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

  • Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654
Date:
1810
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Credit: Culpeper's English physician ; and complete herbal. Vol. I. / [Nicholas Culpeper]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    water-creiTes, duck’s-meat, yellow water-fla^s, flower-de-luce, fluellin, Ivy, lettuce, water-lilies, loofeitrife with and withbUt 1‘piked heads; moonwort, inoulear, or- pine, poppies, purflairi, privet, rattle-grafs, white rofes, ^Vhite laxifrage, burnetfaxi- firage, w'all-flowers, or winter gillyflowers, and willow-tree; as alfo chafte tree, winter cherries, garlic, reeds; bi'ooklime, onions, camomile, frogftools, hyflbp, maftic-tree, mandrake, nutmegs, walnuts, line-tree, water-plantain, turnips, houfeteek, a'nd-common leelcs. 3. To Saturn, which is a malignant planet, diur- nal, malculine, and very cold; a friend to Mars, and ah enemy to the reft, and anfwereth to the fpleen of the microcofm : yet fome alcribe it to the head, as alfo Jupiter and IMars. Some fay alfo, that Saturn ruleth' the right ear, alfo the bones, fundament, and the retentive faculties, cold and dry, in the whole body; and the bladder with the Moon, Of fteknefles; the leprofy, cankers, quartan ague, palfy, cohfumption, black jaundice, iliac paffion, dropfy, catarrh, gout in the feet, and fcrophula; as alfo apoplexies, tooth-ach, all melancholy difeafes, cold and dry, trembling, vain fears, fancies,’ gout, dog-like appetite, hemorrhoids, broken bones, diflocations, deafnefs, pain in the bones, ruptures, (if he be in Leo or Scor- pio, or in an evil afpedt to Venus,) the chin-cough, pain in the bladder, all long difeafes, melancholic madnefs, fear or gi'ief; he governs, the memory alfo, which is cold and dry; and the hearing like wife. Under it are barley, red beets, beach- tree, bifoil or tway-blade, bird's-foot, biftoi t or fnake-weed, blue-bottles, buckfliorn- plantain, wild campions, pilewort, cleavers or gOofegfafs, clown’s woundwort, comfi’ey, cudweed or cotton-weed, fciatica creflfes, croffwort, darnel, dodder, epi- tliymum, elm-tree, ofmond royal, fleawort, flixweed, fumitory, ftinking gladden, goutw^ort, winter-gi'eert, haw'kweed, hemlock, hemp, henbane, horfetail, knapweed, kilotgrafs, medlar-tree, ihofs, mulleiri, nightihade, polypody, poplar-tree, quince- tree, ruptnre-wort, ruflies, Solomon’s fdal, Saracen’s confound, fervice-tree, cete-. rach or fpldenwwt, tamarifle, melaiiCholy thiftle, blackthorn, thorough-wax, tutfan or park (leaves and wood) ; as alfd aconite, chafte-tree, parfley) ftinking-tree, af- phodil, ftarwort, orach, fhepherd’s purfe, capers, cuihming, Cyprus, fern, black hellebore, great dOck, mandrake, mulberry-tree, opium, herb trueldve, pine-tree, favin, fage, ferina, and fengreen. 4. To Jupiter, wliich is a benevolent planet, moderately hot and moift, a friend to all the reft exCepf Mars; anfwering to the liver, and cheriftiing the faculties thereof by its influence. Some affirm alfo, that hef rules the lungs, ribs, ftdesj veins, blood, and digeftive faculty; the natural virtue of man, as alfo the griftles and fpeflri'vvith Venus; the arteries and the pulfe. Of fteknefs ; the pieripneumony, apoplelxy, pl(^utify; cramp, the cardiac with the Mo, d. ’ F Sun,