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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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    . tle Wormwood, an Herb of Mars, with your Ink,. nei- ' ther Rats nor Mite touch the Paper written with it, and then Mars is a Preferver. Afrologers think Mars _ caufeth Scabs and Itch, and the Virgins are angry with — him, becaufe wanton Venus told them he deforms their ~ Skins; but, quoth Mars, My only defire is, they fhould __ know themfelves; my Herb Wormwood will reftore them _. to the Beauty they formerly had, and in that I will not come an Inch behind my Oppofite, Venus ; for which doth _the greateft Evil, he that takes away an innate Beauty, and ' when he has done, knows how to refiore it again? Or the that teaches a Company of wanton Laffes to paint their d Faces? If Mars be ina Virgin, in the Nativity, they fay he ‘ caufeth the Cholick (it is well God hath fet fome-body to . : pull down the Pride of Man.) He in the Virgin troubles none with the Cholick, but them that know not themfelves | (for who knows himfelf, may eafily know all the World.) _ Wormwood, an Herb of Mars, is a prefent Cure for it, and whether it be moft like a Chrifiian to love him for his- _ ,Good, or hate him for his Evil, judge ye. I had almoft forgotten, that Charity thinks no Evil. I was once in the Tower and viewed the Wardrobe, and there was a preat: i) many fine Clothes: (I can give them no other Title, for E was never either Linnen or Woollen Draper) yet as brave. as they looked, my Opinion was, that the Moths might - confume them; Moths are under the Dominicn of Mars, _ this Herb Wormwood being laid amongit Clothes, will _ make.a Moth fcorn to. meddle with the Clothes as much as.a. _ tien {corns to meddle with a Moufe, or an Eagle a Fly. - © “You fay Mars is angry, and it is true enough he is angry with many Coustrymen for being fuch Fools to be led by. the Nofes, by the College of Phyficians, as they lead Bears Bits ra me i i [4 a i aor le & ieee . ‘«: i : SE id aliation in my Houle, I give him amHerb of hes “as . - % ag ee 2 : : x * ‘ wit ; , He gh; oa Kr + wf oe 3 Me ; ft il ‘ 4@