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

  • Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654
Date:
1810
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    POWDER FOR EPILEPTIC and CONVULSION FITS. ^akc jlor-iers oj zinc, mujk, and faElitious cinnabar, of each equal parts ; mix them together in a glafs or marble mortar. The dqfe is from three grains to ten and upwards, mixed in a little treacle or honey, every night and morning. The life of this powder, with dipping children in a tub of fpring water every morning, has very often reliev- ed them,when every otherremedy has proved abortive. PURGING POWDERS for WORMS. Take of fcanmony, calomel, and the beji Turkey rhubarb, powder, of each equal parts; double-refined fiigar, the weight of the whole ; rub it all very well together in a marble mot tar, and keep for ufc. The dofe for children is from ten grains to twenty- five, once or twice every week. This is preferable to any quack medicine wliatever. A UNIVERSAL POWDER for CHILDREN’S DISORDERS. Take of white magnefa, fix drachms-, cinnabar of anti- mony, two fcruples ; mix them into a fine powder for life. This powder will not only prevent the numerous diforders children are liable to, but will alfo remove many, and all that arife from acidities in the Itomach. —This is preferable to all other remedies yet known, for children in cutting their teeth, ficknefs at their fto- niaciis, &c. &CC. Tlie dofe is from ten grains to half a diachm more or lefs twice a-day. POWDER TO PROMOTE DELIVERY. Take borax in fine powder, cajlor, cinnamon, and myrrh, of each three drachms ; Jaffronandfavin, of each one drachm and a half-, mix them and make a powder for ufe. A drachm of this powder facilitates the birth, and promotes the lochia and menfes. The famous SYMPATHETIC POWDER. Take of green vitriol eight ounces ; of gum tragacanth, reduced to an impalpable powder, one ounce : mix ihefe toge- ther, and let a fmall quantity of the powder be fprinkled on the wound, and it immediately flops the bleeding. The vi- triol mufi be calcined to woliitenefs in the fun, before it be mixed with the gum. The above powder, is ufed by the miners at GoITe- laer in Germany, in all their wounds; and, 1 believe, was never known to fail. This powder, Monf. Lemery and Sir Kenelm Digby tell us, has alfo the following wonderful property, that, if it be fpreadona cloth dip- ped in the blood of a wound fo as to incorporate with the blood, the wound would be cured, though the patient were miles off, and never faw the medicine. From this remarkable fympathetic property it derived its name. POWDER FOR A SORE THROAT. Take one ounce and a half of p-arified fal ammoniac, and half an ounce of purified nitre, mix them very well together in a mortar for ufe. About fix or eight grains of this powder is to be frequently held in the mouth, and to be gently fwal- lowed down the throat. This very often anfwers bet- ter than gargles. If necelTary, lofe a llWe blood and take a brilk purge before you ufe the powder. For VOMITINGS, BILIOUS DISORDERS, &c. Take mint water, fyrup of lemoms, of each four ounces ; fait of wormwood, tiuo drachms. Mix them well to<rether for ufc. In vomitings, hiccups, rheiimatifms, fevers, and all diforders from a fizinefs in the blood, no preparation can be more innocent nor more efficacious. Two or three table fpoonfuls are to be taken every four or five hours. DECOCTION FOR CATARRHS, COLDS, &c. Take of compound tcfiaceous powder, one ounce-, gum ara- ble in powder, half an ounce ; water, two quarts, boil it till one pint of the water is wafled i then add to the turbid de. coEhon, of aromatic <watcr, one ounce and a half-, white fugar, half an ounce, and mix the whole well together for ufe. This compofition will be found immediately ufeful in defiroying Iharp corrofive matter in the ftomach, and abforbing all acidities in the firfi palfages. Half a pint of it in fevers, colds, or the like diforders, may be taken three or four times every day, blood-warm. SWEATING DRAUGHT, for recent COLDS. Take of the fpirit mindereus, four ounces ; fyrup of pop- pies, and fimple cinnamon water, of each one ounce; volatile fait of hartjhorn, half a fcruple. Mix them together for two draughts, and take one of them when going into bed, and the remainder the fecond evening after, III rheiimatifms, pains in the head, and other parts, the above fweating draught will be found to anfwer every intent. For an inveterate COLD or COUGH. Take a large tea-cup full of linfeed, two-penny-worth q/ fitch liquorice, and a quarter of a pound of fun raifins.— Put thefc into two quarts of foft water, and let it fimmer over a flow fire till it is reduced to one ; then add to it a quarter of a pound of brown fugar-candy pounded, a table fpoonfui of old rum, and a table-fpoonful of the bejl white-wine vine- gar or lemon-juice. The rum and vinegar are bejl to be added only to that quantity you are going immediately to take j for, if it is put into the whole, it is apt, in a little time, tg grow flat. Drink half a pint at going to bed, an d take a little when the cough is trcublefome. 1 This