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.

¶ Figs.

FIgs newe gathered, nourish more then other fruites, but they breede wind & loosen y^e belly gently, abate heate, quench thirst, but taken of too much, they hurt the stomacke, and make it weake, and without appetite. 2 Dry Figs nourish better then greene and new, yet they breede no good blood, for they that eate them much, become lowsie and full of vermine. 3 Figs eaten before meate loosen the belly, are good for the kidneis, and driue foorth grauell with the vrine. 4 They prouoke sweate, and thereby expell stin∣king humors, and therefore are good for yong children for the small pockes, measels, and wheales, to bring them foorth speedely without perill. 5 They are good for the throte and lungs, the cough, shortnesse of breath to voide flegme &c. whether they be taken rawe, or rosted, or sodden with hysope and drunke. 6 Brui∣sed inwarde, seethe them in water, and drinke it to mitigate the paine. Stampe them with salt, rue, and nuts, and vse it to with∣stand all poyson, venome, and corrupt ayre. 7 For hoarsenesse, sharpenesse of the throte, all swellings, and impostumes of the mouth, throte almons, iawes, and swellings of the tongue, gar∣garise, with the decoction of Figs, or holde it in the mouth. 8 For ache of the teeth and iawes, holde Figs in thy mouth. 9 Apply them with wheaten meale to soften and ripen impostumes and an∣gry swellings behind the eares, especially with Linseede and Fe∣negreeke put thereto, but the rootes of Lilies put thereto, ripeth and breaketh impostumes and botches: with Barley meale, they scatter and consume swellings. 10 Sodden in wormewood wine with Barley meale, and applied to the belly they are good for the dropsie. 11 Stampe them finely with Mustarseede, to helpe the ringing noyse and sound of the eares, and mend the hea∣ring, being applied outwardly. 12 Dryed Figs soften, consume and make subtill, and may bee very well vsed both inwardly and outwardly to ripen and soften impostumes, and dissolue them. 13 Kings euill, swelling, kernels in the throte, and all other tumours, stampe the leaues finely, and applye them. 14 The milkie iuice helpeth all deformities of the skinne, Leapries, spreading sores, Tetters, small Pockes, Mesels, Pushes, Freckles, Lentiles, and such like scurfe and spottes of

the body and face being laide to with parched Barlie meale, and with fat or grease, it taketh away Wartes, it cureth the toothe∣ache, being applied with Bombase or Cotten, or a little pel∣let made thereof, and put into the hollowe toothe. It ope∣neth the veines of the Emerodes, and looseth the bellye be∣ing applied to the fundament, and so doe the leaues if they be put into the fundament. 15 It is good to bee applied with meale of Fenigreke and Vineger vpon the hote goute, espe∣cially of the feete. The same iuice is good to be put into all venemous bitings of Serpents and madde dogges. 16 The same turneth milke, and causeth it to curde. 17 The ashes of a Figge-tree mixt with oyle and waxe cureth burnings. 18 And lee made with ashes of the Figge, healeth scuruinesse and festered foule fretting sores being washed therewith. Dod. 19 Head scurfe, stampe the leaues and branches, and streine them with water and a litle vineger, & anoint therewith. 20 Roste iii. Figs, and seethe them in a cup of Beere with some bruised Licoras, and Aniseedes, & keepe it warme by y^e fire, and drinke thereof warme to bedward and eate the Figs, and so it helpeth the cough in three nights. 21 A little of the wood of the tree put into a pot, maketh the meate to be soone sodden. 22 Stampe a handfull of Figs, till the kernels be broken, and temper them with a litle fresh grease, and apply it to a sore breast as hote as the woman may suffer to a∣uoide the swelling and paine. 23 Rub warts with Figtree leaues and bury them, and the warts will goe away. 24 Seethe Figs in wine with hysope & streine it, and drinke it to helpe the griefes of the throte, lungs, and olde rotten coughs. 25 Figs be good against melancholie and the falling sicknesse. Stampe them with shooma∣kers waxe to heale vlcers. 26 Figs will ripen hard apostumes and the plague sore. 27 They are good against reumes and flowings of the belly. 28 They are very good for the throte, winde-pipe, kidneis and bladder, for them that be ill coloured with long sickenesse, shortnesse of breath, the dropsie, and the falling sicke∣nesse. 29 Stampe them with snailes, swines grease, and beane flowre, and apply it to a swolne throte to ripen it, and helpe the squincie. 30 Figs in meate, cleanse the blood. 31 The same made warme and drunke with hysope, purge the breast, & are good for the cough, the belly, & olde diseases of the lungs. 32 Figs eaten

with Niter & Saffron soften the belly. 33 Sodden with Rue, they are good in glisters against the gnawing of y^e belly. 34 Sod∣den and applied, they driue away hardnesse, and so soften the swel∣ling behinde the eares and other swellings. With the shell of a Pomegranate they purge away agnayles, and such angry swel∣lings. 35 With Coprose they heale running issues of the legge, which are almost vncurable. 36 Sodden with wine, worme wood romane, and barley meale and applied to the belly, they are good for the dropsie. 37 Burnt Figs applied with a plaster of waxe, are good for kibed heeles and itchings. 38 The milkie iuice bro∣ken with an Almond and drunke, openeth the mother. The same laid to with the yolke of an Eg, draweth downe the termes. 29 It scowreth away lepries, freckles, skurffe, and deformities of the face, and skabs, and running sores of the head laide to with barley meale. 40 Figs stampt with leuin and salt, soften plague sores and other vlcers & apostumes and breaketh them. 41 A Fig tied to a Bull, will make him tame though he be neuer so wilde. 42 Figs are best eaten fasting with nuts or almonds, & so they clense y^e brest and lungs. 43 And eaten fasting with powder of ginger, pepper, time, or peniroyal long before meate, they are good against oppila∣tions of the liuer & milt, congealed matter in the body, distillations or reume falling into y^e brest & stomacke, they clense the reines and make y^e body soluble. 44 Steepe ii. or iii. Figs al night in aqua vitae and eate them in y^e morning against shortnesse of wind & the cough. 45 Seeth Figs in water & a litle vineger, & stampe them and apply them to the swines euil, kernels, & swellings in the throte. 46 A∣postume, stampe iii. Figs with oyle, & apply it. 47 Yard swolne, ap∣ply a plaster of iiii. Figs, wheate meale, & oile Oliue. 48 Poyson to withstand, eate euery day xx. leaues of Rue with iii. Figs, & a little salt to be safe that day. 49 Seethe halfe a pound of Figs with one handfull of hysope, & one sponeful of hony in a pottel of white wine to the one halfe, and drinke ii. or iii. sponefull first & last to helpe the reume & the cough. 50 Chollike, grinde Figs with mustardseede and fenigreeke, and apply it cold: proued. 51 Mithridates medice against y^e plague, mixe xx. leaues of rue with ii. Figs & ii. walnuts, and a litle salt, & eate it & be sure from venom that day. 52 Cough, roste iii. Figs, and put them in a cup of Beere with a litle powder of Licoras & Aniseedes, and eate them & drinke the drinke warme

to bedward iiii. nights. 53 Shoulder ache, grinde Figs & reasins of the sunne in a querne with mustardseede, of each like much with strong vineger, and apply it with a lambes skin. 54 Stampe the fresh branches and seethe them with vineger, & stampe them well, and apply them to the mentagra or lychen, which is a foule brea∣king out of the face, with a scab beginning at the chin. 55 Liuer stopt, eate drie Figs with Pepper amongst thy meates, or els the seedes of Cuscuta preserued with fine sugar. For the ptysike, olde catharre, the cough, and other griefes of the lunges, boyle one handful of hysope with iiii. Figs, & some reasins in water, and a litle hony, and drinke thereof a glasse full fasting. 56 Tongue palsie, mixe one dram of the pulp with vi. graines of Euphorbium, and hold as much as a beane vnder thy tongue, & spit often. Breast stopt with cold, seeth Figs with bruised mustard seede in wine, and drinke it luke warme. 57 Bitings venemous, stampe them with rue and nuts, and apply it to all venom. 58 Bones broken, seeth Figs and poppy seedes in water & apply it. 59 Cods swolne, seeth Figs in wine and apply them. 60 Side impost. stampe them with oyle or greace & apply them. 61 Make tents of the rindes of olde Figs, and put them into fistulaes, and lay a Fig plasterwise aboue on it. 62 Flegme or reume in the stomacke, stampe radish rootes with drie Figs, and a litle hony, and boyle it into an electuarie and vse it. 63 Cough of outward cause, take a dishfull of beaten Barley, iiii. ounces of reasins, and xii. Figs washed in warme water, seethe them in a newe pot with iiii. quartes of water, one hower, then streine it & seethe it againe with vi. ounces of sugar, but let it boyle but once, and coole it and drinke it morning and euening, to soften and cleanse the breast: if it waxe too thicke, put more water to it. 64 Cough & impostume, eate rosted Figs with powder of Nep. Loynes apostumed, stampe barley meale iiii. oun∣ces, Figs ii. ounces, the iuice of mallowes vi. ounces, and apply it with a sponge or cloth. 65 To open the pipes, & cleare the voice, rost powder of hysope in Figs, and eate euery day one. 66 Hoarse∣nesse, stampe Figs, and seethe them in wine or ale, and drinke it. 67 Straitnesse of the breast & stomacke, seeth fat Figs well stam∣ped in wine, with some bruised mustardseedes, & drinke it warme to bedward, or seeth fat Figs with hysope and lycoras, with barley in water, and drinke it. 68 Apost. apply a plaster of Dwale and

Figs or reasins. 69 Reines impostumed, vse Oximel with the decoction of reasins and mayden haire. 70 Apostume to breake, stampe hony and fat Figs with swines grease, and apply it as the best medicine. 71 Emerods to prouoke, rub Fig leaues first in thy hands, and then vpon the veines of the fundament, and then binde them to it. 72 Hoarsenesse, rost sugar in Figs on the coles, and eate them hote. 73 Breast to purge, seethe Figs and hony in white wine, and drinke it. 74 Cough, fill a drie Figge with the seedes of Tansy, and seethe them in white wine with one ounce of lycoras with a soft fyre to the one halfe, and drinke thereof euery night. 75 Impost. stampe Figs with fresh grease, and apply them hote to the side or griefe, and drinke y^e iuice of Feuerfue. 76 Sto∣make colde griefes, seethe hysope, Figs, & hony together and vse it. 77 Chollike, stampe Figs with mustardseede & vineger, and apply it colde. 78 Cough, seethe x. good Figs in a quart of white wine with lycoras, any seedes, and sugar candie, of eache like much to the one halfe, and drinke iii. or iiii. spoonefull morning and eue∣ning. 79 Apost. to ripen, stampe fat Figs with swines grease, and frye them together, and apply it. 80 Squincie, gargarise with the decoction of dryed Figs, and a dogs dung to open the apostume, or put mustard seede into Figs, and eate them at night to dissolue the grosse humors, and to open the lights, and helpe the breathing. 81 For stopping of the liuer, shortnesse of breath, and spitting of blood, seethe drie Figs in white or claret wine with mustard, and drinke it euery night, first eating the figs, and then drinking the wine. 82 Plurisy, stampe dry Figs with suet, or oile and gumme, and apply it. 83 Laske to stop, drinke ashes of Figtree branches with water. 84 Swelling about the yard, mixe Figs with wheate flowre and oyle, and apply it. 85 The ashes of an olde Figtree causeth sweate. 86 To cause deliuerance of a dead child, take the white iuice of Figs, or powder of Dittanie with water in an ague, but with wine without an ague. 87 Goute, stampe a litle bread, drie Figs, hony & vineger together, and binde it to. 88 For paine∣full pushes on the legs, stampe drie Figs with flowers of Iuie, and apply it. 89 Warts apply the milke of Figs.

• Ache 53 (see the place.)
• Ayre euill 6
• Agnailes 34
• Apost. 9. 12. 25. 26. 40. 45 46. 68. 70. 75. 79. 80
• Backe-ache 43. 64. 69
• ...

• Belly-ache 33
  • bound 13. 14 32. 43
• Bitings venemous 15. 57
• Bladder griefes 28
• Blood clensing 30
• Bones broken 58
• Botch 9 (see apostume)
• Breastes sore 22
• Breast griefes 5. 31. 42. 43. 56 63. 65. 67. 73. 81
• Breath short 28. 44. 81
• Bruised 6
• Bull wilde 41
• Burnings 17
• Chollike 50. 77
• Consumption 55
• Cods swolne 59
• Cough 20. 24. 31. 44. 49. 52 63. 64. 74. 78.
• Colour bad 28
• Dead childe 86
• Deliuerance 86
• Dropsie 10. 28. 36
• Eares dull 11
• Emerods 14. 71
• Face deformed 14. 39. 54
• Falling euill 25. 28
• Feete goute 15
• Fistula 61
• Flegme 62
• Flowers stopt 38
• Fluxe 83
• Freckles 14. 39
• Goute 15. 87
• Head skurfe 19. 39
• Hoarsenesse 7. 66. 65. 72
• Impost. 12. 60. 75
• Itche 37
• Kernels 13. 45
• Kibes 37
• Kings euill 13. 45
• Kidneys impostume 69 griefes 28
• Laske to stop 43
• Leapry 14. 39
• Leg sores 35. 88
• Liuer stopt 43. 55. 81
• Lowsinesse 2
• Lungs griefes 5. 20. 34. 31 42. 43. 56. 65. 73. 81
• Loynes griefes 64
• Mad dog 15
• Meate to seethe 21
• Mesels 4. 14
• Melancholy 25
• Milke to curd 16
• Milt stopt 43
• Mother stopt 38
• Mouth griefes 7
• Necke apostume 9. 34
• Obstructions 43
• Palsey 56
• Plague 48. 51
• Plague sore 26
• Plurisie 82
• Pockes 4. 14
• Poyson 6. 48
• Ptisike 55
• Pushes 14
• Reume 27. 49. 62
• Shoulders ache 53
• Sicknesse generall 43
• Skabs 14. 18. 35. 39. 54
• Skin deformed 14. 39. 54
• Skurfe 18. 39 (see head)
• Side impostume 60
• ...

• Speech lost 56. (see palsie, Tongue.)
• Spetting blood 81
• Squincy 29. 80
• Sores 14. 18. 26. 25. 40.
• Stomack colde griefes 76. reume 62. stopt 67.
• Swellings 7. 13. 22. 29. 34. 40. 45. 47. 84.
• Sweat to cause 85
• Swines euil 45
• Teeth-ache 8. 14
• Tetters 14. 39
• Thirst 1
• Throat griefes 5. 7. 13. 24. 28. 29. 34. 44. 80.
• Tongue palsie 56
• Venim 6. (see Poyson, Bit.)
• Vlcers 40
• Voyce bad 65. (see Hoarse.)
• Warts 23. 34. 89
• Wheales 4
• Yard swollen 47. 84