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 scales of the Pine apple with the barke of the Pine tree, do stoppe the laske, the bloody flixe, and prouoke vrine, and the broth of the same dronken, hath the lyke propertie.

[ B] The same is also good against al scorchinges and burninges with fire, to be pounde with the lytarge of syluer and frankensence: and if there be some Cop∣peras mixt therewith, it will clense and heale consuming or fretting sores.

[ C] The leaues of the Pine tree healeth greene woundes, & boyled in vineger, they swage the toothe ache.

[ D] The kernels of the Nuttes which are founde in the Pine apples, are good for the lunges, they clense the breast, and cause the fleme to be spet out: also they nourish wel & ingender good blood, & for this cause they be good for suche as haue the cough, and begin to consume and drie away, in what sort soeuer they be taken.

[ E] This fruite also doth vnstop the liuer and the milt, mitigateth the sharpnesse of vrine, and therfore is good for them that are troubled with the grauell & the stoné.

[ F] The vertues of the Rosen and Pitche, shalbe declared hereafter.