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.

¶ Reasins.

REasins and Vine: Vine leaues, branches and tendrels stampt and the iuice drunke, is good for them that vomite or spit blood, and the bloody fluxe, and women with childe giuen to vomiting, and so doe the branches and clasping tendrels by

themselues, and likewise boyled in water & drunke. 2 The same clasping tendrels stampt with parched barley meale, are good for the headach, comming of heate, and for hote vlcers of the stomake being applyed. 3 The ashes of the drie boughes or cuttings, ap∣plied with vineger, doe cure the excressence and swellings of the Fundament, being first clarified and pared. 4 The same dissolued in oyle of Roses and vineger, is good for the bitings of serpents, members out of ioynt, inflammations or heate of the milt. 5 Greene grapes ingender winde in the stomacke, belly, and doe loosen the belly. 6 The dried Raisins are good against the Cough and all diseases of the lungs, kidneys and bladder, and the stopping and weakenesse of the Liuer, to open and strengthen it. 7 The broth of Raisin kernels, is good for the bloody fluxe and the laske, being altogether powred in by Glister. 8 A bath of the decoction of the sayd kernels, stoppeth the flowers being bathed therewith. 9 The fame kernels made into fine powder and ap∣plyed with falt, doe swage and consume hard swellings, and the swellings of the brests. 10 White grapes are better then blacke, and wholsomer after three or foure dayes gathering, then when they are new gathered: if they be sweete, they partly nourish and warme the body. 11 They bee wholesome to bee eaten before meate. 12 Raisins of the sonne be very wholsome, and doe com∣fort digestion: but the stones and rindes would be refused, and then they be good for the milt and liuer: so bee Assigants: but the small Raisins be hurtfull to the milt. 13 Reisins bee of the nature of Figs. The sweete are best for the stomacke, and yeeld good nourishment. 14 The iuice or water of the leaues or ten∣drels of the Vine, are good for spitting of blood, the griefes of the stomacke, and the longing of women with childe. 15 The liquor that droppeth out of the wood yeerely, is good for the stone being drunke. 16 The gum dropped into their eyes, is good against their mistinesse and webs, it healeth pushes, skabs, leprie, skurfe and such like, being rubbed on with salt-peter. 17 And the sayd gum layde too continually with oyle, continually wasteth away haire. 18 The pulp of Raisins eaten, is good for the rough∣nesse of the throte, the Cough, and griefes of the kidneys and blad∣der. 19 And eaten with their stones, they are good for the bloody fluxe. 20 And taken in meate with Barley meale and an egge

fryed, they be good for the same purpose. 21 If they be laid too with Rue, and without their stones they heale red and angry night plowks and sores that haue matter in them like Hony, car∣buncles, rottennesse about the ioynts, and gangrenes. 22 The same layde too with the iuice of Panik, are good for the Gout, and layd to loose Nailes, they make them come off. 23 Raisins eaten before meales, strengthen the stomacke, prouoke appetite, and comfort weake bodies. 24 And without kernels they open the liuer and breast: but eaten with their kernels, they binde: without their kernels, they concoct rawe humors, and withstand putrifaction, and are good for the griefes of the chest, throte, kid∣neyes and bladder, and soften the belly being taken fasting. 25 And so chewed with fine Rubarbe, they take away cru∣dyty and rawnesse of the stomacke. 26 Ringwormes and Tet∣ters, rub them with the gumme, but first rub them with salt-peter. 27 Plant vines neere to a Bay tree. 28 Asponge dipt in warme wine, and applied to the left Pap, is good against the Frensie. 29 Teeth ach of hote cause, gargarise with water of the de∣coction of Raisins: it helpeth also the stopping of the throte. 30 Liuer colde, eate Raisins. 31 Small Raisins eaten with meate, voydeth belching, and stoppeth the fluxe. 32 Teeth ach of heate, gargarise with the decoction of Raisins. 33 Liuer hard, apply a plaster of Dwale and Raisins. 34 Wormes in children, eate them fasting. 35 Eate two drams of great Raisins fasting the stones taken out, to preserue youth, helpe digestion, diminish flegme, comfort the liuer and stomacke, and increase blood, and make it thicke, and after meate they strengthen and moysten the belly. 36 Ach, stampe Raisins of the sunne, the stones taken out, and apply it to any ach or griefe, (See Figs, Goose heyrif.) 37 Fellon in any place, bruise spanish Raisins and apply them. 38 Raisins eaten or boyled in wine, are good for the colde cough, and for a colde stomacke, and the Raisins so sodden, are good for cold Apostumes. 39 Stampe well the kernels of grapes, and binde them in a cloth, and steepe them in raine water or spring water, foure and twenty houres, and drinke a good draught of it morne and euen, against the loosenesse of y^e belly. 40 Emerods, take vp the fume of vine. Bloody fluxe, (See Pepper.) 41 Vo∣miting to stop, for drinesse of the stomacke, and obstruction of the

liuer, vse syrope of vnripe grapes called Syrupus agrestis. 42 Burne sower Grapes on a tyle, and put the fine powder thereof into the eyes that are red and running, (See Mulbery.) 43 Blood to stop, apply the ashes of a vine with a mans vrine, (See Nettle.) 44 Feuer tertain, take the iuice of sower Grapes two mornings, or steepe vine leaues in wine, and drinke it three or foure times, for the feuer tertian, or quarten. 45 The gumme drunke with white wine, expelleth the stone in the reines. 46 Rub Lepries, Ringwormes and Tetters therewith, and salt peter, to cure them. 47 Stampe greene Grapes with some vi∣neger, and make litle loaues, and drie them in the sunne, and steepe them in wine, and it will be vineger. 48 The water that falleth from vines after they be cut, killeth wartes being often washed therewith. 49 Chollike and stone, steepe the newe ashes of the branches all night in white or renish wine, and drinke it in the mornings. 50 Mixe the ashes of the wood with vineger, and apply it to the Emerods. 51 For infection of the skinne, boyle the rootes with Fitches and Fenigreke, and wash therewith. 52 Deliuerance to cause, drinke foure ounces of the iuice or de∣coction of the leaues sodden in white wine. 53 Warts or hard knobs, burne the wood, and gather the water or sap thereof at the ende, and rub them therewith. 54 Iliaca passio, drinke the iuice of the leaues or buds. (Wine and Vineger quaere.)

• Aches 36
• Appetite 23
• Apost. 37. 38
• Backe (See kidneys, stone.)
• Belly loose 24. 39
• Belching 31
• Bitings venemous 4
• Bladder griefs 6. 18. 24
• Bloody fluxe 1. 7. 19. 20. 40
• Breast swolne 3. 9
• ...Breast stopt
• Blood to increase 35
  • to stop 43
• Carbuncle 21
• Chollike 49. 54
• Cough 6. 18. 38
• Deliuerance 52
• Digestion 12. 35
• Eyes griefes 16. 42
• Emerods 40. 50
• Fellon 37
• Feuer quarten 44
  • tertian 44
• Flowers to stop 8
• Fluxe 31
• Frensie 28
• Fundament griefs 3
• Gangren 21
• Gout 22
• Head ach 2
• ...

• Haire to voyd 17
• Iliak pas. 54
• Ioynts out 4
• Kidneys griefs 6. 18. 24
• Knobs 53
• Leprie 16. 46
• Liuer colde 30
  • griefes 12. 35
  • hard 33
  • stopt 6. 24. 41
• Lungs griefs 6
• Milt griefes 12
• Nailes loose 22
• Ploukes 21
• Ring wormes 26. 46
• Sickenesse generall 35. 36
• Skab 16. 46. 51
• Skin griefe 51
• Skurfe 16
• Sores 21. 2
• Spitting blood 1. 14
• Stomacke griefs 14. 23. 25. 35. 41.
  • cold 38
  • vlcers 2
• Stone 15. 45. 49
• Swellings 3. 9
• Teeth ach 29. 32
• Tetters 26. 46
• Throte griefe 24. 29
  • rough 18
• Vineger 47
• Vlcers 2
• Vomiting 1. 41
• Warts 48. 53
• White-flawes 22
• Women longing 14
• Wormes 34