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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    Common Worrnouood I. fliall not dcfcrlbe, for every boy that can eat an egg knowb it. Rowan IVerm wooi; and why Roman, feeing it grows fa- miliarly in England ? It may be fo called, becaufe it is good fora ftlnking breath, which the Romans cannot be very free from, maintaining, fo maay bawdy-houfes by aothorily of hii Holinefs. Defcript. ] The ftalks are flender, and fhorter than the com- mon Wormwood by one foot at leaft; the leaves are more finely cut and divided than they are, but fomething fmaller; both leaves and ftalks are hoary, the flowers of a pale yellow colour; it is altogether like the common Wormv/^ood, favc only in bigiiefs, for it is fmaller; in tafte, for it Is not bitter; in fmell, for it is fpicy. /’/flt'e ] It groweth upon the tops of the mountains, (it feems it is afpiring) there ’tis natural, but ufually nurfed up iu- gardens for the ufe of the apothecaries in London, Tiwe.] All Wormwoods ufually flower in Auguft, a littlc-- fooner or later. Gsveriiment and Virtues.Will you give me leave to be critical a little ?T muft take leave. Wormwood is an herb of Mars, and if Pontanus fay otherwife, he is befide. the bridge; I prove it thus; What delights in martial places is a martial herb; but Wormwood delights In martial places, (for about forges and iron wmrks you may gather a cart load of it) it is a martial herb. It is hot and dry in the firll degree, viz. juft as hot as your blood, and no hotter. It remedies the evils choler can infiift on the body of man by fympathy. It helps the evils Venus and the wanton Boy produce, by antipathy: and it doth fomething elfe bcfides. It cleanfeth the body of choler (who dares fay Mars doth no good?) It provokes urine, iielps furfeits, or fwellings in the belly; It caufeth appetite to meat, becaiife Mars rules the alU-aAIve faculty in man : The fun never flione upon a belter lierb for the ye’low jaundice than this: Why flmiild men cry out fo much upon Mars for an unfortin;ate ? (or baturn either,) Did God make creatures to do the creation a mdcltief? 'I'hls herb teftifles, that Mars is willing to cure all (lifeafeshe caufes; the truth is. Mars loves no cowards, . nor Saturn fools, nor 1 neither. Take of the flowers of Wormwood, Rofemary, and Black Thorn, of cacli a like ; quantity, lialflliat quantity of falTron; boil this in Rhrn’flt j