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

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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$each three ounces, Camphire one dram, \ Tapsivalentia. make it into an ointment according to art. j College.'] Take of llie juice of Mullen, Culpeper.] It binds and restrains fluxes | Hog's grease, of each as much as you will, 5 let the grease be cleansed and cut in pieces, of humours. UiiQuentum e Solano. land beat it with the Juice, pressed and hed eight ounces, white Warx be green, and the second time is, Frankincense in powder | without juice beaten well, pouring otf what )f Roses often washed in water discolouied, and keep it tor use. Or, Ointment of Nightshade. | strained as you did the former ointment. College.] Take of juice of Nightshade, ^ convenient vessel nine or Litharge washed, of each five ounces, j then beat it twice, once with fresh Ceruss washed eight ounces, white Warx be green, and the second time seven ounces, drams, oil of Roses often washed in water, rp ■ , two pounds, make it into anointment ac-l „ „ t m . . cording to art. 1 Culpeper.] It was invented to take away j ^? one part, clarifif'd inflammations from wounds, and to keep.l ^two parts, boi them by degrees till }>eople from scratching of them when they I ^ juice be consumed, adding (the physi- are almost well. I prescribing) Vitriol, burnt Alum, burnt ^ ^ m I Ibk? ^bd boil it again to an ointment ac- Or, Ointment of Tutty. cording to art. College.] .J^'dke of Tutty prepared two! oiihces, Lapis Calaminaris often burnt and i l...', quenched in Plantain Water an ounce, I _ _ make them, being finely powdered, into an | OINTMENTS MORE COMPOUND. ointment, with a pound and an half of oint-1 Unguentum Ag7ippa. ment of Roses, . r i College.] Take of Briony roots two Culpeper.] It is a cooling, drying obit-| roots of wild Cucumbers one ment, appropriatecj to the eyes, to dry up| po^fjd. Squills half a pound, fresh English hot and salt humours that flovv down thither, ^ Orris roots, three ounces, the roots of male the eyelids being anointed with it. | Fern,dwarf Elder, water Caltrops, or Aaron, Valentia Scabiosce. | of each two ounces, bruise them all, being College.] Take of the juice of green j fresh, and steep them six or seven days in Scabious, pressed out wi:h a screw, aricU tour pounds ot old oil, the whitest, not rank, strained through a cloth. Hog's grease, oH then boil them and press them out, and in each as much as you will, heat the Hog's | the oil melt fifteen ounces of white Wax, grease in a stone mortar, not grind it, putt-Uahd make it into an ointment according to ing in the juice by degrees for the more fart. commodious 'mixture and tincture, after-f i Culpeper.] It purges exceedingly, and wards set it in the sun in a convenient ves- \ is good to anoint the bellies of such as have sel, so as the juice may overtop the grease, 1 dropsies, and if there be any humour of nine days being passed, pour off the dis- > flegm in any part of the body that you coloured juice, and beat it again as before,; know not how to remove (provided the piirt putting in fresh juice, svA it in theVtPri^gain \ be not too tender) you may auoint it with five days, which being elapsed, beat it'this; but yet be not too busy with it, for I again, put in more juice, after fifteen days Ucfl you plainly it is not very safe, more, do so again, do so five times, after | Unguentum Amorum. which, keep it in a glass, or glazed vessel, Or, A bitter Ointment. ,$