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A81145	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.	1655 (1655)	Wing C7518; Thomason E1464_2; ESTC R22796	103,545	286

in the fourth degree are not inwardly to be taken without diligent correction and urgent necessity XXXVIII Outwardly they are used to take away inflammations which if they be not great things lesse cold will serve the turn XXXIX Every remedy ought to proportioned be according to the just quality of the disease XL. Sometimes the spirits of man are troubled by heat and in such diseases immoderate watching follows neither is there any other way left to help such but cooling medicines XLI Cold naturally stops the pores congeals the humors stops sweat staies motion and by this means it sometimes so stops the passage of the spirits that it consumes the strength both of the heart and bowels XLII When you read this you will see then what care wisdome skill and diligence is requisite to a Physician XLIII The greatest use of things extremely cold is to ease pains when neither emollients lenitives nor anodines will doe it XLIV For things cold in the fourth degree stupifie the senses thereby allaying that pain which might else produce a feaver and the feaver death before the disease or malady afflicting can be cured in a rationall way XLV I have now done with the active qualities viz heat and cold and come to the passive viz drinesse and moisture XLVI Of medicines moistning No moist medicines can arrive so high as the fourth degree XLVII For seeing all things either heat or cool things hot are drying things cold congeal both are enemies to moisture XLVIII Yet have moist things their operation also for they are lenitive and make slippery XLIX In the first degree Things moist in the first degree mitigate coughs and help the roughnesse of the wind-pipe L In the second Such as are moist in the second degree weaken naturall strength LI They loosen the belly and make the blood and spirits thick and by consequence the wit dull LII In the third But if they exceed this degree they cause the humors to putrifie and make the body unfit for any action open a gate for dropsies lethargies and other diseases of like nature LIII Of drying medicines Medicines which are drying have a contrary operation to these LIV They comsume humors stop fluxes and make the parts of the body tenacious and strengthen the actions of nature LV Yet although drying medicines strengthen nature by consuming the offending humidity yet by unskilfull use they prove many times destructive LVI There is humidity required to cherish the spirits which if it be consumed they cannot perform their actions of which if they fail they also consume naturall strength LVII In the second degree This is done by unwise or unskilfull administring things dry in the second degree LVIII In the third Things drie in the third degree are subject to spoil the nourishment and bring consumptions LIX Thence we may gather that want of moisture to digest ones meat causeth consumptions LX In the fourth Besides this there is an humidity in the body called Radicall moisture which being taken away man must needs perish and this is consumed by things drie in the fourth degree LXI This although it come but as an effect of heat yet it doth it by drying properly and not by heating LXII And this shall suffice briefly to have spoken of the qualities of Physick as it is hot cold drie or moist SELECT APHORISMES Concerning the operation of Medicines according to place in the Body of fraile Man COLLECTED BY NICH CULPEPER Gent. Student in PHYSICK and ASTROLOGY LONDON Printed by J. G. for Nath Brook at the Angel in Cornhill 1655. I Shall bluntly set about the businesse and yet not so rudely neither but I shall observe order and divide the whole businesse into these Chapters Of Cephalicks Chap. 1. Of Pectoralls Chap. 2. Of Cordialls Chap. 3. Of Stomachicalls Chap. 4. Of Hepaticalls Chap. 5. Of Splenicals Chap. 6. Of Renalls and Vessicalls Chap. 7. Of Histericalls Chap. 8. Of Arthriticalls Chap. 9. Of Purges Chap. 10 This I intend shall be the order CHAP. I. Of Cephalicks Part I. I. IN treating of Cephalicks I must be forced to make some distinction II. What the head is That is properly called the head which is between the top of the crown and the vertebrae of the neck III. What Cephalicks are Amongst which such as are accommodated to diseases of the brain are properly called Cephalicks and shall be the basis of our discourse in this first part The other take denominations from the parts they are appropriated to of which more anon IV. Of Cephalicks some are hot some cold whereby they remedy the affects of the brain by a manifest way V. The brain is temperate For the Brain seeing it is the Seat of Reason the rise of the Sences the originall of the Nerves is by its owne nature temperate VI. Its afflictions Therefore is it sooner afflicted than any other part of the body for if it be but a little too hot Sence and Reason is sodainly and inordinately moved if but a little too cold they languish and are stupified VII So then it appeares that the Brain of Man is most subject to infirmities VIII Besides this is peculiar to the Brain that it is delighted or offended with smells sounds and colours which the other parts of the body want IX The Womb also doth somewhat partake of this property for it manifestly flyes from stinking things and embraceth sweet but of this more in its proper place X. Smels Musick Sights are Cephalicall Those things therefore may be accounted Cephalicks which refresh the brain by sweet sents pleasing harmony or delightfull sights XI And yet Physicians account onely smells of these to be Cephalicall I suppose because they affect the Brain by a more inbred quality the other two are objects more properly of the judgement viz. by Harmony and Aspect XII Hence it is cleer that the sence of Smelling is more terrene than that either of Seeing or Hearing XIII Or it may be because they thinke Musick or pleasant Sights are not Medicines but the vulgar proverb might have taught them otherwise Musica mentis Medicina maestae Musick was held of old a Physick kinde For a dejected Melancholy minde XIV How Cephalicks may be knowne Also Cephalicks may be known from the effects of the Brain themselves XV. Therefore because the Brain is usually offended with Flegme therefore those things may be accounted Cephalicks which besides a * Astrologie may reveal this hidden mysterie hidden faculty whereby they strengthen the Brain warm clense cut and dry XVI Besides if you consider the scituation of the Brain viz. in the superiour part of all the body you may conceive it very apt to receive hot vapors XVII These afflict men with Watchings and Head-ache these must be restrained by cooling Cephalicks XVIII Onely I would have this generall maxime observed that Opiates and other soporiferous medicines universally doe the Brain more harm than

men up in an infected and mortall Aire But I shall prove by sollid arguments The Plague not infectious Arg. 1. that the Pestilence is not infectious My first Argument I frame thus That disease that infecteth one man that commeth neere it infecteth all men that come neere it But the Plague infecteth not all Therefore it infecteth none The minor is cleer as the Sunne My Major I prove from the universal course of nature The fire warmeth one man it warmeth all the water wetteth one man it wetteth all because their nature is so to do a sword woundeth one man it woundeth all that are strooke with it the universall current of nature runneth so therefore the Plague if it infect one man must infect all But some will say all mens bodies are not full of humours Object if they were all would be infected I answer then by my Opposites argument the fault lies in the humours that are within Answ the body not in the infection which is without if he fly will these putrified humours continue in his body and he remain in health if so how then come diseases Or will an infected Aire change a disease which would be but bad at the best if so shew a Rule in Physick and I am satisfied * You may find some notable proofes to the contrary in my Astrologicall experiences But clense the body of these humours let all men do so and then come to a visited person and then by my Opposites own confession they will not be infected and how then can the disease be infections and infect no body My second Argument I frame thus That disease Arg. 2 the raining of which may be fore-seene by more secret causes in nature long before it come can not be increased by visiting the sick nor diminished by abstaining from them But the Pestilence may and always is foreseene long before it comes Therefore you will have it never the soonner by visiting those that are sick of it nor escape ever a whit the longer by abstaining from it The Major is cleere for if the cause come the effect must needes follow Signs of a Plague to come For the proofe of the minor I shall produce twelve signes of a Plague to come which appeare some of them above a yeare yea some of them above two yeares before it come The first is Phanomena in the Aire great meetings of superiour Planets whereby not only the time but also the place where the Pestilence will most rage may be gathered as this Autumnall Pestilence in London 1645. was by Mr Booker in his Almanack for that yeare which was penned at Midsomer 1644. also by Mr William Lilly his Anglicus peace or no peace left at the Printers Decemb. 1644. The learned in Astrology may satisfie themselves without me also blazing starres and other strange meteors and supernaturall sights and apparitions in the Aire The second is the changing of the seasons hot weather out of its season and cold out of its season hot and dry weather a long time upon south winds and many raines upon North-windes The third is when the small pockes and measels vex not only children but men and women of perfect age especially in the Spring The fourth is the winds holding along-time in the south or west The fifth is a darke and troubled Aire a long time without either raine or cleere weather or if after a long drought it raine without thunder The sixt is when women conceived with child do suffer abortion for every light and slight cause The seventh is when in summer time after raine abundance of frogs of diverse colours gather together The eight is a great number more then ordinary of flies spiders and creeping things are seene in the spring The ninth is death of four-footed beastes and fishes The tenth is birds forsaking their nests and leaving their egges there The eleventh is dearth of corne and grain The twelft is a hot and moyst temperature of the yeare But say some Object if the Plague be not infectious what is the reason when it comes into a house sometimes all the house are sick of it and sometimes dye of it This might be sufficiently answered by a retortive Answ All diseases come by Ill directions therefore not by infection Else no nativity can safely be verified by accidents Prevention If so be the Plague be infectious what 's the reason many times but one in a house hath it and all the rest though perhaps they kept a worse diet yet escape any that hath any judgement in nativities can give a reason of it easily Well be it infectious or not infectious prevented it may be as may other demonstrations of the Planets if discretion be used and therefore now to the purpose And in the first place let such as would avoyd this disease avoyd the feare of it for feare changeth the blood into the nature of the thing feared the imagination ruling the spirits natural as is manifest in womens conceptions Secondly let your body be kept soluble if it be not so naturally take a scruple of Pillutae Ruffi Pestilentiales at night when you go to bed Thirdly if your body be full of blood bleed so much as strength and age permit Take a spoonfull of Vinegar of Squils * three or foure times a day viz. Fewer times will serve the turne at ten of the clocke after dinner at foure in the afternoon and after Supper Take the quantity of a Hazle nut of this Electuary invented by Mithridates that renowned King of Pontus and the first Author also of that Electuary that beares his name to this day Mithridate every morning often also used by the Emperour Charles the fift of the vertues of which I have had large experience it is thus made Take of greene Rew gathered in the houre of Sol halfe a handfull blew Figgs six and as many Walnuts with forty Juniper berries and a little Bay-salt beat into an Electuary Let all passions and perturbations of mind be ☞ avoyded together with all violent motions for these inflame the blood so also doth drinking much Wine Let the house be kept clean and pure and alwayes a good fire in it Let the diet be of good juyce quicke of digestion and let him eat sharpe things with his meats such as Vinegar Verjuyce Oranges juyce of Lemmons and Citrons or Pomegranates and let all fruits be avoyded except such as are sowre Let not the stomack be charged with excesse either of meat or drink In Summer-time let the blood be cooled with coole hearbs as Endive Lettuce Purslain Succory and let the drinke be Whey clarified with them Let him use the smels of Ladanum Styrax Calamitis Camphyre Cinnamon Nutmegs wood of Aloes liquid Storax c. Lastly these things are preventionall being taken inwardly and resist the Disease consideratis considerandis viz. Angeliica roots Zedoary Bole Armenicke Terra Lemnia Mithridate Treacle Tormentill and Petasitis roots and Citron pils with