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 iuyce of the great Burre dronken with Hony prouoketh vryne, and swageth the payne of the bladder.

[ B] The same dronken with olde wine, healeth the bitings and stingings of ve∣nemous beasts.

[ C] The leaues pound with a littell salte, is with great profite layd vnto the bi∣tings and stingings of Serpents, madde Dogges, & other venemous beasts.

[ D] The scede made into pouder & taken with the best wine that may be gotten by the space of fortie dayes, is very profitable for such as haue the Sciatica.

[ E] A dramme (which is the eigth parte of an vnce) of the roote, pound with the kernesses of Pine apple, and dronken, is a soueraigne medicine for such, as spit bloud and corrupt matter.

[ F] It is good for such as haue ache or payne in their ioyntes, by reason that the sayde ioyntes or bones haue bene before out of ioynt, broken or hurte.

[ G] The greene leaues pounde with the white of Egges, cureth burnings and olde sores, being layde thereto.

[ H] The iuyce of the lesser Burre dronken with wine, is much vsed against the bitings of venemous beasts, and also against the grauell and the stone.

[ 1] The fruite pounde & layde vnto colde swellings (called in Greeke Oedema) consumeth the same, and scattereth or wasteth all colde humors: and is specially good against the Kings euell, called Strumas and Strofulas.