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.

¶Holyoke.

HOlyoke and Mallowes: crampe, take Holyoke, oyle of vio∣lets, and swines grease, of ech like much, fry them & streine it, and anoynt therewith. 2 Teeth ache, stampe it and apply it. 3 Belly hard stampe it with sope and apply it to the nauel. 4 For all aches and bruses of wounds and strokes, seethe the rootes ten∣der, and grind them, and fry them with wheat flower and oyle o∣liue, and apply it as hote as may be suffered. 5 Swelling of tooth ache, stamp it and apply it. 6 Leapry, seethe it in vineger,

and stamp it and streine it, and anoynt therewith. 7 Griefes of the matrix after deliuerance, stamp the roots, fry them with newe swines grease and apply it. 8 Wounds generall, seethe the roots, & put in the iuice of them, or stamp the roots with otemeale, and seethe them and apply them. 9 Apost. behind the eare, seethe the root to pap, and fry it with bores grease brused, Linseed, Feni∣greke and barly meale, and apply it to all impostumes. 10 Belly and matrix paine, apply the leaues. 11 Dead childe to expell, stamp the leaues with a litle salt, and goose grease, and apply it to the matrix. 12 For paine of the backe, loynes, belly and matrix, seethe the leaues in water, & wash them often therwith. 13 Yard canker and swelling, seethe it and apply it with gylts grease, or stamp powder of Linseede with it and Wormwood, and seethe them and apply them, and so it ripeneth apostumes also. 14 To breake a botch bile or keyll, seethe the roots in water, and stampe them and streine them, and put theereto swines grease, and apply it to draw and heale. 15 Plurisie, dip wooll in the decoction of Holyoke and butter and apply it. 16 Gout, fry Holyoke with sheepes tallow, and apply it three dayes. 17 Seethe it with Lin∣seede to dissolue all gatherings of humours in the body. 18 Apo∣stumes, seethe the roots to pap, and put thereto as much Feni∣grek and Linseed as the pap, seethe it till it rope, and stamp them well, then strein it and put thereto barowes grease & barly meale, and fry it and vse it. 19 Holyokes or garden Mallowes white or red, are moyst as the other kindes are, and may be vsed both in∣ward and outward. 20 Seethe the herbe, root, or seed in milke, or in wine, and drinke it to cease the hot and dry cough, the bliste∣ring of the lungs and ptisik. 21 Seethe it in wine or water mixt with hony and Allom, and gargarise therewith to heale the bli∣sters of the mouth and throat, and other stinking sores. 22 Bel∣ly bound, seethe it, and eate it, to helpe the ague that commeth of costiuenesse, or seethe it, and make therewith a glister to open the belly and soften it. 23 Distill water of the flowers of the grea∣ter Mallowe, to heale the breaking out of the mouth, and all in∣ward and outward heates, the holy fire, blisters of the throat, and all other swellings being gargarised or otherwayes applyed with linnen clothes. 24 Wash the head with the decoction of Mal∣lowes

to clense it from all scurfe, the roots do the like. 25 Stamp Mallowes and Garlike together, and streine it with white wine, and drinke thereof nine times to cause thee to make water free∣ly. 26 Seethe Mallowes in water, and stampe them well, and fry them with swines grease till it be somewhat thicke like an oyntment, and apply thereof morne and euen to swollen legs three or foure times together and be whole. 27 Seethe the seedes of Holyoke or other Mallowes with figs and raisins in water, and vse it for the coughs and chincough. 28 Mallowes are good for wounds, brusings, and rancklings. 29 The garden Mallowes is better inward then outward, and the wilde better outwarde then inward. 30 Mallowes taken in meate, nourish better then Lettuse, and soften the belly, but art hurtfull to the stomacke by loosing, mollifying, and relenting the same. 31 Eate the rawe leaues with a little salt, to helpe the paine and vlceration of the kidneys and bladder, and for the same purpose, and for the grauell and stone boile them in water or wine, and drinke it. 32 Drinke the decoction or broth of the rootes presently after the taking of a∣ny kind of poyson to vomit it vp againe. 33 Bath in the broth of Mallowes to mollifie the hardnesse and tumours of the ma∣trix. And vse it in glisters for all painefull griefes of the guts, bladder, mother, and fundament, and going off of the skinne. 34 Drink the seeds in wine to cause abundance of milke and for the grauell and paine of the bladder. 35 Apply Mallowes to the stinging of Bees and Wasps, and to drawe out thornes and splinters. 36 Stampe them rawe or sodden by them selues or with swines grease, and apply them to supple, mollifie, ripen, and dissolue all kindes of tumours hote or colde. 37 Rost Mallowe rootes in the embers and stampe them and apply them to the exulcerations and sorenesse of womens breastes. 38 Mallowes boyled and moderately eaten with oyle, and vi∣neger are indifferent good of concoction, and doe auoyde su∣perfluous matter, through the belly. 39 Vse Mallowe roots or seedes in Wine or milke dayly for the hote cough and ex∣ulceration of the lungs and Ptisick, and vse the herbe, seedes or rootes dayly in meates and brothes, or conserues of the flowers. 40 Seethe the herbe and roote with the seedes of

Fenel and Dill, and drink it to haue plenty of milk, for gnawing of the belly, guts, and bladder, & to losen the belly. 41 Drinke the distilled water continually to coole all hote feuers, and to helpe the griefes of the lungs & sides, the plurisy and spetting of blood and matter, the bloody flixe and hot impost. of the kidneis and bladder. 42 Seethe the flowre in water or wine & mix it w^t hony & Allom as sometime the disease requireth to clense y^e exulcerations of the mouth and throat & all inflammations both inward and outward, the holy fire, the squincy, and other kinds of swellings. 43 Vse the water or iuice against the stinging of wasps & bees. 44 The oyle of the flower defendeth from being stinged. 45 The leaues and roots sodden in wine helpeth the scurfe of the head. 46 Apply the water warme to heale wounds. 47 The leaues, roots, and seeds with swines grease soften all hard apost. and the swellings of the liuer, milt & matrix. 48 Seethe the herbe, root, & seed with barly meale in water, & mix it with oile of Roses, or of oliues, and apply it to soften all hot apostumes, the holy fire, shingles, & inflammati∣ons, and to draw out pricks & stings. 49 Seethe a bag full of the leaues and roots in water and bath therein & apply the bag to the grieued place for the obstructions of the liuer, milt, kidneis, and bladder, & to help the stone. 50 Drink halfe a cup full of the iuice euery day to preserue thee from the falling sicknesse and all other sicknesses. 51 Eate the tender leaues with salt to heale the im∣postume of the eye, and to preuent the danger of the fistula there, and also apply thereto the herbe stamped with hony. 52 Scotch the root of a Mallow and rub the teeth therewith to clense them and make them white but of all things for that purpose powder of Mastick rubbed on once a moneth is the best, and so preserueth the gums. 53 Chew the leaues raw and apply them with a litle salt and hony to the corner of the eye to helpe the apostume there, but when it beginneth to heale put in no salt. 54 Stampe the leaues with oyle, and apply them to the wilde fire and burned pla∣ces, and rub thy face or hands therewith, and no bees nor wasps shall sting thee. 55 Eat the leaues with salt and hony to heale the squincy. 56 Seeth the root soft & apply it to womens brests with black wooll warm to heale the ach, burning, swelling, & hardnesse of them. 57 Seethe a handfull of the leaues with oyle and wine to purge women. 58 Seethe the leaues in wine and apply them

to the mouth of the matrixe after deliuerance, to stay the falling downe of it, and to make it soft. 59 Seethe it in oyle and vine∣ger and apply it to burnings and saint Anthonies fire. 60 Drink the seeds in wine to clense the stomacke from rotten and stinking flegme and melancholy. 61 Drink the iuice often to clense the lungs, & to haue a clere voyce. 62 Seethe Holyoke with swines grease, goose grease, and Turpentine, and apply it to the belly to asswage the grieuous swelling, burning, and inflation thereof. 63 Seethe the root in wine, and drinke it to prouoke vrine, to ease the stone, the clense the reines for the sciatica, ruptures, and bloody fluxe. 64 The seedes be good for the stone and reines, the rootes doe stop the bloody fluxe. 65 When Mallowes are drunke to expell inward poyson, drinke milke after them to vo∣mit them vp. 66 Seethe Holyoke with the broth of a henne, wheate flower and butter, and apply it to ripen apostumes of hard maturation. 67 Vse Holyoke also in fractures of bones to knit them. 68 Bath the feete in the decoction of Mallowes to pro∣uoke sleepe in sharpe feuers. 69 Stamp the leaues with newe swines grease, and heate it on a tile, and apply it to the hardnesse of the liuer or milt. 70 Drink the iuice with wine for the stran∣gury & stone. 71 Wash the hands, face, and feete with the broth of Mallowes, or Holyoke, to prouoke sleepe. 72 Drinke the broth of the seedes for the ptisike and cough. 73 The seed sod∣den in oyle, softneth hardnesse, clenseth and ripeneth. Abhor∣ring meat, anoynt the stomack with oyle of Roses, or of Violets, and seethe Mallowes in the sayd oyles and apply them. 74 Bel∣ly bound, seethe Mallowes & Polipody, of ech like much, & drink the broth. 75 Swellings, apply a plaster of broome, & Mallowes. 76 Chollick, seethe Mercury & Mallowes in oyle, & apply them. 77 Flowers stopt, anoynt the ouer barke of the root with hony and cast on pouder of Scamony, & put it into the matrix. 78 Bur∣ning & scalding apply sodden Mallowes. 79 Eyes hot griefes, bruse Mallowes & apply them. 80 Aches in any part, seethe Mal∣lowes & apply them. 81 Head scurfe, wash with the decoction of Mallow roots. 82 Hoarsnes, anoynt the brest with Bole & fresh butter, & apply a plaster of Mallowes sodden in sallet oyle to the brest. 83 Impostume, apply a plaster of Mallowes, barly meale, whites of egs, & fresh grease to ripen it when it commeth of a hot

humor. 84 Paps griefes, stamp Mallow roots & apply them. 85 Plurisie, seethe Mallowes, Brankursin in oyle of Violets & but∣ter, & apply them. 86 Sinewes shrunk, apply sodden Mallowes. 87 Squincy, apply a plaster of Mallowes & Lily roots, with May butter. 88 Stitch, stamp Mallowes, & wormwood with new but∣ter & apply it. 89 Stones apostumed, boyle Mallowes, Henbane, and wormwood in water, & foment therewith often. 90 Stone to expell, seethe Mallowes long in water and drink thereof warme. 91 Stone & strangury, drink the iuice of Mallowes. 92 Swel∣ling of blood letting, and for swelling of the yard, boyle Linseed, Mallowes, & Holyoke together, and apply them. 93 Head dry scalles, seethe the root in water & wash therewith often. 94 Eies spots or blemish, hand y^e root of Althea or Veruin about thy neck. 95 Brest impost. seethe the leaues & seeds of Mallowes in fresh butter or creame with some Capons grease, and strein it & anoint thy brest therewith. 96 Cough straitnesse & stopping of the breath and heart, sit in a dry bath ouer the decoction of Mallowes, Vale∣rian, & ote straw, & sweat well, if the liquor coole, put hot flints in∣to it, but if thou be fat haue a siege or two first. 97 Sweat to cause, put Mallowes into a close tub, and sit ouer the fume thereof in a bath. 98 Belly swollen, seethe a basket full of Mallowes in wa∣ter, & sit therein warme as thou canst suffer, & keepe thy belly so∣luble. 99 Fundament falling, seethe Mallowes in goats milke, and apply them hot often. 100 Strangury, seeth Mallowes and Garlike wel brused in a quart of wine til the third part be wasted, and drink therof thrise a day. 101 Haire to grow & to voyd scurfe, seethe Mallowes and their roots and wash therewith. 102 Belly bound, seethe Mallowes, & vse the broth. 103 Back sore, seethe Mallowes in water & apply them hot in a red cloth. 104 Belly bound, vse Mallowes & Mercury in pork broth, & drink whey af∣ter it. 105 Apost. to ripen, stamp Mallowes, wormwood, & Mug∣wort, of ech like much, & fry them w^t swines grease, wheat flowre & hony, & boile it together till it be thick & apply it. 106 Eies rup∣ture of the tunicles, mix y^e iuice of Mallowes w^t barly meale & the yolk of a raw eg & apply it. 107 Plurisy, seeth Mallowes in wine & apply them hot (see Fenigrek & in Linseeds.) 108 Belly bound, seethe Mallowes & put thereto a cup of new ale & eat them. 109 Head broken, seethe field Mallowes, wormwood & Mugwort, of

ech like much stamped w^t hony & swines grease & apply them. 110 Ach of arms or legs, apply sodden Mallowes. 111 Face rawnes & spots, seeth y^e roots of wild Mallowes, & stamp them w^t vineger, wine, sallet oile & hony, & anoint therwith. 112 Head scurfe, seeth Mallow roots in rūning water & wash therwith. 113 Whites to stop, seethe wormwood & Mallowes in sack, & apply it to the belly hot as may be suffred. 114 Belly bound, seethe Mercury & Mal∣lowes ana i. handful w^t a piece of pork or w^t whey, or white wine, & drink the broth. Handsscabd & ranckled, wash w^t the decoction of Mallowes. 115 Wounds to heale speedily, seethe Mallowes wel & stamp them & strein them & mix the iuice w^t olde barowes grease and barly meale & apply it. 116 Plurisy, stamp iiii. ounces of wild Mallow roots wel sodden, & put therto butter i. ounce, hony i. oūce & a halfe, pigeons doung ii. drams, mix them & apply it hot to break the corruption. 117 Eies vlcers, chew the leaues of Mallowes & apply them w^t a litle salt. 118 Morphue, bath in the decoction of Mallowes, wormwood, & the chaff of barly or otes, & vse ointmēts after it. 119 Belly boūd, stamp a root & seethe it, & mix it with old hogs grease & a litle bran, & apply it to the stomack. 120 Stomack swolne, vse Marsh Mallowes sodden in water. 121 Matrix hard, foment w^t the decoction of Mallowes. 122 Paps swolne, stamp Mallowes & apply them hot w^t oile. 123 Matrix paine after child∣birth, seeth y^e roots of Marsh Mallowes & walwort, & stamp them & apply them with oile. 124 Gout to heale in iii. daies, stamp wild Mallowes roots with stale grease & apply it. 125 Belly bound, vse Mallowes and Mercury with sweet hogs grease. 126 Im∣post. hot in y^e beginning, stamp Mallowes & apply them, or stamp them w^t swines grease, & lay it on a hot tile, & apply it to y^e impost. to ripen & break it. It destroieth al hardnes of the liuer & milt. 127 Brused blood to cast out, drink y^e iuice of white Malowes w^t wine. 128 Belly boūd, seeth Mallowes & red nettles in water, & sit ouer the fume thereof. 129 Legs swoln, seeth Malowes & stamp them, & fry them w^t barowes grease til they be as an ointment, & apply it morn & euen iii. or iiii. daies. 130 That no flies nor bees shal touch thee, stamp Mallowes w^t oile oliue & anoint, but if thou be stinged already stamp Mallowes & apply them. 131 Mix i. li. of y^e powder of Mallow roots dried in y^e shadow w^t iii. li. of hony sodden & scum∣med, stir it on the fire to an electuary, & vse it for shortnes of wind. 132 Oppilations or stopping, seethe wilde Marsh Mallowes,

and strein it, and drink thereof with sugar candy. 133 Backache, stamp i. li. of Mallowes with fresh sheeps doung & loffe grease of ech ii. li. & apply thereof with vnwasht wooll. 134 Matrix win∣dy, seethe Mallowes & Parietary, and bath in the water, & apply the herbs in a bag. 135 Wounds made with iron, seethe them in water & stamp them with swines grease & barly meale & apply it. 136 Belly bound, seethe them in ale & eat them. 137 For sicknes and anguish in the sides, seethe the tender crops in water, & stamp them & put thereto the fatnes of wheat, so that it be tough as glew and apply it hot as may be suffred. 138 Yard swollen, seethe Lin∣seeds with Mallowes & apply it. 139 A ripening plaster, seethe Mallowes & wormwood to pap, then let y^e water run from them, then grind them finely w^t i. li. of old swines grease: it is most pre∣cious of all other for sore brests that do rot. It doeth ripen & clense by the pores, & mitigateth paines in the brests and all other apost. as of the neck, throat, armeholes or els where. It must be applied warme on a double cloth morne and euen. 140 Teeth black or ye∣low, clense them well & vse to rub them with a Mallow root. 141 Botch, seethe them with Rue, & wormwood in running water, & whē they be soft, fry them w^t fresh butter or fresh grease & apply it.

• Abhorring meat 73
• Aches gener. 4. 80. 110. 124
• Apost. 9. 14. 17. 18. 41. 47. 48. 66. 83. 105. 126. 139. 141.
• Backach 12. 41. 63. 64. 133. sore 103.
• Bellyach 10. 12. 33. 40. 62. bound 22. 30. 38. 40. 74. 102. 104. 108. 114. 119. 125. 128. 136. hard 2. 62. swollen 62. 98. sore (see Ache.)
• Bile 14. (see Botch, Apost.)
• Bladder griefes 31. 33. 41. 49. (see Stone, Strangury.)
• Blisters 23. (see Scab.)
• Bloody fluxe 40. 63. 64
• Bones broken 67
• Botch 14. 141. (see Apost.)
• Brest impost. 95. (see Impost.)
• Brests sore 37. 56. 84. 139. swollen 122.
• Breath straite 96. 131
• Bruse 4. 28. 127
• Burnings 54. 59. 78
• Bursten 63
• Chincough 27
• Chollick 76
• Cods swollen 89
• Cough 20. 27. 39. 72. 96
• Cramp 1. (see Sinewes.)
• Dead childe 11
• Eyes apost. 5. 1. 53. heat 70. rupture 106. spots 94. vl∣cers 117.
• Face deformed 111
• ...

• Falling euill 50
• Feuers 22. 41. 68
• Flowers stopt 77
• Fundament fallen 99
  • griefes 33
• Goute 16. 124
• Grauell 31
• Heartstopt 96
• Hardnesse 73. 126
• Hands scabbed 114
• Head broken 109
• Skall drie 93 Scurfe 24. 45. 81. 112
• Haire to growe 101
• Hoarsenesse 82
• Holy fire 42. 48
• Hote griefes 23
• Impostume 41. 83. 95
• Inflammation 42. 48
• Kidneis griefes 31. 41. 48
• Leaprie 6
• Legges ache 110
  • swollen 26. 129
• Liuer griefes 47. 69. 126. 132
• Loynes ache 12
• Lothing 73
• Lungs griefes 41. 61
• Blistered 20. 39
• Matrix griefes 7. 10. 12. 33. 47. 58. 121. 123. 134
• Milke to cause 34. 40
• Milt griefs 47. 49. 69. 126. 132
• Morphew 118
• Necke apostume 9. 39
• Obstructions 49. 132
• Plurisie 15. 41. 85. 107. 116
• Poyson 32. 65
• Prickes 35. 48
• Ptisicke 20. 39. 72
• Purgation 57. 60
• Ranckling 28
• S. Anthonies fire 59
• Sciatica 63
• Sinews shrunke 86
• Shingles 48
• Sicknesse generall 50
• Sides griefes 41. 88. 137
• Scabbes 114
• Scalding 78
• Sleepe to cause 68. 71
• Spitting blood and matter 41
• Squincie 42. 55. 87
• Stinging 35. 43. 48. 54. 130
• Stitch 88
• Stomacke griefes 60. 73. 120
• Stone 31. 49. 63. 64. 70. 90. 91
• Stones apostume 89
• Strangurie 70. 91. 100
• Swellings 5. 17. 23. 26. 36. 33. 42. 75. 92. 129
• Sweare to cause 97
• Teethach 5
  • foule 52. 140
• Throte sore 21. 23. 42
• Voyce ill 61. 82
• Vomite to cause 32
• Vrine stopt 25. 41. 63
• Whites to stop 113
• Wilde fire 54
• Women to purge 57
• Wounds 4. 8. 28. 46. 115. 135
• Yarde kanker 13
• swollen 13. 92. 138