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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❀ The Vertues.

[ A] Barley meale boyled with figges in honied water dissolueth hoate and cold tumours, and it doth soften and rype all hard swellinges with Pitche, Rosen, and Pigeons dongue.

[ B] The same mingled with Tarre, Oyle, Waxe, & the Vrine of a young childe doth digest, soften, and ripe the harde swellinges of the Necke, called in Latine Strumae.

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[ C] The same with Melilote and the heades of Poppie swageth the ache of the side, and with Lineseede, Fenugreck, and Rue, it is good to be layd vpon the belly against the paynes and windinesse of the guttes.

[ 1] [ D] Barley giuen with Mirtels, or wine, or wilde tarte peares, or with Bram∣bles, or with the barke of Pomgarnet, stoppeth the running of the belly.

[ 2] [ E] They make a playster with Barley meale against the scurffe and leprie.

[ F] The same mingled with vineger or Quinces swageth the hoate inflamma∣tions of the gowt, and if it be boyled with vineger and Pitche, and layd about the ioyntes, it stayeth the humours from falling into them.

[ G] It is also vsed in meates, and bread is made of it, the which doth not nou∣rish so wel as the bread made of wheate or spelt.

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