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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¶ Flags.

FLags or yelow Flower de luce, or common Flags haue the na∣ture of the roots of Tormentill and Bistort, and being boyled in the water and drunke, it stoppeth the bloody fluxe, and all other fluxes of the belly and all bleeding and the flowers howsoeuer it be taken, yea, if it be vsed but outwardly in plaisters or bathes. 2 Teeth ache, put the iuice of the yelow Flag into the eare on the same side. 3 Freckles, seethe the roote of stinking segs in in Cowes milke, and vse it, (See Acorus, Flower de luce, Gladen.)

Bloody fluxe 1
Flowers to stop 1
Fluxes 1
Freckles 3
Teeth-ache 2
Whites 1
Reines running 1