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Author: Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654.
Title: The English physician. Containing, admirable and approved remedies, for several of the most usual diseases. : Fitted to the meanest capacity, / by N. Culpepper, doctor of physick. ; Licensed, according to order.
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Print source: The English physician. Containing, admirable and approved remedies, for several of the most usual diseases. : Fitted to the meanest capacity, / by N. Culpepper, doctor of physick. ; Licensed, according to order.
Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654.
Boston,: Re-printed for Nicholas Boone, at the Sign of the Bible, near the corner of School-House-Lane., 1708.
Subject terms:
Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.
Medicine -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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TO THE Reader.
THE English PHYSICIAN.
Aches, and Lameness in the Body, Joyts, Lmbs and Bones.
An approved Searcloth for all Aches.
An Excellent Ointment for the same.
For Bone-ach, and the Gout.
For the Joynt Ach, and the Gout, most Excellent.
A Process against all Pains & Aches in the Back, Hips, Sides, Knees, or any part of the Body.
This Cured a Man Perfectly, when he was ame all over his Body.
To heal and strengthen weak Limbs Children, and those which cannot stand Most wonderful and Excellent cure the Rickets.
Apoplexy to Cure.
For the Joynt-ach & Numbness.
Agues and Fevers to Cure.
A rare Secret to Cure all Agues whatsoever
Against an Ague.
A Plaister against an Ague.
Against a Tertian Fever.
Against all burning and pestilent Fevers.
An excellent Process of Cure of all Quo|tidian, Tertian, Quartane, Peent and Burning Fevers and Agues.
His Drink a Julep.
Phlebotomy.
Sleep to Procure.
Sore Mouth to Heal.
To make the Costive Laxative.
His Diet.
Against a new Ague.
Against a burning Fever.
To keep the Belly open in a Feaver.
An excellent Julep in all Feavers.
To strengthen the Heart in all Fevers mightily.
Bleeding to Stop in any Part, Inwardly, Outwardly.
To stop the Bleeding at the Nose.
Against Pssing of Blood.
Against the Bloody Flux, and Pssi of Blood.
Against all Fluxes in Men and Wo|men.
To cool the Bood, Liver & Reins.
Judgment on the colour of the Blood.
Against spitting of Blood.
Against Passing of Blood.
To stop the Bleeding caused by Leech|es.
Against spitting & vomiting of Blood.
To expel Blood or Choler out of the Stomach.
To stop Bleeding, or casting of Blood in a Consumption.
Against the spitting of Blood with a Cough.
A Clyster against a sharp Humour, that isseth out Blood instead of Odure.
Belly Infirmities to Cure.
To reduce a hard Belly, and hard Sides.
Another for the same.
Against the griping Torments a fretting of the Guts.
Against Wind, & gripings in the Belly.
Against the Griping in the Guts.
To Cure an extraordinary Flux of the Bowels.
Against Gripings & Wind in the Guts.
A Clyster against pain and griping the Bowels, Dysenteria.
Breath, stinking or short, to Cure.
Against a stinking Breath.
Against shortness of Breath.
For the same.
Against shortness of Breath with a Cough.
Against a stinking Breath.
Breasts Infirmities to Cure.
A Pultess for a sore Breast.
For an Ague in the Breast.
Milk hard in the Breast to Cure.
To bring long and great Breasts to little Proportion.
To Heal an Inflammation in the Breasts.
If Milk Curd in the Breast, to Cure.
To heal Ulcers in the Breast, altho' very grievous.
Back Infirmities to Cure.
Against Pains in the Bak, and coldness and weakness in the Reins, and want of an Appetite to a Woman.
Against Pain in the Back an Reins. This hath helped many grievou afflicted.
To Strengthen the Back, and to take aay pains and aches there.
To strengthen a weak Back.
Bruises, Hurts, Congealed Blood to Cure.
To take away black & blew Spots, coming of stripes and bruises.
A Powder against falls, & inward bru
For all sorts of bruises and hurts in part of the Body.
Against all Bruises, Hurts, Woun and Inflammations.
The Vertue of Paracelsus's Styptick Plaister.
For black and blue Spots and Crecks in the Neck.
Burnings and Scaldings to Cure.
Against burning with Gunpowder.
For a Burn.
To heal a Burning or Scald with any Scar.
Another for the same.
Against Burning and Blasting, by Gun-powder, or Lightning.
To Cure Burning and Scalding.
Baldness to help
Another.
Bitings by Mad Dogs, Serpents, &c.
For the Biting of a Mad Dog.
Against the Bitings of Serpents, of a Mad Dog.
Against the Biting of an Adder or V|per.
Against the Stinging of Bees & Wasps.
Cordials.
An Excellent Cordial.
A Cordial against Wind in the Sto|mach, or any other part.
A Cordial for the Head & Stomach.
A Cordial to be taken at Sea, and g any where else.
Two Cordials to be taken in a Burn Fever.
Or,
Coughs and short Breathings.
For a Cough of the Lungs.
Another for the .
For a Cough.
An Electuary against a Cough.
For a Cough coming of a then Rheum
For a Chin Cough.
For an extream Cold or Cough.
Against a Cough and Distillation of thin Rheum.
Against a Cough, Wheesings, Distilla|tions, and Shortness of Breath.
Another for the same, most Excellent.
For a Chin Cough.
For a perillous Cough.
Consumption.
Against a Consumption.
Another, and which restoreth Nature ost.
For a Consumption, a Distillation, and restore Strength.
For a Consumption and Cough of Lungs.
Another for the same.
An Excellent Remedy against a |sumption.
For a Consumption, and Cough of the Lungs.
To restore a weakned Person by Sick|ness & to preserve from a Consumption.
For a Consumption.
Against a Consumption, and to a decayed Nature.
Convulsion and Cramp.
Cramp to cure.
Against convulsions in Old & Young.
Against the cramp & shrinking of sinews.
Pills against the Convulsion.
For the Cramp.
Another.
Canker.
For a Canker in the Breast, or elsewhere,
To cure a Canker or Soreness in the Mouth most wonderful.
For the Canker in the Mouth or Nose.
Corns and Warts.
To Destroy Corns.
A Plaster to take away Corns.
Against Warts.
For Warts and Corns.
To take away Warts.
Childrens Infirmities to Cure.
To prevent the Falling Sickness, and Convulsions.
To make them Teeth easily.
Against Agues and Fevers, coming by pain in breeding of Teeth, or otherwise.
Against Wind and Phlegm.
Against the Worms.
For a Thrush, or sore Mouth.
A Clyster for a Child, or for a Woman with Child, very safe.
Against the Cough in Children.
Against the sticking out of the Navel.
A Purge for tender Children
Colick.
For the Colick.
Against the Wind-Colick and Stone.
Against the Colick.
Another.
Against the Colick and Stone.
Against the Colick & Iliack Passion.
An Electuary for the same.
Clysters.
A Clyster to Purge Choler and Phlegm,
This must be given not too hot, nor too cold, about Fur of the Clock in the After|noon, and two Hours after drink a Draught of Mace Ale.
Another.
To heal the Ulcerations and Flux of the Guts.
Dropsie.
Against the Dropsie, and Ointment.
An Excellent Drink for the Drop|sie.
Another.
An Excellent Purge against the Drop|sie.
Ears, Noise and Deafness.
Against Noise and Singing in the Ears.
Another for the same.
Another for the same, very excellent.
To get an Ear-wig, or other Worm out of the Ear.
Or,
EVIL Digestion to Cure
To help Concoction.
To help Digestion.
An excellent help to Digestion.
Eyes Sore, to Cure.
To take away all spots in the Eyes, and superfluous Water.
A Powder to preserve the Sight.
A Jerusalem Collyrium for sore red Eyes, which Itch and Burn.
Pills to Purge the Head and Eyes of Rheum.
A water to heal all manner of sore Eyes.
To clear the Sight very well.
To keep back the Humour that flows to the Eyes and Teeth.
An excellent Collyrium for sore Eyes.
For a West on the Eye-lid, that darkens the Sight.
An excellent Water to Cure all Griefs in the Eyes whatsoever.
To destroy a Pin and Web in the Eye.
To heal all sorts of Sore Eyes.
To cure the Obstructions of the Op|tick Nerves.
The best Remedy for Redness of the Eyes.
For a Pin, Web, or Perl in the Eye.
A precious Pill against all Fluxes of the Eyes.
Falling Sickness.
Against the Falling Sickness.
Another.
To se one that fallen quickly.
To cure the Falling Sickness.
Against the Falling Evil.
Another that will not fail, good for Women.
Fistulaes.
A perfect way to Cure a Fistulaes
To Cure Fistulaes, and old Sores and Cankers, most admirably.
This is excellent. To Cure a Callous Fistula.
A Drink to Cure the Fistula.
Fluxes.
For the Flux, a pleasant Medicine.
An excellent Potion against all sorts of Fluxes.
A perfect Cure of the Bloody Flux.
Against the Flux Diarrhoea and Dy|senteria.
Another for the Dysenteria.
A Plaister of great use.
French Pox.
remedy
Pills to Flux, in the Cure of the French Disease.
If his Throat or Mouth be sore to Cure.
If Pushes, Scabs and Sores break out, heal with this Ointment.
If Nodes, or Knobs, or Wheals appear, then use this.
To preserve the Nose.
If the Teeth be loose, fasten them with this.
If a Bubo appear in the Grain, cure it thus.
The first simple Decoction.
To make the second Decoction.
Against the Falling of the Fundament.
remedy
Others for the same.
Another for the same.
Face.
To Cure a Swelled Face.
To take away Spots, Morphe, Freckles, and Sun-burning from the Face, Neck, Arms and Hands.
A rare Secret to preserve the Beauty of the Face, Neck, Hands, Arms, &c.
For a white Scurf, or Pimples in the Face.
For a red Face.
GOUT.
A marvellous Remedy to Cure the Gout, it never fails.
An excellent Remedy against the Gout and the Dropsie.
To Cure the Gout perfectly.
Against Pain in the Gout.
Against the hot and cold Gout.
To ease any kind of Gout.
A soveraign Ointment against the Gout.
Another for the same.
For all sorts of Gouts.
Another.
Green-Sickness.
To Cure the Green-Sickness. First cleanse the Body by gentle Vomits, then by Purges, or both together: Then
Against the Green-Sickness.
Another for the same.
Another for the same.
Heart Infirmities, to Cure
To put away all Venoms from the Heart.
Against Heart-burning, or the Mouth of the Stomach.
Against the beating of the Heart.
Another for the same.
gthen a fainting Heart, and a
For Fatness about the Heart.
Good at any time when you are ill.
Haemorhoids.
A Plaster for the Haemorhoids.
A Plaster for the
A Suppository for the Haemor|hoids.
Another, good also for the Fig in the Fun|dament.
the Haemorhoids.
Hicket, or Yelking
For the Hicket.
Against the Hicket.
To stay the Hicket.
Hoarseness, and loss of
Speech lost, to resto
For a Hoarseness in the Throat.
Hoarseness, lost Speech, and all Diseases of the Chest and Lungs, to Cure.
Health to preserve.
to provide in hot Countries.
How to provide in cold