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] Lauender boyled in wine and dronken prouoketh vrine, & bringeth downe the floures, and driueth forth the Secondine, and the dead Childe.

[ B] The floures of Lauender alone, or with Cinnamome, Nutmegs, & Cloues do cure the beating of the harte, and the Iaunders, and are singuler against the Apoplexie, and giddinesse, or turning of the head, they comforte the brayne

and members taken or subiect to the Palsie.

[ C] The conserue made of the floures with Sugar, profiteth much against the sayde diseases, to be taken in the morning fasting, in quantitie of a Beane.

[ D] The distilled water of the floures of Spike or Lauender healeth mēbers of the Palsie if they be washed therewith.