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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¶ Nigella.

NIgella or Gyth: Drinke the seedes in wine to helpe short∣nesse of breath, to dissolue all windinesse in the body, to pro∣uoke vrine and termes, to increase milke. 2 Drinke it with wine or water, or apply it to the Nauell to kill wormes, or anoynt with the oyle of the seede. 3 Drinke one dram with water a∣gainst all poysons and venemous bitings 4 The fume thereof tosted or burned, driueth away all venemous beastes, and killeth flyes, bees and waspes. 5 Head ach, apply it to the forehead with oyle of Arios, and put it often into the Nose against the Web and bloodshoting in the eyes in their beginning. 6 Put the powder of it into a thinne bag and smell to it often to cure all Murres or Catarres and Poses, to drye the brayne, and to restore the smel∣ling being lost. 7 Boyle it with vineger and hold it in the mouth to swage the tooth ach. 8 Chew it dry to cure the vlcers of the mouth. 9 For Lentiles, Freckles and other spots in the face, to cleanse the skurfe and itch, and to soften olde, colde and hard swellings, stampe it with vineger and apply it. 10 Steepe it in olde wine or stale vrine, to cause Cornes and Agnailes to fall off, being first scarrified round about. 11 Too much of it taken, bringeth death. 12 Apply the seedes with Rose vineger to the forehead against the Frensie. 13 It serueth also for the same things that Coliander is good for. 14 Droppe the iuice into the eyes, to heale the Epiphora, or dropping. 15 Stampe it with an Oxe gaul and apply it to the belly to kill wormes. 16 Wilde cockle that groweth in corne, is of the same kinde, and the iuice may be pressed forth as Opium, & kept for medicin to cause sleepe. 17 Nigella Rom. prouoketh sneesing. 18 Ptisick, put powder thereof in a linnen cloth and smell to it often. 19 Braine feeble, mixe powder of the seedes with oyle of Camomile or other oyle, and drop thereof into thy Nose in the mornings. 20 Put the flower thereof into the Matrixe, to draw out all contents therein,

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as flowers, birth, seconds, &c. 21 To drie vp milke in ye breasts, seethe the seedes in wine and drinke it. 22 Face pimples and spots, grinde the seedes with flower and Hony, and anoynt to bed∣ward, and in the morning wash with Parsley water. 23 For fretting, roughnesse and skalie spots, bruise the seedes and boyle them to pap in vineger, and then mixe it with oyle of Nuts, and anoynt therewith to bedward: the meale of Orobus will doe the same, mixe the iuice of the roots of Peonye. 24 Cockle drunke with Radish and a little salt, healeth the Kanker and other peri∣lous wounds, comforteth the stomacke and Liuer, killeth wormes in the stomacke, prouoketh vrine, & is good for the eyes. 25 The suffumigation of it maketh women fruitfull without perill, and swageth the great paine of the Liuer. A plaster of the meale ther∣of with the iuice of wormwood laid to the nauil, killeth wormes. 26 The seed steeped all night in wine, and the wine drunke in the morning, healeth the strangury, dissurie, & Iliak passion: Nigella with flower and Hony anoynted, taketh away spots and pimples, being after washed with Parsley water.

  • Agnailes 10
  • Bees to kill 4
  • Bitings venom. 3
  • Braine weake 19 moist 6
  • Breath short 1
  • Chollicke 26
  • Concept. 25
  • Consumptiō 17 Cornes 10
  • Danger 11
  • Deliuerance 20
  • Dissurie 26
  • Eyes blood-shot 5 web 5 dropping 14 sore 24
  • Face deform. 9. 22. 23
  • Flyes to kill 4
  • Flowers stopt 1. 20
  • Headach 5
  • Iliak pas. 26
  • Itch 9
  • Liuer griefes 24. 25
  • Matrixe to cleanse 20
  • Milke to cause 1
  • to drie vp 21
  • Mouth sores 8
  • Murre 6
  • Poyson 3
  • Pose 6
  • Ptisicke 16
  • Reume 6
  • Seconds 20
  • Skin deform. 2. 3. 22. 9
  • Skurfe 9
  • Sleepe to cause 16
  • Smelling lost 6
  • Sneesing to cause 18
  • Sores 24
  • Stomacke weake 24
  • Strangury 20
  • Swellings 9
  • Teeth ache 7
  • ...

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  • Venom. 3. 4
  • Vrine stopt 1. 20. 24
  • Waspes to kill 4
  • Windinesse 1
  • Wormes 2. 15. 24. 25
  • Woundes 24
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