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.
Author
Langham, William.
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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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"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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Page 473

¶ Pease.

PEase: their broth is good against the Iaundies and dropsie, it may be vsed in all inward greefes without perill. 2 The same sodden in water and lee, helpeth spreading sores of the head, the spots of the face, and griefes of the skinne. 3 The same de∣coction mixt with hony and barley meale, cureth spreading sores that be hard to cure. 4 The same sodden in water with Orobus and applied, helpeth all swellings and ache, & so doe beanes. 5 In the newe of the Moone, take for euery wart a Pease, and touch the warts therewith, and binde them in a cloute, and cast it behinde thee. 6 Cicers and Fitches be of stronger force then Peason. 7 Heart burning, eate vi. or vii. Peason or moe. 8 Vomiting of cold moyst humors, eate the broth of gray Peason. 9 Pease broth is good to take purgations withall to cleanse a rawe stomacke, whether they be gray or white vnsalted. 10 The potage of great Peason are good for the strangury: and to take Sene withall morne and euen for the ague, 11 And Rubarbe for the Iaun∣dies. 12 Nose bleeding, put in fine powder of Peason. 13 Spots or steynes in clothes, white or other colour, seethe Peason in wa∣ter, and steepe the cloth in the water, and wash it with riuer wa∣ter and drye it.

  • Aches 4
  • Bleeding 12
  • Clothes steyned 13
  • Dropsie 1
  • Face deformed 2
  • Feuer 10
  • Heart burning 7
  • Headsores 2
  • Iaundies 1. 11
  • Nosebleeding 12
  • Purging 9
  • Skin griefes 2
  • Sores 3
  • Strangury 10
  • Swellings 4
  • Vomiting 8
  • Warts 5
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