Maison rustique, or the covntrey farme / compiled in the French tongue by Charles Steuens and John Liebault ... and translated into English by Richard Svrflet ... Also a short collection of the hunting of the hart, wilde bore, hare, fox, gray, cony; of birds and faulconrie.

  • Estienne, Charles, 1504-approximately 1564.
Date:
1606
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Maison rustique, or the covntrey farme / compiled in the French tongue by Charles Steuens and John Liebault ... and translated into English by Richard Svrflet ... Also a short collection of the hunting of the hart, wilde bore, hare, fox, gray, cony; of birds and faulconrie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Goofè-grajJèt oftheiuice thereof, with honie of roles and turpentine : there are alfo made thereof pilles, to flay vehement and violent rheumes. uJ iden-toong, Adders-toong doth require abone all other things a fat place well tilled and montur groweth alfo in medowes,but it is deftroyed by and ano ipoiled. I he leaues fcarnped and applied vnto burnings, in- flammations, burllings, and principally vnto wounds and maligne vl- eers, are of a maruellons effeef : therein a balme made of the&ieaues thereo.ior the lame effects : whereunto home put turpentine : redde wine wherein this whole herbe hath beenefteeped, is «ood to lhv rheumes falling downe vpon theeies. *0 y Goofe-grade doth grow inany kindeof ground,and hath no need Oi great ullage. Some do dirtiîl thewater of it, which is Angular good againttihe pleurifie and other paines ofthe hde, being taken in the beginning of the difeafe, as alio againrtthe biungs and rtingingsof venemous bealts, ano to coole the heate of cankers. °lliTrJ*n : Corne-rofe craueth « fat ground and well tilled,fuch as are corn P 'PPI,‘ grounds, wherein we may leethem grow faire and veric wellblowne. iheflowres of corne-rofe afwell the great as the f inal!, either in deco- étions or the diltilled water, or in fyrups, or in powder, the wei°htof halfe a french crowne,are lingular means to prouoke fpetting in plen- rifies, and to cure the fame. - ‘ or Baitard dittany in like manner requireth a fat ground and well til¬ led, and therewith a diligent care to water it, and to keepe itfromthe coldnene of the aire. The Iced, root,leaues and flowres,afwell in pow- deras in a decoôtioo, do prouoke vrine,brcake the itone, prouoke the monethly-termes, caft out the dead conception and afterbirth : being ’ ca.ten WIt 1 j'ubarbe, they kni and caft out the wormes : the iuice appli- cu outwardly, doth draw foorth thornes and thirties,' and flumps of Lnot-gralle is called in Latine Polygonum, it groweth bv the ecte£< of vineyards and fieldes that are badly tilled, eibecialiy whenitisa rnoilt yeere. Amongfl the principall vertues thereof, the drilled wa¬ ter is foueraigne againfl the difficultie of vrine, as I haue oft prooued by experience. Saiomons-feak. Saiomons-feale mull be let in a drie ground, and raifed hi«h • the roote whiles it is new being penned, onhe iuice ofthefame wipeth out freckles, (pots , blew markes of blowes, faites, or other luch like t.ang, \v ether they oe in the face or in any other part ofthe bodie : iomediftill the water which is very good for the painringes of wo- tssU «**■ ***** eartn \ th5 *maU argons loue a moirt ground and watenfh. as neere vnto t le founttune in the garden. Their rcotes boiled, or rolled and nuxt with home, and afterward taken as an eclegmc, do profit greatly ' for 9aflari dit- tanic, * v '■ J rU' KttQt~gtaffe,