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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![fomethipg hairy, each leaf conGfting of five or fix pair of fuch wings fet oneagainfl the other upon foot-Gaiks, broad below, but narrow towards the end; one of the leaves is a little deeper at the bottom than the other, of a fair, yellowilh, frefh green colour ; they-are of a bittenlh tafic, when chewed in the mouth- From among thefe arileth up a Gaik, green in colour, round in torn,, great and firong in- magnitude, five or fix feet high in altitude, with many joints, and fome leaves thereat : Towards the top come forth umbels of fmall yellow flowers, after which are palled away, you may find whitilh, yellow, fliort, flat feeds, bitter alfo in tafle. ■Place. ] Having given you the deicription of the herb from the boctom to the top, give me leave to tell you, that there are other herbs called by this name ; but becaufe they are Grangers in England, I give only the delcripwon of this, which is eafily to be had in the gardens of divers places. Time ] Although Gerrard faith, That they flower from the beginning of M,ay to the end of December, experience teacheth them that keep it in their gardens, that it flowers not till the latter end of tiie bummer, and fheds its feed pre- fently after. Government and Virtues.'] It is under the dominion of mars, hot biting, and choleric; and remedies what evils mars afflidh the body of man with, by fympatby, as vipers flefh attracts poifos, and the loadftone iron. It kills the worms, helps the gout, cramp, and convulfions, provokes urin», and helps all joint-aches. It helps all cold griefs of the head, the vertigo, falling ficknefs, the lethargy, the wind colic, obftruc- tions of the liver and fplccn, Gone in the kidneys and blad- der. It provokes the terms, expels the dead birth: It is ex- cellent good for the griefs of the finews, itch, Gone and tooth*, acb, the biting of mad dogs and venemous bealls, and purgeth cholcr very gently. Alkanet. BESIDES the common name, it is called Orchanet, and Spanifh Buglois, and by apothecaries, Enchufa. JDcJcript.] Ot the many forts of this herb, there is but one known to grow commonly in this nation ; of which one takes this defcription : it hath a great and thick root, of a reddifh colour, long, narrow, hairy leaves, green like the leaves of Buglois, which lie very thick upon the grotihd;](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24919500_0021.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
