A nievve herball, or historie of plantes wherin is contayned the vvhole discourse and perfect description of all sortes of herbes and plantes: their diuers [and] sundry kindes: their straunge figures, fashions, and shapes: their names, natures, operations, and vertues: and that not onely of those whiche are here growyng in this our countrie of Englande, but of all others also of forrayne realmes, commonly vsed in physicke. First set foorth in the Doutche or Almaigne tongue, by that learned D. Rembert Dodoens, physition to the Emperour: and nowe first translated out of French into English, by Henry Lyte Esquyer.

❧ The Vertues.

[ A] The decoction of Horse tayle, in wine or water dronken, stoppeth all fluxe of bloud, & al other extraordinary fluxes, especially the inordinate issue of floures, it doth also cure the bloudy flixe and dangerous laske, and all other kinde of laskes. And for all the aforesayde entents it is a soueraigne remedie (as Galen writeth). The iuyce of this herbe dronken alone or with wine, is of the same operation and effect.

[ B] Horse tayle or Shauegrasse, being taken in manner aforesayde, is most cō∣uenient and profitable, for all vlcers, sores, and hurtes of the kidneys, the blad∣der and bowels, and against all burstings.

[ C] Horse tayle with his roote boyled, is good against the Cough, the difficultie and payne of fetching breath, and against inwarde burstings as Dioscorides and Plinie writeth.

[ D] The iuyce thereof put into the Nose, stancheth the bleeding of the same, and with a Pessarie or Mother Subpository conueyed into the naturall places of women, stoppeth the floures.

[ E] The same pounde and strowed vpon freshe and greene woundes, ioyneth them togither and healeth them, also it preserueth them from inflammation. And so dothe the powder of the same herbe dryed, and strowed vpon new, and greene woundes.