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
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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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![Government and Virtues.] It is under the planet Mercury* and a notable herb of bis alfo, if it be rightly gathered under liis influence. It is excellent good to remove witchcraft both in men and beads, as alfo all fudden difeafes whatfoever. Being-tied round about the neck, is one of the admirable!! ic- medies for the vertigo nr dizzinefs in the head that is; and that is the reafon .(as Tragus faith) the people in Germany commonly hang it about thc:r cattles necks, when they fear any luch evil hath betided them : Country people commonly nfe to take the berries of it, and having bruned. them, they apply them to felons, and thereby foon rid their fingers of fuch troublcfome guefls. We have now (hewed you the external ufe of the herb ; we (hall fpeak a word or two ot the internal, and fo conclude. Take notice, iris a Mercurial herb, and therefore of very fubtle parts, as indeed all mercurial plants are: therefore take a pound of the wood and leaves together, bruife the wood .{which you may eafity do, for it is nor fo hard as oak) then put it in a pot, and put to it thtee pints of white wine, put on the pot-lid and fnut it clofe ; and let it infufe hot over a gentle fire twelve hours, then drain it out, fo you have a mod excellent drink to open obfirudlions of the liver and ipleen, to help difficulty of breath, hruifes and falls, and congealed blood in any part of the body, it helps the yellow jaundice, the dropfy and black jaundice, and to cleanfe women newly brought to bed. You may drink a quarter of a pint of the infufion every morning. It purgeth the body very gently, and not chuilifhly, as fome hold. And when you find good by this, remember me. They that/iliink the ufe of thefe medicines is too brief, it is only for the cheapnefs of the book ; let them read thole books of mine, of the lad edition, vh. Riverius^ VjjlingvS) Riclanvs. jfohnfcn, Sennertus, and Rhyjic Jor the Root. All-heal. IT is called All-heal, Hercules’s All heal, and Hercules s Wound wort, bccaufe-it is fuppofed that Hercules learned the herb and its virtues from Chiron, when he learned pfq fic of him. Some call it Panay. and others Opopane wort. Dcfcript.] Its root-is long, thick, and exceeding full of juice, ot a hot and biting tafle, the leaves are great and large, and winged almofi like afh tice leaves, but that they are fome thing](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24919500_0020.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
