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.

¶ Mouseare.

MOuseare: seethe the roote and leaues, and drinke y^e broth to coole all wounds inward & outward, and also hernies, rup∣tures, and burstings. 2 Powder of the leaues cureth woundes. 3 The iuice of the greater Mouseare put into the eares, clean∣seth them from all filth and ache. 4 The same vsed in meates, cleareth the sight, and cureth the rednesse of the eyes. 5 Gather the roote in May, and vse it against all ruptures, wounds, and the whites and reds in women, and to heale a broken head. 6 If it be giuen any way to horses, they cannot be hurt in shooeing. 7 Teeth-ache, put in the roote. 8 Fundament figge, stampe it with Yarrowe, Planten, and Morell, of eache like much, & drinke it with water. 9 Stampe it and streine it with stale ale, and giue it a wounded man, if he keepe it, he shall liue, or els not. 10 Fi∣stula to heale, gather it kneeling & saying the Lords prayer, and drinke the iuice 9. times, and be whole. 11 For all euils in the stomacke, stampe it with Egrimonie, Barowes grease & vineger, and frye them together, & apply it to the backe as hote as may be suffered. 12 Skabs dry, seethe it and hearbe Benit, of eache like much in running water, & wash therewith. 13 Voyce to be cleare,

drinke the iuice of Mouseare with wine or ale. 14 Emerods, drinke the iuice of Mouseare, Betony, & Yarowe often. 15 Backe ache, (see in Egrimonie.) 16 Iaundies, seethe it in wine or wa∣ter, and drinke it. Squincie, drinke Mouseare. 17 The iuice healeth all wounds. For the stone & stopping of the vrine, stampe Mouseare and Hilwort, of eache halfe a handfull, with ix. quicke Bees, and streine all together with a litle white wine or stale ale, and drinke it, for it is excellent. 18 For the wind chollike, stampe it with as much Prosper, and seethe them in a double vessell with white wine, and streine it and drinke it with sugar.

• Backe-ache 15
• Belly-ache 18
• Bursten 1. 5
• Chollike 18
• Eares griefes 2
• Eyes griefes 2
• Emerods 14
• Fig in fundament 8
• Fistula 9
• Flowers to stop 5
• Fundament fig 8
• Horse griefe 6
• Iaundies 16
• Skabs 12
• Squincy 16
• Stomake griefes 11
• Teeth-ache 7
• Stone 17
• Vrine stopt 17
• Voyce ill 13
• Whites 5
• Windinesse 18
• Woundes generall 12. 17