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 May 23, 2024.

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¶ Rye.

RYe meale put into a little bag & laid vpon the head, cureth the olde paine of the head, and drieth the braine. 2 The leuin thereof draweth forth thornes and pricks, it ripeth all swel∣lings and apostumes better then leuin of wheate meale. 3 Rye bread with butter is of the like vertue, but not so strong as ye leuin. 4 Rye bread is heauie and hard to digest, good and strong for la∣bouring men. 5 The yong blades distilled are good for the stone, and for any great heate in any part of the body. 6 Teeth yelow, mixe Rye meale, salt and Hony, of ech like much, and rub them therewith two or three times a day, & then wash them with water.

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7 Spitting blood, eate a hote Rye cake. 8 Mouth kanker and stinke, bake a cake of sower Rye dough, with good store of salt and Pepper, and make it into powder, with powder of a Harts horne, and a Pill of cleane leekes, and apply it all night. 9 Wounds to heale, seeth swines greace with Hony and Rye meale, and a little iuice of wilde Nep, called Bryony, and vse it to cleanse & heale it fast. Kanker, seeth Sloe thorne barke in water, till it be thicke and blacke, and put Hony to it, and temper it with Rye flower, & ap∣ply it. Blacke Iaundies, (See Celondine.) 10 Strangury, anoynt thy yard with Populeon, and apply Rye meale on the yard. 11 The meale is good with other medicines for bruises. 12 Dropsie, bake cakes of Rye meale, and the iuice of Lilly roots, and bake them vnder a bake-pan of earth, and apply them hote to the belly one after another: or take sage and Rye meale of ech like much, mixe them finely with a little salt, and bake them finely to∣gether, and cut it into gobbits, and put it into a pot of ale, & drinke the ale, and eate the cake, especially first and last. 13 Gout of hote cause, apply Rye meale with vineger. Fistula, vse Rye meale with other medicines. 14 Gout, apply Rye meale with oile of Roses. 15 Sciatica, apply Rye flower with vineger: if it be the hote gout, the paine will mitigate, or els it is the cold gout. 16 Skabs, mixe the iuice of smallach with Rye meale, sewet, waxe and brim∣stone, and anoynt, and the third day bath thee. 17 Wounds ache, mixe the iuice of smallach with Hony, swines grease & Rye meale, and apply it. 18 Belly grinding, bake a cake of Rye flower well sowred, and heate the inside of it being cut through the midst, and anoint it with Hony, & cast thereon powder of Cummin, & apply it as hote as may be suffred, & as often as need is. 19 Cods swollen, boyle Rye flowre with the iuice of wall wurt, Hony & vineger till it be thicke, & apply it. 20 Gout in the bones, make tostes of Rye bread, steepe them in vineger, & after in Hony, & apply it iii. dayes, and lay on it a wurt leafe. 21 Kanker & fester, burne a dogs head to powder, and mixe it with Rye meale, the iuice of Louage and Hony, and apply it with tents of linnen till it be whole. 22 Fe∣ster, burne Hempe seede & Rye to powder, and mixe it with Hony and the iuice of smallach, and apply it: or kneade a cake of Rye flower with Hony, and bake it hard, and apply it till it waxe nesh, and then apply newe as often as neede is.

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    • Aches 17
    • Apost. 2. 3
    • Belly ach 18
    • Bones ach 20
    • Bruises 11
    • Cods swollen 19
    • Dropsie 12
    • Fester 21. 22
    • Gout 13. 14. 15. 20
    • Headach 1
    • Heate inward 5
    • Kanker 9. 21
    • Mouth kanker 8
      • stinke 8
    • Pricks 2. 3
    • Rume 1
    • Sciatica 15
    • Skabs 16
    • Spitting blood 7
    • Stone 5
    • Strangury 10
    • Swellings 23
    • Teeth foule 6
    • Wounds 9. 17
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