❀ The Vertues.
[ A] The decoction of the toppes and croppes of Dill, with the seede boyled in
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.
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- 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.
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- Dodoens, Rembert, 1517-1585.
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- At London [i.e. Antwerp :: Printed by Henry Loë, sold] by my Gerard Dewes, dwelling in Pawles Churchyarde at the signe of the Swanne,
- 1578.
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- Herbals.
- Medicinal plants -- Early works to 1800.
- Botany -- Pre-Linnean works.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A20579.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 8, 2024.
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water and dronken, causeth wemen to haue plentie of Milke.
[ B] It driueth away ventositie or windinesse, and swageth the blasting & gri∣ping torment of the belly, it stayeth vomiting and laskes, and prouoketh vrine to be taken as is aforesayde.
[ C] It is very profitable against the suffocation or strangling of the Matrix, if ye cause wemen to receyue the fume of the decoction of it, thorough a close stole, or hollow seate made for the purpose.
[ D] The seede thereof being well chauffed, and often smelled vnto, stayeth the yexe, or hiquet.
[ E] The same burned or parched, taketh away the swelling lumpes, and riftes or wrincles of the tuell, or fundement, if it be layde thereto. The herbe made into axsen doth restrayne, close vp, and heale moyste vlcers, especially those that are in the share or priuie partes, if it be strowed thereon.
[ F] Dill boyled in oyle, doth digest and resolue, and swageth payne, prouoketh carnall luste, and ripeth all rawe and vnripe tumors.