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The English Physician enlarged : with three hundred and sixty-nine medicines, made of English herbs, that were not in any impression until this. Being an astrologo-physical discourse of the vulgar herbs of this nation; containing a compleat method of physick ... / By Nich: Culpepper, Gent. Student in Physick and Astrology.

  • Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654.
Date:
[1760?]
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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. Being an astrologo-physical discourse of the vulgar herbs of this nation; containing a compleat method of physick ... / By Nich: Culpepper, Gent. Student in Physick and Astrology. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    . PR * - een pn The Englith Phyficion Enlarged. 21 Arfimart. T \ FLE hot Arffmart is called alfo Water-Pepper, or Cul- i rage. The mild Arffmart is called dead’ Arfimart, Percicaria, or Peach-wort, becaufe the Leaves are fo like the Leaves of a Peach-iree ; it is alfo called Plumbago, mie Defcription of the Mild.] This bath broad Leaves fet at the — greatred Foint of the Stalks ; with femi-circular blackifhb Marks on them ufually, either blueifh or whitifo, with fuch like Seed Sillowsing. The Root is long, with many Strings thereat, perilo- ing yearly ; this hath xo foarp Tafte (as another Sort hath, which is quick and biting ) but rather four like Sorrel, or elle a little drying, or without Taffe. | ‘ Place.| It grows in watry Places, Ditches, and the like which for the moft Part are dry in Summer. Time.) It flowereth in Fune, and the Seed is ripe in Ay- “fl. / eat nes and Virtues.) As the Virtue of both thefe is various, fo is alfo their Government; for that which is hot and biting, is under the Dominion of Mars, but'Saturn chal- Jengeth the other, as appears by that Leaden colourd Spot he hath placed upon the Leaf. by ? > ' for putrefied Ulcers in Man or Beatt, to kill Worms, and cleanfe the putrefied Places. ‘The Juice'thereof dropped in Wake Radi i, or otherwife applied, confumeth all cold Ri Mi ie ie Swellings, and diflolveth the congeal’d 772% 120/?-ach, Fe- eh ° Sate ~ ons, or Andicoms Blood of Bruifes by Stroaks, Falls, €s’c, ; A Piece of the Root, or fome of the is MS ‘Seed bruifed, and held to an aking ‘Tocth, taketh away the Pain. The Leaves bruifed and laid to the Joint that hath a Felon thereon taketh itaway. The Juice. dettroyech Worms in the Ears, being dropped into them ; Chin Mesa toh WON if the hot Arflmart be flrewed in a Worm in the Ears, Chamber, it will foon kill all the Fleas, tired Horfes, Fleas ; and the Herb or Juice of the Impofthumes, Infiam- cold Arfimart, put toa Horfe, or other mations, Wounds. Cattle Sores, will drive away the Fly | in the hotteft Time of Summer; a good Handful of the hot biting Arflmart put under a Horfe’s Saddle, will make him & 1a travel \ keer. cada Sauahne ‘