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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¶ Sloes.

SLoes, (see Plum, Acatia.) Belly-ache, drinke the iuice with wine. 2 Breast paine, stampe good store of ripe Sloes, & put them in an earthen pot, and fill it with newe ale, and so drinke it. 3 To auoide dead flesh, boyle the barke in water till it be blacke

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and thicke, and put thereto Rie meale and hony, and apply it. 4 Eyes teares, stampe ye greene barke with a litle vineger, & put thereof into the eyes, and be whole in iii. dayes. 5 Vrine to stop, seethe the barke in water and drinke it. Fleaes to voide, seethe it in water, and sprinckle the house with it. 6 Canker, seeth ye barke in water tender till it be thicke & blacke, and mixe it with Rie meale and hony, & apply it, (see Rie.) Seeth a quart of Sloes in a pottell of vineger, till it be wasted, then dry them & put thereof into wine, and it wilbe vineger presently. The mosse with Swines grease draweth out prickes.

  • Belly-ache 1
  • Breast paine 2
  • Dead flesh 3
  • Eyes teares 4
  • Fleaes to voide 5
  • Kanker 6
  • Pissing bed 5
  • Prickes 6
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