Philip Moore, The Hope of Health (1564)
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Date
1564
Author
Lexicon title
The names of soche herbes as maie bee easelie gotten, and bee good to bee growyng in Gardeines, aswell for foode, as for medicines
Book title
The hope of Health wherin is conteined a goodlie regimente of life: as medicine, good diet and the goodlie vertues of sonderie Herbes
Publication place
London
Printer
John Kingston
Transcription source
EEBO/TCP
Text type
printed book
Genre
Treatises
Subject area
- herbal
- medicine
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Extent
26v-44v
Word-group
type: undifferentiated
Word-entry
type: logical
sample: THere bee in the bodie of mankinde, fower sondrie humours, that is, blood, fleume, choler, and melancholie: whiche humours are daielie nourished and engendred, of the iuse of meates and drinkes, receiued into the body, and there altered by naturall heat. These humours, maie bee called the second elementes, or the elementes of man, for thei are equalle with the elementes. (10v)
sample: THere bee in the bodie of mankinde, fower sondrie humours, that is, blood, fleume, choler, and melancholie: whiche humours are daielie nourished and engendred, of the iuse of meates and drinkes, receiued into the body, and there altered by naturall heat. These humours, maie bee called the second elementes, or the elementes of man, for thei are equalle with the elementes. (10v)
MOtherworte is hote in the seconde degree & drie in the first. It doeth heate and extenuate, it is good to make incessions in the decoction thereof to prouoke secretes. It is also good againste the stone and suppression of vrine. And finally, this herbe doeth chiefly help womennes diseases. (37r)
Alston
XVII.I.71
STC
18059.5
Other editions
1565: STC 18060 (Alston XVII.I.72)
