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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![medicines too brief, let them read those books of mine, of the last edition, viz. Reverius, Veslingus, Riolanus, Johnson, Sen- nertus, and Physic for the Poor. ALL-HEAL. It is called all-heal, Hercules’s all-heal, and Hercules’s wound- wort, because it is supposed that Hercules learned the herb and its virtues from Chiron, when he learned physic of him. Some call it paney, and others opopane wort. Descript.] Its root is long, thick, and exceeding full of juice, of a hot and biting taste, the leaves are great and large, and winged almost like ash-tree leaves, but that they are something hairy, each leaf consisting of five or six pair of such wings set one against the other upon foot-stalks, broad below, but narrow towards the end; one of the leaves is a little deeper at the bot- tom than the other, of a fair yellowish, fresh green colour: they are of a bitterish taste, being chewed in the mouth. From among these ariseth up a stalk, green in colour, round in form, great and strong in magnitude, five or six feet high, with many joints, and some leaves thereat; towards the top come forth umbels of small yellow flowers, after which are passed away, you may find whitish, yellow, short, flat seeds, bitter also in taste. Place.] Having given you the description of the herb from the bottom to the top, give me leave to tell you, that there are other herbs called by this name; but because they are strangers in England, I give only the description of this, which is easily to be had in the gardens of divers places. Time.] Although Gerrard saith, That they flower from the beginning of May to the end of December, experience teacheth them that keep it in their gardens, that it flowers not till the latter end of the summer, aud sheds its seed presently after. Government and Virtues.] It is under the dominion of Mars, hot, biting, choleric; and lemedies what evils Mars afflicts the body of man with, by sympathy, as viper’s flesh attracts poi- son, and the loadstone iron. It kills the worms, helps the gout.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24930775_0009.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
