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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    PLAISTERS. Emplastrum ex Ammoniaco. Or, A Plaister of Ammoniacum. ! Emplastrum Barharum Magnum. College^ 1 ake of dry Pitch eight pounds, I yellow Wax six pounds and eight ounces, I Per-Rozin five pounds and four ounces, \ Bitumen, Judaicum, or Mummy, four Cullege.~l Take of Ammoniacum, Bran j pounds, Oil one pound and an half, Ver* well sifted, of each an ounce. Ointment of | digris. Litharge, Ceruss, of each three Marsh-mallows, Melilot plaister compound, j ounces. Frankincense half a pound. Roach roots of Briony, and Orris in powder, of (Alum not burnt, an ounce and an half, each half an ounce, the fat of Ducks, j burnt, four ounces, Opopanax, scales at Geese, and Hens, of each three drams, \ Brass, Galbanum, of each twelve drams. Bdellium, Galbanum, of each one dram and I Aloes, Opium, Myrrh, of each half an an half, Per-Rozin, Wax, of each five Jounce, Turpentine two pounds, juice of ounces, oil of Orris, Turpentine, of each | Mandrakes, or else dried bark of the root, half an ounce, boil the fats and oil with \ six drams. Vinegar five pounds: Let the mussilage of Lin-seed, and Fenugreek seed,| Litharge, Ceruss, and Oil, boil to the thick- of each three ounces, to the consumption of j ness of Honey, then incorporate with them the mussilage, strain it, and add the Wax, | the Pitch, being melted with Bitumen in Rozin, and Turpentine, the ointment of | powder; then add the rest, and boil them Marsh-mallows with the plaister of Melilot; I according to art, till the vinegar be con- when it begins to be cold, put in the j suined, and it stick not to your hands. Ammoniacum, dissolved in Vinegar, then- Culpeper.^ It helps the bitings of men s of wounds. the Bdellium in powAer, with the rest of the land beasts, eases infiammations powders, and make it into a plaister accord- \ and helps infirmities of the joints and gouts ing to art O 1 in the beginning. Culpeper.^ It softens and assuages hard | Emplastrum de Betonica. swellings, and scalti rs the humours offend-1 ^ Plaister of Betony. mg, applied to the side it softens the hard-1 ttpi r-n ® , , -.1 College.] lake of Betonv, Burnet, Agn- ness of the spleen, assuages pains thence J o t-> ^ ry P , • ^ or 5 mony, ISage, Pennyroyal, i arrow, Lomfrey arising. t- • 1 greater. Clary, of each six ounces, Emplastrum e Baccus Luuri. j Frankincense, Mastich, of each three Or, A Plaister of Bay-berries. j drams. Orris, round Birthwort, of each six College.~\ Take of Bay-berries husked, 1 drams, white Wax, Turpentine, of each Turpentine, of each two ounces, Frankin- i eight ounces, Per-Rozin six ounces. Gum cense, Mastich, Myrrh, of each an ounce, | Elemi, Oil of Fir, of each two ounces, white Cypress, Costus, of each half an ounce, i Wine three pounds: bruise the herbs, boil Honey warmed and not scummed, four j them in the Wine, then strain them, and add ounces : make it into a plaister according to | the rest, and make them into a plaister ac- art. i cording to art. Culpepcr.~\ It is an excellent plaister to I Culpeper.'] It is a good plaister to unite case any pains coming of cold or wind, in | the skull when it is cracked, to draw out any part of the body, Avhether stomach, | pieces of broken bones, and cover the liver, belly, reins, or bladder. It is an phones with flesh: It draws filth from the excellent remedy for the cholic and wind in 1 bottom of deep ulcers, restores flesh lost, the bowels. ^ cleanses, digests, and drys.