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.
- 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.
- Author
- Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654.
- Publication
- Boston, :: Re-printed for Nicholas Boone, at the Sign of the Bible, near the corner of School-House-Lane.,
- 1708.
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- Subject terms
- Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.
- Medicine -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Contents
- title page
- TO THE Reader.
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THE English PHYSICIAN.
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Aches, and Lameness in the Body, Joy
ts, L mbs 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.
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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.
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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.
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Against all burning and pestilent
Fevers. -
An excellent Process of Cure of all Quo|tidian, Tertian, Quartane, Pe
ent 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.
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Bleeding to Stop in any Part, Inwardly, Outwardly.
- To stop the Bleeding at the Nose.
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Against P
ssing of Blood. -
Against the Bloody Flux, and P
ssi 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.
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A Clyster against a sharp Humour, that
iss eth out Blood instead of O dure.
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Belly Infirmities to Cure.
- To reduce a hard Belly, and hard Sides.
- Another for the same.
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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.
- Breasts Infirmities to Cure.
- Back Infirmities to Cure.
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Bruises, Hurts, Congealed Blood to Cure.
- To take away black & blew Spots, coming of stripes and bruises.
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A Powder against falls, & inward bru
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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.
- Bitings by Mad Dogs, Serpents, &c.
- Cordials.
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Coughs and short Breathings.
- For a Cough of the Lungs.
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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.
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Consumption.
- Against a Consumption.
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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.
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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.
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Against a Consumption, and to
a decayed Nature.
- Convulsion and Cramp.
- Canker.
- Corns and Warts.
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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.
- Clysters.
- Dropsie.
- Ears, Noise and Deafness.
- EVIL Digestion to Cure
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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.
- Fistulaes.
- Fluxes.
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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.
- Face.
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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.
- Heart Infirmities, to Cure
- Haemorhoids.
- Hicket, or Yelking
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Hoarseness, and loss of
- Health to preserve.
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Aches, and Lameness in the Body, Joy