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.

¶ Camomill.

CAmomill: stinking sweat, seethe Camomill & Wormwood with some Alom in water and wash therewith. 2 Stone, drinke the iuice with wine. 3 Feuers, seethe Camomill, Isop, and fiueleafe ana, one handfull in a quart of Ale, and make it an Alebrew and vse it. 4 Ache, stamp it and apply it by it selfe or with Pepper. 5 Milt paine, drinke one dram of powder of the flowers with three ounces of White wine, and a litle of a childes vrine morning and euening. 6 Itch and ill humours, seethe La∣dies mantell, Camomill flowers, and Iacea ana one handfull in good Wine, and drinke foure ounces euery morning, and also wash therwith twise, and be whole. 7 Bruses, boyle Camomil, Wormewood, & wheat branne ana one handfull in wine & after in hony, & apply it. 8 Stomak impost. drink vi. ounces of the distil∣led water euery morning at the breake of day. 9 Strangury and stone in y^e reines, drink one ounce of the water when need is & eate a litle sugar after it. 10 To make y^e oyle of it, put iii. ounces of the flowers after one dayes gathering in one pinte & a halfe of sallet oyle in a glasse, & set it in the sunne xl. dayes, it openeth the pores, resolueth vapours, stoppeth flowing of humours, correcteth euill qualities, comforteth the sinewes, & mitigateth ach or paine.

11 Aches & swellings, seethe the flowers of Camomill & Roses in white wine, & apply it plasterwise. 12 Kernels in the throat, mixe pouder of it with hony, & take a spooneful of it morne & euen, and let it go down by a litle at once. 13 Feuers cold, seethe it and wormwood in a quart of Ale to y^e one halfe, then streine it & drink it first & last. 14 Head vlcers or biles, seethe it in vineger or water and wash therwith. Feuer & Iaundes, drink the iuice with warme water. 15 Headach, stamp it with red Fenel, Sage & Cummin, & apply it. 16 Chollik, stone, & stopping of the vrin, stamp Camomil and wild Mallowes ana one handfull, & seethe them in water till it be thick, put them into two pockets, & sprinkle them with white wine, & apply them one after another from the nauil to the yard as hot as may be suffred. 17 Seethe Camomil, Rosemary, & Time ana, one handfull in a pinte of Malmsey, & take vp the fume therof into the eares that are dul of hearing, or apply a ball of brused Ca∣momil. 18 Seethe two handfuls of Camomil in strong Ale, and apply it hote as may be suffered, or take vp the fume thereof into the mouth for the headach, and when it is cold heate it againe and hang a cloth ouer thy head. Mouth byles, chew Camomill. 19 Sinewes shronk, & for swelling in the necke, grind it with as much water cresses, of eche one handful smal, & fry them w^t wheat meale and hony, and apply it hote as may be suffered: prooued. 20 Stitch, stamp the flowers with a litle vineger, & apply them hote in a bag, or seethe three handfuls with as much wormwood, some Mallowes, & one handfull of Rosemary in a gallon of water to the one halfe, & put them into two or three bladders & apply them hote one after another. 21 Worms, seethe Camomil, Tansy, & Peni∣royal ana, like much, in one pinte of Malmsey to y^e one halfe, then strein it, & drink therof. 22 For the cholik at all times, fil a stilla∣torie with Camomill, & one handfull of Mints, all shreaded smal, put thereto a quart of White wine and distill it, and drink the wa∣ter. 23 Head pusshes and wheales seethe it in vineger and wash therewith. 24 Headach of a burning feuer, vse Camomill. 25 Mouth kanker, burne it and vse the powder. 26 Milt griefes, drink one dramme of the powder fourtie dayes. 27 Vrine stopt, seethe it in wine or water, & drinke thereof often, it helpeth also the stopping of the liuer and milt. 28 Flowers stopt, seethe it in water and bath therein. 29 The oyle of it, stamp the flowers

with oyle oliue, and let it rest xii. dayes, then seethe it and streine it, and doe so the second time, & let it stand xvi. dayes, then seethe it, and streine it & vse it. 30 Cholik, seethe it with Rue, & drinke it. 31 Headach, seethe it in water and wash therewith luke warme and apply the herbe till the ache cease. 32 Sleepe to cause, apply Camomill to thy temples. 33 Headach of stopping, seethe the flowers in lee & wash thy head therwith, & apply the flowers, and steep a piece of bread in wine, & eate it with powder of Cinna∣mom. 34 Madnesse, seethe Camomill flowers and Veruin ana one handfull in a quart of water or lee, & wash thy head therewith. 35 Sweat to cause, vse Camomil & the flowers thereof in baths. 36 Liuer cold with stitch & palenes, purge thy body, & set thy feet in warme water wherein Camomil hath bene sodden, & warme, them, & beware thou take no cold. 37 Loynes ach of cold cause, Seethe the flowers in wine with as much water, and stamp them well, & seethe them againe in the same liquor till it be wasted, and apply it as hote as may be suffered a foote broad, and then vse hote oyntments or oyles. 38 Feuers of dry cause, or heauinesse, seethe Camomill and Dill ana, two handfuls in water, & sit ouer it vp to the knees, & couer thee well that the water may strike vp through thee, then rub well thy legs downewards & walke, & vse meates that warme moderately, & beware of colde. 39 Feuer quotidian with great thirst, set thy feet in the like water aforesaid & dry them and rub them with salt, & as much oyle of Violets. 40 Camomill drunk with wine, breaketh the stone, helpeth the Iaundes, the ach and griefe of the liuer, sores of the mouth, headach, & megrem, and expelleth vrin. 41 A good plaster for the stomak: stamp Camomil, Mints, sage, & good store of wormwood with sowre bread, & boyle them in vineger, & apply it warme. 42 The decoction of the flow∣ers, herbe & root drunk, prouoketh terms, expelleth the dead fruit, driueth out vrine, & breaketh the stone, and so doeth the bath of the decoction thereof. 43 The flowers & herbe boyled in wine and drunk, expelleth the wind, & cureth the cholik & paine in the belly, and so it purgeth & beautifieth those that haue an euill colour after the Iaundes, and all griefes of the liuer. 44 Drink one dramme of the herbe and flowers with wine, against all venemous bytings. 15 Seethe it in water & apply it to the region of the bladder for the paine thereof, and to driue forth the vrine & grauel. 46 Chew

it in the mouth for the vlcers thereof, or wash the mouth with the decoction thereof. 47 Mixe it with oyle, & take it in a glister a∣gainst all Feuers comming of obstruction or stopping of the skin. 48 The oyle thereof swageth all ache, it cureth brused and wea∣ried partes, it softneth all hardnesse & swellings, and openeth all that is stopped. 49 Seethe it in water, and wash pusshes of the head therewith to heale them. 50 Strangury & stone in the kid∣neys, drink Camomill water with sugar fasting, till the paine be gone. 51 Stamp it and streine it with white wine, and drinke it to expell a dead child presently, & to clense the bladder. 52 Wash one handfull and bruse it, and seethe it in a pinte of Ale to the one halfe, scom it & streine it, and drink it one houre before the fitt of an ague with sugar, and couer thee well to sweat three dayes toge∣ther fasting. 53 The smell of it comforteth y^e braine. 54 Seethe the herbe & flowers in wine and drink it to helpe the stoppings of the liuer & milt to purge choller to expell termes to help the tor∣ments of the smal guts, to heale y^e griefe of the kidneis & bladder, to mitigate the inward griefes of the matrix, for straitnes of wind, sighing, wheasing, the griefes of the lungs, the fluxe lienteria, to warme the cold stomak to driue away many inward griefes. 55 Seethe the flowers with vineger & hony, & drink it dayly morne and euen for the falling sicknesse. 56 There is no medicine more vsuall amongst men then Camomil for all griefes. 57 Smell to Camomill & wash thy head therewith, or with the lee thereof, for the weaknesse of the head and braine. 58 Wash filthy vlcers with the decoction thereof. 59 The oyle of the flowers thereof, softneth all hard swellings and humours, and mitigateth aches. 60 No man can tell all the vertues thereof. 61 Anoynt the head∣ache with the oyle, and all other aches, bruses, shrinkings, hard∣nesse, and stoppings, &c.

Take the flowers of Camomill, or any other flowers, or fresh greene herbes, chop them small, and boyle them artly in oyle, coole it and presse, and put therein fresh flowers, and sunne it, and vse it.

Take powder of any simple wood, as Sanders, Aloes, Ta∣mariske, or Guiacum, soke it in oyle of sweete Almonds ten dayes, then heate it, and presse out the oyle, the like may be done with any flower or herbe.

• Aches 4. 10. 11. 37. 48. 59. 61.
• Backach 37. 54
• Bellyach 43. 54
• Bytings venemous 44
• Bladder griefes 45. 51
• Braine ill. 53. 57
• Breath straite 54
• Bruses 7. 48. 61
• Choller 54
• Chollik 16. 22. 30. 43. 54
• Colour bad 54
• Dead childe 42. 51
• Eares dull 17
• Falling euill 55
• Feuers 3. 14. 38. 47. 52. cold 13. hote 24. quotidian 39.
• Flowers stopt 28. 42. 54
• Fluxe 54
• Grauell 45
• Hardnesse 48. 59. 61
• Headach 15. 18. 24. 31. 33. 40. 57. megrem 40. vlcers 14. 23. 49.
• Iaundes 14. 40. 43
• Impostume 8
• Itch 6
• Kernels 12
• Liuer colde 36. griefes 54. 40. 43.
• Loynes ache 37
• Lungs griefes 54
• Madnesse 34
• Matrix griefes 54
• Milt griefes 5. 26. 54
• Mouth vlcers 18. 40. 46. kanker 25
• Necke swollen 19
• Oyle 10. 29
• Sinewes griefe 10. shronke 19. 61.
• Shrinkings 60
• Sicknesse generall 54. 56
• Sighing 54
• Sleepe to cause 32
• Sores 58
• Stinking sweat 1
• Stomak impost. 8. colde 54. griefes 41.
• Stone 29. 16. 40. 42. 50.
• Strangurie 9. 50
• Stitch 20. 36
• Swellings 11. 48. 59
• Sweat to cause 35
• Thirst 39
• Throat kernels 11
• Vlcers 58
• Vrine stopt 27. 40. 42. 45
• Wearinesse 48
• Wheasing 54
• Windinesse 43
• Wormes 21