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.

¶ Mullin.

MVllin: seeth it in wine, & skom it & drinke it, & also wash the Emerods therewith to heale them. 2 It is good for y^e fluxe. 3 Bruse, wash y^e sore, and anoint w^t the iuice, & apply the bruised leaues 24. houres to heale it speedely. 4 Emerods, stamp y^e small leaues, & fry them with sheepes suet, & apply them in a linnen bag twise a day, & keepe it warme. Apply powder of Mullin with the iuice of Horehound to breake their swelling. 5 Horse cough, and broken winded, giue him powder of it to drinke in his water: Gen∣tian will doe the like. 6 Warts, stampe the flowers betweene two stones, and apply them, or apply the distilled water of them.

7 Eyes red and dropping, wash with the water of Mullin. 8 Ma∣trix windie, apply the iuice of Mullin and Rapes with Barlye meale. 9 Cankers, burne it and apply the powder. 10 Bur∣nings, bathe it with the water distilled in a Limbecke, or with barbars lee, or anoint it presently with hony. 11 Skab and itch, distill the flowers & leaues in a Limbecke, and vse the water with cloutes. 12 Wounds to close vp, stampe the flowers, and apply them. 13 Emerods, sit ouer the fume of the rootes, or stampe Mullin, and seethe it in good red wine and apply it: or mixe the iuice with as much Barowes grease by litle and litle, and anoint therewith warme: or apply Mallowes sodden in running water hote. 14 Bleeding in any place, stampe it and apply it to the branches of the teates. 15 Belly loose, drinke one knot of the roote of it. 16 Emerods, seethe it in wine, and apply it, or apply the rust or skalles of iron, with the iuice of it, or apply the iuice mixt with Antimonium and silke. 17 Tenesmus, seethe it and stampe it, and apply it to the fundament, or sit ouer the fume of it. 18 Feuer tertian, put the iuice of it into the nostrels before the fit. 19 Feuer quarten, drinke the iuice before the fit. 20 Bitings venemous & stingings, put in the iuice, and apply the rest. 21 Fun∣dament falling, frye it with sheepes tallowe, and mixe it with oile Oliue, and apply it hote. 20 Goute colde, seethe it in wine and apply it. 23 Wounds of sword, or staffe, wash it with white wine warme, & put in the iuice, and apply the substance, and binde it fast to a whole day. 24 Emerods, boyle two leaues with fresh butter in a sawser till they be soft, & apply them hote as may be suffered. 25 Flowers stopt, binde it to the soles of the feete, flowers to stop, binde it to the arme pits. 26 Fundament fig, an anodine in∣fallible, stampe Mullin with as much salt, and apply it either to man or beast: proued. 27 Canker in the mouth or gums, seeth the rootes in strong vineger, and wash therewith ii. or iii. times a day, and anoint it with alome & hony incorporated together. 28 Gout, seeth Mullin in wine, & apply it. Piles, seeth y^e leaues soft in water and mixe them with May butter, and anoint therewith. 22 Lea∣pry and falling of y^e haire, seethe it w^t Scabious in water, & bathe therewith. 30 Seeth the roote in red wine & drinke it to stop and heale y^e dangerous fluxe, & the bloody-fluxe. 31 For y^e cold cough & all ruptures, boile it in water & drinke it. 32 Teethach & griefs

of the mouth, seethe the roote and gargarise therewith. 33 Dry Figs wrapt in Mullin leaues, may be long kept from corruption. 34 The leaues are good to wipe and cleanse the Emerods with∣all. 35 Seeth the leaues in wine and wash the mouth therewith for the griefes thereof. 36 Stampe the leaues & iuice, and apply it to any bruise or stroke 24. houres to heale it finely. 37 The leaues and flowers allayeth all ache both inward and outward. 38 Belly loose, drinke the roote. 39 The roote sodden in red wine, or in a feuer with water & drunke, helpeth the white fluxe, and is good against al ruptures, & fractures, bruises, griefes of the lungs, y^e cough, al inward impostumes, all aches, & inflammations. 40 Eies inflamed, & likewise the fundament & priuy partes, and for all botches and goutes, seeth the leaues and flowers in water, and apply them. 41 Vse the distilled water into the eyes to stop their running. 42 Apply the same to all rednesse and pimples of the face, the shingles, S. Antonies fire, burnings, scabs, & leapry. 43 Stampe the herbe in a leaden morter with clarified hony, and put thereto wine and vineger, and vse it to heale vlcers & stinging of waspes, adders, & snakes. 44 Burnings & skaldings apply the iuice of the leaues with oile of Linseede. 45 Fistula, put in y^e pith of the roote. 46 Kings euill, seeth the flowers in vineger, & garga∣rise therewith, & applie it. 47 The roote, seede, or leafe sodden in wine and drunke, is good for all the griefes of the lungs, breastes, sides, and reines, and also casteth out of the flesh any thing therein fixed, as nayle, thorne, or pricke. 48 A good medicine for horses, kine, or swine, stampe Mullin, and put thereto Fenegreeke & Mad∣der with warme Ale, and giue it them with a horne or tunnell to cleanse and heale their lungs, and so to saue many that otherwayes would die. 49 The leaues of that with the golden flowers sod∣den in water, are good for the swellings and inflammations of the eyes, and for sores and rottennesse with hony or wine, but with vi∣neger they heale wounds. 50 The blacke Mullin with his plea∣sant yellowe flowers, boyled in water or wine, is good against the diseases of the breast, lungs, spitting of rotten and corrupt matter. 51 The leaues of the same boyled with Rue, doeth appease the paine of the side. 52 And the same boyled in water are good for the cold swellings, and the vlcers, and inflammations of the eyes. 53 And punned with hony and wine, they cure mortified vlcers,

and with vineger they cure the inflammation of wounds. 54 The golden flowers steeped in lee, coloureth the haire yellowe, being often washed with it. 55 The seedes of Mullin is good to be drunke against burstings and falling out of ioynts, to cease the swelling and ache.

• Ache generall 37. 39. 55
• Apostume 4
• Backe-ache 47
• Belly loose 15
• Bitings venom. 20. 43
• Bloody-fluxe 30
• Blood to stop 14
• Bones broken 39
• Botches 4
• Breast griefes 47. 50
• Bruise 3. 36. 69
• Bursten 31. 39
• Burning 10. 42. 44
• Cattell sicke 48
• Cough 31. 39
• Emerods 1. 4. 13. 16. 24. 34
• Eyes sore 7. 49. 52. inflamed 40. 49. running 41
• Face deformed 42
• Feuer quarten 19 tertian 18
• Figs to keepe 33
• Fistula 45
• Flowers stopt 25
• Fluxes 2. 38. 39. 30
• Fundament fallen 21 fig 26 inflamed 40
• Goute 28. 40. 22
• Haire falling 29 to be yel∣lowe 54
• Horse cough 5 sicke 48
• Impostume 39
• Inflammation 39
• Ioynts out 55
• Itche 11
• Kanker 9
• Kings euill 46
• Leapry 42. 29
• Lungs griefes 39. 47. 50
• Matrix windie 8
• Mouth griefes 32. 35
• canker 27
• Pimples 42
• Prickes 47
• Reines griefes 47
• Saint Antonies fire 42
• Side griefes 47. 51
• Shingles 42
• Skabs 11. 42
• Skalding 44
• Sores 43. 49. 53
• Spitting matter 50
• Stingings 20. 43
• Swellings 55
• Teeth-ache 32
• Tenasmus 17
• Warts 6
• Woundes 3. 12. 23 49. 53