Crosby's improved edition. The English physician, enlarged with three hundred and sixty-nine medicines made of English herbs, not in any former impression of Culpeper's British herbal, containing an astrologo-physical discourse on the various herbs of this nation ... illustrated with correct copper plates of the most useful and remarkable plants. To which is added The family physician and A present for the ladies, containing the best remedies for every disease incident to the human body / by Dr. Parkins.

  • Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654.
Date:
1809
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Credit: Crosby's improved edition. The English physician, enlarged with three hundred and sixty-nine medicines made of English herbs, not in any former impression of Culpeper's British herbal, containing an astrologo-physical discourse on the various herbs of this nation ... illustrated with correct copper plates of the most useful and remarkable plants. To which is added The family physician and A present for the ladies, containing the best remedies for every disease incident to the human body / by Dr. Parkins. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Pluce.'\ It is a common herb, grows usually by the way-sides, and sometimes upon mud walls about London ; but it delights most to grow among stones and rubbish. Time.'] ft flowers in June and July, and the seed is ripe in August and September. Government and Firtues.'^ It is a plant of a hot and biting nature, under the dominion of Mars. The seed of iMack Cresses strengthens the brain exceedingly, being in performing thcit otTic^ little inferior to mustard-seed, if at all; they arc excellent good fo stay those rheums which may fall down from the head upon the lungs; yon may beat the seed into powder, if you please, and make it up into an electuary with honey; so you have an excellent remedy by you, not only for the premises, but also for the cough, yellow jaundice, and sciatica. The herb boiled into a poultice, is an excellent remedy for inflam- mations, both in women’s breasts and men’s testicles. Sciatica Cresses. Tj, (c. d. 2.) These also are of two kinds. Descript.] The 6rst riseth up with around stalk, about two feet high, spread into divers branches, whose lower leaves are somewhat larger than the upper, yet all of them cut or torn on the edges, somewhat like garden cresses, but smaller; the flowers are small and white, growing at the tops of branches, where afterwards grow husks, with small brownish seed therein, very strong and sharr> in taste, more than the cresses of the garden; the root is long, white, and woody. Ihc other hath the lower leaves whole, somewhat lonr and broad, not torn at all, but only somewhat deeply dented about the edges towards the ends; but those that grow up higher arc lesser. The flowers and seeds are like the former, and so is the root likewise, and both root and seeds as sharji as it. Place.] They grow by the way-sides in untilled places, and by the sides of old walls. Time.] They flower in Ihe cud of June, and their seed is ripe in July. Government and I irtuei.] It is a Saturnine plant The leaves, but especially the root, taken fresh in summer.