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A28326	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 ...	Blagrave, Joseph, 1610-1682.; Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654. English physician.	1674 (1674)	Wing B3121; ESTC R15907	274,441	310

humors wherefore they may very well be given to young Children that are sick of the Small-pox Small-Pox and Wheals or Measels Measells for they bring them quickly forth without any danger they be good also for the Throat Throat Lungs Lungs and Cough Cough and those that are short Winded they ripen Flegm Flegm and cause the same to be easily spit out whether they be eaten raw or rosted or sodden with Hysop and Licoris and the decoction drunk The decoction of Figs in water is good to be drunk of those that have taken hurt by squats or bruises Bruises of or by falls Falls from high they disperse and scatter clotted Clotted and congealed blood bloud and asswage or slake the pain An Electuary made with Figs Salt Rue and Walnuts is an Antidote against all Poison and corruption of the Air. This was the preservative which Mithridates King of Pontus used against the Plague Plague Pestilence and against all Poison Poison Venome Venome The decoction of Figs gargariz'd or holden in the mouth is good against the sharpness and hoarseness Hoarseness of the Throat and also against Swellings swellings and Impostumations Imposthumes of the Mouth Throat Almonds of the Throat and Jawes and Swelling of the Tongue Figs are also good to be kept in the Mouth against Swellings and Ach and pain of the Teeth Teeth Gums Gums and Jawes Jaws being outwardly applied with Wheaten-Meal they do soften and ripen boiles Boiles Imposthumes and Phlegmons that is hot and angry Swellings Swellings and Tumors Tumors behind the Eares especially if there be put to it Lins●ed and Fenugreek and if Lilly roots be mixed with it and applied pultis-wise it will ripen and break Plague-Sores Plague Sores Imposthumes Buboes Buboes and Botches Botches Figs sodden in Wormwood Wine with Barly-meal is good to be applied as a Pultis or Plaister upon the Bellies of those that have the Dropsie Dropsie Figs and Mustard-seed being pounded very well together and outwardly applied amend the Hearing Hearing help Deafness and take away the ringing noise Noise or sound in the Eares Eares the dry Figs have power to dissolve consume and make subtill and may very well be used both inwardly and outwardly the leaves of the Fig-tree do wast and consume way the Kings-Evill Kings-Evil or Swelling kernels in the Throat and mollisie and wast all other Tumors being beaten small and applied thereunto The milky juice of Figs is good against all roughness of the skin Skin Leprosies Leprosie spreading Sores Sores Tetters Tetters Small-pox Measells Pushes Freckles Lentiles and other such like spots Spots and Scurviness both of the body and Face being laid thereto with parched Barly-meal and being mixed with sat or grease it taketh away Warts Warts if they be anointed therewith It cureth the Tooth-ach Tooth-ach if you dip a little Cotton in the said Milk and lay it to the Tooth or make a pellet thereof and put it into the Tooth if it be hollow It openeth the Veins of the Hemerrhoids Hemerrhoids and looseth the Belly being laid to the fundament the leaves have the same vertue being used for a suppository being mixed with the Meal of Fenugreek and Vinegar it giveth ease in the hot Gout the same juice is good to pour into Wounds made by the biting of Mad-dogs Mad-dog the Ashes of the Fig-tree mixed with oyle of Roses and Wax cureth burnings Burnings and the Lye that is made of the ashes of the fig healeth festred and foul fretting Sores Sores if they be washed therewith Fistick-Nuts Names THese Nuts are called in shops Pistacia Pistacies Fistici and Fistick-nuts Descript The Tree that heareth the Fistick-nuts hath long great leaves spread abroad consisting of five seven or more leaves growing one against another all along a reddish rib or sinew whereof the last which is alone at the top of the leaf is the greatest and largest the fruit of this tree is much like to small Hazel-nuts and like the kernells of the Pine-apple in which lyeth the kernel or nut Place This tree is a stranger in this Country it groweth in Syria and other hot Eastern Countries Government and Virtues Fistick-nuts are under the influence of Jupiter they are of a mean or temperate heat and somewhat astringent Fisticks are good to open stoppings and obstructions of the Liver and also they strengthen the same they he also good for the Stomack they also open the pipes of the Lungs Liver Lungs and Breast Breast stomack and are good against shortness of Breath Lungs Breath the Tissick Tissick and painful fetching of Breath to be eaten either alone or with Sugar Dioscorides saith that Fistick nuts given in Wine are a good medecine against the bitings or stingings of Venemous beasts Flax. Names IT is called Linum in Latine by which name it is well known in shops it is called also Lin whence the Cloth that is made thereof is called Linnen-cloth and the seed is called Linseed the oyl which is pressed out of the same seed is called Linseed-oyle Descript Flax hath a tender stalk covered with sharp narrow leaves parted at the top into small short branches the which bringeth forth fair blew flowers when the flowers are fallen away there cometh in their stead round knaps or buttons in which is contained a blackish seed large fat and shining Place Flax is sown in this Couuntry in fat and fine Ground and in low moist fields it delights to grow in Time Flax floureth in May and June and is ripe soon after Government and Vertues It is under the dominion of Venus the seed of Flax which is onely used in medecine is of temperature hot in the first degree and temperate in moisture and driness The seed called Linseed being boyled in water and applied in manner of a pultis or plaister asswageth all pains softneth cold Tumors or Swellings the Imposthumes of the Eares and Neck and of other parts of the body Linseed pounded with Figs doth ripen and break Imposthumes and boyles Pains Imposthumes swelling Eares Boyles being laid thereon and draweth forth thorns and all other things that stick fast in the body i● it be mingled with the root of Wild Cucumer The same seed mingled with hony and Cresses and laid unto rough rugged and il-favored Nailes aswell of the hands as the Feet cleanseth them that be corrupt and cureth the party Nailes Spots in the Face Old Sores Vlcers Sight Belly Gripings Bowells Matrix Cough Heckick Feavers the same seed being pounded and laid to the Face cleanseth and taketh away all Spots and Freckles thereof The Wine wherein Linseed hath been boyled preserveth old Sores and Ulcers from corruption if they be washed therewith and from festering and inward rankling the water wherein Linseed hath been

shortness of breath and taken with Sugar-candy it is a present remedy Alpinus further saith that the oyle thereof is so familiarly used by the Aegyptians in their meals as that they do seldom eat without it yet it breedeth many obstructions and the viscous nourishment of it turneth into Melancholy and other diseases It will not be improper here to add somewhat of the virtues of our Marsh-mallows both leaves seeds and roots wherein Culpepper falls too short It is the chiefest of all other Mallows and most effectual and is therefore called Dismalva being twice as good as any other The root being boyled in wine and drunk is good against the pain and grief of the Gravel and Stone Gravel Stone Bloody Flux Sciatica cough Tooth-ach the blood Flux the Sciatica the trembling and shaking of any member and for such as are troubled with Cramps and burstings Pliny writeth the same boyled in sweet new milk healeth the Cough and being boyled in some Vinegar and holden in the mouth it asswageth the pain in the Teeth The same being boyled in Wine or hony-water and bruised or pounded very small Green Wounds Tumors Swellings Wens Kernels Impostumes chaps of the fundament doth cure and heal new Wounds and doth dissolve and consume cold Tumors and Swellings Wens and hard kernels and Imposthumes behind the Ears and is good for the burning Imposthume of the Paps It doth soften ripen digest breaketh and covereth with skin old Imposthumes blastings and Windy Swellings Mother it cureth rifts and chaps of the Fundament and trembling of the sinews and sinewy parts the same being so prepared pounded with hogs-grease goose-grease and a little Turpentine and a Pessary or Mother suppository made thereof and put up doth mollifie and asswage Imposthumes and sores of the Mother and openeth the stoppings of the same The leaves are likewise used instead of common Mallows to loosen the belly gently and are very effectual in decoctions for Glisters to ease all pains in the body Pains in the body Stone to open the straight passages and make them slippery whereby the stone may descend the more easily out of the Reins and Kidneys and the bladder and to ease the great and torturing pains that come thereby the roots being boyled very well in water and after they be strained out the decoction being boiled again with Sugar to a just consistence and troches rowls or Lozinges made thereof is effectual against the diseases of the Breast Chest and Lungs as Coughs Hoarseness Wheefings and shortness of Breath Coughs hoarseness shortness of Breath Guts Bloody flux the roots and seeds of the Marsh-mallow boyled in Wine and Water is very effectual to be used by such as have any excoriation in the Guts or bloody flux by qualifying the violence of the sharp Cholerick fretting humors which are the cause thereof and by sliminess easing the pains and healing the soreness and in some sort staying the further erruption of blood Ruptures cramps Convulsions Kings Evil Chin cough It is very profitable for them that are troubled with Ruptures Cramps or Convulsions of the sinews and being boyled in White-wine it is profitable for the Impostumes of the Throat called the Kings-evill for kernels behind the Ears and swellings or Inflamations in Womens breast The dryed roots boyled in Milk and drunk are singularly good for the chin-Cough Hippocrates used to give the decoction of the roots or the juice thereof to drink to wounded persons who were ready to faint through loss of blood and applied the same mixed with Hony and Rozen unto the Wounds he gave also the decoction of the roots in Wine to those to drink that were hurt by bruises or Falls or by blows or stripes and to such who had any bone or member out of joint and to those who had any swelling pain or Ach in the muscles sinews or Arteries it is good also to be used in all Ulcers and sores that happen in any Cartilaginous place The muscilage of the roots and of Linseed and Fenegreek put together is of much use in pultisses oyntments and plaisters to mollifie hard tumors and the Inflamations of them and to ease pains in any part of the body The seed either green or dry mixed with Vinegar cleanseth the skin of Morphew and other discolourings thereof being bathed therewith either in the Sun or in a Hot-house or Stove Mandrake Kinds and Names THere is described by Authors both a Male and Female Mandrake and two of the Males-Mandrak It is called Mandragoras both in Latine and Greek and Dioscorides saith in his time called Circaea because Circe the great Witch or enchantresse used it as is thought in love-matters Descript 1. The more ordinary Male Mandrake Mandragoras mas vulgatior sendeth forth from a somewhat great and downright root in some but with one in other two three or four twines or branches divided a little below the head or top and divers small fibres besides blackish on the out side and whitish within having many large leaves lying on the ground greater then any Beete-leaves from the middle whereof rise up sundry pale green flowers of five round leaves a peece each standing on a small slender footstalk within a green five-leaved husk wherein afterwards is set the fruit being of the bigness of a reasonable Pippin and as yellow as Gold when it is through ripe with divers round whitish flat seeds in it of a heady or strong stuffing scent This is the true Description of the plant without other shape of Mans or Womans parts although some Cheats have made counterfeit forms thereof and have exposed them to publick view both in our own and other Countries but they are utterly deceitfull forgeries to cheat people of their mony Descript 2. Mandragoras mas alter another Male-Mandrake whose leaves were of a more grayish green colour and somewhat folded together herein differing from the former This Mr. Parkinson saith he saw in the Lord Wottons Garden at Canterbury when John Tradescant had the keeping of it but that it had never born any fruit Descript 3. The Female Mandrake Mandragoras foemineus hath many leaves lying on the ground but smaller narrower more crumpled and of a darker green colour then the Male like those of Lettice as saith Dioscorides The flowers also rise from among the leaves each on a slender footstalk as the former but of a blewish purple colour the fruit is much lesse then those of the Male but round like them of a paler yellow colour when they are ripe and of a more pleasing and lesse heady-scent having in them such like seed as the Male but smaller and blacker the root is also like the former blackish without and white within neer unto the same form parted into sometimes more and sometimes fewer branches Place They grow in Woods and shadowy places and the Female by Rivers-sides in diverse Countries beyond the Alps but not naturally on this side thereof as in Greece Candy Isles