William Langham, The Garden of Health (1597)

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Date
1597
Author
Lexicon title
(a) A Table of all the Simples contained in this Booke; (b) The Garden of Health, conteyning a description of all sortes of Simples, with their seuerall vertues and properties; (c) A Table conteining the effects of all the simples, set downe in this booke, by the order of the Alphabet
Book title
The Garden of Health, Conteyning the sundry rare and hidden vertues and properties of all kindes of Simples and Plants, together with the maner how they are to be vsed and applyed in medicine for the health of mans body, against diuers diseases and infirmities most common amongst men. Gathered by the long experience and industrie of William Langham, Practicioner in Phisicke
Publication place
London
Publisher
deputies of Christopher Barker
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
herbal
Summary
Two tables of simples describe how to use them and what effects they have: (a) alphabetical table of simples, rarely in two names each (e.g., Alecost, Costmary, or Maudlinwort" (¶3r)); and (b) alphabetical table of the effects or symptoms or diseases treated by these simples (e.g., "¶ Abhorring meat", "¶ Abortion", etc. (a1r)). They bracket a 702-page collection of articles on the simples.
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Extent
(a) ¶3r-4v; (b) a1r-xx7v; (c) a1r-[d4v; new collation at end]
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: (a) Apples. 31;
(b) Acatia. ACatia stoppeth the Laske, and the termes, and setteth the loose matrix in the naturall place being drunke with red wine. [beginning of full article];
(c) Abortion. COleworts. Cresses. Flowerdeluce. Tarre.
Alston
XVII.I.106
STC
15195
Other editions
1633: STC 15196 ("The second edition corrected and amended" including a table of simples; Alston XVII.I.107)