The English physician enlarged : with three hundred and sixty nine medicines, made of English herbs, that were not in any impression until this, being an astrologo-physical discourse of the vulgar herbs of this nation ... / by Nich. Culpepper.
- Nicholas Culpeper
- Date:
- 1785
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The English physician enlarged : with three hundred and sixty nine medicines, made of English herbs, that were not in any impression until this, being an astrologo-physical discourse of the vulgar herbs of this nation ... / by Nich. Culpepper. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Englifh Phyfician ENLARGED. Amara Dulcis. CONSIDERING divers (hires in this nation give divers names to one and the fame herb, and that the common name which it bears in one country is net known in another, I fhall take the pains to fet down all the names that 1 know of each herb : pardon me for fetting that name firfl which is mod common to myfelf. BeGdcs Amara dulciS, fome call it Mortal, others Bitter fwcet; fome Woody Night-fhade, and others Felen-wort. Ddfcript,] It grows up with woody dalles even to a man’s height, and fometimes higher. The leaves fall off at the ap- proach of Winter, and fpring out of the fame dalks at Spring- time: The branch is compaflbd about with a whitifh bark, and hath a pith in the middle of it: The main branch branc'neth itfelf into many fmall ones, with clafpers, laying hold on what is next to them, as vines do : It bears many leaves, they grow in no order at all, at lead in no regular order: The leaves are longifh, though fomewhat broad, and pointed at the ends: many of them have two little leaves growing at the end of their foot Aalk; fome have but one, arid fome none. The leaves are of a pale green colour : the flowers are of a purple colour, or of a perfect blue like to violets, and they fland many of them together in knots; the berries are green at firfl, but when they are ripe they are very red; if you tafle them, you fhall find them juft as the crabs which we in Suffcx call bitter fweets, viz. fweet at firfl, and bitter afterwards. Place. ] They grow commonly almofl throughout England, efpecially in moifl and fhady places. Timej] The leaves (hoot out about the latter end of March, if the temperature of the air be ordinary; it' flowereth ia July, and the feeds are ripe foon after, ulually in the next month.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24919500_0019.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
