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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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    372 The Enolith Phyfciaw Enlarged. ‘. Secondly, The fecond Way is a little more difficult, and “tlie Juice of Fruits is ufually preferved this Way: When you have clarified the Juice.as before, boil it over the . Fire till (being cold). it be of the, Thicknefs of Honey: This - | is moft commonly ufed for Difeafes of the Mouth, and is — called Roba and Saba, . And tius much for the firft Section, | : Ge cs wa i SRO rf: * pages CHA Pe. TL “Of Diftilled Waters. y Oe ee ee oe = en Sa ge Aas ys ORR Re a Rae rItherto. we have fpoke of Medicines which ‘confit jn their own Nature, which Authors vulgarly call Sim- - .ples, though fomething improperly ; for indeed and in truth, « nothing is Simple but pure Elements; all 'Things elfe are ‘compounded of them; we come now’ to treat of the Artifi- -cial Medicines, in the Front of which (becaufe we muft be- _ / vegleaet . Waters. are diftilled out of Herbs, F biwaee Fruits, and : ets, . 2. We treat not of Streng Waters, but of eid, as 3 being: ‘to act Galen’s Part, and not Paracelfus. ¥ 3. The Herbs ought to be diftilled when they are in the © greateft Vigour, and {fo ought the Flowers alfo. q <b he ‘Vulgar. Way of Diftillations, whach People ula 7 becaufe they know no better, is in.a Pewter Still; -and altho” | iftilled Waters are:the weakeft of Artificial Medicines, and’ this may be diftilled, they are weaker by many Degrees, ‘At not impofiible to teach you the Way of . pine: in Bevery: