Culpeper's English physician ; and complete herbal ... Illustrated with notes and observations, critical and explanatory / By E. Sibly.

  • Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654
Date:
1789
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Credit: Culpeper's English physician ; and complete herbal ... Illustrated with notes and observations, critical and explanatory / By E. Sibly. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    more ftrongly which hath a conjund tenuity of parts; but thole moderately attrafc which are hot and dry in the fecond degree, it in the third, more efFeccuaily ; and chiefly thofe that are fo in the fourth : lor the attraflion is according to the degree of heat, and is either more natural, or by putrefaclion. Yet lome thing-s attracc fpecifically, and not by a manifefl; quality : as things that are cathartick or purg- ing, and alexitery, or reflfting poifon. 8, Apocrouftick or repercutient, repelling the humours flowing from the tenter, as in thofe things which are frigid and of grofs parts. For that which is cold repelleth, and if it hath a craflicude of parts alfo, it is more violent, as that which is acerbe or auftere; yet thofe things alfo repeil which are afliringents, efpecially thofe which are helped by the tenuity of their parts: for the thinnefs of the fubftance doth much conduce to aftridtion; therefore other things that are aferidfive, by reafon of the craffitude of their fub- ftance, cannot eafily penetrate the more remote parts, precluding the paflages. Flere- to may thedefenfive, and the intercipient be reduced, being cold, aftringent, and re- pulfive. 9. Ryptick, abftergent or cleanflng, removing glutinous and clammy hu- mours'inthe fuperficies, or adhering to the pores of the flein, or ulcers, and is in thofe things which have power to exiccate with tenuity of fubftance, neither is it of any great moment whether they are hot or cold, by reafon that neither quality hinders adlion, except exceffive. Yet fome count them hot chiefly, and dry, with a certain thick- nefs of parts to vellicate the humours. 10. Eccathartick, ecphractick, and expur- gatory, or removing obftrudfions •, not only opening the pores of the fkin, but the \x\itx\QX duEius of the bowels •, as in thofe things that are nitrous and bitter, although they have fome fmall aftridlion, and by reafon of fubftance do not differ from thofe that are abfterfive, but in degree j for thofe things that cleanfe the pores and inward paffages, have a great tenuity of parts, and are moderately hot; as thofe things which are nitrous and bitter: but thofe things which being outwardly applied to the flein, do cleanfe the fkin and ulcers from their excrements, are deftitute of the aftrictive faculty; but being taken inwardly, although having a certain aftri<ftion, yet neverthelefs they may purge, and cleanfe the greater paffages, and withal ftrengthen the fame. Alfo fome things lenify or purge by lubrifying, as fat things; by walk- ing and abfterfion, as whey and beets; by compreffion, as quinces ; by extinaula- tion, as things hot, Iharp, fait, and of thin parts *, and others eleflively and properly. And emeticks caufe vomit by relaxation and ftimulation, the mouth of the ftomach being weak; if the lower part, ufe dejedtories. n. Leptyntick or attenuating and making thin, as in all thofe things that are expurgatory, hot, and of thin parts : ex- tenuating grofs and tough humours j and are for the moft part hot and dry, 2d or 3d, as things (harp and aromatical; yet fome are cold, as lemons, &c. but of thin parts. Hereto belongs the temetick, or inciding againft vicid humours, which are No. 2. C more