as Beans made with the iuice of Colworts. 27 Eyes dim and bloodshotten, apply Aloes with the white of an egge: Eyes itch put in Aloes with Fennel water being kept in a latin bason fifteene dayes. 28 Eyes ach and bloody, apply Aloes with a little Opium and womans milk that suckleth a boy: Sto∣mack griefes vse Aloes: Belly bound mixe Salgem Aloes; the gaule of a Bull and oyle together, and anoynt the fundament to haue present helpe. 29 Conception to cause, sit ouer the fume of

Aloes: Drinke Aloes Epatica with Sage and Sugar, to re∣store the liuer. Wormes to kill rost a peny waight in an Apple, and eate it fasting three mornings, or vse the powder thereof with Myrrhe. 30 A powder incarnatiue to be cast into wounds, take Myrrhe three drams, Aloes foure drams, Frankincense two drams and vse it, for the hicket and lothing Aloes helpeth the sto∣mack aboue all other things: Scab of salt flegme anoynt with Aloes, vnquenched Lime and common oyle. 31 Wormes to kill apply a plaster of Aloes and Fenigreke on leather to thy nauill, fundament sores vse Aloes: Stomack to clense and to kil worms, take one dram of Aloes Cicatrine with hony. 32 Wounds to heale vse pouder of Aloes Sarcocol, & Sāguis Draconis. Worms to kill, make pilles of Aloes and powder of Wormwood, and role them in butter, and swallow them downe: Fundament fallen, cast on powder of Myrrhe, Aloes, Gaules, and Frankincense of each like much. 33 Eares deafe put a little Aloes into hote water, or white wine, and drop it in and prouoke sneesing with powder of Euphorbium: Cholick, apply a plaster of warmed hony & Aloes. 34 Lice, Crablice, and Wormes to kill, anoynt with Aloes and Rose water. Priuities vlcers, and to incarnate fresh wounds, vse Aloes with burned Dill: Eyes dull and watring, put in Aloes with Rose water. 35 Wormes, stamp Aloes with Bitter Al∣monds, and apply them to the nauill, or apply it with Hony and vi∣neger, or Hony and an Oxe gall. The iuice of Broome with oyle and Aloes killeth lice: Stomack paine, take euery day two scru∣ples of pilles of Aloes washed, 36 Or take Aloes washed halfe an ounce, Hony Rosat, three ounces, seethe them in two pound of water to the one halfe, and streine it, and drinke thereof euery morning two ounces: Eyes teares and itch, steep Aloes epat. in Wine and Rose water, and wash or foment therewith. 37 Yard apostumed, anoynt with Aloes dissolued in Wine. Crablice to kill, mix powder of Aloes Ceruse with oyle of Roses or Swines greece, and anoynt. 38 Head whirling noyse, and paine of the eyes, take pils made with Aloes halfe an ounce, Mastik x. grains, as much as a small Beane, and take euery night fiue of them: Eies web, temper pouder of Aloes Cicat. with White wine, and let it stand all night, and in the morning streine it and put it into the eye. 39 Headach great and heauie, mixe powder of Aloes,

Olibanum, Mastik Ana, with vineger and whites of egs, and ap∣ply it with stuphes to the temples. 40 Liuer and milt stopt, take as much Aloes as a Beane euery other day with y^e iuice of Smal∣lage and some Mastik or gum Arabik, or Aniseeds. 41 Swel∣ling of blood letting, apply Aloes with yolks of egs with vineger, it killeth scab and itch: with iuice of Burre, being taken inward, it helpeth the Gout: Eares noyse, drop in a litle Aloes with warm water, and prouoke sneesing with Euphorbium. 42 Wormes boyle Aloes with Coloquintida and butter, and streine it, and anoynt the stomack and belly therewith against the fire, or apply Aloes with the iuice of Wormewood, or red lether to the nauill, or drinke powder of Aloes and Myrrhe, or of Aloes, Myrrhe, and Brimstone. 43 Face Saseflegme, mixe the iuice of Worme∣wood, & Red Docks with Aloes and anoynt. 44 Eares worms, put in the iuice of Wormewood and Horsemint with vine∣ger and Aloes. Belly bound anoynt with the gall of a Bull or Oxe, Aloes, Salt, and oyle Oliue by the fire. 45 Blood to stop, mixe Aloes with Mastik, Hares haire, and the white of an egge, and apply it: Purgation, mixe one ounce of Aloes, with one dram of Turpentine, the gall of a Bul or Oxe, 46 and anoint the brest to purge vpward, and the nauill to purge downeward, and three fingers lower to prouoke menstrewes.

• Agnayles 11
• Belly bound 28. 44. swolne 19. (see P.)
• Blood to stop 4. 9. 13. 45
• Bloody fluxe 3
• Bruses 6
• Chollik 18. 33
• Conception 29
• Crablice 34. 37
• Eares dull, 33. noyse, 38. 41. wormes 44
• Eyes dull, 27. 34. ache, 27. bloody, 27. itch, 27. 36. pearle 21. running, 14. 43. 36. web 38
• Emerods 5. 13
• Face sausflegme 43
• Feuer quarten 18
• Fundament fallen 32. rifts 5. sores 31
• Goute 41
• Headach, 7. 9. 22. 26. 39. (see Purge.) noyse 38
• Haire falling 8
• Hicket 30
• Horses 16
• Iaundies 3
• Inflamations 7
• Itch 41. (see Scab.)
• Kanker 23
• Kernels 8
• Lice 34. 35
• Liuer griefes 25. 29. 40
• ...

• Lothing 30
• Milt griefes 24. 40
• Mouth sores 8. 21
• Palsey 18
• Plague 14. 20
• Preseruatiue 20
• Priuities sores 34
• Purgation 1. 2. 9. 16. 19. 26. 36. 38. 39. 40. 44. 45. 46
• Scabs 7. 30. 41
• Sleepe to cause 10. 26
• Sores 4. 12. 15. 23. 34. olde 4. 12. 15
• Speech lost 18
• Spitting blood 3
• Stomake griefes 28. 30. 35
• Swellings 40
• Throte sores 8
• Vomiting 16
• Wormes 24. 29. 31. 35. 42
• Wounds 4. 9. 13. 30. 32. 34
• Yard griefes 10. 17. 21. 34. 37