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Herbs - Early works to 1800

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    Approved medicines of little cost, to preserve health and also to cure those that are sick : provided for the souldiers knap-sack, and the country mans closet. Written by Richard Elkes Gent. Student in the art of physick, living at Bagshot in the county of Surry.

    Elkes, Richard | Date: 1651
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    A boke of the propertyes of herbes the whiche is called an harbal [sic].

    | Date: [M. D. XLi.] [1541]
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    A boke of the propertyes of herbes the whiche is called an herbal.

    | Date: [1539?]]
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    Here begynneth a newe marer [sic], ye whiche sheweth and treateth of ye vertues [and] propertes of herbes, the whiche is called an herball : Cum priuilegio.

    | Date: Ye. xxv. day of Iune. The yere of our lorde. M.CCCCC.[and]xxvi. [1526]]
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    A boke of the propreties of herbes called an herball : wherunto is added the time [the] herbes, floures and sedes shoulde be gathered to be kept the whole yere, with the vertue of [the] herbes whe[n] they are stylled. Also a generall rule of al manner of herbes drawen out of an auncient boke of physycke by W.C.

    | Date: [1559?]]
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