¶ Spurge.
SPurge, (See Palma Christi, Tithimal. 2 Sixe or eight seeds of it doe purge choller, flegme, and watrish humours mightily,
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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- 1579 [i.e. 1597]
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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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and so doeth the iuice, but it is stronger in operation, it is of the ve∣ry nature and facultie of Tithimal, and must be vsed as is saide of Tithimal. 3 Seuen seedes taken with figges or dates purge the bellie, and so doeth the leaues sodden with a cocke. Fistula, and hollowe vlcers, Seethe it in wine, and put it in. (See Setwal, Tithimal. 4 Teethach, mixe the milk thereof with wheat-floure, and fill the hollow tooth therewith, and seethe the root in wine and wash therewith morne and euen, euery moneth once, and you shall haue no pain. 5 Take nine crops pulled vpward in powder with ale to purge vpwarde, and drinke some warme ale soone after it, and after vse some restoratiue. 6 The milke with wheat-meale maketh the skin white. Teeth, (See Iuie.) Drinke three graines with sugar cleane pilled, to loosen the bellie, three or foure leaues seedes with warme water cause vomite, and so doeth the iuice.
- Choller 1
- Fistula 3
- Flegme 2
- Purgation 2. 3
- Skin to cleanse 6
- Teethach 4
- Vlcers hollow 3
- Vomite to cause 5