The English physician enlarged. With three hundred and sixty-nine medicines, made of English herbs, that were not in any impression until this. An astrologo-physicial discourse of the vulgar herbs of this nation, containing a complete method of physic, whereby a man may preserve his body in health, or cure himself being sick, for three-pence charge, with such things only as grow in England, they being most fit for English bodies ... / By Nich. Culpepper.

  • Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654.
Date:
1799
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Credit: The English physician enlarged. With three hundred and sixty-nine medicines, made of English herbs, that were not in any impression until this. An astrologo-physicial discourse of the vulgar herbs of this nation, containing a complete method of physic, whereby a man may preserve his body in health, or cure himself being sick, for three-pence charge, with such things only as grow in England, they being most fit for English bodies ... / By Nich. Culpepper. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the flalks rife up compared round about, thick with leavae, which arc leffer and narrower than the former; they are tender, and flender, the flowers are hollow, fniall, and of a rcddifh colour. Place.~\ It grews in Kent near Rochefter, and in many places in tha Weft Country, both in Dcvonfhire and Cornwall. Ttme '\ They flower in July, and the beginning of Auguft, and the feed is rijie foon after, but the root is in its prime, as carrots and parfaips are, before the herb runs up to the ftalk. ^ Government and Virtues.'] It is an herb under the domi- niop. of Venus, and indeed one of her darlings, though fome- what hard to come by. It helps old ulcers, hot inflammations, burnings by common (ire, and St Anthony’s fire, by antipathy to Mars: for thefe ufes, your belt way is to make it into an ointment; alfo, if you make a vinegar of it, as you make vine- gar of rofes, it helps the morphew and leprofy ; if you apply the herb to the privities, it draws forth the dead child. It helps the yellow-jaundice, fpleen, and gravel in the kidneys. I3iolcordc8 faith, it helps fuch as are bitten by venomous Ireafts, whether it be taken inwardly, or applied to the wound; nay, he faith further, if. any one that hath newly eaten it, do but fpit into the mouth of a fei'pent, it inftantiy dies. It ftays the flux of the belly, kills worms, helps the fits of the mother. Its dccoftion made in wine, and drank, ftrengthens the back, and eafeth the pains thereof; It helps bruifes and falls, and is as gallant a remedy to drive out the fmall pox and mcaflesa*. any is; an ointment made of it, is excellent for green wounds,, pricks or thrufts. Adder’s Tongue, or Serpent’s Tongue. Defeript ] herb hath but one leaf, which grows -L with the ftalk a finger’s length above the ground, being flat and of a frefh green colour; broad like Water Plantane, but Icfs, without any rib in it; from the bottom of v/hich leaf, on the infide, rifeth up (ordinarily) one, fometimes two or three flender ftalks, the upper half whereof is fomewliat bigger, and dented with fmall dents of a ycliowilh green colour, like the tongue of an adder ferpent (only this is as ufeful as they are formiilable). 'Ihe roots continue all the year. Place.'] It grows in molll meadows, and fuch like places. ^ Tine,