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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![Government and Ufa.] It is a tree under the dominion of Venus, and of tome watery fign or other, l fuppofe Pi fees, and therefore the dccotflion, or diddled water of the leaves^ 4s excellent againft burnings and inflammations, cither with wounds or without, to bathe the place grieved with, and efpecially for that inflammation in the bread, which the vulgar cali an ague. If you cannot get the leaves (as in Winter ’tis impoffible) make ufe of the bark in the fame manner. The leaves and bark of the Alder tree are cooling, dry- ing, and binding. The frefli leaves laid upon fwellirgs diflolye them, and flay the inflammations. The leaves put under the bare feet gauled with travelling, are a great re- frefliing to them. The laid leaves gathered while the.mom- ing dew is on them, and brought into a chamber troubled with flea', will gather them thereunto, which being fuddenly cafl out, will rid the chamber of thofe troublefomc bed- fellows. Angelica. TO write a defeription of that which is fo well known to be growing almoft in every garden, I fuppofe is altogether needlels; yet for its virtues it is of admirable uie. In time of Hcathenifm, when men had found out any excellent herb, they dedicated it to their gods; as the Bay- ti'ee to Apollo, the Oak to Jupiter, the Vine to Bacchus, the Poplar to Hercules. Thefe the Papifts following as the Patriarchs, they dedicated to their Saints; as our Lady’s Thiflle to the BlefFed Virgin, St John’s Wort to St John, and another Wort to St Peter, &c. Our phyficians muft imitate like apes (though they cannot come oft half fo cleverly) for they blafphcmoully call Phanfies or Idearts-eafe, •an herb of the Trinity, becaufe it is of three colours: And a certain ointment, an ointment of the Apoftles. becaufc it confifls of twelve ingredients: Alas, lam forry for their folly, and grieved at their blafphemy. God lend them wit- dom the reft of their age, for they have their fliare ot igno- rance already. Oh! Why mufl ours be blalphemous, becaufe the Heathens and Papifts were idolatrous? Certainly they have read fo much in old rufly authors, that they have loft all their divinity ; for unlcfs it were amengft the Ranters. I never read or heard of fuch blafphemy. The Heathens](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24919500_0030.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
