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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¶ Gromel.

GRomel, Vrin stopt, stamp it with parsley, & strain it, and drink it with white wine. 2 It is good for the stone & all griefes of the bladder. 3 Vrine stopt, stampe it with parsley and rue, and drinke it with white wine, and be whole. 4 Eate tostes of bread, or sops in wine with powder of the seedes of Gromel, and parsley to voyde the stone after it is broken. 5 Vrine stopt, seethe mal∣lowes, and a good quantitie of Gromell in vineger a good while, and drinke thereof warme. 6 Stampe the seeds and drink them in white wine to break the stone, especially in the bladder, and to driue forth vrine. 7 Bruise the seeds and steepe them all night in white wine, with some fenell, parsley, and sene, and in the mor∣ning seeth it, and streine it & sugar it, and drinke it to purge flegme and choller, to open and cleanse the reines and bladder, and to ex∣pell wind plentifully: it must be boiled in a stone vessel. 8 Stamp the hearbe and apply it hote for the same purpose.

  • Backe griefe 7
  • Bladder griefes 2. 7
  • Purgation 7
  • Stone 2. 4. 6. 7. 8
  • Vrine stopt 1. 3. &c.
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