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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¶ Fearne.

FEarne: wormes to kil, drink an ounce of powder of the rootes dissolued in wine. 2 Burnings, burne it and apply it with the white of an egge. Wounds, festers, and cankers, stampe them with their roots, & wash the griefes with the iuice, and apply the drosse. 3 Nosebleeding, the rootes staunch blood, and heale the wound. 4 Mother suffocat. seeth lo∣uage, hissop, wormwood, and Fearn leaues, & apply them to the na∣uil and shares. 5 Burnings, stampe the roots with cowes milke, & apply it. 6 Chop a basket ful of Fearn and seeth it in a bag in the third part of a tun of water, and bathe therin to restore the strength of the sinewes. 7 Milt paine, seethe the root in water and drinke it. 8 The root of male Fearne, called Osmund rosal half an ounce taken with honied water, killeth, and expelleth wormes. Milt stopt, seeth it in water and drinke it. 9 The leaues of both Fearns put into bedstraw, driueth away punises, & all other such worms. 10 Fearne is very dangerous for women with child. 11 Worms broad, drink foure ounces of the root of male Fearne with twelue graines of Diagridium, or twelue graines of blacke ellebore, but take garlick before it. 12 Wounds made with reede, drinke the root and also apply it. Wormes both round and broad, drink three drams of the roote of female Fearne. 13 Sores to skinne, apply

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powder of the roote, the same healeth the galling of the neckes of oxen. 14 Belly bound, seeth the young greene leaues with other worts, & vse them. 15 Burnings, apply the iuice of the roots with rose water, or cold water to heale it when all other things faile: it doth the like with water of cowes dung. 16 If a horse be sick, and it is not knowen whereof, put a portion of the roote vnder his tongue, and he shal by & by cast out his excrements both waies, and so rise and do wel. 17 Powder of the root is good for all moist vl∣cers both of man and beast. 18 The roote of the female maketh women barren. 19 The powder of brakes doeth heale dange∣rous sores both of men, kine, swine, &c.

  • Barren to be 18
  • Belly bound 14
  • Burnings 2. 5. 15
  • Cattell galled 13
  • Festers 2
  • Gnats 9
  • Horse sicke 16
  • Kanker 2
  • Milt paine 7. 8
  • Mother suffocat. 4
  • Nosebleeding 3
  • Purgation 10. 14
  • Sinewes griefes 6
  • Skinne off 13
  • Sores 13. 17. 19
  • Wormes 1. 8. 10. 12
  • Wounds 2. 12
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