Culpeper's English physician ; and complete herbal. Vol. I. / [Nicholas Culpeper].
- Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654
- Date:
- 1810
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Culpeper's English physician ; and complete herbal. Vol. I. / [Nicholas Culpeper]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![whole human machine, and not only raifes the appetite to venereal embraces, but removes the ufual obftrudions of fertility; prepares the femen for performing its office,and theova for impregnation. In old ageit warms, comforts, and excites the generative parts to admiiation, and feldom fails of performing a cure in forty or fifty days, if duly followed, and the barrennefs or imbecility be not abfolute- ]y incurable by medicine; parricularly if aflified with a nourifliing diet, of which plenty of good potatoes and rich milk ought to makea confiderable part. When there is a fufficient ered;ion, and only the feed is wanting, all ftimulating and aromatic medicines mull be entirely omitted, and the cure attempted with the Tindure only, aflifted with a nourifhing diet; to which the ufc of external li- niments mu ft be added. Take nerve ointment, two ounces; oil of mace by ex- preflion, one drachm and a half; balfam of Peru, two drachms; chemical oils of lavender, cloves, and rhodium, of each four drops: mix. Anoint the parts bctween-whiles with this liniment; that is to fay, the penis and ferotum if it be for a man, and the pudendum if for a w oman ; and it will not fail of adminifter- ing comfort and flrength. If any thing yet more ftimulating be defired, a drachm and a half, or two drachms, of tindure of cantharides, may be added to cither preparation. But I would not advife any debilitated perfon to be too bufy with high provocatives, becaufe they may incite to the ufe of vcncry before nature is prepared for it, and fo exhauft the animal fpirits more by one Angle act of coition than it would be by twenty in the common w^ay. It is better, there- fore, for moft perfons, to keep to the liniments and Tindiure only, that their ftrength and ability may be always equal to their inclination. To recover th6 tone and vigour of the internal parts in women, ufe the following : Take cloves, nutmegs, ginger, Spanifti angelica, of each one drachm ; aloes wood, mace, car- damom feeds, of each onefcruple; mint leaves, one handful; cantharides, two drachms; infufe them in a pint of white wine, and boil over a gentle fire till it is reduced to twelve ounces; then ftrain it, and injedt tw'o ounces warm into the uterus every night going to bed, taking at the fame time forty drops of the Lunar Tindlure in a wine-glafs of cold water. When the parts abound with moifture, reftringent or aromatic fumigations may be ufed to advantage, as in the cafe of the V hires, and of the falling down of the womb and fundament. The ingredi- ents proper in the prefent cafe, are ftorax, cloves, nutmegs, caftor, ginger, Span- ifti angelica root, and galingals; equal quantities of thefe may be taken powder- ed, and mixed together, and about an ounce of the mixture is fufficient to burn at a time, according to the diredlions in the place above referred to. Where other things have failed, the cold bath hath been of fervice to both fexes, efpecially in fon e phlegmatic ronftitutions; a journey to Bath alfo, or Tunbridge, and drink- ing the waters for Tome time, has been attended with good fuccefs. See farther upon this fubjed in my Key to Phyfic, p. 189-194; and for fome curious and in- terefting cafes, feep. 330 of the fame work. 4 Having](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22007891_0740.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
