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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

the feet of a Woman labouring with Child causeth the birth of the Child presently either alive or dead 102. Take the grease of a Hog and rub the body of any that is sicke against the heart and the soles of the feet then throw the grease to a dog if he eat it the sick will live if not he will die 103. Take a green Elme or Ashen stick and put it in the fire and save the water that comes out at the ends and mix it with the fat of an Eele the like quantity boyl it a little over the fire and drop a drop or two of it into the ear that is deaf at night when you go to bed let it be lukewarm when you drop it in and in three or four dayes they will hear perfectly 104. Also the juyce of Bay-leaves dropped into the eares Pet Hisp takes away both deafnesse and noise in the eares 105. For ach in the bones anoint the place three or four times with good Aqua composita and let it dry in by a good fire then anoint it again and while it is wet strew the powder of Olibanum upon it then sew a cloth round about it and let it lie there three or four dayes by which time it will be well 106. Bay-leaves a thing knowne well Laid up among your cloaths Dioscorides Will give to them a fragrant smell And keep them safe from Moaths 107. Ants eggs beaten and strained and a little of the juyce of Knotgrasse put to the juyce of them and a little of it dropped into the eare cures deafnesse though of long continuance 108. Drop a drop of good Aqua-composita into the eye that is anoyed with cold and you will find it a present remedy to recover the sight 109. For Legs that are swollen by water this doe and you may heale them seeth Oats in water till they be soft then hold the swoln Legs over the steeme of them covering the Vessel with a Blanket that the steem may not go out and it will draw blisters out of which being cut will come much water and corruption a little fresh butter will quickly heale them againe if the cure be not perfect the first time doe so oftner 110. Dandelion or to write better French Dent-delion for our Country Blades are so nice that they scorn to call it by the plain English name Lions-tooth being boyled in water is a speciall remedy for the knitting of wounds as also for the cure of Ruptures the decoction being drunk and the boyled hearb applyed to the grieved place 111. Put unslaked Lime into a cleane new earthen Vessell till the Vessell be almost halfe full then having heat some water boyling hot in a cleane new Vessell pour it into the lime till the Vessel be full take off the scum from it clean and let it stand till the Lime be setled at the bottome then pour off the cleer water and keepe it in a glasse close stopped This is a marvelous water for the cure of Ulcers and chiefly such as spring from the French Pox by dipping a linnen cloth in it and laying it as a Plaister over the sore it draws the corruption out of Ulcers and putrified sores cleanseth them and takes away the inflammation of them this water Mizaldus extols to the skies 112. A dram of Mirrh given to drink in warm wine brings forth the Child Pet. Hisp alive or dead 113. A peice of the root of Crowfoot either put into the tooth if it be hollow or otherwise applyed to it instantly easeth the pains of it 114. Centaury taken either the juyce or powder of it cleers the voyce and cleanseth the breast marvelously 115. Pigeons dung boyled in wine till the wine be consumed and then applyed plaister-wise to the gout takes it away being used morning and evening in four or five dayes 116. Nettle-seed beaten into powder and taken with syrrup of Violets cleanseth the stomack of tough and hard flegm and helps the Plurifie 117. If the paine of the Gout be very outragious take a dram of Opium two drams of Saffron mix them with four or five Yolks of eggs and plaister the same upon the griefe it will not only asswage the paine but also dissolve the corruption 118. Heat two or three Bricks red hot then put them in a Pan under a close-stoole and pour a little Vinegar upon them and let him that is troubled with the Hemorhoids commonly called the Piles fit over them and receive the vapours up his fundament 119. The juyce of broom flowers of Scala Coeli commonly called Solomons Seale and of Honey of each a like quantity boyled to the thicknesse of Honey maketh a soveraigne ointment for the Gout 120. A little Gun-powder tyed up in a rag and held so in the mouth that it may touch the aking tooth instantly easeth the pains of the eeth 121. Tie Saffron up in a little rag and bind it to the Navil of one that hath the yellow Jaundice it gives present help 122. Take the roots of Beets and pare off the outer barke then stamp them and having pressed out the juyce snuffe some of it up your nose and you shall find it wonderfully purgeth the head and helps the Headach Vertigo or dissines in the head and Megrim 123. The feet of a great living Toad being cut off when the Moon is void of course and hastens to the conjunction of the Sun Cardanus cures one of the Kings-evill being hung about their necke 124. Tie up a Spider in a Linnen cloath and there bruise her a little and hold her near the nose that bleedeth but touch not the nose with the cloth and the bleeding will cease the reason is because a spider is so extreamly contrary to the blood of man that it flies back from its Enemy Oh Campanella how acute was thy judgement how is the world beholding to thee The truth of this Aphorisme appeares in that a Cobweb which is but the excrement of a spider will stop the bleeding of a wound 125. An approved remedy to stop bleeding which I have proved my selfe is this Dry some of the parties blood in a fire-shovel to powder which is quickly done and apply it to the place viz. if the nose bleed snuffe it up in it if by wound apply it to it 126. The blood of a Hare dryed and taken inwardly helps the bloody-flux 127. So doth the bones of a man or woman taken in powder the sex considered 128. Also one experience of mine own invention give me leave to quote for a bloody-flux Take new Tobacco-pipes that were never used beat them into powder and give a dram of them at a time in any convenient liquor morning and evening but so soon as the flux is stopped leave off This I found out in this manner when I was a Prentise a Gentleman in Tower-street gave a poor boy money as I remember five shillings to eate four grosse of Tobacco-pipes which is twelve dozen

handfulls of Cummin-seed very well and boyle it in a pottle of white-Wine to a quart and drink a good draught of it morning and evening and in a fortnight it will help him 158. Put the feet of a hen in hot embers till the skales come off Pet. Hisp then rub your warts with those skales and they will be gone 159. Beat a pound or two of Hemp-seed very well then moysten it with a little wine and set it over the fire in an earthen pan well glassed till it be so hot you cannot endure your hand in it then put it into square baggs and presse the oyle out It is a very precious oyle for taken inwardly it makes men pleasant and merry valiant and hardy fierce to fight voyd of fear Outwardly by unction it giveth a comely face 160. A pint of Aqua Composita a Bullocks gall and an ounce of Pepper beaten very small and all boyled to a save cures any Sciatica ach or gout being applyed to it and changed once in twelve hours 161. Both Agrimony and Purslain are such enemies to warts Pet Hisp that they will go away if they be rubbed with the juyce of either of them 162. For Cods that be swolne without any rupture this do Take of Cummin seed in powder barly-meal and honey of each alike quantity fry them together with a little sheep suet and apply it to the Gods 163. For sore and swelled throats first rub your hand upon the bare ground and then presently rub the throat with it do so often times and you shall quickly perceive both sorenesse and swelling will quickly go away 164. Posset and curd is an admirable thing to ripen any boyle carbuncle or felon and when it is ripe there is nothing better to break it then unslaked lime mixed with black sope 165. Fill an Egg-shell newly emptied with juyce of Howseleek set it in the hot embers and take the scum from it then strain it and you have an excellent remedy for hot burning pricking eyes 166. Agrimony Bettony Sage Plantane Ivy-leaves and Rose-parsley boyled in Wine and the decoction drunk is a notable remedy for such as are bruised by falling 167. If you burn Turpentine upon a hot plate of Iron and give two drams of it at a time Em. Ben. Vict. Faventin in powder in Saxifrage water it will break the stone in the bladder also by taking it once or twice a week it keeps such safe from the stone as are subject to breed it 168. Lavender boyled in water and halfe a pint of the decoction drunk morning and evening helps such as have the palsey 169. Take a pint of Aqua Composita and put a handfull of Ivy-leaves into it and stop it close and they will consume in it two or three spoonfuls of it taken at a time is a most excellent remedy for the Strangury 170. Take a pound of black sope a pint of Sallet oyle halfe a pint of Aqua vitae a quarter of a pint of juyce of Rew boyled together till it be thick makes an admirable plaister for the Sciatica remove it not in two or three dayes 171. Take of the wood of Ivy cut it in little peices of Ivy-berries and the gum of Ivy of each a like weight let the wood be dryed then put it in a pot that hath two or three little holes in the bottom Rogeriu● Euonimus then set another potup to the brim in the earth and put the bottom of the first pot into the mouth of the last luting it round with past so that the uppermost pot that holds the ingredients may be all above the Earth then make a fire round about it and there will a black oyle distill into the neither Vessell very soveraigne for old aches and pains comming of a cold cause 172. Empty an Egge of all the white and fill up the voyd place of the shell with the juyce of flower-deluce then warme it a little in the hot embers and give it every morning to one that hath the Dropsey and it makes them avoyd the Hydropicall humour downwards 173. An admirable medicine to stop fluxes of blood in any part of the body the menstruis in women Galen any aches impediments in the back and liver it allayes the heat in Feavers and causeth sleep Take Cinnamon Cassia Lignia Opium of each two drams mirrh white and long pepper of each one dram Galbanum one dram all being beaten into powder that can be beaten make it into a masse with clarified honey and let the party diseased as before take two pills of it no bigger then a pease at night going to bed 174. Take the quantity of an Almond of a Buls gall and mix it with two or three spoonfuls of wine Wicker and let a woman that hath a dead child in her body drink it and she shall instantly be delivered 175. An excellent oyle for old wounds sores Issues Vlcers Apsius quoted by George Baker Aches paines in the back Hemorrods Gout c. Take of old white-Wine a quart old oyle three pints Carduus benedictus Valerian sage with the flowers if you can get it of each a quarter of a pound of the leaves and flowers of St Johns wort halfe a pound let the hearbs and flowers be infused in the oyle and wine four and twenty hours then boyle it in an earthen vessell well glassed or a brasse Vessell till the wine be consumed stirring it now and then for feare of burning then take it off and strain it and adde to it a pound and an halfe of Venice turpentine and boyle it again a quarter of an hour then adde to it Olibanum five ounces Myrrh three ounces Sanguis draconis one ounce let it boyle a little till the Myrrh be dissolved then take it off and when it is cold put it in a glasse stop it close and let it stand in the sunne ten dayes before you use it 176. The body of a Birch tree Mathiolus Dioscorides cut down in the spring time and laid in the fire doth yeild great store of water which water being drunke is of wonderfull force to breake the stone in the Reins 177. The smell of Bitumen Rew Mizaldus Monardus or the smoak of it burning is of wonderfull force against the fits of the Mother 178. The leaves and Barke of a Willow tree sod in Wine doth case the gout being bathed with it 179. A Diamond held to the head that akes Hollerius quite takes away the pains thereof 180. Peices of Amber tyed to the nape of the neck Mizaldus helps the watring of the eyes 181. The same hung about the neck helps distillations of the throat Mizaldus 182. Letharge of Silver boyled in Vinegar and the skin washed with it Mizaldus makes it exceeding white 183. If any great Beasts as Horses Kine c. be lame mark where the lame or swelled foot doth stand and cut up a turfe where the foot

let him avoid Milk and all other meats of a dilative quality for they send vapors into the head and are hurtfull for him Let his drink be water in which a little Cinnamon hath been boyled or in which syrrope of the juyce of Succory or the juyce of Pomgranates or Lemons is put Let him eschew carnal copulation exercises and baths all perturbations of the mind especially anger Directions negative Affirmative Perfumes Vnction If ♂ cause the disease you had better use vervain gathered in the houre of ♀ take this as a generall rule all things that are binding all things that cause stupefaction as crude opium Mandrakes Henbane Poppeys Nightshade those things that bind much though they coole must also be avoyded as juyce of Quinces Medlers c. Let the sick smell to rose water mixed with vineger and often snuffe some of it up into his nose Let also his forehead temples and that part of his head where the paine lies most be anoynted with oyle of fleabane Let the fleabane be gathered in the houre of Mars he being if it be possible in Aries in a good aspect to the Moone So will the infirmity be the easier and more speedily cured Have a speciall care that the Patient go to stoole in good order at the least twice a day Stoole if he do not provoke him first with a Clister then with an ownce of lenitive Electuary every night when he goes to bed for the people most incident to this Infirmity are such as are of a Cholerique constitution though the trouble of this disease be no absolute signe of a Cholericke-man which complexion most commonly causeth astringency 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 comming of cold CHAP. III. Of the Headach 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 coming of Cold. BY cold I meane simply cold without any Flux of cold humours ☞ for that causeth Lethargies but onely a cold distemper The cause This paine in the head is caused of outward cold as by tarrying long bareheaded in a cold aire also by suddain applying of any wet and cold or very cold thing to the head The signes of this are contrary to the signes of the other that came of a hot distemper for in this though the paine indeed be vehement yet the head when it is felt is not hot their face and eyes do not look red neither are they hollow nor shrunke but on the contrary their face looketh full and pale and their eyes are full and swarthy also they desire not cold things nor find ease but paine by them Cautions Let them sleepe moderately but no more then usually they use to do Sleepe They must remaine in a warme aire if it be cold remedy it with a good fire Aire Let them forbeare all meates cold in operation Meats all fish water-fowles and milke Let them eat rear eggs hennes chickens partridge and phesants For drinke let them use Wine moderately Drinke and generally for the cure thereof you must use things that are hot in operation but in the cure as well of this as other diseases in the head you must diligently consider the natural temperature of the braine ☜ for it is such a thing as cannot endure either violent heat or violent cold Directions Negative Let not their bodies be costive but let them have every day a stool if not by nature give suppositories Let them avoide sadnesse deepe speculations and thoughts studying and other immoderate affections of the mind Let them use moving of their body Affirmative walking and if strength suffer riding Oyle of Vervaine is medicinall for the disease Motion let it be gathered in the day and houre of Venus she ascending fortunately Also Rew Laurell Unction If ♀ cause the discase use Fleabane an herb of ♂ Orris Dill Chamomel Mother of time Marjoram are Medicinal for the disease For the Oyle anoint the fore-head temples nostrills and holes behind the eares Also to boyle any of these hearbs especially vervaine gathered as beforesaid in water Nasalia and snuffe up the decoction in your nose Also quilt these leaves betweene two caps Cucufa and let the patient weare it upon his head The innermost cap being made of fine silke or Sarsnet Take Laurell Mother of time Marjoram Rosemary flowers of each a handfull Rew halfe so much Penny royall Calaminth two drams Cloves Staechas one-dram beat these into grosse ponder and sew them up in the Cucufa or double cappe before mentioned and having first sprinkled the head with Vineger warme it and apply it Also it is very good for the sick to smell to such a Pomander as this Pomander Take of Storax Calamitis two drams Cloves Mace wood of Aloes of each halfe a Dram Lavender two Drams Gallia mofchata a Dram Muske Amber greece of each two graines beate them into fine pouder searce them and with mussilage made with Gum Tragacanth and Marjoram water make it up into a Pomander 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 comming of driness or moysture CHAP. IV. Of the Headach 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 coming of drinesse or moysture BY drinesse here ☞ and moysture also is meant only the baire quality for although of these alone without heate or cold no paine come yet hereby the studious in Physicke may learne and discerne when the Head-ach commeth of heate and driness when of heate and moisture when of cold and drinesse when of cold and moisture The cause Head-ach through drinesse is caused through drinesse of the aire through hunger much watching extreame studying by dry medicines over much exercise excessive use of venery and violent perturbations of the mind Head-ach of moisture is caused through moisture of the aire The fimptomes moist medicines bathes hot waters and other things that moisten over much Drinesse is knowne by these signes there come few or no excrements out of the nose the eyes be hollow the patient cannot sleepe neither before nor in the sicknesse also the skin of the head is dry as though it were scorched dry medicines do not ease the paine but increase it Moistnesse is knowne by the same that lethargies are of which hereafter Those in whome drinesse doth trouble the head let them remaine in a moist aire let them eate meates of good juyce and a moistning nature Diet. as yolks of egges cocks stones and the broth of them phesants partriches and such meates as moisten and nourish much let them drinke wine alwayes with water let them sleepe largely provoke them to it as in the second chapter let them eschew motion of the body and exercise and use quietness and rest let them eschew carnal copulation hunger and thirst and all things that do dry let them use baths of sweet waters that are warme let them be merry and pleasant and avoyd all perturbations of mind For paine comming of moisture See Lethargyes Let such as have head-ach of drinesse use to anoint the

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