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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![fharp, and bitter in tafte, and is thereby found to be hot and dry 5 a Gngular herb for all inward wounds, exuleerated lungs, or other parts, either by itfelf, or boiled with other the like herbs; and being drank, in a fhort time it eafeth all griping pains, windy and choleric humours in the (to- , mach, fpleen or belly ; helps the yellow jaundice, by open- ing the (toppings of the gall and liver, and melancholy, by opening the (loppings of the fpleen; expellcth venom or pof'ijp, and alfo the plague ; it provokes urine and womens courfes 5 the decodtion of it in wine drank for fome time together, procureth eafe unto them that are troubled with the fciatlca, or hip gout; as alfo the gout in hands, knees, or feet; if you put to the decoction fome honey and a lit- tle burnt allum, it is excellent good to gargle any fore mouth or throat, and to wafh the fores and ulcers in the privy parts of man or woman ; it fpeedily helpeth green wounds, being bruifed and bound thereto. The juice of it boiled with a-little honey and verdigroafe, both wonderfully cleanfc fiftulas, ulcers, and flayeth the fpreading or eating of cancers and ulcers; it helpeth the itch, fcabs, wheals; and other breakings out in any part of the body. The juice of Ce- landine. Field-dailies, and Ground ivy clarified, and a little fine lugarv diffolved therein, and dropped into the eyes, is a fovereign remedy for all pains, rednefs, and watering of them ; as alfo for the pin and web, Ikins and films growing over the fight ; it helpeth beafls as well as men. Th« juice dropped into the cars doth wonderfully help the nolle and finging of them, and helpeth the hearing which is decayed. It is good to tun up with new drink, for it will clarify it in a night, that it will be the fitter to be drank the next morn- ing; or if any drink be thick with removing, or any other accident, it will do the like in a few hours. Alexander. I r is alfo called Alifander, Horfe parfley,* and Wild par. •m ar1.th.e Black L>o£ herb '; thc reed it is that which LT 7 ^ 111 ap0lhecaries fhjPs for Macedonian .Parfley- D:Jcn['t ] It is ufually fown in all the gardens in Europe, and w w«J! known, that it needs no farther deferiprion. zw...] It (lowered) in June and July j tire feed is ripe in Augult. r Gtfvcrn-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24919500_0027.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
