¶ Rocket.
ROcket is a good sallat herbe to be eaten with Letuse, Pur∣slen and other like colde herbes, and so they will not hurt the
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 16, 2024.
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stomacke with their coldnesse: but eaten alone, it heateth too much, and causeth headach. 2 The vse thereof mooueth venus, especi∣ally the seed: also it prouoketh vrin, & causeth digestion. 3 The seede is good against venemous bitings, and applyed with Hony, it taketh away lentils, freckles, and other deformities of the face. 4 And with the gaul of an oxe, it taketh away blewe markes and skarres. 5 He that taketh the seeds before he be beaten or whipt, shall be so hardened, that he shall easily indure the paine. 6 The roote boyled in water & applyed, draweth foorth shords, splinters, and broken bones. 7 The seed driueth all kinde of little worms out of the body. 8 With vineger, it taketh away faint spots and freckles. 9 With Hony it healeth all the deformities of the face. 10 The seede may be vsed for mustard seede. Pricks, stampe the seedes, and apply it. 11 For griefe comming of Ruptures, frac∣tures or vnplacing of ioynts, boyle the roots it water and stampe them, and apply them. 12 Blacke spots or bruises, grinde the seedes with an oxe gaul, of ech like much, and apply it or anoynt. 13 Rocket prouoketh vrin, and causeth lust. 14 With oyle and Hony, it cleanseth the skinne. 15 The iuice drunke, helpeth the cough.
- Ach 11
- Bitings venemous 3
- Bones broken 6. 11
- Bruise 4. 5. 12
- Cough 15
- Digestion 2
- Face deform. 4. 8. 14
- Freckles 4. 8. 14
- Ioynts out 11
- Lust to cause 2. 13
- Pricks 6. 10
- Skin deformd 14
- Vrine stopt 2. 13