sé CULPEPER’s ENGLISH PHYSICIAN, 
lafk, bloody flux, womens’ courfes, bleeding of the nofe, mouth, or any other place, i 
or proceeding from any bruife, wound, or burfting of a vein, ‘and greatly helpeth é 
-fuch parts as need confolidating and ftrengthening ; it is ho lefs effeCtual in clofing 
and healing green wounds, than in cleanfing and curing foul and ulcerated fores, 
fretting and {preading cankers, &c. 
lof FOXGLOVE 
Description. IT hath many long and broad leaves lying upon the ground, 
dented about the edges, a little foft or woolly, and of a hoary green colour; among 
thefe grow up feveral ftalks, but generally one which bears the aforefaid leaves from 
the bottom to the middle-upwards, from whence to the top it is fet with large and 
long, hollow, reddifh purple ‘flowers, being a little longer at the lower edge, and 
fpotted with white on the infide; there are threads alfo in the middle, from whence 
rife round. heads, pointed fharp at the ends, and containing {mall brown feed therein; 
they grow one.above another, with {mall green leaves thereat, hanging their heads 
downward, and each turning the fame way. The roots confift of {mall fibres, among 
which are fome of a tolerable fize. The bloffoms are without {mell, and the lraurs : 
are of a bitter hot tafte, 
Pracz. It groweth in dry fandy places, and as well on high as low rouble ; 
alfo under the hedge-fides, i in almoft-every part of this kingdom. 
Time. -It feldom flowereth before July, and the feed is ripe in Auguft. 
Government AND Virtugs. This herb is under the dominion of Venus. It is 
of a gentle cleanfing nature, and is frequently ufed to heal freth or green wounds, by - 
__ bruifing the leaves and binding them thereon, and the juice thereof is alfo ufed for 
_ old fores, to cleanfe, dry, and heal them, The decoétion made with fugar or honey, 
He is effectual i in cleanfing and purging the body, both upwards and downwards, of 
we x Phlegm and clammy humour s, and to open obftructions of the liver and fpleen. ~ 
th been found by experience to be available for the king’s evil, the herb being 
Sapplied, or an ointment made with the j juice, and fo ufed. A decoétion 
; | thereof with four ounces of Polypody, in ale, hath been found to 
€ falling ficknefs who have been affli@ 
ed therewith for upwards of 
isa a fovercign remedy for a fore head, ; 
e 
oe PFUMIToORy | 
Descripr = lip 
path: — ps lame on fumitory is a tender fappy herb, fending forth — 
branches two or three feet lone? and leaning downwards on all fides, many 
° ‘ ‘with seats thereon of whitith or rather blueifh, fea- 
green 
