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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WAlnuts new & green, are better to be eaten then dry nuts, yet they be hard of digestion, & nourish very little. 2 The drie nuts nourish lesse, and yet are of harder digestion, they cause headach, & hurt the stomacke, & cause cough & shortnesse of breath. 3 A dried nut or two taken fasting with a fig & a little Rue, with∣standeth poison. 4 And mixt with figs & Rue, they cure old vlcers of the Paps & other cold apostumes. 5 Apply dry nuts with salt, hony & onyons, to the biting of a mad dog. 6 Stampe olde oyly nuts, or the oyle of them, and apply it to blew marks & bruises, and skurfs & skales. 7 The decoction of the greene husks with hony, is good to gargle against al tumors & vlcers of the mouth & throte. 8 The leaues be almost of the same vertue, (Poyson, See Figs.) 9 Mad dogs biting, chew a kernell fasting, & apply it. 10 Some gather the greene husks about midsummer, & dry them into pow∣der, & vse them in their meats in stead of Pepper: it is much bet∣ter to put dried sage thereto. 11 The tender leaues that are red∣dish, dried, are good for the same purpose. 12 The yong nuts are gathered about midsummer, & condyted with suger or hony into a sucket, for many purposes. 13 Walnuts mixt with a little hony & Rue, are good for the inflammation of the Paps, 14 Apostumes and loose ioynts: and with hony, an onyon & salt, it is good for the biting of a dog, of a man, or of an oxe, and for blackenesse comming of a bruise. 15 The water distilled out of Walnuts about mid∣summer, is good for the inflammation of the Paps & loose ioynts. 16 Walnuts burned with their shels, and mixt with oyle or wine, and applyed to the nauell, is good for the torments of the belly. 17 The shels burnt & mixt with oyle & wine, nourisheth & resto∣reth haire that is fallen. 18 The kernels burnt & mixt with wine, healeth carbuncles, and so doth the oyle pressed out of the nuts. 19 The oyle with hony, or the greene nut rindes, wil kill the kan∣ker, the place being anoynted, & also bring haire, & withstand bald∣nesse. 20 They are fit to be taken fasting, of them that would vo∣mite. 21 If they be eaten in great plenty, they kil brode wormes. 22 Walnuts mixt with Garlike, taketh away the sharpenesse. 23 With Rue and oyle, they are good to be said to the squincie. 24 And mixt with suger, they nourish temperatly. 25 The pilles

taken off, they are good for the stomacke, & do somewhat loosen the belly. 26 The water of greene nuts distilled about midsummer two or three ounces drunk, cooleth & resisteth poyson & the plague. 27 And y^e water of y^e vtter husks, distilled in September & drunk, is a sure experiment against the plague. 28 Lay Walnuts with Chestnuts, to preserue them from moulding. 29 A Walnut put into a Chicken, maketh it to roste the sooner. 30 Walnut leaues with bores sewet, restoreth haire, and so doe the ashes thereof. 31 Steepe the leaues in cold water, & at night spring off the water and apply them one after another as they dry, to running eyes. 32 Make powder of they flowers when they bloome, & take two drams of it with an egge rosted till it be hard, with oyle three mor∣nings fasting, (See Filbeard, Hasell.) 33 The leaues with Bores grease, cause haire to growe. 34 Plague, (See Rue.) 35 Stampe greene huskes, and anoynt dogs therewith, no fleaes shall anoy them, his eares especially being anoynted. 36 Haire falling, chewe the meate of them well in your mouth, and apply it presently to the place. 37 Poysoned, pare away the vttermost of the barke, and steepe powder of the rest all night in water, & streine it and drinke it fasting, to cast vp the venom. 37 Haires to be ye∣low and shining, seeth well the huskes of the nuts, and the barke of the tree in water, and make Lee therewith, or stampe them with ashes, and make Lee therewith, and wash the haires. 38 Stampe as much barke of a Wall nut tree as thy finger, with womans milke, and anoynt the headach therewith, and put thereof into thy eare. 39 Feuer colde and shaking, take the rinde of the roote, scrape off the vpper part, and make powder of the middle part, and grinde it with vineger, and streine it two or three times, till it be somewhat thinne and cleere, and drinke thereof a good quan∣titie, to auoyd the sickenesse, and to purge thee cleane.

• Apostume colde 4. 13
• Belly ach 16
  • bound 25
• Bitings venemous 5. 9. 14
• Breasts sore 4. 13. 15
• Bruises 6
• Carbuncle 18
• Eyes running 31
• Feuer colde 39
• Fleaes 35
• Headach 38
• Haire falling 17. 19. 30. 33. 36
  • to be yelowe 37
• Ioynts loose 13. 15
• ...

• Kanker 19
• Mad dog 5. 9. 14
• Mouth sores 7
• Plague 26. 27
• Poyson 3. 8. 26
• Poysoned 3. 7
• Skales 6
• Skurfe 6
• Spots 6
• Squincy 23
• Sucket 12
• Throte sores 7
• Vomit to cause 20. 37
• Wormes 21