Gratia Dein.

?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 170^v (MED) It [sc. Vnguentum apostolorum] is called..of maister Petre of Argentyn in mont pessulan gratia dei [?c1425 Paris gracia dei; L. gracia Dei] for meruelously it rectifieþ wicked vlcerez.

c1440 Liber de Diversis Med. 68 Medcyn þat is called Gratia Dei, þat is made on þis manere: Tak litarge iiij vnces, ceruse iij vnces.

c1450 Med. Recipes (BL Add. 33996) in F. Heinrich Mittelengl. Medizinbuch (1896) 187 Thys gratia dei vsede þe lady bechampe.

1575 G. Turberville Bk. Faulconrie 261 And if by these remedyes aforesayde, the Pynne become to be soft, and forgo his hardnesse, then doeth it behoue you, to cutte it out from the roote..and to drye it vppe with Agrippa, an vnguent so called, and with Gratia dei, mingling these two togyther by equall portions.

1588 W. Clowes Prooued Pract. Young Chirurgians sig. P4^v I tell you (sayd he) they are no beggerly medicines, but the best I could buy for my monie: The one is Gracia Dei, and the other is an Indian Balme.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica ii. iv. 78 And the same attraction wee finde not onely in simple bodies, but such as are much compounded, as the Oxicroceum plaster, and obscurely that ad Herniam, and Gratia Dei . View more context for this quotation

1696 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Gratia Dei, a Plaister, made of Wax, Rosen, Suet, Turpentine, Mastick, and Olibanum.

1719 M. Kettilby Coll. above 300 Receipts (ed. 2) ii. 84 (heading) An Excellent Way to make the Salve Gratia Dei, which is to be made about Midsummer.

1913 L. F. Salzmann Mediæval Byways iv. 121 There is another method of preparing Gratia Dei which was used by ‘Hopkyn of the fermory of Killyngworth’.

?c1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Paris) (1971) 623 Gracia dei is an herbe, colde and moyste (anoþer is hote and drye) in þe secounde degree, wiþ fretynge and sowdynge.

?a1450 Agnus Castus (Stockh.) (1950) 161 Gratia dei is an herbe þat men clepe gratia dei. Þis herbe haȝt lewys lyk to þe dendelyoun..and it haȝt a ȝelwȝ flour, and it growyth in drye ground.

?c1450 in Anglia (1896) 18 322 Gracia dei, þat growyth in mede.

1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. xxxiii. 48 The seuenth [Geranium] is called Gratia Dei: in English also Gratia Dei.

1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 467 In Latine Gratiola..and in English Gratia Dei, and Hedge Hyssope.

1601 R. Chester Loves Martyr 82 Goosefoote, Goldsnap, and good Gratia Dei.

1640 J. Parkinson Theatrum Botanicum 221 The first is generally now adayes, as it was formerly called Gratiola by Matthiolus..and others: it is also called by some Gratia Dei, after the high Dutch name Gotts gnad, which signifieth so much.

1669 tr. O. Croll Treat. Signatures Internal Things 7 in tr. O. Croll Bazilica Chymica (1670) Gratia Dei, or Storks-bill, hath the Signature of the Shin-bones: the powder of which, is singular in broken-bones.

1751 J. Hill Hist. Materia Medica 407 The officinal kind is that call'd Herb Robert, and described by the botanical Writers under the Names of Geranium Robertianum and Robertiana..; some call it also Herbæ Ruperti and Gratia Dei.

1763 Med. Museum I. 516 I thought she was not acquainted with the herb, and might mistake it for the sort of geranium or cranes-bill (called gratia dei) to which it bears great resemblance.

1809 B. Parr London Med. Dict. I. 717/2 Gratia Dei, the name of the Herb-Robert, of the Hedge-Hyssop, and of several other vegetables, from their supposed salutary qualities.

1998 Early Sci. & Med. 3 30 Fioravanti noted that the herb gratia dei (Gratiola officinalis, an emetic), ‘has great virtue against those who are possessed because it cleans the body so thoroughly of corruption’.