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.

A playster wherewith the L. R. was cured, when all Chi∣rurgions thought him incureable.

¶ TAke vnwrought wax halfe a pound, Rosen half a pound, Olibanum one ounce, fine Litarge of gold a quarter of a pound, white lead three quarters of a pound beaten to pow∣der, and finely searced, a pynt of oyle of Neats féet, set it on a fire in a small vessell with the Waxe and Rozen: and when it is molten, put thereto the other powders, and stirre it fast with a sticke, and then put a little thereof in a sawcer, and if it be hard so tryed, take it from the fire, and anoynt a fayre boord with some Neats foot oyle; and as you may handle it for heat, work it as it were Cordwayners waxe, and make it in rolles, and make playsters of it with a chafingdish of coales, spread it thin on lynnen or leather, and lay the playster warme whereas the payne is, and so renew it at morne and euening, vntill you bee whole, or till the ache be driuen to some other ioynt, & so follow with the playster as the payne remoueth, and beware of cold, and hote wynes.