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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![digestion, and open obstructions of the brain, and hath so much purging quality in it (saith Avicen) as to expel those melancholy vapours from the spirits and blood which are in the heart and ar- teries, although it cannot do so in other parts of the body. Dioscorides saith, That the leaves steeped in wine, and the wine drank, and the leaves externally applied, is a remedy against the stings of a scorpion, and the bitings of mad dogs; and com- mendeth the decoction thereof for women to bathe or sit in to procure their courses; it is good to wash aching teeth therewith, and profitable for those that have the bloody-flux. The leaves also, with a little nitre taken in drink, are good against the sur- feit of mushrooms, helps the griping pains of the belly ; and be- ing made into an electuary, it is good for them that cannot fetch their breath: Used with salt, it takes away wens, kernels, or hard swellings in the flesh or throat; it cleanseth foul sores, and easeth pains of the gout It is good for the liver and spleen. A tansy, or caudle made with eggs, and juice thereof while it is young, putting to it some sugar and rosewater, is good for a woman in child-bed, when the after-birth is not throughly void- ed, and for their faintings upon or in their sore travail. The herb bruised and boiled in a little wine and oil, and laid on a boil, will ripen it, and break it BARBERRY. This shrub is so well known by every boy and girl thai hath but attained to the age of seven years, that it needs no de - scription. Government and Virtues.] Mars owns the shrub, and pre- sents it to the use ot my countrymen to purge their bodies of choler. The inner rind of the barberry-tree boiled in white wine, and a quarter of a pint drank each morning, is an excellent re- medy to cleanse the body of choleric humours, and free it from such diseases as choler causetb, such as scabs, itch, tetters, ring- worms, yellow jaundice, boils, &c. It is excellent for hot agues, burnings, scaldings, heat of the blood, heat of the liver, bloody-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24930775_0035.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
