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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    Herb-Carpenter; though in Essex Ave call | for those that are liver-grown (as they call another heiL by that name. i it.) It is Avonclerlul in curing all manner of Descript.'] This has larger leaves than I ulcers and sores, Avhether ncAv and fresh, those of the Self-heal, but else of the same \ or old and inveterate; }^ea, gangrenes and fashion, or rather longer; in some green on \ fistulas also, if the leaves bruised and ap- the upper side, and in others more bi’own- \ plied, or their juice be used to wash and ish, dented about the edges, someAvhat hairy, j bathe the place, and the same made into a as the square stalk is also which rises up to | lotion, and some honey and allum cures be half a yard high sometimes, Avith the j ail sores in the mouth and gums, be they leaA’^es set b} couples, from the middle | never so foul, or of long continuance; and almost, AAdiereof upwards stand the tloAvers, | Avorks no less poAA^erfully and effectually for together A\dth many smaller and broAvner | such ulcers and sores as happen in the leaves than the rest, on the stalk beloAV set 1 secret parts of men and Avomen. Being at distance, and the stalk bare betAA’een | also taken iuAvardly, or outwardly applied, them; among Avhich floAvers, are also small | it helps those that have broken any bone, ones of a blueish and sometimes of an ash j or have any member out of joint. An colour, fashioned like the floAvers of ground-1 ointment made Avith the leaves of Bugle, ivy, after Avhich come small, round blackish | Scabious and Sanicle bruised and boiled seeds. The root is composed of many I in hog’s grease, until the herbs be dry, and strings, and spreads upon the ground. \ then strained forth into a pot for such The Avhite dowered Bugle differs not in i occasions as shall require; it is so singular form or greatness from the former, saAung j good for all sorts of hurts in the body, that that the leaves and stalks are ahAuys green, \ none that knoAv its usefulness aauII be Avith- and never broAvn, like the other, and the | out it. floAvers thereof are Avhite. | The truth is, I have knoAvn this herb cure P/ffce.] They groAv in Avoods, copses, j some diseases of Saturn, of Avhich I thought and helds, generally throughout England, i good to quote one. Many times such as but the Avhite floArered Bugle is not so 1 give themselves much to drinking are plentiful as the former. | troubled Avith strange fancies, strange sights Time.~\ They doAver from May untiljuly, j in the night time, and some Avith voices, and in the mean time perfect their seed. | as also Avith the disease ephialtes, or the The roots and leaves next thereunto upon i mare. I take the reason of this to be the ground abiding all the Winter. \ (according to Fernelius) a melancholy Gwernment and 'virtues.~\ This herb be- | vapour made thin by excessive drinking longs to Dame Venus: If the Aurtues of it \ strong liquor, and so dies up and disturbs make you fall in love Avith it (as they Avill \ the fancy, and breeds imaginations like if you be Avise) keep a syrujA of it to take | itself, viz. fearful and troublesome. Those inwardly and an ointment and plaister of it: I have knoAvn cured by taking only tAVO to use outAvardly, always by you. 1 spoonfuls of the syrup of this herb after The decoction of the leaves and doAvers j supper tAvo hours, Avhen you go to bed. made in Avine, and taken, dissolves the con- \ But AAdiether this does it b}^ sympathy or gealed blood in those that are bruised in- \ antipathy, is some doubt in astrology. I wardly by a fall, or othei’Avise is very x knoAV there is a great antipathy betAveen effectual for any inAAwd AA Oimds, thrusts, | Saturn and Venus in matter of procreation ; or stabs in the body or boAvels; and it is \ yea, such a one, that the barrenness of an especial help in all wound-drinks, and i Saturn can be removed by none but Venus;