The British herbal and family physician to which is added a dispensatory for the use of private families / By Nich. Culpepper.

  • Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654.
Date:
[1816?]
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Credit: The British herbal and family physician to which is added a dispensatory for the use of private families / By Nich. Culpepper. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    said juice given in the distilled water of oaken-buds, is very good for women who have their usual courses, or the whites flowing down too abundantly. It helps sore eyes. Of the leaves infused or boiled in oil, omphacine, or unripe olives, set in the sun for certain days, or the green leaves sufficiently boiled in the said oil, is made an excellent green balsam, not only for green and fresh wounds, but also for old and inveterate ulcers, espe- cially if a little fine clear turpentine be dissolved therein. It al- so stayeth and refresheth all inflammations that arise upon pains by hurts and wounds. What parts of the body are under each planet and sign, and also what disease may be found in my astrological judgment of diseases; and for the internal work of nature in the body of man; as vital, animal, natural and procreative spirits of man; the apprehension, judgment, memory; the external senses, viz. Seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, and feeling; the virtuous at- tractive, retentive, digestive, expulsive, &c. under the dominion of what planets they are, may be found in my Ephemeris for the year 1651. In both which you shall find the chaff of authors blown away by the fame of Dr. Reason, and nothing but ration- al truths left for the ingenious to feed upon. Lastly, To avoid blotting paper with one thing many times, and also to easejour purses in the price of the book, and withal to make you studious in physic; you have at the latter end of the book, the way of preserving all herbs either in juice, con- serve, oil, ointment or plaister, electuary, pills or troches, AGRIMONY. Descript.’] jChIS hath divers long leaves (some greater, some smaller) set upon a stalk, all of them dented about the edges, green above, and greyish underneath, and a little hairy withal. Among which ariseth up usually but one strong, round, hairy brown stalk, two or three feet high, with smaller leaves set here and there upon it. At the top hereof grow many small yellow flowers, one above another, in long spikes; after which come