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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    Ttw.\ It is to be found in May or April, for it quickly ■perifiieth with a little heat. Government and Virtue.'} It is an herb under the dominion efthc Moon and Cancer, and therefore, if the weaknefs of the retentive faculty be caufed by an evil influence of Saturn in any part of the body governed by the moon, or under the dominion of Cancer, this herb cures it by fympathy : It cures thefc difeafes after fpccified, in any part of the body under the influence of Saturn, by antipathy. It is temperate in rtfpeft of heat, but dry in the fecond degree. The juice of the leaves drank with the diftilled water of horfe-tail, is a Angular remedy for all manner of wounds in the breads, bowels, or other parts of the body, and is given with good fuccefs unto thofe that are troubled with coding, vomiting, or bleeding at the mouth or nofc, or other- wife downwards. The faid juice given in the diddled water of Oaken buds, is very good for women who have their ufual courfes, or the whites flowing dowm too abundantly. It helps fore eyes. Of the leaves infufed or boiled in oil, omphanine, or unripe olives, fet in the fun for certain days, or the green leaves fufficlently boiled in the faid oil, is made an excellent green balfam, not only for green and frefli wounds, but alfo for old and inveterate ulcers, efpecially if a little fine clear turpentine be diflblved therein. It alfo ftayeth and refreflieth all inflammations that arlfe upon pains by hurts and wounds. What parts of the body are under each planet and Agn, and alfo what difeafe may be found in my adrologfcal judg- ment of difeafes; and for the internal work of nature in the body of man ; as vital, animal, natural and procreative fpirits of man; the apprehenfjon, judgment, memory; the external fenfes, viz. Seeing, hearing, fmelling, tailing, and feeling ; the virtues attraftive, retentive, digetUve, cxpulAve, &c. un- der the dominion of what planets they are, may be found in my Ephemeris {qx the year 1651. In both which you fliall find the chaff of authors blown away by the fame of Dr Reafon, and nothing but rational truths left for the ingenious to feed upon. Lallly, To avoid blotting paper with one thing many times, and alfo to eafe your purfes in the price of the book, and withal to make you llndious in phyfic 5 you have at the latter end of the book, the way of prtferving all herbs B 3 cither