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 fruite or beries of Iuniper, is good for the stomacke, lunges, liuer, and kidneyes: it cureth the olde cough, the gripinges and windinesse of the belly, and prouoketh vrine, to be boyled in wine or honied water and dronken.

[ B] Also it is good for people that be brused or squat by falling, to be taken in the aforesayde manner.

[ C] The iuyce of the leaues doth withstand al venome, especially of Vipers and Serpentes: it is good to drinke the same, and to lay it outwardly vppon the woundes. The fruite is good for the same purpose, to be taken in what sort so euer ye list.

[ D] Iuniper or the beries thereof burned, driueth away all venemous beastes, and all infection and corruption of the ayre: wherefore it is good to be burned in a plague time, in suche places where as the ayre is infected.

[ E] The rind or barke of Iuniper burned, healeth the noughtie scurffe, and fret∣ting scabbes, to be mingled with water and layde thereto.

[ F] The gumme of Iuniper is good for them whose stomackes and bowelles are combred with colde flegmes: it expelleth all sortes of wormes, and stayeth the inordinate course of womens flowers.

[ G] The parfume of Vernix, is good for the brayne, drieth vp the superfluous humors of the head, and stoppeth the falling downe of reume or humors from the same.

[ H] This gumme tempered with Oyle of Roses, helpeth the riftes, cones, or chappinges of the handes and feete.