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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    to sweat well in bed. The seed also taken in wine causeth a speedy delivery of women in child-birth ; if one draught suffice not, let her drink the second, and it is effectual: The Spaniards used to eat a piece of the root thereof in a morn- ing fasting, many days together, to help them when troubled with the stone in the reins or kidneys. COLTSFOOT. Cough, Wheezing or shortness of breath, Agues, St. Antho- ny's fire, Piles, Privets. CALLED also Coughwort, Foals-foot, Horse-hoof, and Bulls-foot. Descript.] This shooteth up a slender stalk, with small yellowish flowers somewhat earlier, which fall away quick- ly, and after they are past, come up somewhat round leaves, sometimes dented about the edges, much lesser, thicker, and greener than those of butter-bur, -with a little down or frieze over the green leaf on the upper side, which may be rubbed away, and whitish or meally underneath. The root is small and white, spreading much under ground, so that where it taketh it will hardly be driven away again, if any little piece be abiding therein ; and from thence spring fresh leaves. Place.] It groweth as well in wet grounds as in drier places. Time.] And flowereth in the end of February, the leaves begin to appear in March. Government and Virtues.] The plant is under Venus, the fresh leaves or juice, or a syrup thereof is good for a hot dry cough, or wheesing, and shortness of breath. The dry leaves are best for those that have thin rheums and distillations upon their lungs, causing a cough, for which also the dried leaves taken as tobacco, or the root is very good. The distilled water hereof simply, or with elder flowers and night-shade, is a singular good remedy against all hot agues, to drink two ounces at a time, and apply cloths wet therein to the head and stomach, which also does much good, being applied to any hot swellings and inflammations : It helped St. Anthony's fire and burnings, and is singular good to take away wheals and small pushes that arise through heat ; as also the burning heat of the piles, or privy parts, cloths wet therein being thereunto applied.