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Author: Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654.
Title: Culpeper's last legacy left and bequeathed to his dearest wife, for the publicke good, being the choicest and most profitable of those secrets which while he lived were lockt up in his breast, and resolved never to be publisht till after his death. Containing sundry admirable experiences in severall sciences, more especially, in chyrurgery and physick, viz. compounding of medicines, making of waters, syrrups, oyles, electuaries, conserves, salts, pils, purges, and trochischs. With two particular treatises; the one of feavers; the other of pestilence; as also other rare and choice aphorisms, fitted to the understanding of the meanest capacities. Never publisht before in any of his other works. By Nicholas Culpeper, late student in astrology and physick.
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Print source: Culpeper's last legacy left and bequeathed to his dearest wife, for the publicke good, being the choicest and most profitable of those secrets which while he lived were lockt up in his breast, and resolved never to be publisht till after his death. Containing sundry admirable experiences in severall sciences, more especially, in chyrurgery and physick, viz. compounding of medicines, making of waters, syrrups, oyles, electuaries, conserves, salts, pils, purges, and trochischs. With two particular treatises; the one of feavers; the other of pestilence; as also other rare and choice aphorisms, fitted to the understanding of the meanest capacities. Never publisht before in any of his other works. By Nicholas Culpeper, late student in astrology and physick.
Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654.
[London]: Printed for N. Brooke at the Angell in Cornhill, 1655.
Subject terms:
Medicine -- Early works to 1800.
Materia medica -- Early works to 1800.
Anatomy -- Early works to 1800.
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Master Culpepers Wifes Accompt.
WORTHY READERS,
CHAPTER I. Of HEAD-ACH in general, with its several Names and Kinds.
CHAPT. II. Of the Headach coming of heat.
CHAP. III. Of the Headach coming of Cold.
CHAP. IV. Of the Headach coming of drinesse or moysture
CHAP V. Of Headach coming of plentitude or blood.
CHAP VI. Of the Headach coming of Choler.
CHAP. VII. Of the Headach coming of Windinesse.
CHAP, VIII. Of Headach caused of the Stomack.
CHAP. IX. Of Headach caused by drunkennesse.
CHAP. X. Of Headach caused of Feavers.
CHAP. XI. Of the Headach
CHAP. XII. Of the Megrim.
CHAP. XIII. Of Ʋertigo or swimming in the Head.
CHAP. XIV. Of Frenzie.
CHAP. XV. Of the Lethargie.
CHAP. XVI. Of Forgetfulnesse.
CHAP. XVII. Of Catalepsis.
CHAP. XVIII. Of the Apoplexie.
CHAP. XIX. Of the dead Palsey in one side.
CHAP. XX. Of the Palsey in one Member.
CHAP XXI. Of the Falling-sicknesse.
CHAP. XXII. Of Convulsion and Cramps.
CHAP. XXIII. Of the Mare.
CHAP. XXIV. Of Madnesse.
CHAP. XXV. Of Melancholie.
CHAP. XXVI. Of Trembling or shaking of any Limb, called commonly the shaking Palsey.
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author's note
CHAP. I. A Table of FEAVERS.
CHAP. II. A Comment upon the Table of Feavers.
CHAP. III. Of or an one day Feaver.
CHAP. IIII. Of Synochus non pistrida, being a Feaver which lasteth three or four dayes.
CHAP. V. Of a rotten Feaver, called Synochus putrida.
CHAP. VI. Of continual Feavers called by the Greekes .
CHAP. VII. Of a Burning Feaver, called .
CHAP. VIII. Of an Intermitting Tertian Feaver, com∣monly called a second dayes Ague.
CHAP. IX. Of a Quartane Feaver, or Ague.
CHAP. X. Of a Quotidian Feaver or Ague.
CHAP. XI. Of an Hectick Feaver.
Physical APHORISMS. Reader, Give me leave to begin, and I will not be beholding to time for leave to make a Preamble.
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A TREATISE OF THE PESTILENCE.
Reader, These Books following are printed for Nath. Brooks, and are to be sold at his shop at the Angel in Cornhill.
The first Part of Culpepers last Legacies, his Physicall, Chyrur∣gicall Remaines.
to the reader
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CHAP. I. Of Waters.
CHAP. II. Of Syrups.
CHAP. III. Of Wines.
CHAP. IV. Of Oyles.
CHAP. V. Of Electuaries.
CHAP. VI. Of Conserves.
CHAP. VII. Of Salts.
CHAP. VIII. Of Pills.
CHAP. IX. Of Troches.
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Aphorismes.
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CHAP. I. Of Cephalicks.
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CHAP. II. Of Pectoralls.
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CHAP. III. Of Cordialls.
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CHAP. IV. Of Stomachicals.
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CHAP. V. Of Hepaticals.
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CHAP. VI. Of Splenicalls.
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CHAP. VII. Of Renalls and Vessicalls.
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CHAP. VIII. Of Hystericalls.
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CHAP. IX. Of Arthriticalls.
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CHAP. X. Of Purges.
Part I. Of Purging Medicines.
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Part III. Of the Correction of Purges.
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Part. I. Of the Time of Purging.
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Part V. Of the manner of Purging.
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CHAP. I. Medicimes for the Head, and its Diseases.
1. A generall Caution.
2. To purge the Head.
3. Another.
4. For a Rheume in the Head and the Palsie.
5. For a Rheume in the Head.
6. Another.
7. For the falling off of the hair.
8. To purge the Head.
9. For the falling off of the Haire by rea∣son of a scald head.
10. For head-ach, especially that which comes by drunkennesse.
11. For Vertigo, or Dissinesse.
12. To purge the Head.
CHAP. II. For the Eyes and their impediments.
1. Prooemium.
2. For Eyes that are blood-shot.
3. For Eyes that are blasted.
4. An excellent water to clear the sight!
5. Another.
6. For a hurt in the Eye with a stroke.
7. To preserve a mans sight a long time.
8. To draw Rheume back from the eyes.
9. A Medicine not onely for sore eyes, but also for the Megrim.
10. For such as have a skin growing before their Eyes.
11. For the Web in the Eye.
12. For such as have lost their Sight by reason of the small Pox.
13. For a Pin and Web.
14. For sore eyes proceeding of heat.
15. For Eyes that are swelled.
CHAP. III. For the Eares and their impediments.
1. For Deafnesse, with noyse in the Eare.
2. For pain in the Eares.
3. For an Imposthume in the Eare.
4. To take an Earewig out of the Eare.
CHAP. IV. For the Nose and its Infirmities.
1. For Polypus, or a fleshy substance grow∣ing in the Nose.
2. For bleeding at Nose.
3. Another for the same.
4. To cleanse the Nose.
5. For bleeding at the Nose.
6. Another.
7. Another.
8. Another.
9. For a Canker in the Nose.
10. Another for the Polypus.
11. For an Impost hume in the Nose.
12. For bleeding at the Nose.
13. Another.
14. Another.
CHAP. V. Of the Mouth and its Diseases.
1. A Caution.
2. For spitting Blood.
3. For a stinking breath.
4. To recover lost speech.
5. For extream heat of the mouth.
6. For a Canker in the mouth.
7. Another.
8. Another.
9. Of the falling down of the Pallat.
10. Another.
CHAP. VI. Of the Teeth and their Medicines.
1. A Caution.
2. To make Teeth white.
3. For the Tooth ache.
4. Another.
5. Another.
6. To make teeth fall out of themselves.
7. For rotting of the teeth.
8. For the Tooth-ache.
9. Another.
10. To make childrens teeth cut.
11. Another.
12 To fasten Teeth.
13. For the Tooth ache.
CHAP. VII. Of the Gums and their Infirmities.
1. For a Scurvy in the Gums.
2. For a Canker in the Gums.
3. Another.
4. For rotting and consuming of the Gums.
CHAP. VIII. Of the Face and its infirmities.
1. The Cause.
2. Caution Negative.
3. Caution Affirmative.
4. For a red Face.
5. To make the Face faire.
6. Another.
7. For a white Scurfe in the Face.
8. For Freckles in the Face.
9. Another.
10. For a blasted face.
11. For a face full of red Pimples.
12. Another.
13. Another.
14. To take away the marks of the small Pox.
15. Another.
16. For a red Face.
CHAP. IX. Of the Throat and its infirmities.
2. A Caution.
3. For hoarsenesse.
4. Another.
5. Another.
6. For the Quinsie.
CHAP. X. Of the Breast and Lungs and their infirmities.
1. For a Cough in a young child.
2. For weaknesse of the Lungs.
3. For inflammation of the Lungs.
4. Another.
5. For stoppings of the Breast.
6. Another.
CHAP. XI. Of Womens Breasts, their infirmities and cures.
1. For sore Breasts that are broaken.
2. For sore Breasts.
3. An inward medicine for a sore Breast.
4. For want of milk.
5. For hardnesse of the Breasts.
6. Another.
7. For want of Milke.
8. For sore Breasts.
9. For want of Milke.
10. For Inflammations in the Breast.
11. To cure sore breasts without a scarre.
CHAP. XII. Of the Spleen and its Infirmities.
1. A Caution.
2. Another.
3. Another.
4. For hardnesse of the Spleen.
5. For the Spleen.
6. Another.
7. Another.
8. For the Spleen over-burdened.
9. For the Spleen.
10. Another.
11. Another.
12. A Caution.
13. Another.
CHAP. XIII. Of the Stomach and its Infirmities.
1. A Caution.
2. Another.
3. For pain in the Stomach.
4. For moisture of the Stomach.
5. For heat of the Stomach.
6. For windinesse in the Stomach.
7. For a stinking Breath caused by the Stomach.
8. For one that vomits up his victuals.
9. To stay vomiting.
10. For a weak stomach.
11. For a stinking breath caused by the stomach.
12. For a watry Stomach.
CHAP. XIV. Of the Liver and its Infirmities.
1. A Caution.
2. To cause the Liver well to digest.
3. For heat of the Liver.
4. Another.
5. Stoppages for the Liver.
6. A Caution.
6. For Stoppage of the Liver.
8. For the Liver.
9. Gently to clense and cool the Liver.
CHAP. XV. Of the sides and their infirmities.
1. A Caution.
2. For winde in the side.
3. For a Stich in the side.
4. Another.
5. For a Stich in the left side.
CHAP. XVI. Of the Heart and its Infirmities.
1. For a trembling of the Heart without a Feaver.
1. Another.
3. For fatnesse about the Heart.
4. For knawing about the Heart.
5. A Caution.
6. For Heart Qualmes.
CHAP. XVII. Of the Belly and its Infirmities.
1. For a hard Belly without pain.
2. Another.
3. For a hard Belly that is sore.
4. For a Bastard Chollick.
CHAP. XVIII. Of the Navill and its Infirmities.
1. For the swelling of the Navill.
2. Another.
3. For a childs Navell that is sore with crying.
CHAP. XIX. Of the Back and its infirmities.
1. For weaknesse of the Back.
2. Another.
3. For a pain in the back.
4. For heat in the Back.
CHAP. XX. Of the Fundament and its Infirmities.
1. For falling out of the Fundament.
2. For the Figge in the Fundament.
3. Another.
4. For falling out of the Fundament.
5. Another.
CHAP. XXI. Of the Thighs and their Infirmitits.
1. For stiffenesse of the Thighs.
2. For aching of the Bones of the Thighs.
3. To knit the Sinews, and Veines of the Thighs.
4. For swelling of the Thighs.
5. For Sinews that are shrunk in the Thighs or elsewhere.
CHAP. XXII. Of the Knees and their infirmities.
1. For ache or swelling in the Knees.
2. For an ache coming of an old bruise.
3. Another.
4. For the Knees.
CHAP. XXII. Of the Leggs and Feet, and their Infirmities.
1. For swellings of the Leggs.
2. For a Legge that is swelled, and will pit after touching.
3. Another.
4. For ach in the Bones, in the Legs, or Arms.
5. For a red swelling in the Legge or Arme.
6. For a Corn on the Toe.
7. To make a Naile grow where it is wanting.