Culpepper's [sic] family physician : the English physician enlarged, containing 300 medicines, made of American herbs / revised, corrected, and enlarged by James Scammon.

  • Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654.
Date:
1824
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Credit: Culpepper's [sic] family physician : the English physician enlarged, containing 300 medicines, made of American herbs / revised, corrected, and enlarged by James Scammon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the like, or the powder of the seed taken therein. Two drams of the seed in powder taken with women's breast-milk, is ve- ry effectual to procure a very speedy delivery to such women as have sore pains in their travail, and cannot be delivered : The herb itself, (when the seed is not to be had) either boil- ed, or the juice thereof drank, is effectual to all the purposes aforesaid, but not so powerful and speedy in operation. GOOSEBERRY-BUSH. Appetite, Women's longings, St. Anthony's fir e, Liver, Stone, Gravel. CALLED also Feapberry, and in Sussex Dewberry Bush, and in some counties Wineberry. Government and Virtues.] They are under the dominion of Venus. The berries while they are unripe, being scalded, or baked, are good to stir up a fainting or decayed appetite, especially such whose stomachs are afflicted by choleric hu- mours : They are excellent good to stay longings of women v/ith child. You may keep them preserved with sugar all the year long. The decoction of the leaves of the tree cools hot swellings and inflammations ; as also St. Anthony's fire. The ripe Gooseberries being eaten, are an excellent remedy to allay the violent heat both of the stomach and liver. The young tender leaves break the stone, and expel gravel both from the kidneys and bladder. All the_evils they do to the body of man is, they are supposed to breed crudities, and by crudities, worms. WINTER-GREEN. Wounds, Ulcers, Kidney, Bladder, Bloody-flux, Cankers. D <s ' 11 PTHHIS sends forth seven, eight, or nine leaves P '■ from a small brown creeping root, every one standing upon a long foot stalk, which are almost as broad as long, round pointed, of a sad green colour, and hard in handling, and like the leaf of a Pear-tree ; from whence ariseth a slender weak stalk, yet standing upright, bearing at the top many small white sweet-smelling flowers, laid open like a star, consisting of five round pointed leaves, with many yellowish threads standing in the middle about a green head, and a long stalk with them, which being ripe is found five square, with a small point at it, wherein is contained seed as small as dust. 12*