The first and seconde partes of the herbal of William Turner Doctor in Phisick, lately ouersene, corrected and enlarged with the thirde parte, lately gathered, and nowe set oute with the names of the herbes, in Greke Latin, English, Duche, Frenche, and in the apothecaries and herbaries Latin, with the properties, degrees, and naturall places of the same. Here vnto is ioyned also a booke of the bath of Baeth in England, and of the vertues of the same with diuerse other bathes, moste holsom and effectuall, both in Almanye and England, set furth by William Turner Doctor in Phisick. God saue the Quene

Of the herbe Balsamine.

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Balsamine prima.

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Balsamine altera.

THere is an herbe which is called in Barbarus Latin Balsami∣na / and of some Viticella / of some Momordica / and of some Ca∣ranza. Thesame maye be called in English Balsamine or vine Balsamine / It groweth much in Italy / and in some places of England in gardines. Balsamine is a litle herbe and crepeth li∣ke a vine with smale braunches / and claspeth about herbes and bushes that growe next about it after the maner of Briony / and suche other like crepinge herbes / but thesame hath leaues much lesse and more depely in∣dented. It hath manye litle claspers / wherwith it holdeth vp it selfe: The cla¦spers come out from the holowe place betwene the stalke and the leaues foote stalke. It hath a floure like a Cucumer / some what yelowish. It hath a fruyte small at the bottome and bigger aboue. The shell of it is thicke and fleshye. It hath a cremesin color when it is ripe. It hath a sede inclosed in like vnto the sede of Languria / couered with a thick shell very slippery and red. It hath a verye smale roote / and it is not ripe before the Auguste or Sep∣tember.

The Vertues.

THE leaues ioyne together freshe woundes. The fruyte if the sede be taken out / and set in the sunne long with oyle that is not full rype / or if it be steped in the same oyle / and put into a vessel which standeth in an other vessel full of hote water / or if it be set in hote horse dunge / it wil make an oyle verye profitable to dryue awaye the great heate and inflammations of woundes and of weomens bre∣stes / and to swage ache. It is also good for weomens mo¦thers / if they haue theyr skinne of / and for the ache of the emrodes. The fruyte is good for the same purpose if it be sodden in a double vessel in swete almond oyle or Lint sede oyle / so that ye put to euery pound of oyle an vnce of the moyste vernishe. The same is verye good for them that are ether burnt with the fyre / or scalded with hote water. It is good also for sinewes that are pric¦ked and wounded. Some hold that it is good for weomen that are barrayn / to make them fruytefull. It is good also for burstinge of children if the place be anoynted oft therewyth. The pouder of the leaues in the quantitye of a spoune full taken with the broth of Plantayne or horse tayle / is good for the woundes of the guttes. And some hold that the same is good against the gna¦wynge of the bellye.