Vertues and Use.
Rosa Solis is accounted good to help those Distillati∣that have salt Rhewm distilling on their Lungs ons o•••• which breedeth a Consumption, and therefore Rhewm,
The English physitian, or An astrologo-physical discourse of the vulgar herbs of this nation being a compleat method of physick, whereby a man may preserve his body in health, or cure himself being sick for three pence charge, with such things only as grow in England ... / by Nich. Culpeper.
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- The English physitian, or An astrologo-physical discourse of the vulgar herbs of this nation being a compleat method of physick, whereby a man may preserve his body in health, or cure himself being sick for three pence charge, with such things only as grow in England ... / by Nich. Culpeper.
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- Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654.
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- London :: Printed by Peter Cole,
- 1652.
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- Botany, Medical -- Early works to 1800.
- Materia medica.
- Herbs -- Therapeutic use -- Early works to 1800.
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"The English physitian, or An astrologo-physical discourse of the vulgar herbs of this nation being a compleat method of physick, whereby a man may preserve his body in health, or cure himself being sick for three pence charge, with such things only as grow in England ... / by Nich. Culpeper." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A35365.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 17, 2024.
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the Distilled water thereof in Wine is held fit and profitable for such to drink, which Water will be of a gold yellow colour: The same Water is held to be good for all other Diseases of the Lungs, as Phtisicks, Wheesing, short∣ness of Breath, or the Cough; as also to heal the Ulcers that happen in the Lungs,* 1.1 and it comforteth the Heart and fainting Spirits; The Leavs outwardly applied to the Skin will raise Blisters, which hath caused some to think it, dangerous to be taken inward; but there are other things which will also draw Blisters, yet nothing dangerous to be taken inwardly. There is an usual Drink made hereof with A∣qua vitae and Spices freuently, and without any offence or danger, but to good purpose u∣sed in qualms and passions of the Heart.
The Sun rules it, and 'tis under the Sign Cancer.
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* 1.1
Phtisick, •• beesings: Shortness of breath, Cough, Ulcers in he Lungs, comfort the Heart, Raise Blisters. Passions of the Heart.