The practice of physick, in seventeen several books / ... by N. Culpeper, A. Cole and W. Rowland. Being chiefly a translation of the works of L. Riverius ... With these books is bound a physical dictionary explaining hard words.

  • Rivière, Lazare, 1589-1655
Date:
1655
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Credit: The practice of physick, in seventeen several books / ... by N. Culpeper, A. Cole and W. Rowland. Being chiefly a translation of the works of L. Riverius ... With these books is bound a physical dictionary explaining hard words. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    59 T^Qo^Hiirpentmeonepund'. ^ajiich,?iiittne^,Cimamon, of each ons dram- Clo'ves Ze- doaryfjalangal, Ladamm, of each one ounce and an half: tfjejuyce of^buluy or litvarf^^lder and of the wild Cowcumber, of each one dram : the Oyl of Chamomel and Lillki of each half a pint: red Wine me pint and an half: wild ‘Marjoram green one handful: <Pouder thofe that are to be pondered, and put them mto a § lafi Retort, and extras an Oyl j with which anoint the head after it isJhaued. Oyl of Amber is very good, and k will be fufficient only to anoint the Head therewith. While you ute the afore mentioned'Kemedies, you may alio ule from the beginning of the Cure fpecifical Medicines, liich as this Epitheme. s .. TdkcottJjepoMderofXedoaryonedram: theWc^ter of ^ettony. Vervain, and^lder of each one ounce: ‘^lix them and apply them hot to the part grieved with Scarlet cloth. ’ ^ Among the proper Medicines^br the Head-ach, fronWhat caufe foever it arifeth, Vervain is the chiefs whole Water diftilled, you may both apply externally, and give of it internally to the quan¬ tity of ounces, with three drops of the fpirit of Salt. Green Vervain alone only hung about the Neck, hath cured two Patients when many other Medicines failed, as‘Forejbj reports. ^ 1 ZacHtiis iMcitanm in Lib. i.tPraxisMed.mirab. obfervat. 7. 8.9. & 10. propounds four Re¬ medies, conmmed by Experience-, namely. An Iffue in the back of the hand, Horl-leeches to the Temples, openmgot the Vein in the Forehead and the corner of the Eye, which you may read in tile place cited. ^ Thele things are to be noted concerning thofe Obfervations: Fu-ft, That the lltue tetween the Tbomb and fore Finger isapproved by other Experiments and hath cured great Headaches. ^ Secondly, In the Cure by Horf-leeches, Zacutm is not content tq apply two or three as ordinarily is done, but ten or twelve round about tl'-e Temples j whence comes a great attraction of Blood which may draw forth the whol matter of the Dileale. Thirdly, liuhe Curing by opening the Veins in the Forehead, we muftobferve That that Vein was twice opened, whence it appears that the iirft was not fufficient; when ordinarily our PraCti-' tioners do ieldom open it the fecond time, if the firfl hath been to little benefit. ^ The hot Caufe of a Primary and Eftential Headach, is Blood or Choller. And the like Remedies ^e^proper for both, though they muft be made Wronger or weaker according to the ftrength of the Firftchen (afceraClyfterisadminiflred) begin with Blood-letting, drawing foith more when t he grief proceeds of blood, than when it proceeds of choller. ThengiveaMedicinetopurgeCholler, iiotonlywJienChoUer is the Principal Caufe but when' blood aboundech whole thinner part is ealily turned into Choller. 5 n If the matter offending is not lufficiently taken away by one purge, you muft purge again at a due After apply Repelling Medlines to the H^d, and Vinegar of Rofes, fuch as were propounded in the Cure of the Phrenzy, making choice of the mildeft. ^ * And after it will te very profitabfc to apply Creatures newly killed, or parts of them, to difeufs the reliquesofthe Dileale, and to allwage the pain. , ^ ^ the pain*^“‘^'“'^ ^ continual Feaver,a Sheeps Lungs applied hot do much affwage Alfo a Cataplafm of bruifed Guords, and Houfleek to the feet a P^ive° wiyludtoi?^^^ after fuffictent bleedingm the Arm,'cures often timesa Headach with ^Jfou muft ule Cupping-glaffes with, and without Scarification and Fridions of the extream And in the whol tme of the Difeafe, if the Belly be not loofe, you muft every day give an Emolli- ent and cooling Clyfler, and which do gently purge. ■ - - / /6 ion* After general Evacuations and Revullions, you may rightly, and with profit derive the matter bv ^^ning the Head Vem, or with Horf-Leeches to the Forehead, or with Veficatories to the ‘Pisr.fiis lib. reports that a defpecatehalfHeadach was cured by opening theAiteries in