Observations on the efficacy of white mustard seed, in affections of the liver, internal organs, and nervous system; and on the general management of health and life / [Charles Turner Cooke].
- Charles Turner Cooke
- Date:
- 1826
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Observations on the efficacy of white mustard seed, in affections of the liver, internal organs, and nervous system; and on the general management of health and life / [Charles Turner Cooke]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![All I ask for it, therefore, is a fair trial of its capabilities; and whilst I do this, I must beg, that in thus commenting upon the diffusive autern id semen ex seseli. Et si vehementior somnns lethargicos premat, cruribus aut etiam capiti iliinitur cum fico ex aceto. Veteres dolores thora¬ cis, lumborum, coxendicum, humerorum, et in quacumque parte corporis ex alto vitia extrahenda sunt, illitum caustica vi emendat, pustulas faciendo. At in magna duvitia sine fico impositum : vel si vehementior ustio timeatur, per duplices pannos. Utuntur ad alopecias cum rubrica, psoras, lepras, phthiriases, Iithanicos, opisthotonicos. Inungunt quoque scabras genas, aut caligantes oculos cum melle. Succusque tribus modis exprimitur in fictili, calescitque in eo in Sole modice. Exit et e cauliculo succus lacteus, qui ita cum induruit, dentium dolori medetur. Semen ac radix, cum immaduere musto, conteruntur, manusque plenrn mensura sorbentur ad firmandas fauces, stomachum, oculus, caput, sensusque omnes: mulierum etiam lassitudines, saluberrimo genere medicinae. Calculos quoque discutit potum ex aceto. Iliinitur et livoribus sugillatisque cum melle et adipe anserino, aut cera Cypria. Fit et oleum ex semine madefacto in oleo expressoque, quo utuntur ad nervorum rigores, lumborumque et coxendicum perfrictiones.” Lib. xx. c. 22. Having been repeatedly called on for a translation of the foregoing passage, and feeling that I might be somewhat sus¬ pected of colouring, I subjoin that of Holland, the only ac¬ credited translation which I have the means of giving. If it is rude and coarse, the reader must attribute it to the age in which he lived. “ The hearbe Senvey, whereof there be three kinds (as I have alreadie observed in my treatise of garden plants), Pythagoras hath placed in the highest ranke of those simples that fume up aloft: for there is not a thing that sooner biteth one by the nose, and pierceth and mounteth more quickly into the brains than doth Senvey. The seed thereof [commonly called Mus¬ tard Seed] being stamped, and with vinegre reduced into a liniment, cureth the sting of serpents, and namely the prick with the scorpion. It hath, be¬ sides, a singular vertue to mortifie and kill the venomous qualitie of mush- roms. If it bee but held in the mouth untillit melt and resolve, or otherwise be gargarised with honeyed water, it draweth waterie fleame out of the head. Beeing chewed, it easeth the tootliach. For the falling downe of the Vvula, a gargarisme made of it with vinegre and honey, is excellent. There is not a medecine so singular for the stomacke and all the infirmities thereof ne yet for the lungs. Being eaten at meat, it doth loosen superfluous fleame,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30369472_0085.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
