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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    Ic is temperate in respect of heat., but dry in the second degree The juice of the leaves, drunk with the distilled water of horse-tail, is a singular remedy for all manner of wounds in the breasts, bowels, or other parts of the body, and is given with good success unto those that are troubled with casting, vomiting, or bleed- ing at the mouth or nose, or otherwise down- wards. The said juice given In the distilled water of Oaken-buds, is very good for women w ho have their usual courses, or the whites flow- ing down loo 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, especially if a little fine clear turpentine be dissolved therein. It also 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 ray astrological judgment of diseases, and for the internal work of nature in the body of man ; as vital, animal, natural, and proereative, spirits of man ; the apprehension, judgment, memory ; the external senses, viz. Seeing, hearing, smel- ling, ta.sting, and feeling; the virtues attractive, retentive, digestive, expulsive, &c. under the dominion of what planets they are, may be found in my Ephemeris for the year 1651. Lastly, to avoid blotting paper with one thing many times, and also 10 ease your purses