Ram's little Dodeon. A briefe epitomie of the new Herbal or history of plants. Wherein is contayned the diposition and true declaration of the phisike helpes of all sortes of herbes and plants, under their names and operations, not onley of those which are here in ... England growing, but of all others also of other realmes ... used in phisike / Collected out of the ... newe Herball ... first set forth in the Dutch or Almayne tongue ... by Rembert Dodeon ... And lately translated into Englsh by Henry Lyte Esquire: and now collected and abridged by William Ram.

  • Dodoens, Rembert, 1517-1585
Date:
1606
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Credit: Ram's little Dodeon. A briefe epitomie of the new Herbal or history of plants. Wherein is contayned the diposition and true declaration of the phisike helpes of all sortes of herbes and plants, under their names and operations, not onley of those which are here in ... England growing, but of all others also of other realmes ... used in phisike / Collected out of the ... newe Herball ... first set forth in the Dutch or Almayne tongue ... by Rembert Dodeon ... And lately translated into Englsh by Henry Lyte Esquire: and now collected and abridged by William Ram. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    by themlelues are to be miniftred for the cure of the difc cafe vndcr their leuerall rytlcs: and that this Cara&cr or marlcCj—which you fhall finde in many places of this book, is to giue the right vndcrftanding of the herbe (by which it is let) by fooie other more familiar name, then in his firft place: And as itplcafed that famous and worthy man, D*Ret»bert Dodeon} thepatrone ofloex- cellentand neceflary a woorke, to offer the fame into the world: Andasthcfaydcworlhipfull gentleman, matter Henry Lyte, by his diligence hath tranflarcd the fame into our Enghlh tongue, for the benefit of ail his coun¬ trymen,to the end the light thereof might not be hidden or extinguifhed, to their great pray fe and comcndations; Eucn fo, my poore talent of endeuor hath byn to none other end, but only to draw that into a 1 ancfull, which before was in the cornpas of a gteat gardenjor elle to bringthat into a little Garde,which before wa^as to be looked for in many fields and difperced places^not to be found but by great labour and induftry : my onelyand greateft care hath byn of long tyme, to know e or thinke, how and vpon whome to bellow the dedication of this my fmall labor: And in the penning of this my letter,my Affections are fatilfied with the dedication thereof to thcc my poore and louing coucryman whotoeuer,and to whole hands focuer it may come. For whole lake I haue dclired publicatio of the fame,befeeching Almigb* fy God toblcflcvs all. William