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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![whites in women* and the running of the reins in men, and is a most gallant antivenereal, and a singular remedy for the French pox. ANEHOME. C/ALLED also wind flower, because they say the flowers never open but when the wind bloweth; Pliny is my author, if it be not so, blame him. The seed also (if it bears any at all) flies away with the wind. Place and Time.] They are sown usually in the gardens of the curious, and flower in the spring-time. As for description I shall pass it, being well known to all those that sow them. Government and Virtues.] It is under the dominion of Mars, being supposed to be a kind of crow-foot. The leaves provoke the terms mightily, being boiled, and the decoction drunk. The body being bathed with the decoction of them, cures the lepro- sy. The leaves being stamped and the juice snuffed up in the nose, purgeth the head mightily;, so doth the root, being chewed in the mouth, for it procureth much spitting, and bringeth away many watery and phlegmatic humours, and is therefore excellent for the lethargy. And when all is done, let physicians prate what they please, all the pills in the dispensatory purge not the head like to hot things held in the mouth. Being made into an ointment, and the eye-lids anointed with it, it helps inflamma- tions of the eyes, whereby it is palpable, that every stronger draw eth its weaker like. The same ointment is excellent good to cleanse malignant and corroding ulcers. GARDEN ARRACH. (yALLED also orach, and arage. Descript.] It is so commonly known to every house-wife, it were labour lost to describe it. Time.] It flowereth aud seedeth from June to the end of August. C](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24930775_0023.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
