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 leaues of Iuie boyled in wine, do cure great woundes and vlcers, and do stay corrupt vlcers, and fretting sores.

[ B] The same ordered as is aforesaid, & wel stampt or pound, & layd to, healeth burninges and scaldinges, that chaunce eyther by hoate water or fier.

[ C] The same boyled in vineger, health the hardnesse and stopping of the melt or splene, if it be layde therevpon.

[ D] The iuyce of the leaues and fruite drawen, or snift vp into the nose, purgeth the brayne, and causeth slymie or tough fleme, and other cold humours, where∣withall the brayne is charged, to issue foorth.

[ E] The same put into the eares, stayeth the running humours of the same, and

healeth vlcers, and the corrupt sores happening in the same, and it doth the lyke to the sores and vlcers in the nose.

[ F] The same layd to by it selfe, or with oyle of roses, is very profitable against the olde greeues of the head.

[ G] The flowers of Iuye layde to, in manner of a playster with oyle and waxe, healeth all burninges.

[ H] The decoction of the same flowers made in wine, and dronke twise a day, healeth the dangerous flixe called Dysenterie.

[ I] Fiue Iuie beries boyled with oyle of roses in the pille of a Pomgarnet: This oyle doth cure and helpe the toothach, being put into the eare, on the con∣trarie syde where the payne of the teeth is.

[ K] The gumme of Iuy kylleth. Lyce and Nittes. And being layde to, it taketh away heare from the place you lay it vpon.