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.

¶ Beeche.

BEeche, the leaues are very good to be laid to the beginning of hote swellings, blisters, and vlcers. 2 The water founde in the hollownesse of Beeche, doth cure noughty skurfe and wild tet∣ters or skabs of man or beast, of horses, kine, or sheepe being washed therewith. 3 The nuts are sweete and good to eate, and do serue for almost all purposes y^e Pineapple kernels do serue for. 4 The leaues chewed are good for the diseases of the goms & lips. 5 The nuts burned and mixt with hony, is good for a skalde and skuruie head when the haire goeth off being laid to. 6 The same is good for the stone. 7 The leaues, barke, buds or cups, sodden in red wine or running water, and sitten ouer stoppeth the termes, & put∣teth backe the matrix and fundament that are fallen: and the de∣coction thereof in cleane red wine with Cinamon and Sugar, is good to the same effect.

• Blisters 1
• Byles 1
• Fundament fallen 6
• Flowers to stop 7
• Gomes griefes 4
• Head clean. 5 skales & skurf 5
• ...

• Haire falling 5
• Lippes griefes 4
• Matrix fallen 7
• Skurfe 5
• Stone 7
• Swellings hote 1
• Vlcers 1