Blagrave's supplement or enlargement to Mr. Nich. Culpeppers English physitian containing a description of the form, names, place, time, coelestial government, and virtues, all such medicinal plants as grow in England, and are omitted in his book, called, The English-physitian, and supplying the additional virtues of such plants wherein he is defective : also the description, kinds, names, place, time, nature, planetary regiment, temperature, and physical virtues of all such trees, herbs, roots, flowers, fruits, excrescencies of plants, gums, ceres, and condensate juices, as are found in any part of the world, and brought to be sold in our druggist and apothecaries shops, with their dangers and corrections / by Joseph Blagrave ... ; to which is annexed, a new tract for the cure of wounds made by gun-shot or otherways, and remedies for the help of seamen troubled with the scurvy and other distempers ...

Camphire.

Names.] IT is called in Latin Camphora, and Camphura, from the Ara∣bians Cafar.

Descript.] Camphire is a gum, or liquor of a great vast-tree, like unto a Walnut-tree, and of an ash-colour like unto a Beech: the leaves are whitish like unto willow leaves; this liquor or gum, partly distilleth forth of its own accord, but cheifly by incision: it is cleer and white, and transparent, and although when it is dry it be somewhat brittle, and will breaks into many small peeces, yet it will not be made into powder by it self alone, but must have the help of a blanched Almond, or some other such like unctuous thing, which will reduce it into fine powder: neither will it be easily dissolved in cold water, but by warmth will be resolved like unto fat, being easily set on fire, and will burn in the water: It is of a very strong scent and subtill parts.

Govern. Nature & Vert.] Divers have been the opinions of Authors about the temperature of Camphire: some take it to be hot, because it is of such tenuity of parts. Rhasis saith, it is cold and moist, and Avicenna saith, that it is cold and dry, and that it causeth watchings and wakeful∣ness, and quieteth the senses of those that are hot. It is governed by Mercury; and by experience is found to cool the heat of the Liver and Back, and all hot inflamations and dis∣tempers of heat in any part of the body; it easeth pains of the Head, and restrainth fluxes, either of blood out of the Head or nostrills, being applied to the nostrills and to the forehead with juice of housleek and plan∣tain-water, or with either of them, and some Nettle-seed. It stayeth the flux of the natural seed either in Man or Woman, using it to the Reins and privy parts; and extinguisheth the heat of Lust, and desire to venereal actions.

It doth preserve from putrefaction, and for that purpose is put into divers compositions and antidotes, to resist Venome, poisons, and in∣fection of the Plague or other diseases: it is good in wounds and Ulcers, to restrain the heat of them, and is of much use with Women, to pre∣serve their beauty.

Notes

• Back, Reins
• Inflamations
• Heat, Liver
• Head-ach, Operate
• Fluxes,
• Venery, Poysons
• Plague Ʋlcers