The British herbal and family physician. : To which is added, a dispensatory for the use of private families / by Nicholas Culpepper.
- Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654. English physitian
- Date:
- 1834
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The British herbal and family physician. : To which is added, a dispensatory for the use of private families / by Nicholas Culpepper. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![to, which being suddenly cast out, will rid the chamber of those troublesome bedfellows. ANGELICA. T O write a description of that which is so well known to be growing almost in every garden I suppose is altogether needless, yet for its virtues it is of admirable use. In time of Heathenism, when men had found out any excellent' herb, they dedicated it to their gods; as the bay-tree to Apollo, the oak to Jupiter, the vine to Bacchus, the poplar to Hercules. These the papists following as the Patriarchs they dedicate to their saints; as our lady’s thistle to the Blessed Virgin, St. John’s wort to St. John, and another wort to St. Peter, &c. Our phy- sicians must imitate like apes (though they cannot come off half so cleverly) for they blasphemously call pansies or hearts-ease, an herb of the Trinity, because it is of three colours. And a certain ointment, an ointment of the Apostles, because it consists of twelve ingredients: Alas, I am sorry for their folly, and grieved at their blasphemy. God send them wisdom the rest of their age, for they have their share ofignorance already. Oh! w hy must ours be blasphemous, because the heathens and papists wrerc idolatrous? Certainly they have read so much in old rusty authors, that they have lost all their divinity; for unless it were amongst the ranters, I never read or heard of such blasphemy. The heathens and papists were bad, and ours worse: the papists giving idolatrous names to herbs for their virtues’ sake, not for their fair looks, and therefore some called this an herb of the Holy Ghost; others more moderate called it Angelica, because of its angelical virtues, and that name it retains still, and all na- tions follow it so near as their dialect will permit. Government and Virtues.] It is an herb of the Sun in Leo; let it be gathered when he is there, the Moon applying to his good aspect: let it be gathered either in his hour, or in the hour of Jupiter, let Sol be angular: observe the like in gathering the herbs of other planets, and you may happen to do winders. In](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24930775_0020.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
