Rams little Dodeon [sic] A briefe epitome of the new herbal, or histoy of plants. Wherein is contayned the disposition and true declaration of the phisike helpes of all sortes of herbes and plants, vnder their names and operations, not onely of those which are here in this our Countrey of England growing but of all others also of other realmes, countreyes and nations vsed in phisike: Collected out of the most exquisite newe herball, or history of plants, first set forth in the Dutch or Almayne tongue, by ... D. Reinbert Dodeon, ... and lately translated into English by Henry Lyte, ... and now collected and abridged by William Ram, Gent. Pandit oliua suos Ramos.

For the greene Sicknesse.

¶ STéepe thirty gréene leaues of Assarabacca in Wyne all night: then strayne it and put it in a close pot, with a piece of sat porke: boyle it, eate the porke, drinke the wine. It also helpeth the Iaundes, the Feuer, the beginning of Droply, Tympany, Quotidian, Wormes, and swelling of the sto∣macke: for all which there is no better remedy.

¶ Powder of Ash Keyes with Bitany, red Sage, Mints, & Margerom, boyled in running water from a pottle to a quart, a good draught with Sugar taken early and late, is good.

¶ Eate the Blessed Thistle, or drinke the decoction thereof.

¶ Eate Onyons.

¶ Stamp Rue one handful, red Sage two handfuls, strain the iuice, and put to it a pynt of hote hony, well clarified, and a great spoonfull of grosse Pepper, stirre them well together, and giue thereof one spoonefull and halfe, bloud warme, at euen and morne, and let her eate foure or fiue times euery day sixe or se∣uen Raysins of the Sunne at a time.

This will cure it, though it appeare not at the first: and if she amend not at the end of ten weeks, giue her the same receyt agayne.

¶ Take foure drams of the powders of Iuory, sixe or seuen drams of Turpentine, foure penny wayght of Saffron, and drinke thereof with stale ale at morne and euen.

¶ Boyle cloues of Garlick in milk till it be thick, and let her eate it, and walke after it boldly.