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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![exceedingly ; it provokes the terms if they be flopped, and flops them, if thev flow immoderately: ) on can oefire no good to ycur womb, but this herb will efledl it ; therefore if you love children, if )<ru love heajth, if you love eate, keep a fyrup always by you, made of the juice of this herb, and fugar, (or honey, if it be to cleanfe the womb) and Jet fuch as be rich keep it for their poor neighbours ; and be- flow it as frceiy as 1 beftovv my lludies upon them, or elfe let them look toanfwer it another day, when the Lord Hull come to make inquifltion of blood. Archangel. TO put a glofs upon their pradiLe, the phyficians rail an herb which country people vulgarly know by the name of Dead Nettle Archangel ; whether they favour.ntore of fuperftition 01 fully, I leave to the jud’eipus reader. The e is more curiofiry than courtefy to my countrymen u!cd by others in the explanation as well of the name?, as delcbption of this fo well known herb ; which, that 1 may not alio be, guilty of, take this fhort defeription, firfl of the Red Arch- angel. Dcfcriyt.'] This has divers fquare flalk?, fl me what hairy, . at the joints whereof grow two lad green leaves dented about ' the edges, oppofiteto one another to the lowemtoft upon long foot flalks, but without any toward the lops which arc fo me what round, yet pointed, and a little crumpled and hairy ; round about the upper joint?, where the leaves grow thick, ere funr’ry gaping flowers of a pale reddifh colour ; after which come the feeds three or four in a hulk. The root is fmaller and thready, perifliing every year ; the whole plant hath a flrong fcenl but not limiting. White Archangel hath divers fquare flalks, none Handing flraight upward, but bending downward, whereon Hand two leaves at a joint, larger and more pointed than the other, dented about the edges, and greener alfo, more like unto Nettle leaves, but not flinking, yet hairy. At the joints with the leaves Hand larger and more open gaping white flowers, bulks round about the flalks, but nut with fuch a bufh of leaves a- fl iwcrs let in the top, as is on the olhe.r. wherein Hand frrmll roundifh black feeds; t lie ror t is white, with many firings at it, not growing downward, B i but](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24919500_0035.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
