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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![nefs of fight aiifl deafnefs; the juice put into the hollow teeth, eafeth their pains. The root in powder, made up in- to a plaifter with a little pitch, and laid on the biting of mid dog , or am, other venomous creature, doth wonderfully help. The juice or the water dropped, or tents wet therein, a: put into filthy dead ulcers, or the powder of the root (in want of either) doth cleanfe and caufe them to heal quickly, 1 covering the naked bones with flefh ; the diflilled water applied to places pained with the gout, or fciatica, doth give a great deal of eafe. The wild Angelica is not fo effectual as the garden ; al- though it may be fafely ufed to all the purpofes aforefaid. Amaranth us. BESIDES its common name, by which it is bcft known b\ the florid: of om days, it is called Flower Gentle, Flower Velure, Floramor, and Velvet Flower. Dcfcr:pt.'\ It being a garden flower, and well known to every- one that keeps it. 1 might forbear the dsfciiption ; yet, not- vithflanding, becau'e lorae defire it, 1 {hull give it. It runneth op with a (talk a cubit high, dreaked, and forae- \vh . redclifh toward trie root, but very fnjooth, divided to- wards the top with finell branches, among which dand long •broad Hives of a rediifh g-ecn colour, flippery ; the flowers arc not properly flower?, but tufts, very beautiful to behold, but of rn fmell. of reddifh colour: if you. bruilc them, they yield juice of the lame colour: being gathered, they Peep their beau- a l ing time ; the feed is of a fhining black c 1 r. Tim.] Thev continue -in flower from Atiguft till the time i the rof nip them Go vernment and Virtues.] It is under the dominion of Sa- to n no is an excellent qualifier ot the unruly actions and I r of Venus, tlnugh Mars alfo fhould join with her. 1 T : r-'ers dried and beaten into powder flop the 'errm in w . uid fo do almoit all other red things. And by the i. ■ ,i ii ip-; of everiierb, the ancients at fir.l found out o . ir Modern writers laugh at them fin it; but I cart, how the virtue oi herbs came at rirft •' ,i, 'f .irt by their fignaturcs ; the moderns Iiavci _ j .. j-. citings of the ancients; the ancients had!](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24919500_0032.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
