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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¶ Filipendula.

FIlipendula: strangury, drinke it with good white wine. Pti∣sicke, seethe it in white wine and vse it. 2 Shortnesse and straitnes of breath of cold cause, vse powder of it and Gentian in brothes and drinks. 3 Chollicke passion, seethe it with Fiue-leafe and Time and apply it. 4 Iaundies, drinke powder of it with other medicines. 5 The knots that hang by the roots vsed in powder, are good for fistulaes and hollow sores both inward and outward. 6 Emerods, anoynt with eeles grease and cast on powder of the rootes. 7 Poyson to auoyd, stamp the herbe and root in the end of May and distill it, and drinke sixe ounces at a time: it helpeth also the plague. 8 It breaketh winde about the liuer and milt, and destroyeth the stone. 9 The roote boyled in wine and drunke, helpeth the dropsie, strangury, paine of the blad∣der, stopping of the vrine and the stone. 10 Drinke the powder thereof with Fennel seede against all colde and windy griefes. 11 Vse powder of the root often with meates against the falling sicknesse. 12 The leaues and seeds sodden with wine and hony and drunk, bringeth downe the seconds, helpeth the dropping and stopping of vrine, the strangury, and griefes of the bladder and Iaundies, and so doeth the root sodden in wine. 13 The pow∣der of the root licked in with hony, helpeth the cough, yexing, and shortnesse of winde. 14 The powder drunke with wine is good for the falling sicknesse and the Iaundies. 15 Vse it in brothes

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for ache of the backe and kidneys, windynesse of the stomacke, the stone, strangury and stopping of the vrine.

  • Bachache 15
  • Bellyache 8. 12
  • Bladder griefe 9. 12
  • Breath short 2. 13
  • Chollick 3
  • Colde griefes 10
  • Cough 13
  • Dropsie 9
  • Emerods 6
  • Falling euill 11. 14
  • Fistula 5
  • Flowers stopt 12
  • Hicket 13
  • Iaundies 4. 12. 14
  • Poyson 7
  • Ptisick 1
  • Sores 5
  • ...Stomack (see Windinesse.)
  • Stone 8. 9. 15
  • Strangury 1. 9. 12. 15
  • Vrine stopt 9. 12. 15
  • Windinesse 8. 10. 15

Fillbeards (See Nuts, Hasill.)

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