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] Sagapenum taken the waight of a dram, purgeth by siege, tough & slymie humours, and al grosse flegme and choler. Also it is good against al olde & cold diseases that are harde to cure: it purgeth the brayne, and is very good against all the diseases of the head, and against the Apoplexie, and Epilepsie.

[ B] To be taken in the same sorte, it is good against Crampes, Paulsies, shrin∣kinges, and paynes of the sinewes.

[ C] It is good against the shortnesse of breath, the colde long and olde cough, the paynes in the side and breast, for it doth mundifie and clense the breast of al cold mentes or flegme.

[ D] It doth also cure the hardnesse, stoppinges, and windinesse of the melte, or splene, not onely taken inwardly, but also to be applyed, outwardly in oynt∣playsters.

[ E] It is good against the shakinges and brusinges of olde and colde Feuers.

[ F] If Sagapenum be dronken with honyed water, it prouoketh the flowers, and deliuereth the dead Childe. And to be taken with wine, it is of great force against the bytinges and stinginges of all venimous beastes.

[ G] The sente or fauour of this gumme, is very good against the strangling or vprising of the mother.

[ H] Sagapenum soked or stieped in vineger, scattereth, dissolueth, and putteth cleane away all harde, olde colde swellinges, tumoures, Botches, and harde lumpes growing about the ioyntes: And it is good to be be mingled amongst all oyntmentes and emplaysters that are made to mollifie and soften.

[ I] It cleareth the sight, & at the beginning it taketh away the hawe or webbe in the eye & al spottes or blottes in the same, if it be dropped into the eyes with

the iuyce of Rue: it is also good agaynst the bloodshoting and dinnesse of the same, which commeth by the occasion of grosse humors.