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.
Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.
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![and Papirts were bad, and ours worfe ; the Papifls giving idolatrous names to herbs for their virtues fake, not for their fair h oks ; and therefore fome called this an herb of the Holy Ghjl; others more moderate called it Angelica, becaufe of qts angelical virtues, and that name it retains full, and all nations follow it fo near as their dialect will permit Government and Virtues ] It is an herb of the Sun in Leo; lei it be gathered when he is there, the Moon ap- plying to his good afpedt; let it be gathered either in his hour, or in the hour of Jupiter, let Sol be angular; obferve the like in gathering the herbs of oilier planets, and you may happen to do wonders, in all epidemical difeafes cau- fed by Saturn, that is as good a prefervative as grows: It refids poifon, by defending and comforting the heart, blood, and fpirits ; it doth the like again!! the plague and all epi- demical difeafes, if the root be taken in powder to the weight of half a dram at a time, with fome good treacle in Car iuus water, and the party thereupon laid to fweat in his bed; if treacle is not to be had, take it alone in Carduus or Angeli- ca water. The (lalks or roots cm led and eaten falling, arc good preservatives in time of infection: and at other times to warm and cimfort a cold flomach- The root alfo deeped ituvinegar, and a little of that vinegar taken fometimes fad- ing. and the root fmelled unto, is good for the lame purpofe. A water diddled from the root' limply, as deeped in wine, ana diddled m a glafs, is much more efledlual than the wa- ter of the leaves; and this water, drank two or three fponn- fuls at a time, eafeth all pains and torments coming of cold md wind, fo that the body be not bound; and taken with rome rf the root in powder at the beginning, hcloe h the alcudfv, as alfo all other difeafeS of the l.in2s and bread, as :o igh , phthvfic, and fhortnefs of breath ; and a b mp of the ' Ik doth the like. It. helps pains of the colic, the ftranguary m l doppage of the urine, procureth womens comics, and ytelle,hyhe after birth, openeth the floppings of the l;ver nd fplcen. and briefly eafeth and'difcufTetii all windinef* nd in ward fwcllings. d he deec&irm drunk before the fle fan ague, that they may fwcar (if poffi >le) before the fit 'D f wo or three times taking, rid it quite away ; 'J,w igeiVnw. and is a remedj tor a turfeit. The juice, r the water, being dirpped into thtr eyes ot ears, hclp3 dim- B ' neft](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24919500_0031.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
