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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    body to its natural heat, as the fire doth the | appropriated to, or by not heeding well the external parts in cold weather, unless the \ complexion of the patient, or the natural affliction of cold be so great that such mild \ temper of the part of the body afflicted, for medicines will not serve the turn. | the heart is hot, but the brain temperate. Effect 2. The second effect is, the miti- \ Effect 4. Lastly, Medicines hot in the gation of pain arising from such adistemper, I first degree, cherish heat in the internal and indeed this effect hath other medicines, I parts, help concoction, breed good blood, some that are cold, and some that are hotter | and keep it good in temper, being bred, than the first degree, they being rationally \ Qf Medicines hot in the second degree applied to the distemper. These medicines | These are something hotter than the the Greeks call ^iiod^na, and shall be spo-1 ^^tural temper of a man ken of m tlmr proper places. In this| pj,. Their use for such whose stomachs place let It suffice that medicines hot in the because their first degree,,make the offending humours ^ot and dry ; they take away thin, and expel them by sweat, or insensible I obstructions or stoppings, open the pores transpiration, and these of all others are^f the skin, but not in the same manner most congruous oragrembleto the body ofitb^t such do as are hot in the first degree, man, for there is no such equal temperature; they do it without force, by a gentle heat, of heat and cold in a sound man, but heat, concocting, and expelling the humours, by exceeds, for we live by heat and moisture, i strengthening and helping nature in the work ; but these cut tough humours, and and not by cold. Medicines then which are hot in the first { scatter them by their own force and power degi-ee are such as just correspond to the ,^ben nature cannot. natural heat or our bodies; such as are > nr t - 7 x • x? 1 ,1 _ \ Of Medicines hot m the third decree hotter or colder, are more subject to do mis- j & , • ^ . j • • 1 u 1 17- 1 { Those which attain the third decree of chief, being administered by an unskilful x 1 xi x- ix- -.P ^ 1 1 ° 1 , r xi • ' heat, have the same faculties with those hand, than these are, because of their con- , r x- j 1 x xi 1 xx . -XXX \ 4i X before mentioned; but as they are hotter, Irariety to nature; whereas these are grate-' x* i • i • r 1 X xu I ] u xv • j u X iso are they more poweiiiu m their opera- ful to the body by their moderate heat. r xu * r i • u x- r’xr X o ffiu- ji rru x i Ulons, for they are so powerful 111 heating Effects. Thirdly, ihese take away i ’x- xi x-x- 1 • n • xi ® • ju 1 / u • X 1, j and cutting, that if unadvisedly given they weariness, and help fevers, being outwardly J . rm • • , \ V j ,’ T xu ^ X-xi fevers. Use. iheir use is to cut applied, because they open the pores of the L 1 1 x j 1 x 1 f 11 xu • xi u x^ xu Uough and compacted humours, to provoke skin, and by their gentle heat prepare the; °x u j xi 1 -x x X ’ X 1 ® xu V • sweat abundantly; hence it comes to pass humours, and take away those fuliginous;,, n r xi • x • , I u r ® i they all of them resist poison, vapours that are caused by fevers. i nr 7 ■ 7 • i r- 77 Discommodities.! Yet may discommo-i Of Medicines hot in the fomth clegi ce. dities arise by heedless giving even of these, 1 medicines obtain the highest degree which I would have young students in phy- \ J^^at, which are so hot that they burn the sic to be very careful in, lest they do more; man, being outwardly applied to mischief than they are aivare of, viz. It is | cause inflammations, or raise blisteis, possible by too much use of them, to con-1^^ Crowfoot, Mustard-seed, Onions, &c. sume not only what is inimical in the body, \ these more hereafter, but also the substance itself, and the strength | Qf cooling Medicines. of the spirits, whence comes faintings, and; Physicians have also observed four dc- sometimes death; besides, by applying | grees of coldness in medicines, which I shall them to the parts of the body they are not briefly treat of in order.