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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Title: 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.
Author: Langham, William.
Publication: Imprinted at London :: [By the deputies of Christopher Barker],; 1579 [i.e. 1597]
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Subject terms: Botany, Medical -- Early works to 1800.; Materia medica -- Early works to 1800.
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¶Fitches.

FItches are not vsed in medicine, but giuen to horses. 2 But parched and taken with hony, as much as a great nut at once fasting they are good for a consumption. 3 Apply the meale with wine to venemous bitings the place being first wel clensed. 4 Ap∣ply it with wine and hony to the swelling of the paps, and to spreading sores: it clenseth spots, as Lupines doeth, and may supply the want of Lupines, with vineger it helpeth the tenas∣mus, and is good for the stopping of the vrine. 5 They feede oxen and kine fat speedily. 6 Boyle them in wine wherein saf∣fron hath bene boyled, and stamp them & apply them to any bruse. 7 Eyes rupture in the tunicles, mixe the meale with Frankin∣cense and the white of an egge and apply it.

Bitings venemous 3
Breasts swollen 4
Bruses 6
Bursten 7
Cattell feeding 5
Consumption 2
Eyes hurt 7
Sores 4
Tenasmus 4