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.
Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.
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![it helpeth burnings, being used without oil, and with a littlelH lum put to it, is good for St. Anthony’s fire. It is good for all wheals, pushes, blisters, and blains, in the skin: the herb boil- ed, and laid upon chilblains or kibes helpeth them. The de- coction thereof in water and some vinegar, healeth the itch if bathed therewith, and cleanseth the head of dandruff, scurf, and dry scabs, and doth much good for fretting and running sores, ulcers, and cankers in the head, legs or other parts, and is much commended against baldness and shedding the hair. The red beet is good to stay the bloody flux, women’s cour- ses and the whites, and to help the yellow jaundice; the juice of the root put into the nostrils, purgeth the head, helpeth the noise in the ears, and the tooth-ach; the juice snuffed up the nose, helps a stinking breath, if the cause lies in the nose, as many times it doth, if any bruise hath been there; as also want of smell coming that way. WATER BETONY. Called also brown-wort, and in Yorkshire, bishop’s leaves. Descript.'] First, of the water betony, which riseth up, with square, hard, greenish stalks, sometimes brown, set with broad dark green leaves, dented about the edges with notches some- what resembling the leaves of the wood betony, but much larger too, for the most part set at a joint. The flowers are many, set at the tops of the stalks and branches, being round bellied and open at the brims, and divided into two parts, the uppermost being like a hood, and the lowermost like a hip hanging down, of a dark red colour, which passing, there come in their places small round heads with small points at the ends, wherein lie small and brownish seeds; the root is a thick bush of strings and shreds growing from the head. Place.] It groweth by the ditch side, brooks, and other wa- ter-courses, generally through this land, and is seldom found far from the water-side.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24930775_0044.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
