4%  CULPEPER’s ENGLISH PHYSICIAN, 
ney; doth mightily cleanfe the cheft of rotten phlegm, and wonderfully helpeth an 
old ftrong cough, thofe that are troubled with fhortnefs of breath, and is very good. 
for them that are bruifed inwardly, to help to expel the clotted or congealed blood ® 
the leaves, fruit, and root, do cleanfe old and filthy fores, are good againft all fret-’ 
’ ting and running cankers, gangrenes, and tetters, and therefore the berries are by. 
fome country people called tetter-berries. The root cleanfeth the fkin wonderfully’ 
from all black and blue fpots, freckles, morphew, leprofy, foul {cars, or other defor-’” 
mity whatfoever ; as alfo all running fcabs and manginefs are healed by the powder 
of the dried root, or the juice thereof, but efpecially by the fine white hardened 
juice : the diftilled water of the roots worketh the fame effects, but more weakly ¢ 
the root bruifed and applied of itfelf to any place where the bones are broken, help- — 
_ eth to draw them forth, as alfo fplinters and thorns in the flefh; and being ap- 
plied with a little wine mixed therewith, it breaketh boils, and helpeth whitlows 
on the joints. : 
For all thefe latter complaints, beginning at fores, cankers, &c. apply it out- 
wardly, and take my advice along with you; you fhall find in the Difpenfatory 
among the preparations at the latter end, a medicine called fecula brionia, take 
that and ufe it, you have the way there how to make it, 
| greale, or other convenient ointment, and ufe it at your 
__ Asfor the former difeafes, where it muft be taken in 
and mix it with a little hog’s 
need. . 
wardly, it purgeth very vio- 
~ dent 2 and Hisga eae hand to correct it than moft country people have, there- 
SS ae eee them, in my opinion, to let the fimple alone, and take the 
_ Compound’ water of it, mentioned in my difpenfat ti fafe, 
being wifey c i 2 pe > and that is far more fate, 
a a creeping root, that fhooteth forth ftrings at 
lundry green ftalks, round and {appy, with fome 
Boe ty + Tound, deep, green, and thick leaves fet by : 
om whereof thot forth long footitalks, with fundry 
