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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¶ Peares.

PEares of all sorts taken before meate, do nourish but litle, but yet more then Apples, especially those that be great & sweete. 2 The sower, rough and chokie Peares and others that are not watrie, eaten rawe or baked before meales, doe stop the common laske, and strengthen the mouth of the stomacke. 3 They are good to bee layde to the beginning of hote tumors and greene wounds, and so are the leaues, for they close and heale newe wounds. 4 To keepe Peares long, put them into a vessell that

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they touch not one another with fine white salt and couer them close: put a Pare into wine, cleane pared: if it swim, the wine is pure: but if it sinke, there is water mixt with it. 5 To keepe Pares drie, seeth them in faire water and Rose water with Hony, with a gentle fire, and let them dreine through a cloth or colander, and then drie them in an Ouen after the batch is drawen foorth: if once doing so serue not, do so the second time, and then barrell them vp. 6 Pares are good in Plasters that are made to stop the course of humors that run to any place. The broth of dried Pares stop∣peth the belly. 7 They are euill to be eaten fasting. 8 The iuice of the leaues is good for venemous bitings. 9 A syrope made of the iuice of Pares, is good against choller, and the chollorike fluxe. 10 Pares breede the chollike: it is good to drinke Hypocras after them. 11 Pares without wine are poyson, but sodden Pares are a treacle or preseruatiue. 12 Sodden or rosted, they relieue and lighten the stomacke. 13 After Pares drinke, but after Apples goe to the stoole. 14 All kinde of Pares doe binde as Quinces doe, and therefore are preserued in electuaries and syrops, to stop vomiting and fluxes. 15 The leaues are good in baths to sit in, against the falling downe of the Matrixe and other griefes of wo∣men. 16 Plasters of the leaues are good to stop vomites and lasks. 17 Pares are worse then Apples, for being eaten raw, they make the blood watrish, and breede winde & chollike, vnlesse good Sacke or Canarie wine be drunke after them. 18 But baked, rosted or stewed, they are not vnwholsome. 19 Pares and other fruites are to be eaten with salt, being first clensed both outwarly and inwardly. 20 Pares, Apples and Quinces, may be sodden to Pap and streined, and to sixe pound of the Pap, put foure pound of Hony, and seethe them to perfection, and vse it. 21 A plaster of yong Pares that haue bene transplanted, is good for the senowes that are prickt. 22 Vomit to stop, eate sower bitter Pares. 23 Cough, seethe Pares in wine, Ale or Beere, and take vp the vapour of them at the mouth. 24 Belly loose, vse rosted Pares. 25 Bloody fluxe, seeth drie Pares in water, and drinke thereof, it helpeth also the laske. 26 Stomacke and belly weake, dresse Pares in meate and vse them. 27 Fluxe, seethe them in vineger and drinke it with Masticke, or seethe them in water, and drinke it. Liuer griefes, stampe the kernels and drinke them with Hony.

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28 Burnings, stampe the leaues and apply them. 29 Funda∣ment fallen, bathe it with the decoction of the leaues.

  • Apostume 3
  • Belly loose 2. 6. 24
  • Bitings venom. 8
  • Bloody fluxe 25
  • Burnings 28
  • Cough 23
  • Defensiue 6
  • Fundament fallen 29
  • Fluxes 9. 14. 16. 27
  • Liuer griefes 27
  • Matrixe fallen 15
  • Preseruatiue 11
  • Senowes prickt 21
  • Stomacke ill 2. 12. 26
  • Swellings 3
  • Vomiting 14. 16. 22
  • Wounds 3
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