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] The roote of y^e first kind boiled & dronkē, prouoketh vrine, & womēs flowers.

[ B] The waight of a dram therof taken with wine, healeth the payne in the side, the cough, the shrinking of sinewes, crampes, and burstinges.

[ C] It is very good against the bitings of venemous beastes, to drinke the quan∣titie of three drammes therof with wine, and to lay vpon the wounde and hur∣ted place the leaues, flowers and rootes beaten togither.

[ D] The seede & the flowers of the right Affodyl dronken in wine, are very good against y^e poyson of scorpiōs, & other venemous beastes, also they purge y^e belly.

[ E] The roote boyled in the lyes of wine is good to be layd vpon corrupt festered sores, and vpon olde vlcers, and the impostumes of the breastes and stones or genitours. It is also good against new swellings and impostemes that do but begin, being layde vpon in maner of an emplayster with parched barley meale.

[ F] The iuyce of the roote boyled with good olde wine, a litle Myrrhe and Saf∣fron, is a good medicine for the eyes, to cleare and sharpen the sight.

[ G] The same iuyce of it selfe, or mingled with Frankencense, hony, wine, and Myrrhe, is good against the corrupt filth and mattering of the eares, when it is powred or dropped in.

[ H] The same prepared & ordered as is aforesaid, swageth the toothache powred and dropped into the contrarie eare to the payne and greefe.

[ I] The ashes of the burned roote, and specially of the seconde kind do cure and heale scabbes and noughtie sores of the head, and doo restore agayne vnto the pilde head, the heare fallen away, being layde therevnto.

[ K] The oyle y^e is sodden in the rootes being made holow, or the oyle in which the rootes haue ben boyled, doth heale y^e burnings with fire, mouldy or raw kibed heeles, & doth swage y^e paine of the eares, & deafnesse, as Dioscorides writeth.

[ L] The rootes do cure the morphew or white spots in the flesh, if you rub them first with a linnen cloth in the Sonne, & then annoynt the place with the iuyce of the roote, or lay the roote to the place.