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.

¶ Pimpernel.

PImpernell boyled in wine and drunke, is singular good against all venemous bitings, obstructions of the Liuer, and payne of the kidneys. 2 The iuice put into the Nose, cleanseth the head, and helpeth the toothach being put into the Nose on the contrary side to the griefe. 3 Apply Pimpernell to corrupt and festered sores and to fretting sores, and to cleanse and heale them, and to pricks and splents to drawe them out, and to the inflammation of the eyes. 4 The iuice mixt with Hony and straken often, or put into the eyes, taketh away the dimnesse of sight. 5 Seeth it in wine and drinke it against all venemous bitings, and also wash the wound therewith. 6 Drinke a draught of it, and couer thee well to sweat, to expell the plague or any poyson, to driue out the drop∣sie, to open the liuer, to purge the kidneys, and expell the stone. 7 Apply the iuice or water to venemous wounds, stingings or bitings, to mitigate the ache, and to drawe out the venome and stings. 8 It healeth painefull sores that creepe in the flesh, and the diseases that come of reume. 9 The iuice mixt with pure Hony, taketh away the mistinesse and rednesse, and spots of the eyes, and cleanseth the sight. 10 Eyes web, mixe the iuice with Goose grease, and put a drop into the eyes. 11 Heart cardiake, drinke Pimpernell. 12 Heart stitch, drinke the water or decoc∣tion of it. 13 Speech lost, holde the iuice of it and Sage vnder thy tongue. 14 Plague, drinke powder of Pimpernell, Betony, Fiue leafe, Sage and scabious, with ale or beere warme fasting a weeke. 15 Breast sores, (See Garlike, See Docke, Celon∣dine.) 16 Eyes web & pearle, put in the iuice w^t the marow of a Goose wing. 17 Apost. or Byle to breake, stampe it w^t Holyoke & Brocks grease and apply it. 18 Biting of an Addar, drinke the iuice of that with the red flower. 19 Nose bleeding, stampe it and put it into the Nose. 20 Feuer continuall, drinke it with warme water, it helpeth also the feuer tertian. 21 Fistulaes and hollowe vlcers, put in the iuice, and apply the herbe. 22 If the Fistula bee inward, drinke it: if outward, put in the iuice. 23 Mixe powder thereof with the distilled water and some suger made into an electuary, and take thereof two ounces dadly, for the Ptisicke of the Lungs. 24 Drinke Pimpernell with Sorell

in the Plague time to defend thee, (See Aloes, Dog Fennell, Lunarie.) 25 Skull hurt, apply the iuice often with cloutes. Feuer, binde it to the Pulses, (See Egrimonie, Houndstong) Face sause flegme, anoynt with the iuice mixt with Pepper and Ginger. 26 Pimpernell destroyeth venome, and healeth apo∣stumes and sores of the eyes. 27 For the griefs of the bladder, and to expell vrine and the stone, drinke the iuice of Pimpernell, Fennell, Parsley and Smallach with water. 28 Wounds to heale, drinke the iuice of Sanicle, Pimpernell and Bugle with ale morne and euen. 29 Pyles to heale, drinke the iuice of Pim∣pernell often, and be whole. 30 For wasting of nature, drinke the iuice with suger, (See Bugle.)

• Apost. 17. 27
• Backe ach 16
• Byle 17
• Bladder griefes 27
• Bitings venemous 1. 5. 7. 18
• Breasts sore 15
• Consumption 13
• Dropsie 6
• Eyes griefes 3. 9. 10. 16. 26
• Emerods 29
• Face sause flegme 25
• Feuers 25
  • continuall 20 tertian 20
• Fistula 21
• Heart cardiake 11
  • stitch 12
• Head broken 25
  • to cleanse 2
• Kidneys griefe 6
• Liuer stopt 1. 6
• Lungs griefe 23
• Nose bleeding 19
• Pyles 29
• Plague 6. 14. 24
• Poyson 6
• Pricks 3
• Ptisicke 23
• Reines running 30
• Sores 3. 8. 21. 22
• Speech lost 13
• Stingings 7
• Stone 27
• Sweat to cause 6
• Teeth ache 2
• Venom 7. 26
• Vlcers 21
• Vrin stopt 27
• Wounds 28