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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$into the perfect body of a plaster. It is i and make them into a plaster according to prepared without Vinegar thus, take of red j art. Lead one pound, Oil of Roses one pound i Culpeper.'] It strengthens the brain and and an half, AVax half a pound, make it \ nerves, and then being applied to the back, into a plaster according to art. | down along the bone, it must needs add Cn/peper.] It is a fine cooling healing | strength to the body, plaster, and very drying. \ Emplastnm Oxycroceum. -n 7 ^ Colle£(e,] Take of Saffron, Ship-pitch, Emplastrum Metroproptoticon. n w v ^ m 1 r TVT 1 iColophoma, yellow Wax, or each four Co//ege.] Take of MasPeh one ounce Turpentine, Galbanum, Ammonia- and an half, Galbanum dissolved m red j^^^^ Olibanum, Mastich, of each AVine and stiamed, six drams, yp^ss ur- ounce and three drams. Let the Pitch, pentme two drams. Cypress Nuts, Gall^^ Colophonia be melted together, then each one dram and an la , oi o u megs Wax, then (it being removed from by expiession one lam, us wo grams ? Turpentine, afterwards the and an h^f, i scrapec o rom o | dissolved in Vinegar, lastly the Saf- ships t^vo diams an an a , ea e in powder, well mixed with Vinegar, banum, Pitc i, urpen me, an as ic j^ndsomake it into a plaster according to gently m a hot mortar and pestle, towards i ^ ® the end, addins the Oil of Nutmegs, then; ^ t t*. • c * c. • , , . * j 1 . 17 17 *if T\/r 1 J Culpeper.] It is of a notable softening the rest m powder, last or al. the JMuskl j j • ^ • lu i i u i i_ ® • j • 1 ^1- 1 ^v-1 e TVT V, 5 and discussing quality, helps broken bones, mixed with a little Oil of Mastich upon a | ® i i i j i j i . 1 L.U land any part molested with cold, old aches, marble, and by exact mixture make them! r u u , c i a jiu, a uj V. j stiffness of the limbs by reason of wounds, into a p aster. | ulcers, fractures, or dislocations, and dis- Emplastrum Nerm?ium. . | sipates cold swellings. College.] Oake of Oil of Chamomel and | Emplastrum Stephaniaion. Roses, of each two ounces, of Mastich, 1 College.] Take of Labdanura half an Turpentine, and Linseeds, of each an ounce jounce, Styrax, Juniper Gum, of each two and an half. Turpentine boiled four ounces,} drams, Amber, Cypress, Turpentine, of Rosemary, Bettony, Horsetail, Centaury the j each one dram, red Coral, Mastich, of each less, of each a handful, Earth-worms washed I half a dram, the flowers of Sage, red and eleansed in AVine three ounces, tops | Roses, the roots of Orris Florentine, of of St. John’s AVort a handful, Mastich, Gum each one scruple, Rozin washed in Rose- Elemi, Madder roots, of each ten drams, | water half an ounce, the Rozin, Labdanum, Ship-pitch, Rozin, of each an ounce and j Juniper Gum, and Turpentine, being gently an half. Litharge of Gold and Silver, of* beaten in a hot mortar, wdth a hot pestle, each two ounces and an half, red Lead two | sprinkling in a few drops of red AVine till ounces, Galbanum, Sagapen, Amoniacum, 1 they are in a body ; then put in the pow- of each three drams, boil the roots, herbs, j ders, and by diligent stirring make them and worms, in a pound and an half of Wine 1 into an exact plaster. till half be consumed, then press them out, \ Emplastrujn Sticticum. and boil the decoction again with the Oils, j College.] Take of Oil of Olives six Suets, Litharge, and red Lead, to the con-jQunces, yellow Wax an ounce and an half, sumption of the AVine : then add the Gums ; Litharge in powder four ounces and an dissolved in AVine, afterwards the Turpen- \ half, Ammoniacum, Bdellium, of each half tine, Rozin, Pitch, and Mastich, in powder, \ an ounce, Galbanum, Opopanax, Oil of$