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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![the ftalks rife up compared round about, thick wVr ' avts, which are lefTer and narrower than the former 5 A ,ey are tender, and flender, the flowers are hollow, fmall, and of a reddifli colour. Place.] It grows in Kent near Rochefter, and in many place* in the Weft Country, both in Devonlhire and Cornwall. Time.'] They flower in July, and the beginning of Auguft, and the feed is ripe foon after, but the root is in its prime, as carrots and parfnips are, before the heib runs up to ftalk. Government and Virtues.] It is an herb under the domi- nion of Venus, and indeed one of her darlings, though fomewhat hard to come by. It helps old ulcers, hot inflam- mations, burnings by common fire, and St Anthony’s,fire, by antipathy to mars: for thefe ufes, your heft way is to make it into an ointment; alfo, if you make a vinegar of it, as you make vinegar of rofes, it helps the morphew and leproly ; if you apply the herb to the privities, it draws forth the oead •child. i&ciCl^lps the yellow-jaundice, fpleen, and gravel in the kidneys Diofcordes faith, it helps fuch as are bitten ^by venomous beafts, whether' it be taken inwardly, or ap- , plied to the wound; nay, he faith further, if any one that .hath newly eaten it, do but fpit into the mouth of a ferpent, it inftantly dies. It flays the flux of the belly, kills worms, helps the fits of the' mother. Its decoclion made in wine, and drank, ftrengthens the back, and eafeth the pains there- of : It helps bruiles and falls, and is as gallant a remedy to drive out the fmall pox and rneefles as any is; an ointment made of it, is excellent for green wounds, pricks or thrufts. Adder’s Tongue, or Serpent’s Tongue. Defcript.] 1 I ''HIS herb hath but one leaf, which grows JL with the ftalk a finger’s length above the ground, being flat and of a frefib green colour; broad like Water Plantane, but lefs, without any rib in it; from the bottom of which leaf, on the infidc, rifeth up (ordinarily) one, fometimes two or three flender ftalks, the upper half whereof is fomewhat bigger, and dented with fmall dents of a yellowifli green colour, like the tongue of an a :der ferpent (only this is as uleful as they arc formidable). The roots continue all the year. Place.] It grows in moift meadows, and fuch like places. Time.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24919500_0022.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
