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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![safely, and speedily cure any disease thereof, as the fits of the mother, dislocation, or falling out thereof; it cools the womb, being overheated. And let me tell you this, and I will tell you the truth, heat of the womb is one of the greatest causes of hard labour in child-birth. It makes barren women fruitful. Itcleans- eth the womb if it be foul, and strengthens it exceedingly; it provokes the terms if they be stopped, and stops them if they flow immoderately; you can desire no good to your womb, but this herb will effect it; therefore if you love children, if you love health, if you love ease, keep a syrup always by you, made of the juice of this herb, and sugar, (or honey if it be to cleanse the womb) and let such as be rich keep it for their poor neigh- bours; and bestow it as freely as I bestow my studies upon them, or else let them look to answer it another day, when the Lord shall come to make inquisition of blood. ARCHANGEL. To put a gloss upon their practice, the physicians call an herb (which country people vulgarly know by the name of dead nettle) archangel; whether they savour more of superstition or folly, I leave to the judicious reader. There is more curiosity than courtesy to my countrymen used by others in the explana- tion as well of the names, as description of this so well known herb, which that I may not also be guilty of, take this short description first of the red archangel. Descript.] This has divers square stalks somewhat hairy, at the joiuts whereof grow two sad green leaves dented about the edges, opposite to one another to the lowermost upon long foot stalks, but without any toward the tops, which are somewhat round, yet pointed, and a little crumpled and hairy; round about the upper joints, where the leaves grow thick, are sundry gaping flowers of a pale reddish colour; after which come the seeds three or four in a husk. The root is small and thready, perishing every year: the whole plant hath a strong scent, but not stinking.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24930775_0025.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
