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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¶ Langdebeefe.

LAngdebeefe: it taketh away the red colour of the face, the cardiacke and euill humors in the lungs. 2 The iuice drunk with hote water, causeth a good memorie and wit. It must be gathered in Iune and Iuly. 3 Swellings in any part, seethe it in vineger or wine, and put thereto hony and salt, and apply it as hote as may be suffered. 4 Ioints ache, seethe one handfull in a pint of white wine, and one spoonefull of hony till it be soft, then grind it and seethe it till it be somewhat brown, and then apply it. (See Buglosse.)

Ache 4
Face red 1
Heart griefes 1
Ioint ache 4
Lungs griefes 1
Memory 2
Swellings 3
Wit 2