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 June 6, 2024.
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¶ Sarasins.
SArasins consound, or Solidago sarasenica: it healeth all wounds and vlcers both inward & outward, in drinks, oyles, oyntments, and plasters. 2 The same boyled in water & drunke, stayeth the wastings of the liuer, and helpeth the stopping thereof, and of the gaul and the bladder, and is good against the Iaundies and feuers of long continuance, and such as are falling into the Dropsie. 3 The decoction thereof is good against the vlcers and stinking of the mouth, and vlcerations of the gums and throte.
Bladder griefes 2
Dropsie 2
Feuers generall 2
Gaul griefes 2
Gums griefes 3
Iaundies 2
Liuer stopt 2 wasting 2
Mouth griefs 3
Throte griefes 3
Vlcers 1
Wounds 1
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