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.

¶ Flower de luce.

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stampe them and drinke them with water, and couer thee well to sweate. 41 Flowers stopt, make a pessary of the roote, and an∣oynt it ouer with oile de bay, or common oile, and cast theron pow∣der of walwoort, and put it in all night till it prouoke it to bleede. 42 Prickes or bones to drawe out, stampe the roote and applie it. 43 Bruises, drinke the roote. 44 It healeth ache of the si∣newes. 45 Drinke it with ale or wine to cleanse the brest from euill humours, and to helpe the cough. 46 It helpeth crampes, and venemous bytings, it expelleth a dead childe. 47 Drinke the iuice of it and morell, of eche one egge shell full clarified, and sweetned with sugar to heale all dropsies that bee curable both hote and colde, but some take the iuice of Iris one day, and the iuice of morell another day: for Iris looseth, and morell prouo∣keth vrine: proued. 38 Take an egge shell full of the iuice of the roote rawe, to purge flegme, and watrish humours from all partes of the bodie. 49 And with the iuice of time it is good for ache, and swelling in the head, stomacke, and legges, and bowels, and winde in them: you may put to it a little sugar, or honie, and cloues, or a litle aqua vitae. 50 Mixe the iuice of the flowers with gumme water, and it will bee perfect and durable, blewe or greene. 51 Cough to heale speedily, vse cawdles with the pow∣der of. 52 Cattell hidebound, giue them the iuice of the leaues. 53 Dropsie ascites, mixe halfe an egge shell full of the iuice with foure ounces of mellicrate and halfe a dramme of powder of the best rubarb, and drinke it hote in the morning once a weeke: it is wonderfull. 54 Ache in the loynes or haunches, stamp the roots with brimstone, and beares greace, and applie it. 55 Aches ge∣nerall, stampe the roote with the oyle of it and honie, and applie it. 56 Haire falling, mixe the powder with as much soote of a chimney, and temper them with olde oyle, and anoynt. 57 Fistu∣la to heale, stampe one ounce of the roote with verderam, and oile of tartar, of eche a dramme, and apply it to the sore. 58 Sting∣ings of serpents, apply powder of the vpper partes with wine. 59 Apostumes vnder the eare, boile the root and stamp it with salt, & ayply it to dissolue it. 60 Belly torments, drinke a dram of the powder with sowre wine. 61 Belly bound, drinke the iuice with the yolke of an egge as hote as may be suffered. 62 Milt griefs, drinke it with wine. 63 Flowers stopt in a newe layde woman,

and to bring downe the seconds, stampe the rootes, and boyle them long in vineger, and receiue vp the fume thereof through a narrowe mouthed glasse, or other vessell. 64 Skinne to clense, washe with the powder in water. 65 Costiuenesse, drinke the powder with any liquor.

• Aches 1. 54. 55
• Apostumes 6. 59
• Armepits stinke 5
• Abortion to cause 19. 20
• Backach 54. 55
  • weake 12
• Belly ach 14. 49. 60
  • bound 30. 61. 65 See Dropsie purg.
• Bitings venimous 15. 46. 58
• Bladder griefes 32
• Blisters 25
• Bones broken 25. 42
• Brests cleansing 12. 30. 32. 37. 45. See Cough.
• Breath stinke 4 See Brest.
• Bruises 43
• Cattell hidebound 52
• Chollicke 49
• Cough 1. 30. 32. 37. 45. 51
• Crampe 1. 24. 46
• Colour to make 50
• Dead childe 46
• Deliuerance 19. 20. 21
• Drinke to keepe 18
• Dropsie 10. 31. 36. 47. 53
• Eyes teares 1
• Face deformed 9. 38
• Feuers 1. 13. 14
• Fistula 16. 27. 57
• Flowers stopt 2. 14. 19. 39. 41. 63
• Fundament griefes 25 See Priuities
• Gomorpassion 1. 11. 14
• Gummes rotten 27
• Hardnesse 6. 17
• Headach 8. 49
  • cleansing 3
• Haire to growe 39. 56
• Iaundies 13. 33. 40
• Impostume 30
• Ioynts griefes 24
• Kankers 16
• Kernels 17. 59
• Liuer griefes 32
• Loynes griefes 2
• Lungs griefes 32
• Matrix griefes 2. 17.
• Milt griefes 1. 14. 23. 62
• Nailes apostume 25
• Necke apostume 59
• Poyson 15. 34
• Prickes 25 42
• Priuities griefes 16. 17. 25
• Purgation 1. 10. 13. 19. 47. 36. 48. 49
• Reines running. 1. 11. 14
• Sciatica 21
• Seconds 63
• Seede distilling 1. 11. 14
• Sinewes griefes 24. 44
• Shaking 1
• Sicknesse generall 32

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