Culpeper's English physician and British herbal : to which is added, The Family Physician; containing the safest and cheapest remedies for the various disorders incidental to the human body. With a copious index. Also, a dissertation on the advantages of vegetable over animal diet, and a plain anlysis of botany / by Dr. Dickenson.

  • Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654.
Date:
1814
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Credit: Culpeper's English physician and British herbal : to which is added, The Family Physician; containing the safest and cheapest remedies for the various disorders incidental to the human body. With a copious index. Also, a dissertation on the advantages of vegetable over animal diet, and a plain anlysis of botany / by Dr. Dickenson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of its inhabitants, and though it he the true policy of Britain, by her boundless commerce, to unite and bind the round of nations in a golden chain, she should, nevertheless, discourage the use of exotics, when we have better productions growing at our own doors. I cannot, help observing on this occasion, that Ground Ivy was ever a favourite herb with the English Nation, and is the plant with which our ancestors made their common drink, when the inhabitants of the island were esteemed the longest livers in the known world.— Read Sir Wil- liam Temple and others on this head. Plutarch assures us they only began to grow old at the age of 120, In a word, there is no doubt but that vegetable me- dicine is as much superior to chymical, as vegetable re- gimen is to the carniverous. Vegetable Diet is, in truth, the only congenial food of man, for though many nations subsist upon animal diet, and support a vigorous life of health and animal powers, the system is, however, soon deprived of intellectual capacity, and worn into prema- ture dissolution by the violent heat of a precipitate cir- culation, ossifying the finer ducts. To these nations, eighty-years is a period of extreme longevity. Vegeta- ble diet, on the contrary, by keeping the circulation re- gular and cool, tempers the passions, throws its congenial and subtle fluids into the nervous ducts, and forms the intimate connection of the mind and body, which leads man to a perfect mode of being, or intellectual existence, [Consisting of physical and moral health, producing long- evity and well-being. The food, says the accurate Le- mery, which Plants afford us, is lo be preferred to all others, because they are lighicr, easier of digestion, and produce more temperate humours, and for that reason our .ancestors, who lived up to the simplicity of nature, upon this bort of alir.ien^^ere much baler than we ; they w. re as savory to them as salted and seasoned meats arc now lo us, which we order a thousand ways, and are .for the most part injurious to owr health ; because they excite violent fermentations in us, which corrupts our hu- mours, whereby the solid parts of the body loose their recurring virtue, and universal debility ensues. It is true, if we attend to these persons who are nourished by flesh and fermented liquors, we shall find that in ge- neral they appear more jolly, and with a fresher colour