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.

¶ Sowbread.

SOwbread, drinke a dram or a dram and a half of the powder of the root with Hydromel to purge grosse and tough flegme, and other sharpe humors. 2 Bitings venemous, and all poison, apply it, and also drinke it with wine. 3 For the stopping of the liuer, the Iaundies, and to auoyde the yellow colour, drinke it with Hy∣dromel, and couer thee well to sweate. 4 To expell the flowres and dead childe, drinke it, or vse it as a pessary. 5 Belly bounde, strake the nauel and the belly with the iuice, or put it into the fun∣dament with wooll. 6 Fundament falne, anoynt it with the iuice & vineger to settle in the natural place it. 7 Eyes spots, pearles, hawes, and al other impediments, and to cleare the sight, put in the iuice with hony. 8 The root maketh the skin faire and clean, and voideth all naughty skurf and maunge, the falling of the haire, the marks and spots of the pocks and masels, and all other blemishes. 9 The same or the iuice mixt with ointment or oiles for the same purpose, wasteth the hardnesse of the milt. 10 Apply it with oile and vineger to heale wounds. 11 Ioints out, heeles kibed, Gout in the feet, & skurf of the head, wash with the broth or decoction of

the root. 12 The oile wherein the roote hath bene boiled, closeth vp wounds, and with the same and a litle waxe, a good oyntment is made for kibes, chilblains, and griefs comming of cold. 13 The root hanged vpon women in trauell, causeth speedie deliuerance. 14 In what sort soeuer this root be taken, it is dangerous for wo∣men with child, or if it be but caried about them, or that they tread ouer it. 15 If it bee put into wine, it maketh a man drunken, a iuice is pressed out of the roote, and sodden to the thicknesse of honie, and so kept. 16 The roote is sliced and laid vp as Squilla is. 17 Head sores, or whelks, vse the decoction therof. 18 Iaun∣dies, stampe the roote of Sowbread and gladen, and drink the iuice, or sit in the decoction of them. 19 Emerodes, mixe the iuice with powder of Agaricke, and hote oyle, and apply it. 20 Nose stink, put in the water of Sowbread.

• Belly bound 5
• Bitings venemous 2
• Chilblane 11. 12
• Dead childe 4
• Eyes griefes 7
• Emerodes 19
• Feete gowte 11
• Flowers stopt 4
• Fundament fallen 6
• Gowte 11
• Head griefes 8. 17
• Iaundies 3. 18
• Ioynts out 11
• Kibes 11. 12
• Liuer stopt 3
• Masels 8. 9
• Milt hard 9
• Nose stinke 20
• Poyson 2
• Pocks 8. 9
• Skinne griefes 8
• Wounds 10. 12