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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    what the bees have have taken pains for ; just so do the college of ph) t-icians lie at home and domineer, and suck out the sweetTicss of other men’s labour and studies, themselves being as ignorant in the knowledge of herbs as a child of lour }'ears old, as 1 can make appear to any rational man by their last dispensatory. Now then to hide their ignorance, their is no readier way in the world than to hide knowledge from their countrymen, that so nobody might be able so much as to smell out their ignorance. V\'hen simples were in use, men’s bodies were better in health by far than now they are, or shall be, if the college can help it. The truth is, this herb is of a fine cooling, drying quality, and an ointment or plaster of it might do a man a courtesy that hath any hot virulent sores ; ’tis admirable for ulcers of the French pox ; if taken inwardly may cure the disease. It was first called Female Speedwell, but a shentlcman of Wales, whose nose was almost eaten off with the pox, and so near the matter, that the doctors commanded it to be cut off, being cured only by the use of this herb ; and to honour the herb, for saving hur nose whole, gave it one of hur country names Fluellin. Fox-Gloves. $ . (temp.) As every part of this beautiful plant hath an acrid taste, children should be guarded against it. JJescript.'] It hath many long and broad hiaves lying upon the ground dented upon the edges, a little soft or woolly, and of a hoary green colour, among which riseth up flometimes sundry stalks, but one very often, bearing • uch leaves thereon from the bottom to the middle, from whence to the top it is stored with large and long hollow reddish purple flowers, a little more long and imminent at the lower edge, with some white spots with them, one above another, with small green leaves at every one, but all of them turning their heads one way, and hanging downwards, having some threads also in the middle, from whence rise round heads, pointed sharp at the cuds, wherein small brown seed lieth. The roots are so many small fibres, and some greater strings among them ; the flowers have no scent, but the leaves have a bitter hot taste.