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] Almondes taken before meate, do stop the belly and nourishe but litle, espe∣cially being blanched or made cleane from their skinnes or huddes.

[ B] Bitter Almondes doo open the stopping of the lunges or lightes, the liuer, the melt, or splene, the kidneyes, & of al other inwarde partes: therefore they be good against the cough, the shortnes of wind, the inflammation & exulceration of lunges, to be mingled with Turpentine & licked in, as Dioscorides writeth.

[ C] Almondes are good for them that spet blood, to be taken in with the fine flower called Amylum.

[ D] The bitter Almondes taken with a litle sweete wine, as Muscadel or Ba∣starde, prouoke vrine, and do cure the hardnesse of the same, and painefulnes in making water, & are good for thē that are troubled with the grauel & stone.

[ E] They vse to take fiue or sixe bitter Almondes fasting, to be preserued from dronkennesse al the same day.

[ F] They take away headache to be applied to the forehead with oyle of Roses, and vineger.

[ G] They are with great profite layde to with hony, vpon corrupt and noughty spreading sores, and the bitinges of mad Dogges.

[ H] They clense the skinne and face from al spottes, pimples and lentiles.