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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Title: 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.
Author: Dodoens, Rembert, 1517-1585.
Publication: 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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Subject terms: Herbals.; Medicinal plants -- Early works to 1800.; Botany -- Pre-Linnean works.
Cite this Item: "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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❀ The Vertues.

[ A] Raw wheate chewed in the mouth, is good to be layd to agaynst the biting of mad Dogges.

[ B] The whole wheate is very profitable against the paynes of the gowt, whē a man plongeth him selfe therein, euen vp to the knees, as ye shall reade in Pli∣nie of Sextus Pompeius, who being so vsed, was cured of the gowte.

[ C] Wheaten meale mingled with the iuyce of Henbane, & layde to the sinewes, is good against the rheumes and subtill humours falling downe vppon the same.

[ D] The same layde vpon with vineger and hony (called Oximel) doth clense and take away all spottes and lentilles from of the face.

[ E] The meale of Marche or Sommer wheate, layd to with Vineger, is very good against the bitinges of venemous beastes.

[ F] The same boyled lyke to a paste or pappe, and licked, is very good agaynst the spetting of blood: and boyled with Butter, & Mintes, it is of great power against the cough, and roughnesse of the throte.

[ G] The flower of wheaten meale boyled with hony and water, or with Oyle and water, dissolueth all tumours, or swellinges.

[ H] The Branne boyled in vineger, is good against the scuruie itche, and sprea∣ding scabbe, and dissolueth the beginninges of hoate swellinges.

[ I] The sayde Branne boyled in the decoction of Rue, doth slake & swage the harde swellinges of womans breastes.

[ K] The leauen made of wheaten meale, draweth foorth shiuers, splinters, and thornes, especially from the soles of the feete. And it doth open, ripe, and breake al swellinges and impostumes, if it be layde to with Salt.

[ L] Wheaten bread boyled in honied water, doth swage and appease all hoate swellinges, especially in putting thereto other good herbes and iuyces.

[ M] Wheaten bread newe baked, tempered or soked in brine or pickle, doth cure and remoue all olde and white scuruinesse, and the foule creeping or spreading scabbe.

[ N] The Amylum or Starche, that is made of wheate, is good against the fal∣ling downe of rheumes and humours into the eyes, if it be layd therevnto, and it cureth and filleth agayne with flesh, woundes and holow vlcers.

[ O] Amylum dronken stoppeth the spetting of blood, and mingled with milke, it swageth the roughnesse, or sorenesse of the throte and brest, and causeth to spet out easyly.