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 June 6, 2024.

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¶ Elme.

ELme: head skurfe, seethe the middle barke in water and wash therewith. 2 Burning or skalding, doe off the vppermost barke of yong Elme, and slice the greene barke, & steepe it in run∣ning water two or three houres till it become a ielly, and anoint with it often to haue speedy remedie, or cast on ye ashes of the rinde, it healeth them without skarres. 3 Eares dull, doe with it as with Ash. 4 The leaues falling before their time, doe foreshewe a death of cattell. 5 To mittigate all kindes of griefes, gather the water in the cods of the leaues, keepe it in a glasse close, sunne it twelue dayes and anoint therewith. 6 Skurfe or skales in the head, or browes, or bearde, anoint with the iuice of the leaues. 8 Fistula and canker, stampe the barke with wormewood and water, and apply it. 8 Burnings, seethe the rinde halfe a day in water, and gather the thicke creame on the water, and anoint therewith. 9 The leaues heale greene woundes being laide to, and so doeth the inner barke laide to. 10 The brothe of the leaues, barke, or roote, is good to bathe armes or legges in, that are broken or bruised, for it healeth broken bones speedely.

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11 Leapry and skurfe, stampe the leaues with vineger and ap∣ply them. 12 Drinke one ounce of the barke with wine or wa∣ter to expell colde flegme and loosen the belly. 13 The liquour in the leaues to cleanse the skinne, and beautifie it, and skowreth away all spots, freckles, pimples, and spreading tetters being laid to, and also healeth fresh and greene woundes being powred in. 14 The greene leaues stampt with vineger and anointed, hea∣leth the leapry effectually, and binde wounds together. The first greene leaues sodden are good pothearbes.

  • Ache 5
  • ...Belly bound
  • ...Bones broken
  • ...Bruises
  • Burnings 1. 2. 8
  • Cattell death 4
  • Eares dull 3
  • Fistula 7
  • Freckles 13
  • Head skurfe 1. 6
  • Kanker 7
  • Leapry 11. 13. 14
  • Pimples 13
  • Purgation 12
  • Skalding 2
  • Skinne deformed 13
  • Skurfe 6
  • Skabs 13
  • Tetters 13
  • Woundes 9. 11. 13. 14
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