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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"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 7, 2024.

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¶ VVoodbine.

VVOodbine, the fruite drunke i wine fourtie daies toge∣ther, doeth heale the stopping and hardnesse of the milt, and maketh it lesse, and purgeth by vrine the corrupt humours so strongly, that after the dayly vse thereof eight or tenne daies toge∣ther, it will cause the vrine to bee red and bloudy, and is good for shortnesse of breath, or any dangerous cough, it helpeth women in trauell, and drieth vp the naturall seede of man. 2 The leaues haue like vertue as the fruite. 3 And beeing sodden in oyle, and stamped, and the ridge bone anoynted therewith before the fitte, preuenteth the shaking of Agues. 4 The same healeth wounds and corrupt vlcers, and taketh away hurtes and spottes of the bodie and face. 5 The iuice of the leaues and fruite are euill for women with childe. 6 For the breaking out of the head, with ringwormes, &c. washe it with strong vineger, and cast thereon ashes of the rinde of Woodbine. 7 For Impostumes, and webbes of the eyes, mixe the iuice of Honisuckle, with pure honie, and put it into the eye. 8 Take Woodbine leaues one handfull, white Wine a pinte, powder of Ginger foure ounces,

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seethe them till it bee somewhat thicke, and anoynt thy face therewith fiue or sixe times to auoyde the pimples, and to make it faire. 9 Stampe the leaues, and apply them to wartes sixe times, to destroy them. 10 Gather the seede when it is ripe, and drie it in the shadowe, and drinke one dramme in wine four∣tie dayes to melt away the milt, to voyde wearinesse, for short∣nesse of winde, for the hickit, and to expell vrine: the leaues haue the same vertues. 11 leaues drunke seuen and thirtie dayes together, so dryeth vp the naturall seede of man, that hee shall gette no moe children. 12 The oyle thereof is very good for all colde griefes and numbednesse. 13 The water is good a∣gainst pissing of blood. 14 The syrop is good for the lunges and the sores of the mouth and throate. 15 If women drinke it much, they become barren. 16 The berries are good against pissing of blood, and to hasten deliuerance, but the water is bet∣ter and more pleasant, which also helpeth the hote griefes of the eyes, and of the liuer. 17 Applie a Woodbine leafe to chappes, till they bee whole. 18 Eyes webbe, seethe ribwoort, Wood∣bine, and Planten, with Maye butter, and streine it and vse it. 19 Stomacke sore, stampe fifteene leaues, and streine them with stale ale, and drinke it nine dayes first and last. 20 Tongue palsie, stampe the leaues and holde them vnder thy tongue. 21 Wood∣bine healeth cankred sores, wounds, bladders, and toothach, sores in the toes, and is good against swelling in the bodie, comming of venome or poyson. 22 Skin to growe where it is rawe, stampe the leaues, and seethe them in a quart of good ale, and streine it, and put thereto honie and allome, and seethe it to one halfe, then dippe graye paper therein, and applie it. 23 Eies to cleere, (See Planten.) 24 Mouth canker, (See Cheruil.) 25 Skall, (See Planten, Rue.) Kanker, (See Fiueleafe.) 26 Eares wormes, put in the iuice hote. Eies pin and webbe, (See Rue, Smallach.) 27 Mouth kanker, mixe the iuice of Woodbine and Fiueleafe with honie and allome, and applie it. 28 Sores, (See Sage. 29 Ringworme, washe it with strong vineger, and cast on ashes of the rinde, it healeth all skabs of the head, or els where. 30 Eyes blemishes, put in the iuice with womans milke. 31 Nose blee∣ding, (See Raddish.) Face redde, take white Wine one pinte, Woodbine water, two or three ounces, a handfull of the leaues, &

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foure ounces of ginger in powder, seeth them till it be somewhat thicke, and annoint the rednesse & pimples fiue or sixe times. 32 Face spots, red pimples and wheales, distill the flowers and wash often with the water, and also drinke foure ounces morning and euening. 33 Wounded, drinke Woodbine with wine and hony three dayes. 34 Fluxe to stop, seeth it in water till it be soft, and wash thy body and feete therewith. 35 Kanker, mixe burnt alom with the iuice of Woodbine, vineger & hony, and annoint. 36 A salue for a green wound, wash one ounce of turpentine in Wood∣bine water, and mixe it with the yolke of two new layd egges, and put thereto two blades of saffron, and mixe them well and keepe it in a boxe, it wil last good one yeere.

  • Barren to be. 15
  • Benummed. 12
  • Blisters. 21
  • Breath short. 12. 10
  • Bruises. 4
  • Chafings. 22
  • Chaps. 17
  • Chast to be. 11
  • Conceiued. 5. 11
  • Cough. 1. 2. 10
  • Deliuerance. 1. 2. 16
  • Eares wormes. 26
  • Eies griefe. 7. 16. 18. 23. 26. 30
  • Face deformed. 4. 8. 31. 32
  • Feuers. 3
  • Fluxes. 34
  • Head skall. 23
    • Sores. 6
  • Hicket. 10
  • Kankers. 21. 25. 35
  • Liuer griefs. 16
  • Lungs griefs. 14
  • Lust to voyd. 1. 2. 11
  • Milt griefs. 1. 2. 10
  • Mouth kanker. 24. 27
    • Sores. 14
  • Nosebleeding. 31
  • Palsie. 20
  • Pissing blood. 13. 16
  • Poison. 21
  • Ringwormes. 6. 29
  • Seed to dry vp. 1. 2. 11
  • Skab. 6. 8. 29. 31
  • Skall. 25
  • Skin to grow. 22
  • Sores. 4. 21. 28
  • Speach lost. 20
  • Stomacke sore. 19
    • Swollen. 21
  • Throte sores. 14
  • Toes sores. 21
  • Tongue palsie. 20
  • Venome. 21
  • Vlcers. 4
  • Vrine stopt. 1. 2. 10
  • Warts. 9
  • Wearinesse. 10
  • Wounded. 33
  • Wounds. 33. 36
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