Culpeper's English physician ; and complete herbal. Vol. I. / [Nicholas Culpeper].

  • Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654
Date:
1810
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    The third qualities ariie from the mixture of the firft and fecond, and are, 1. The Ecpuetic or fuppurating, turning into matter contufed fleih, and humours remain- ing in fwellings, as in thofe things which are moderately hot, and next unto emol- lients, yet differing in this, that they have alfo an emplaftic faculty, obftruaing the pores, increafmg the fubftance of heat, and not intending the quality ; and are alfo called peptics or maturatives. 2. Sarcotic or generating fleih, as in thole thiiif^s which produce fleili in hollow ulcers, and fill the cavities, and are hot in the firft degree, a little deterfive, and that without biting and aftriaion. Alfo mode- rately drying, viz. under the fecond degree. And fuch as impinguate, or make fat, are heating, nouriihing, impulfive, attraaive, retentive, or fpecific; as the feed of hemp, kernel of the Indian nut, and powder of charcoal. 3. Colletic or congluti- nating, as in thofe things which dry in the lecond degree, and are in a mean as to thofe which generate flefh, and cicatrize; they are not abfterfive, but aftringent, and prohibit the flux of humours to the lips of wounds, ulcers, and fiftulas ; they are alfo called fymphytics, traumatics, and enaima; and are temperate, and of a thick fubftance, ftronger or weaker according to the perfon or part, 4. Eupolotic or cicatrizing, as in thofe which greatly dry and bind without biting, drinking the humidity of the flefli, and contracting the fame, and covering wdth a thin callus like unto the fkin, therefore do more dry than incarnatives or glutinatives, for they bind, contract, conftipate, and indurate; and are of thick fubftance, and cold; there is alfo a fliarp and biting eupolotic that confumes dead flefh, called cathairetic; and a third drying without aftriCtion. 5. Porotic, or generating callus, by which broken bones are ferruminated and knit, and>is neither bone nor flefh, but betwixt both, being a hard, dry, white, body; to the generation of which are required a convenient diet, and medicines applied which are emplaftic and moderately hot, drying, thickening, hardening, and binding. 6. Diuretic, or provoking urine, as, 1. In thofe things that are moift and liquid, and of a thin confiftence, and eafy pe- netration, increafmg the quantity of urine; fo operate by accident. 2. In thofe things which purge and attenuate and open the paffages; fome of which are cold, and of thin parts; fometimes expelling what fticks in the paffages; which operate after a middle wmy, fometimes by accident, tempering exuperant heat which feiz- eth on the veins, and refolving the ferous humidity, that the humours may be more eafily attraaed by the reins, and defcend by the bladder. 3. In thofe things which purge the paffages, and open the fame, extenuate grofs humours and the blood, and feparate what is extenuated from the more grofs parts: which the reins then eafily attraa and fend away by the urinary paffages; which kinds of diuretics are very hot and dry, to wit, in the third degree, fliarp, and of a very thin fubftance, coafitive