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 Collick, Stone, and Strangury.

¶ TAke the stone in an Oxe gall, as much as a Beane, Tor∣mētil ij. peny worth. Bayes j. ounce, Clones, Maces, long Pepper of e••••e j. penyworth, two Acornes, Swéethrier stones, Gromell seeds, Clot Bur séeds, of eche a spoonfull, Haw stones half a spoonful: make it all in fine powder, mixe them wel toge∣ther, and put therof in a reasonable draught of ale, in a glasse or cup, so much as you can take by with your thumb and two fin∣gers, or more, the more the better; stirre it well together, and drinke it.

If you féele it bitter, two or thrée spoonfuls of ale after it, will abate the bitternesse.

After the taking of this powder, if it doe not throughly help after a fortnight or thrée wéekes, take a good handfull of wyld Tyme, and boyle it in a quart of white wyne, and in the time of boyling it, throw two or thrée pibble stones in the fire, and burne them to coles, bruise them, and cast them into the wyne, being hote: after strayne it, and drink it fasting at morne, and fast two houres after it.

Fr. Steuens.