Culpeper's complete herbal ... To which are ... annexed his English physician enlarged, and Key to [Galen's Method of] physic ... to which is also added ... receipts selected from the author's Last legacy / Nicholas Culpeper.

  • Nicholas Culpeper
Date:
1814
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Credit: Culpeper's complete herbal ... To which are ... annexed his English physician enlarged, and Key to [Galen's Method of] physic ... to which is also added ... receipts selected from the author's Last legacy / Nicholas Culpeper. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    have their usual courses, or the whites flow- ing down too abundantly. It hel})s soree^'es. Of the leaves infused or boiled in oil, oni- j)liacine or unripe olives, set in the sun four certain days, or the green leaves sufficiently boiled, in the said oil, is made an excellent green balsam, not only for green and fresh wounds, but alsoforold and inveterate ulcers, especially if a little fine clear turpentine be dissolved therein. It also sta}eth and re- fresheth all inflammations that arise upon pains by hurts and wounds. V/hat parts of the body are under each planet and sign, and also what disease may be found in my astrological judgment of diseases; and for the internal work of nature in the bod} of man; as vital, animal, natural and procreative spirits of man ; the appre- hension, judgment, memory; the external senses, viz. Seeing, hearing, smelling, tast- ing and feeling; the virtuous, attractive, iietentive, digestive, expulsive, &c. under the dominion of what planets they are, may be found in my Ephemeris for the year 1651. In both which you shall find the chatf of authors blown away by the fame of Dr. Reason, and nothing but rational truths left for the ingenious to feed upon: . Lastly. To avoid blotting paper witli one thing many times, and also to ease your purses in the price of the book, and withal to make you studious in physic ; you have at the latter end of the book, the way of preserving all herbs either in juice, conserve, oil, ointment or plaster, electuary, pills, or troches. AGRIMONY. Dcscript.~\ This has divers long leaves (some greater, some smaller) set upon a stalk, all of them dented about the edges, green above, and greyish underneath, and a little hairy withal. Among which arisetli up usually but one strong, round, hairy, brown stalk, two or three feet high, with smaller leaves set here and there upon it. At the top hereof grow' many small yellow flowers, one above anotlier, in long spikes; after which come rough heads of seed, hang- ing downwards, w'hich wall cleave to Jind stick upon garments, or any thing that shall rub against them. The knot is black, long, and somewhat woody, abiding many years, and shooting afresh every Spring; which root, tiiough small, hath a reasonable good scent. Place.'] It grow'S upon banks, near the sides of hedges. Time.] It flow'ers in July and August, the seed being ripe shortly after. Goveimment and It is an herb under Jupiter, and the sign Cancer; and strengthens those parts under the planet and sign, and removes diseases in them by sympathy, and those under Saturn, Mars and Mercury by antipathy, if they happen in any part of the body governed by Jupi- ter, or under the signs Cancer, Sagitary or Pisces, and therefore must needs be good for the gout, either used outwardly in oil or ointment, or inwardly in an electuary, or syrup, or concerted juice; for which see the latter end of this book. It is of a cleansing and cutting faculty, without any manifest heat, moderately drying and binding. It opens and clean- ses the liver, helps the jaundice, and is very beneficial to the bowels, healing all inward w'ounds, bruises, hurts, and other distempers. The decoction of the herb made w ith wane, and drank, is good against the biting and stinging of serpents, and helps them that make foul, troubled or bloody water. This herb also helps the cholic, cleanses the breast, and rids away the cough. A draught of the decoction taken w'arm be- fore the fit, first removes, and in time rids away the tertian or quartan agues. The leaves and seeds taken in wine, stays the bloody flux; outwardly applied, being stamped with old swines grease, it helpeth t