The English Physician: Enlarged with Three Hundred and Sixty-nine Medicines Made of English Herbs, Not in Any Former Impression of Culpeper's British Herbal, Containing an Astologo-physical Discourse on the Various Herbs of this Nation and Also a Complete Method of Physic ... Illustrated with Correct Copper Plates of the Most Useful and Remarkable Plants : to which is Added The Family Physician, and a Present for the Ladies, Containing the Best Remedies for Every Disease Incident to the Human BodyJ. & E. Hodson, 1809 - 389 pages |
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Page 32 - Witchcraft very potently, as also all the Evils old Saturn can do to the Body of Man, and they are not a few: for it is the Speech of one, and I am mistaken if it were not Me/aldus, that neither Witch nor Devil.
Page 378 - Wherefore I prayed, and understanding was given me: I called upon God, and the spirit of wisdom came to me. I preferred her before sceptres and thrones, and esteemed riches nothing in comparison of her.
Page i - The Lord hath created medicines out of the earth; and he that is wise will not abhor them.
Page 157 - And if this be true, as it is, then why should the vulgar so familiarly affirm, that eating Nuts causcth shortness of breath ? than which nothing is falser. For how can that which strengthens the lungs, cause shortness of breath ? I confess, the opinion is far older than I am ; I knew tradition was a friend to error before, but never that he was the father of slander : or are men's tongues so given to slander one another, that they must slander Nuts too, to keep their tongues in use...
Page 31 - That it is a Tree of the Sun, and under the celestial Sign Leo, and resisteth Witchcraft very potently, as also all the evils old Saturn can do to the body of man, and they are not a few ; for it is the speech of one, and I am mistaken if it were not...
Page 31 - Something is the matter; this herb and rue will not grow together, no, nor near one another: and we know rue is as great an enemy to poison as any that grows.
Page 343 - This shall live when I am dead. And thus I leave it to the world, not caring a farthing whether they like or dislike it. The grave equals all men, and therefore shall equal me with all princes ; until which time the eternal Providence is over me : Then the ill tongue of a prating fellow, or one that hath more tongue than wit, or more proud than honest, shall never trouble me. Wisdom is justified by her children. And so much for Wormwood.
Page 126 - They flower and give their seed at Midsummer. The Female Fern is that plant which is in Sussex called Brakes, the seed of which some authors hold to be so rare. Such a thing there is I know, and may be easily had upon Midsummer Eve, and for ought 1 know, two or three days after it, if not more.
Page 95 - Comfry helpeth those that spit Blood, or make a bloody Urine. The Root boiled in Water or Wine, and the Decoction drunk, helpeth all inward hurts, bruises and wounds, and Ulcers of the Lungs, causing the...
Page 340 - Egypt on an errand never to return more, this done by antipathy. The eyes are under the Luminaries; the right eye of a man, and the left eye of a woman the Sun claims dominion over: the left eye of a man, and the right eye of a woman, are...