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.

¶ Gentian.

GEntian: (see Dwarfe Gentian) drinke one dramme of the roote in powder with wine, and a litle pepper and rue for all inward poyson, and all venemous bitings. 2 And with wa∣ter for the griefes of the liuer and stomacke, and vse it for all colde diseases of the intralles. 3 The iuice of the roote dissolueth brui∣sed blood, and helpeth the griefe of the side and burstings. 4 The same iuice cureth festered and fretting sores and wounds being dropped into them. 5 Apply the same with linte to the eyes to swage the paine and heate. 6 It skowreth all filth from the skin, being anointed therewith. 7 Put the roote into the matrix as a pessary to pull downe the dead birth and termes. 8 Stampe Gentian with twise so much Centorie, and soke them in wine v. dayes, then distill it, and drinke the water morne and euen, to pre∣serue the body from the plague, to heale the ptisike, to cleanse the stuffed stomacke, to breake and expell the stone from the reines to auoide watry humors from the milt, to prouoke termes to purge choller and corrupt blood, to heale inwarde woundes and vene∣mous bitings, to cleare the sight, to preserue the body from all diseases, to auoide all impostumes, and to cause a good colour: but in healing wounds apply y^e powder of Centory outwardly. 9 The roote is much vsed in medicines against poyson. It is perilous for women with child to drink. 10 There is nothing better for y^e ilia∣ca passio, & the dropsy, being drunk in wine & water, and for al the

diseases of the lungs, and for all diseases of horses, kine, oxen &c. 11 Horse pussy, or broken winded, giue him powder of it in his water to drinke. 12 Ptisike, drinke powder of the roote of Gen∣tian, and Filipendula of eache one dram with hony and water of∣ten. 13 Mad, drinke the seedes of Rue and Gentian with vine∣ger, and apply a blacke cocke to the head, cut through the middest xxiiii. houres, and y^e third day bleede in the head. 14 Or vse Gen∣tian, and Rue, and also wash thy head with the same hearbes, or drinke Gentian often with hony and vineger. 15 Breath short, and straite, vse powder of it in meates, brothes, and drinkes: spi∣ders biting, apply the iuice. 16 Stomacke to clense, vse Gentian and Tormentill, of eache like much in thy potage and be whole. 17 Feuer quarten and quotidian, drinke powder of Gentian and maces, of eache like much, with a litle pepper with glarified Ale and Sugar before the fit. 18 Feuer quarten, seeth the roote in wine, and drinke it before the fit: it is taken to be mate-fellon. 19 Drinke Gentian in water and hony to helpe the swelling of the stomacke and body, to helpe venemous bitings, and cause deli∣uerance of a dead childe.

• Bitings venom. 1. 8. 15. 19
• Blood corrupt 8
• Breath short 15
• Bruises 3
• Bursten 3
• Cattell sicke 10
• Consumption 8
• Colde griefes 2
• Colour bad 8
• Dead childe 7. 19
• Dropsie 10
• Eyes griefes 5. 8
• Feuer quarten 17. 18. quo∣tidian 17
• Flowers stopt 7. 8
• Horses sicke 10. 11
• Iliake pas. 10
• Impostume 8
• Liuer griefes 2
• Lungs griefes 10
• Mad 13
• Milt griefes 8
• Oxen sicke 10
• Plague 8
• Poyson 1. 9
• Ptisike 12. 8
• Preseruatiue 8
• Purgation 8
• Sicknesse generall 8
• Side griefes 3
• Skin deformed 6
• Sores 4
• Spider 15
• Stomake griefes 2 stuft 8 16. 19
• Stone 8
• Venom 1. 9
• Woundes 4. 8