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.

¶ Rose.

ROse: Red Roses must be clipped off, when they be not full ripe, and dried in the sonne: Rosed Hony eaten, doth com∣fort the blood and the stomacke. 2 The iuice sodden with wine, taketh away the paine of the head, and helpeth the eies & the gums, being washed therewith, & the toothach. 3 Bruse the leaues, and apply them to drawe out the heate. 4 Rub the gummes and teeth with powder of the seedes, to helpe the tooth ach. 5 Seeth the heads wherein the seedes hee, and drinke the broth, to loo∣sen the belly, and for spitting blood. 6 Mixe Roses with suger and Hony, and eate it to drie vp the euill humors of the stomacke. 7 Seethe the leaues in wine, and drinke it for the griefes

of the Matrixe and priuie parts. 8 The fresh newe leaues with Hony, doe aptly purge the body. 9 A speciall laxatiue: Take the iuice of Roses two ounces, mixe it with whey of Cowes milke & a little spikenard: or take syrope of Roses made of fresh Roses, to purge the belly. 10 The Rose leaues wrought together with suger and Hony, doth both comfort & purge the belly. 11 Steepe Rose leaues one night in vineger, & anoint hote members & places therewith, and also apply it to a hote stomacke, to qualifie the bur∣ning heate of it. 12 Drinke the iuice of Roses with sweete con∣duit water, to loosen the body, to purge the blood, especially from choller, and to put away the kings euill. 13 Roses doe comfort the heart, & reioyce the blood. 14 The Rosed Hony doth both com∣fort & expell melancholy & flegmatike matter, and taken with wa∣ter wherein Fennell seedes haue bene sodden, and a little salt put thereto, doth purge the better. 15 Clip the Rose leaues from the whites, & boyle them in oyle of Oliues, & sunne it in a glasse fiftie dayes: and this is the best oyle. 16 Apply thereof to the liuer, to helpe the heate thereof, and the temples for the ach & beating paine of the head, and to coole it. 17 Vse Rose leaues in meate, for the heate of the stomake & liuer. 18 Mixe powder of Roses with vi∣neger & the white of an egge, & apply it to y^e temples, to take away the paine of the eyes, to restraine y^e humors & the shedding of blood into the veines of the eyes. 19 Suger Roset is good for y^e bloody fluxe, the cholerike vomitings, the faintnesse of the body, & the car∣diak passion. 20 Gather the deaw that fallethon Rose leaues, and droppe it on the nether lid of the eye, to amend the blearednesse. 21 Boyle drie Rose leaues in wine & drinke it to amend the paine of the head, eyes, eares, and gums: and take the same in a glister, to amend the corruption of the bowels & matrixe. 22 Water of red Roses drunke, doth strengthen and coole the braine, heart, stomake and all inward parts, it strengtheneth the spirits & naturall heate, and preserueth from rottennesse. 23 To cleanse, drie and strengthen the sight of eyes, Take red Rose water one ounce, white wine a little, tutia one dram, aloes epatica and sugar candy, of ech twenty graines: mixe them together, & drop it into the eyes. 24 Drop Rose water with a litle suger into the eyes, for the exul∣ceration of them, comming of heate. 25 Drinke three ounces of the water fasting, to comfort the head. 26 Mixe it with wine, and

drinke sixe ounces, to take away the giddinesse of the head, and to strengthen the liuer. 27 Smell to Rose water in time of the frensie, to prouoke sleepe. 28 The iuice or infusion of the reddest Roses, or the decoction of them looseneth the belly gently without danger, and purgeth choller, and openeth the stopping of the liuer, and strengtheneth it, and is good for hote feuers and the Iaundies, the shaking, beating and trembling of the heart, discharging all euill corrupt humors in and about the veines of the heart, and is good to bee laid to the inflammation of the eyes and all other hote infirmities, especially S. Anthonies fire, or wilde fire. 29 Stampe Roses small, and apply them to hote inflammations and swellings of the Paps and outragi∣ous heate of the midrife and stomacke, and also the shingles, S. Anthonies fire and Tetter. 30 Boyle dried Roses in wine, and drinke it for the paine of the eyes, eares, and head, hawes, gummes, bladder, right gut and mother, either powred in by Glister, or anoynted. 31 The yelow in the midst of the Rose, stop∣peth the superfluous course of the flowers, and all other issues of blood, but especially the whites. 32 The fruite eaten, stoppeth the laske & all other issues of blood. 33 The wilde Rose punned with Bores grease, is very excellent good for the Alopetias or red skall, or falling of the haire. 34 The rough spongious ball of the wilde Rose bush, is of great vertue against the stone and strangury, bringing forth grauell and prouoking vrine. 35 Anoynt the head with oyle of Roses and vineger, for the frensie. 36 Drinke the hard seeds that are in the heads of Roses made into powder, with wine, to breake the stone. 37 The red fruit of Roses with all his substance, stamped, streined, and dried, and made into powder, is excellent good for the running of the reines, and for the flowers both white and red, and so doe the red heads taken before they bee ripe or waxe soft, being kept drie and sodden in wine and drunke, which also healeth the bloody fluxe & spitting of blood excellently well being well streined. 38 Take i. ounce of the iuice of Roses, with two or three ounces of whey, and a little spikenard, to purge the body: or steepe the Rose leaues in whey, and presse it out with Hony, to purge without any griefe. 39 The syrope of the iuice of Roses, and of Roses themselues, doth also purge gently. 40 The water wherein Roses haue bene steeped, cleanseth, skow∣reth

and purgeth. 41 Roses condited with Hony, scowre, purge, and strengthen: but condited with suger, they skowre lesse: but strengthen more. 42 Vineger of Roses staunch all inflammati∣ons & hote burnings, and cutteth and skowreth, and strengtheneth. 43 Roses, especially fresh, can abide no seething, for then their purging vertue is taken away by the fire. 44 The iuice by seeth∣ing measurably, is made more fine, and skowreth more mightily. 45 The iuice of Roses is giuen from one ounce to two ounces. 46 Seethe dried Roses in wine, and wash the head therewith for the headach, and likewise the eyes and eares for their paine. 47 Vse the oyle in lynaments to coole hote burning vlcers and inflammations, and to any stripe or bruise. 48 Vnguentum Ro∣sarum extinguisheth the heate of the backe and reines, and procu∣reth sleepe. 49 Fewe cordials can want the helpe of Roses, or Rose water. 50 The little yelowe tufts within the Roses in powder, stauncheth blood, kill wormes, and the kanker in the mouth, and Polyp in the Nose. 51 The dried leaues of red Roses sodden in wine and applyed, is good for the head ach, and for the ach of the eares, eyes, gummes, fundament and ma∣trixe, being vsed warme, they helpe all inflammations of the in∣trals, the griefes of the stomacke, and the holy fire: and so doth the vineger and oyle of Roses. 52 The oyle is excellent good in the plague time against the burning Pushes. 53 The water, oyle, or vineger, are good against all hote and cholerike griefes and for headach, &c. 54 The Rose is chiefe of all flowers. 55 Roses shreaded small and sodden in clarified Hony, doeth comfort, cleanse and dissolue, and digest flegmatike and thicke humors, and with colde water it stoppeth, and with hote wa∣ter saxeth. 56 Sugar and Roses incorporated together, doth comfort, binde, helpeth the bloody flixe, swooning, cholerike vomiting, and the Cardiake passion. 57 Oyle of Roses helpeth the heate of the Liuer, headach, hote fierce agewes, and causeth sleepe. 58 Rose water taketh away webs and foule specks of the face, and maketh the skinne subtill and thinne. 59 The decoction of dried Roses in raine wa∣ter, stoppeth all fluxes that come of colde causes. 60 Their powder stoppeth bleeding at the Nose, and is good for the gummes and loose teeth. 61 Their powder with Saffron and

the white of an egge, healeth the sore ach of the eyes, and stoppeth the humor of blood that runneth into the veines of the eyes & the swelling and falling downe of the matrixe. 62 The conserue of Roses doth coole & comfort the principall parts of the body, as the head, heart, stomake, liuer, milt & reines, and is thus made: Take the buds of red Roses before they be ready to spread, cut away the white part, stampe them small in a stone morter, with a woodden pestell, & put thereto thrise so much suger by little & litle, & keepe it in a close gally pot, & set it in the sonne for a season, & so do al other conserues. 63 The water of the said leaues drunke by it selfe, or with suger, or with wine, is good for all the aforesaid purposes. 64 The best way of distilling of Roses or any other thing, is in a stillatory of glasse set ouer a pot of boyling water, which is called Balneum Mariae: for those that be distilled in mettall, haue some smatch of the mettall, and are not so wholesom. 65 The iuice of Roses is kept in a glasse, with oyle powred on it, & when it shalbe occupied, the oyle is to be taken away with bombase or cotton dipt in it, it loosneth the belly, comforteth & strengtheneth the stomake, and cooleth the liuer. 66 Steepe Rose cakes in wine warme, and apply them to mitigate any ach. 67 Roses dried in the sunne a little, may be kept three yeeres. For madnesse and heate of the head, stampe Housleeke and Roses with womans milke, and apply it to the forehead & temples. 68 Hicket and heate, eate suger of Roses. 69 Faintnesse and heate in the night, dip a cloth in Rose water, and halfe as much vineger, and hold it in thy hands, & apply it to thy wrists and soles of thy feete. 70 Eyes hote, wash them with Rose water. 71 Eyes bloody, seeth Roses in water, and wash therewith. 72 Eyes swollen, seeth Frankincense & Roses in white wine, and wash therewith often. 73 Gout, apply Rose water with linnen clothes. 74 Nose bleeding, apply Rose water all about thy head & necke with linnen clothes colde. 75 Pricke to draw out, stampe the roote of red Rose tree, and apply it with linnen cloth. 76 Frensie, (See Camomile.) 77 Head ach, stampe a piece of a Rose cake with oyle, and heate it on a tyle, and apply it to the nape of the necke, to bedward. 78 Stomacke fe∣uers, and all hote euils therein, vse conserue of Roses. 79 Heart weake, drinke Rose water with suger, & powder of pearle three or foure dayes: or drinke the water only, and cast thereof in thy face.

80 Swooning, take powder of Roses with a reare Eg. 81 Con∣sumption, make a confection with the flowers of Borage & Roses, with Aromaticall spices, and vse it. 82 Swooning, seeth Basell in Rose-water and drinke it, (See Rosemary.) 83 Eyes bruised and rupture of the tunicles, seethe red Roses in water, and apply them. 84 Matrix with congealed blood, seethe red Roses in red wine in sommer, but in winter take the rootes of the tree, & seethe it in water with Bursa Pastoris, and apply it often hote in a cloth. 85 Put yong buds of Roses when they beginne to open into a reede as it groweth, and let it growe still, and so the Roses may be kept till you neede to occupie them, and then take it out, and put it into lukewarme water, & it will be fresh as in May. 86 Flowers to stop, mixe hony with red Rose leaues, the iuice of Planten and wheate flowre, and apply it plasterwise to the shares. 87 Eyes inflamed, beate the white of an Egge with Rose-water and vse it. 88 Syrupe of Roses, take Rose-water three pintes, Sugar, two pound, boyle them with a gentle fire till it rope, and keepe it in a glasse with some Sallet oyle powred on it. It slaketh thirst and drought in hote feuers, and comforeth the heart, stomacke and li∣uer, and suffereth no corruption to remaine in the heart. 89 For a winde or chollike in the belly, toste a Rose-cake at the fire, and sprinckle it with vineger, and apply it as hote as may be suffered. 90 Sleepe to cause, mixe oyle of Roses and Rose-water of eache one ounce in red vineger halfe an ounce, and anoint therewith and apply it. 91 Head-ache, anoint with the iuice of Roses and hony of eache like much. 92 Belly loose, boyle Rose-water with Cloues and Masticke in a double vessell, and drinke thereof, or vse powder of Roses. 93 Feuer ephemera, drinke newe Rose-wa∣ter, and anoint the pulses with oyle of Roses. 94 Ache, or bruise or swelling, mixe crummes of sowre bread with vineger and Rose leaues, and apply it to heale it. 95 Backe-ache and heate, steepe red Sanders and Rose-leaues in Rose-water one night, & wash therewith. 96 To keepe Roses all the yeere, gather them with a knife at euen, when they are halfe blowen, and set them in the ayre abroade all night, and in the morning put them into a earthen ves∣sel well leaded, and stop it well, and couer it with drie sande, or put them into a reede as it groweth. 97 Vnguentum Rosarum, take oyle of Roses iiii. ounces, white waxe one ounce, melt them toge∣ther

ouer seething water, and chafe them well together with Rose water and a litle white vineger, and vse it. 98 Stampe Roses with Rue & bitter Almonds with vineger, and rub the head-ache therewith that commeth of too much drinking. 99 Tetters, wash in the mornings with Parsley water, and at night with Rose water. 100 Matrix sores or rent, stampe dryed Rose leaues, and wash them with wine, and anoint a suppositorie therewith made of hares haires, and put it in, and wash it with a sharpe lotion. 101 Bruses and cuts about the eyes, mixe powder of saffron halfe a dram, with oyle of Roses one ounce, and the yolke of an Eg, and apply it. 102 Fundament chops, mixe oyle of Roses with Ver∣milion, and anoint. 103 Nostrels stinke, boyle Roses with hony in wine, and put them in. 104 Drinke oyle of Roses to moysten the belly, and coole the heate of the stomacke. 105 Apply Rose oyle with vineger to all hote aches of the head, or else where, and to all outward heates. 106 Drop the oyle into the eare for the ache and hote apostumes thereof. 107 Drinke Rose oyle with Rose-water to cure the bloody fluxe. 108 Apply to all outward wounds, apostumes and heates. (See Cetony.) 109 Wounds to heale, wash them well, and put in the oyle hote as may be suffe∣red morne and euen iiii. dayes, and when it is well cleansed, apply a plaster of Melrosate, to heale it vp, (See Celondine.) 110 Di∣gestion to cause, seethe a Rose cake in vergis, and apply it to the stomack in a bag of linen. 111 Flux white, seeth red Roses in wa∣ter, and wash the belly therewith. (See Frankincense, Lettuse.) 112 Tong wheales or bladders, seeth Roses and Violets in Rose water, and wash therewith. 113 Whelks white or red, anoint them w^t oile of Roses. 114 Face pimpled, anoint w^t Rose-water. 115 Head ache, mixe Rose-water, vineger, & the gleire of an eg of each like much, & apply it with flaxe heards. Rose-water cōforteth and restreineth fluxe & vomite. 116 Seeth it w^t cloues & mastike, and vse it against fluxes & feeblenes of vertue. 117 Rose-water is good for swooning & the cardiacke passion, for sore eyes & oynt∣ments for y^e face, & takes away y^e wens & superfluities. 118 Dry Roses smelled vnto, comfort the braine & the heart. For chollerike fluxes, seethe them in raine water, & drinke it, or apply a plaster of powder of Roses, vineger, and the white of an Eg to the pit of the stomacke. 119 Swooning, drinke water that Roses haue beene

sodden in. Or take the powder of Roses with a rere egge. 120 To make oyle of Roses, seeth 2. li. of oyle with 1. li. and a halfe of Ro∣ses in a double vessell till the thirde part bee wasted, and streine it and vse it. Some put Rose water in a glasse, and put Roses there∣to with their dewe, and boile them in a double vessell, and sonne it, and this is the best way. 121 Head scaulde mixe oyle of Roses Linseed and Oliues of eche like much, with powder of Lytarge, and apply it. 122 Face salsflegme, eate powder of red Roses or drinke the water thereof. 123 Swellings of great heate, beate the white and yolke of an egge (the strening put out) with oyle of Roses, and apply it with flaxe hards. 124 Oyle of Roses, gather the brodest Roses in the morning before the dewe bee off of them 1. pound, clip them small, and put thereto one pounde of the greenest oyle Oliue in a glasse fast stopt with lether, and hang it in the Sunne tenne or twelue dayes, then streine it and let it rest 24. houres, then powre out the water, and put the oyle in a glasse, and euery ninth day stirre it in the morning. But if you would make it colde, then hang it in water so long as it shoulde haue bene sunned. 125 The yellowe in the midst of Roses stop∣peth the whites. 126 Piles, anoynt with oyle of Roses and fran∣kincence. But if it be for a Lord, put myrre thereto, anoynt there∣with to heale it easily. 127 Suger rosat, dissolue suger in Rose-water, and seeth it well and cast it on a marble stone till it be colde and hard, then cut it in great pieces and keepe it. The like may be done with Violets, Borage, Buglosse, Rosemary flowers, &c. 128 To take away heat of the face, beat the whites of 2. egs, two spoones ful of sallet oyle, & two spoones full of Rose water toge∣ther, and anoynt therewith. 129 Eyes dull, put in water of Rue & of Roses. 130 Iulep of Roses, take Rose water 3. pound, suger sodden and clarified 2. pound, boyle them with a soft fire. It quen∣cheth thirst in hote feuers, and the heat of the heart & liuer, it resist∣eth corruption of ill humors, & preserueth health. 131 Conserue of Roses, stamp them with thrise so much suger. It comforteth y^e sto∣macke, heart & al principal parts. It mollifieth those parts that be hard, & purgeth melancholy. 132 Mel Rosarum, seeth the iuice of Roses with as much hony. It cōforteth the stomacke, & doth digest & purge flegme in the stomack or veines. 133 Manus Christi, melt suger in Rose water halfe a pound, seeth it til a suger be hard, then

put in powder of pearles or precious stones, and lay it on a marble anointed with oyle of Roses or of Violets, or Rose-water, and vse it. 134 Vnguentum Galeni, take white waxe one pound, oyle of Roses three pound, melt them together, and wash it well and often in colde water till it be white, but rather with vineger which is better. 13 Mell Rosarum is made of seuen pound of hony, and one pound of Roses boyled meanely together, till it haue a sweete odour and red colour: it doeth comfort and cleanse, and may be gi∣uen in sommer or winter after it is three dayes olde: for colde hu∣mors, take it with water that Fenell seede and three graines of Mastike haue beene sodden in. 136 Sugar Rosat, stampe one pound of newe gathered Roses with foure pound of Sugar, and sunne it in a glasse thirtie dayes, it may be kept three yeeres. 137 Fluxe to stop, eate one dram of Sugar Rosat with as much Mastike, and then drinke Rose-water sodden with Mastike and Cloues. 138 Oyle of Roses, fill a glasse with oyle and Roses, and boyle it in a vessell of water, or stampe y^e Roses, and sunne it with the oyle foure dayes: it helpeth the chafing of the liuer and hote ache of the head, there must be two pound of Roses, & three pound of oyle. 139 Vineger of Roses, gather them before they be full blowen in dry weather, lay them on a boarde halfe a day, then put them into vineger close stopt 24. houres, then stampe them and set them in glasses in the sunne all sommer, then streine it and vse it: if it be renewed with Roses euery tenth day it is the better, it may be made with wine either white, red, or claret. So make vineger of Eldren flowers or Violets. 140 Conserue of Roses or other flowers, gather them before they spread, cut the red part from the white, grinde y^e red in a stone morter, with a woodden pestell with thrise the weight of sugar, keepe it close stopt, it comforteth the sto∣macke, heart, and all the bowels, and is good against blacke chol∣ler and melancholy. 141 Conserue of white Roses doeth loosen the belly more then red: doe so with all conserues of flowers.

• Aches gen. 66. 94. 95. 105
• Apost. 108 (See Swellings
• Backe-ache 95 heate 48. 95
• Belly bound 5. 55. 65. 104 141 griefes 21. 30 loose 92
• Bladder griefes 30
• Blood to cleanse 12. 13. 50 to stop 31. 32
• Bloody fluxe 19. 37. 107
• Braine weake 22 see Head.)
• Breastes sore 29 swolne 29
• Bruise 47. 94
• ...

• Cakes 66. 77. 89
• Chaps 102
• Chollicke 89
• Conserue 62. 131. 140
• Consumption 19. 81
• Dew 20
• Digestion 110
• Distilling 64
• Dried Roses 21. 30. 46. 51 59. 67. 118
• Eares griefes 21. 30. 46. 51 104. 106
• Eyes griefes 2. 18. 23. 24. 30 46. 51. 61. dul 129. bruised or cut 83. 101. bloudy 71 101. hote 70. 87. sore 117 bleared 20. paine 21. swol∣len 72. web 58.
• Emerods 126
• Face deformed 58. 113. 114 117. 122. heat 128.
• Faintnesse 19. 69. 116
• Feuer ephemera 93. hote 28 57. 78. 88. 130
• Flowers to stop 31. 32. 37. 86
• Fluxes 32. 37. 56. 59. 92. 111 116. 118. 137
• Frensie 27. 35. 76
• Frute 32. 37
• Fundament griefs 51. 102
• Gommes griefe 2. 21. 52
• Gout 73
• Grauell 34
• Heart to comfort 1. 12. 13. 22 49. 56. 69. 79. 80. 82. 88 116. 118. 130. 140. cardiac 19. 28. 56
• Hardnesse 131
• Headache 2. 16. 30. 46. 51. 53 57. 66. 77. 79. 98. 104. 115 138. giddy 26. to comfort 25. skall 33. 121
• Haire falling 33
• Hickit 68
• Holy fire 51
• Hote griefes 3. 11. 28. 51. 66 108
• Iaundies 28
• Inflamation 3. 28. 29. 47
• Infusion 28. 40
• Iuice 28. 38. 44. 45. 65
• Iulep 130
• Keeping roses 85. 96
• Kings euill 12
• Liuer chafte 138. hote 16. 17. 57. 65. 130. stopt. 28 weake 26. 28.
• Madde 66. See Frensie.
• Manus Christi 133
• Matrix griefs 7. 21. 30. 51. 61 84. 100
• Melancholy 140
• Melrose 14. 41. 132. 135
• Mouth kanker 50
• Nose bleeding 60. 74. polip 50. stincke 103.
• Oile 15. 52. 53. 120. 124. 138
• Piles 126
• Powder 18. 80. 119. 122
• Pricks 75
• Priuities griefes 7
• Purgat. 8. 9. 10. 12. 14. 28. 38 39. 40. 41. 42. 44. 51. 131 132. 135
• Pushes hote 52
• Reines running 37
• ...

• Rootes 75
• Seedes 35
• S. Ant. fire 28. 29
• Sickenesse generall 22. 28. 62. 63. 130
• Shingles 29
• Syrupe 39. 88
• Skin deformed 58
• Sleepe to cause 27. 48. 57. 90
• Spitting blood 5. 37
• Spongy ball 34
• Stomacke griefes 6 to comfort 1. 22. 56. 65. 140. hote 11. 16. 17. 22. 29. 78. 104
• Stone 34. 36
• Strangury 34
• Sugar Ros. 19. 56. 127. 136
• Swellings 94. 123
• Swooning 56. 79. 80 82. 117. 119
• Teeth-ache 24 loose 60
• Tetter 29. 99
• Thirst 88. 130
• Tongue wheales 112
• Vineger 11. 42. 51 53. 139
• Vomiting 19. 56
• Vnguentum Rosarum 48 97. 134
• Vrine stopt 34
• Water 22. 53. 58. 63. 64
• Wennes 117
• Whites 31. 37. 125
• White Rose 141
• Wilde fire 28
• Wilde rose 33
• Whelkes 113
• Windinesse 89
• Wormes 50
• Wounds 108. 109
• Yellowe part 31. 50. 125