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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![them somewhat broad, round, deep green, and thick leaves set by couples thereon; from the bottom whereof shoot forth long foot-stalks, with sundry small blue flowers on them, that consist of five small round pointed leaves a-piece. There is another sort nothing differing from the former, but that it is greater, and the flowers of a paler green colour. Place.] They grow in small standing waters, and usually near water cresses. Time.] And flowereth in June and July, giving seed the next month after. Government and Virtues.] It is a hot and biting- Martial plant. Brook-lime and water-cresses are generally used together in diet-drink, with other things serving to purge the blood and body from all ill humours that would destroy health, and are helpful to the scurvey. they do all provoke urine, and help to break the stone, and pass it away; they procure women’s courses, and expel the dead child. Being fried with butter and vinegar, and applied warm, it helpeth all manners of tumours, swellings, and inflammations. Such drinks ought to be made of sundry herbs, according to the malady. I shall give a plain and easy rule at the latter end of this book. BUTCHERS’ BROOM. It is called ruscus, and bruscus, kneeholm, kneeholy, knee- hulver, and pettigree. Descript.] The first shoots that sprout from the root of butch- ers’ broom, are thick, whitish and short, somewhat like those of asparagus, but greater, they rising up to be a foot and a half high, are spread into divers branches, green, and somewhat cressed with the roundness, tough and flexible, whereon are set some- what broad and almost round hard leaves, and prickly, pointed at the end, of a dark green colour, two for the most part set at a place, very close and near together; about the middle of the leaf, on the back and lower side from the middle rib, breaketli](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24930775_0063.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
