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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$CERECLOATHS. Ceratum de Galbano. Or, Cerecloath of Galbanum. College.'] Take of Galbanum prepared. Pompholix prepared, pure Frankincense,! Cidpepe?',] The belly oeing anointed of each an ounce, let them be brought into \ with it kills the worms, the form of an ointment according to art. \ Culpeper.] It cools and binds, drys, and \ stays fluxes, either of blood or humours in! wounds, and fills hollow ulcers with flesh, t Ungiientum Refrigerans. Galenus. | It is also called a Cerecloath. \ College.] Take of white Wax fourj ounces, Oil of Roses omphacine one pound, j ounce and an half, Assafoetida half an melt it in a double vessel, then pour it outt ounce. Bdellium a dram. Myrrh two drams, into another, by degrees putting in cold | Wax two ounces. Carrot seeds a scruple, water, and often pouring it out of one vessel ? Featherfew, Mugwort, of each half a dram, into another, stirring it till it be white, l^^^t j dissolve the Gums in Vinegar, and make it of all wash it in Rose water, adding a little | ^ cerecloath according to art. Rose Water, and Rose Vinegar. i Culpeper.] Being applied to the belly Culpeper,] It is a fine cooling thing, to | ^ woman after labour, it cleanses her of cure inflammations in wounds or tumours, ^ny relicts accidently left behind, helps Unguentum e Succis Aperitivis primum. \ ^^s of the mother, and other accidents Foesius. I incident to women in that case. Co%«.] Take of the juice of Smaliage, | Cerat«m Oemjpatum. Endive, Mints, Wormwood, common i ^ t m i £• Parsley, Valerian, of each three ounces, oil 5 ^ f ^ i esypus en ounces, of Wormwood and Mints, of each half a! Chamomel and Orris, of each half pound, yellow Wax three ounces, mix them | ^ ^ together over the fire, and make of them an pound, Mastich,Ammonmeum l urpentine, ointmpnt ounce, Spikenard two drams r^j ‘ 1 -r. . c and an half. Saffron a dram and an half, Culpeper.] It opens stoppages of the ? „ i-. i ■ i \ a A 1 ‘ ^ 1 + ^ Styrax Calamitis half an ounce, make them stomach and spleen, eases the rickets, the;. , . r . * breast and sides being anointed with it. ' into a cerec oa accor mg oar. r j An Ointment for the Worms. Foesius. ] I . mohfies and digests College!] Take of oil of Rue, Savin, Mints, Wormwood, and bitter Almonds, “d ‘he body, and of each an ounce and an half, juice of thejS®®^*' ® pam. flowers or leaves of Peaches, and Worm-1 Ceratum Santalinum. wood, of each half an ounce, powder of| College!] Take of red Sanders, ten Rue, Mints, Gentian, Centaury the less, | drams, white and yellow Sanders, of each Tormentil, of each one dram, the seeds of 1 six drams, red Roses twelve drams, Bole- Coleworts, the pulp of Colocynthis, of each | ammoniac seven drams, Spodiura four two drams. Aloes Hepatic, three drams, the; drams, Campiiire two drams, white Wax meal of Lupines half an ounce. Myrrh i washed thirty drams, Oil of Roses ompha- washed in grass water a dram and an half, 1 cine six ounces: make it into a cerecloath Bull’s Galls an ounce and an half, Avith \ according to art. juice of Lemons, so much as is sufficient, 1 Culpeper.] It wonderfully helps hot in- and an ounce and an half of Wax, make itlfirmities of the stomach, liver, and oilier into an ointment according to art. 1 parts, being but applied to them.$