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.
Author
Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654.
Publication
London :: Printed by Peter Cole,
1652.
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Subject terms
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 1, 2024.
Pages
Vertues and use.
Rye is more digesting than Wheat; The
Bread and the Leaven thereof ripeneth and
breaketh Impostumes, Boyls, and other Swel∣lings:* 1.1
The Meal of Rye put between a double
cloth, and moistned with a little Vinegar, and
heated in a Pewter dish, set over a Chafing∣dish
of coals, and bound fast to the Head while
it is hot, both much eas the continual pains of
the Head: Mathiolus saith, That the ashes of
Rye straw put into Water and suffered therein a
day and a night, and the Chops of the Hands
or Feet washed therewith, doth heal them.
Notes
* 1.1
Impostums Boyls & Swellings, Pains of the Head, Chops of the Hands or Feet.