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.

¶ Chestnuts.

CHestnuts are best kept and preserued amongst Wallnuts, eate them fasting with hony for the cough. 2 Flux to stop, boyle the middle red barke in water to the third part and drinke thereof. 3 Chestnuts of all wilde fruites are the best and meetest to be eaten, for they nourish reasonably well, but they be hard of digestion, and doe stop the belly: with the meale of Chest∣nuts and hony, is made a good electuarie against the cough & spet∣ting of blood. 4 The powder thereof with barly meale and vi∣neger applyed, doeth cure vnnaturall blastings and swellings of the breasts. 5 The polished red barke boyled and drunke doeth stop the laske, the bloody flixe and all other flixes and issues of

blood. 6 Chestnuts make fat, stop flixes, and harden the milt. 7 Stamp them with hony and salt and apply it to the biting of a mad dog to heale it. 8 They cause lust, and offend the head and milt. 9 Prick through the husks with a knife and rosted and eaten with hony fasting, they are good for the cough, but their chiefe force is in binding & stopping flixes. 10 Acorns are much like in operation.

• Bitings venemous 7
• Blasting 4
• Bloody flixe 5. 6
• Breasts swollen 4
• Cough 1. 3. 9
• Fat to be 6
• Fluxes 2. 5. 6
• Laskes 5. 6
• Lust to cause 8
• Mad dog 7
• Spetting blood 3
• Swellings 4