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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![quality with it. Being applied to the place bitten by veno- mous beasts, or stung by a wasp or hornet, it speedily draws the poison to it. Every like draws his like. Mizeldus affirms, that being laid to rot in horse-dung, it will breed venomous beasts. Hilorius, a French physician, affirms upon his own knowledge, that an acquaintance of his, by common smelling to it, had a scorpion bred in his brain. Something is the matter, this herb and rue will not grow together, no, nor near one another, and we know rue is as great au enemy to poison as any that grows. To conclude. It expelleth both birth and after-birth ; and as it helps the deficiency of Venus in one kind, so it spoils all her actions in another. I dare write no more of it. THE BAY TREE. T^HIS is so well known that it needs no description; I shall therefore only write the virtues thereof, which are many. Government and virtues i] I shall but only add a word or two to what my friend hath written, viz. That it is a tree of the Sun, and under the celestial sign Leo, and resisteth witchcraft very potently, as also all the evils old Saturn can do the body of man, and they are not a few; for it is the speech of one, and I am mistaken if it were not Mizeldus, that neither witch nor devil, thunder or lightning, will hurt a man in the place where a bay- tree is. Galen said, That the leaves or bark do dry and heal very much, and the berries more than the leaves ; the bark of the root is less sharp and hot, but more bitter, and hath some astriction withal, whereby it is effectual to break the stone, and good to open odstructions of the liver, spleen and other inward parts, which bring the jaundice, dropsy, &c. The berries are very effectual against all poison of venomous creatures, and the sting of wasps and bees ; as also against the pestilence, or other infectious diseases and therefore put into sundry treacles for that purpose; they likewise procure women’s courses; and seven of them given to a woman in sore travail of child-birth, doth cause a speedy delivery, and expel the after-birth, and](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24930775_0038.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
