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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    those things that may be melted, last of all 1 Turpentine, last of all the Colophonia, the powders, and make them all into an | Mastich, Frankincense, Bdellium, Alum, emplaster. |Myrrh, and Fenugreek in powder: let Culpeper.'] Galen appropriates it to the \ them be made into a piaster, head, and ulcers there. I know no reason | Culpeper.] It strengthens the stomach, but why it may as well serve for other parts land helps digestion. of the body. \ Emplastrum Nigrum. August. Called in A Plaster of Mastich. Nich. Alex, | High Dutch Stichstaster. College.] Take of Mastich, Ship Pitch, \ College.] Take of Colophonia, Rozin, Sagapenum, Wax, of each six drams, | Ship Pitch, white Wax, roman Vitriol, Ammoniacum, Turpentine, Colophonia, \ Ceruss, Olibanum, Myrrh, of each eight Saffron, Aloes, Frankincense, Myrrh, of jounces. Oil of Roses seven ounces. Oil of each three drams, Opopanax, Galbanum, | Juniper Berries three ounces, Oil of Eggs Styrax Calamitis, Alum, (Rondeletius ap- 5 two ounces. Oil of Spick one ounce, white points, and we for him) Bitumen, Fenu-1 Vitriol, red Coral, Mummy, of each two greek, of each two drams, the feces of | ounces. Earth of Lemnos, Mastich, Dragon^s Liquid Styrax, Bdellium, Litharge, of each 1 blood, of each one ounce, the fat of an half a dram: Let the Litharge being beaten \ Heron one ounce, the fat of Pimullus three into |X)wder, be boiled in a sufficient quan-i ounces, Load stone prepared, two ounces, tity of water; then add the Pitch, which I Earthworms prepared, Camphire, of each being melted, add the Wax and Ammoni-jone ounce; make them into a plaster ac- acum, afterwards let the Sagapenum, Opo-1 cording to art. panax, and Galbanum be put in ; then the t Culpeper^ It is ver}' good in green Styrax and Feces being mixed with the \ wounds and shootings. • ! ’ . /) t .