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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$not a whit inferior to it; it strengthens the \ in Violet Water six ounces, oil of Sweet stomach being anointed with it, restores | Almonds four ounces, oil of Chamomel appetite and digestion. Before it was called j and Violets, white Wax, of each three a stomach ointment. i ounces, Hen’s and Duck’s greese, of each Ungueniiim 'Neapolitmmm. | two ounces. Orris roots two drams. Saffron College.'] Take of Hog’s grease washed x half a dram: The two last being finely in juice of Sage a pound. Quick-silver ? powdered, the rest melted and often washed strained through leather, four ounces, oil of jin Barley or Hyssop water, make an oint- Bays, Chamomel, and Earthworms, of each | ment of them according to art. two ounces, Spirit of Wine an ounce, yellow | Culpeper.] It strengthens the breast and Wax two ounces. Turpentine washed in; stomach, eases the pains thereof, helps juice of Elecampane three ounces, powder | pleurises and consumptions of the lungs, of Chamepitys and Sage, of each two 1 the breast being anointed with it. drams, make them into an ointment accord- \ Unguent 1071 Kesumptivuin. ing to art. j College.] Take of Hog’s grease three Culpeper^ A learned art to spoil people: | ounces, the grease of Hen’s, Geese, and hundreds are bound to curse such oint- \ Ducks, of each two ounces, Oesipus half ments, and those that appoint them. \an ounce, oil of Violets, Chamomel, and Unguentum Nertinum 1 Dill, fresh Butter a pound, white Wax six College.] Take of Cowslips with the bounces, mussilage of Gum Tragacanth, flowers. Sage, Chamepitys, Rosemary, | Arabic, Quince seeds, Lin-seeds, Marsh- Lavender, Bay with the berries, Chamomel, | mallow roots, of each half an ounce. Let Rue, Smallage, Melilot with the flowers, | the mussilages be made in Rose water, and Wormwood, of each a handful. Mints,; adding the rest, make it into an ointment Betony, Pennyroyal, Parsley, Centaury the j according to art. less, St. John’s Wort, of each a handful, j Culpeper.] It mightily molifies without oil of Sheep’s or Bullock’s feet, five pounds, j any manifest heat, and is therefore a fit oil of Spike half an ounce. Sheep’s or | ointment for such as have agues, asthmas, Bullock’s Suet, or the Marrow of either, two i hectic fevers, or consumptions. It is a pounds : the herbs being bruised and \ good ointment to ease pains coming by in- boiled with the oil and suet, make it into an j flammations of wounds or aposthumes, ointment accordiiig to art. ? especially such as dryness accompanies, an Culpeper.] It is appropriated to the; infirmity wounded people are many times nerves, and helps their infirmities coming of; troubled with. In inward aposthumes, as cold, as also old bruises, make use of it in | pleurises, one of them to anoint the ex- dead palsies, chilliness or coldness of par-1 ternal region of the part, is very benefical. ticular members, such as the arteries per-; Unguentum Splaiicimicum. form not their office to as they ought; for | College^ Take of oil of Capers an wind anoint your belly with it; for want of; ounce, oil of white Lillies, Chamomel, digestion, your stomach; for the cholic, your; fresh Butter, juice of Briony and Sow- belly; for whatever disease in any part of'; bread, of each half an ounce, boil it to the the body comes of cold, esteem this as a 1 consumption of the juice, add Ammoniacum jewel. ' ; dissolved in Vinegar, two drams and an Unguentum Pectorale. | half. Hen’s grease, Oesypus, Marrow of a Or, A Pectoral Ointment. ; Cali’s Leg, of each half an ounce, powder College.] Take of fresh Butter washed' of the bark of the roots of Tamaris and$