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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![ENGLISH PHYSICIAN ENLAR GED. AMARA DULCIS. Considering divers shires in this nation give divers names to one and the same herb, and that the common name which it bears in one county, is not known to another; I shall take the pains to set down all the names that I know of each herb: Pardon me for setting that name first, which is most common to myself. Besides amara dulcis, some call it mortal, others bitter-sweet; some woody night-shade, and others felon- wort. Description.'] It grows up with woody stalks even to a man’s height, and sometimes higher. The leaves fall off at the approach of winter, and spring out of the same stalk at springtime; The branch is compassed about with a whitish bark, and hath a pith in the middle of it: The main branch brancheth itself into many small ones with claspers, laying hold on what is next to them, as vines do: it bears many leaves, they grow in no order at all, at least in no regular order: The leaves are longish, though some- what broad, and pointed at the ends: many of them have two little leaves growing at the end of their foot-stalk; some have but one, and some none. The leaves are of a pale green colour; the flowers are of a purple colour, or of a perfect blue like to violets, and they stand many of them together in knots; the berries are green at first, but when they are ripe they are very red; if you taste them, you shall find them just as the crabs](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24930775_0007.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
