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

  • Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654
Date:
1810
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    voking fweat, as in things of thin parts, and hot; .yet fome are afiringent and cold, working occultly. Alio the cofmetic, for the Ikin, is extenuating, laxa- tive, emollient, cleanfing, and difcuffing; for the teeth, cleanling and binding; for the hair, healing, drying, and binding; for Icurf, cleanling and difcuffing. N ote, as for the phannic or fternutatory quality, it is in thole things that are acrimonious, caufing an irruption of the expullive faculty ; as errhines, that are hot, nitrous, exterlive, and lharp; as white pepper, hellebore, ginger, pellitory of Spain, caltor, cloves, fneefewort and, euphorbium finely powdered. Alfo the apophlegraatic is in things hot and acrimonious ; yet fometimes do it occultly, as in maftic, raifins-, hylfop, organy, raorjoram, pellitory of Spain, ginger, white and black pepper, and muftard-feed. The fcholerobvotic is in things bitter and fliarp, &c. as wormwood, coraline, &c. The fourth qualities are fuch as follow^ the fubftance or property of the eflence, and are found out only by experience ; and are therefore called occult, latent, and fpecific ; as in poifons, theriac and alexipharmic remedies, roborating the expul- five faculty, and being contrary, emplaftic, aftringent, emetic, cathartic, and I'u- dorific, with phlebotomy if need; amulets and cathartics, things antipathetic and fympafhetic, as alfo appropriate to any part, or adverfe unto the fame; the greatefi; fign, of wLich, according to fome of the moft learned authors, is fignature. The poiotichnology, or way of finding out thefe qualities, is by manifeft realbn. L By ofmellogy, or odour or fmell, which is either fweet, familiar unto the fpirits of the brain, and a fign of heat, or ftinking and otfenfive, cold and moift. The firft is in hot bodies, of thin parts, among which there is difference according to the degrees thereof; but thofe things which are without odour, are of a grofs eflence and hu- mid, as thofe things which are fait and auftere ; alfo fuch things as are of a mordi- cant and bitter fmell are hot, but thofe that fmell like vinegar and acerb are cold; for in fome things the fenfe of odours is like that of fapors, yet not of fo fafe con- jeblure, by reafon of the inequality of fubftance ; for moft bodies are: of an unlike confiftence, of each of which parts odour Iheweth not the temper, but where there are tenuous effluviums or vapours, whereof the fweet ftrengthenthe heart, the rank excite the animal fpirits, the ftinking help the fuffocation of the matrix. 2. By chromatology, or colour, wfflich is either, 1. Lucid, exciting the animal fpirits and drawing them outwards, as the white. 2. Or tenebrofe, calling them inwards, and caufing fleep, ,as the black. 3. Yellow, helping the jaundice. 4. Green,, ufeful for the eyes; the white and pale Ihew moiftnefs of temper and imbecility. The No. 2, D yellow