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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Page 636

¶ Throughwaxe.

THroughwaxe boyled in water or wine and drunke, healeth wounds, and so doe the greene leaues bruised and applied, mixt with waxe, oyle or oyntments fit to heale wounds: it healeth burstings of yong children. 2 Stampe it with meale and wine, and lay it to the nauels of yong children, to keepe vp their bowels, and drawe them to the Naturall place and settle them, and to slake them when they are too much windy and swollen. 3 The like doth the powder of the seedes applyed in like maner. 4 Stampe it with waxe or glewe, and apply it to the swelling of the Cods, burstings, inflammations and wennes. 5 The herbe or the wa∣ter thereof, is good for the holy fire and the shingles, and it cooleth a hote stomake. 6 The whole herbe is very meete to heale both inward wounds, sores and burstings, especially of children, and the going out of the nauell & great gut, and so doth both the seedes and leaues. 7 The powder of the leaues drunke with wine, hel∣peth the herneyes. 8 The herbe applyed to the nauell, healeth the vlceration thereof. 9 Children bursten, stampe it, and lay it to the nauell: or take the powder of the seedes with wine or milke.

  • Belly swollen 2 windy 2
  • Bursten 1. 4. 6. 7. 9
  • Cods swollen 4. 7
  • Fundament fallen 2. 6
  • Holy fire 5
  • Inflammation 4
  • Nauell out 6 sore 8
  • Shingles 5
  • Sores 6
  • Stomacke hote 5
  • Wennes 4
  • Wounds 1. 6
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