240 CULPEPER's. ENGLISH PHYSICIAN, 
__raifes the appetite to venereal embraces, but removes the ufual obftractions of ferti- 
fity 5 prepares the’ femen for performing i its office, and the ova forimpregnation. In 
old age it warms, ‘comforts, and excites the generative parts to admiration, and 
“feldom fails of performing a cure in forty or fifty days, if duly followed, and the 
barrennefs or imbecility be not abfolutely incurable by medicine; particularly if 
‘aMfifted with a nourifhing diet, of which. plenty of .good potatoes and rich milk 
-ought to make a a confiderable part. "When there is a fufficient erection, and only 
the feed is ‘wanting, ‘all ftimulating and-aromatic medicines muft be entirely omit- 
ted, and-the cure attempted with the Tincture only, affifted with a nourifhing diet; 
to which the ufe of external liniments muft be added. Take nerve ointment, two 
ounces, oi] of mace by. expreffion, one drachm and a half ; -balfam of -Peru, ‘two 
drachms + chymical oils of lavender, cloves, and rhodium, of each four.drops : mix. 
‘Anoint the parts between whiles with this liniment; that is to fay, the penis and fcro- 
‘tum if it be for a man, and'the pudendum if for a woman, and it will not fail of ad- 
-miniftering comfort and ftrength. If any thing yet more ftimulating be defired, a 
drachm and + a half, or two drachms, of tincture of cantharides, may be added to ei- 
‘ther preparation. But I would not-advife any debilitated perfon to be too bufy with 
Aigh provocatives, becaufe they may incite to the ufe of venery before nature is pre- 
pared for it, and fo exhauft the animal fpirits more by one fingle a&of coition than 
‘it would 'be’by twenty in’ the common way. It is better, therefore, for moft per- 
fons, to keep to the liniments and Tin@ture only, that their ftrength and’ ability 
-may be always equal to their inclination, ‘To recover the tone and vigour of the 
‘internal parts in women, -ufe the following : take.cloves, nutmegs, ginger, Spanifh 
angelica, of each one drachm aloes wood, mace, cardamum feeds, of each one 
-feruple; ‘mint-leaves, one handful; cantharides, two drachms ; infufe them in-a 
‘pint of white wine, and boil over a gentle fire till it is reduced to twelve ounces:: 
then ftrain it, and inje& two.ounces warm into the uterus. every night going to bed, 
| taking at the fame time forty drops of the Lunar Tin¢ture in a wine-glafs of cold wa- 
ter. When the -parts. abound with moifture, reftringentor aromatic fumigations 
may: je uted to-advantage,. as inthe cafe of the whites, and of the falling down of the 
omband:-fundament. The ingredients proper in the prefent cafe, are ftorax, cloves, 
ftor, ginger, Spanifh angelica root, and galangals, “Equal quantitiesof 
fic: € n nt to burn at a time} according to the direétions i in the place above re- : 
‘here.other things have failed, the cold bath hath been of fervice to both ~ 
ote efpecially in fome phlegmatic conftitutions ; 3a journey to Bath alfo, or Tun- 
e = tet and — t pets: time, hath been attended with good fuccefs. - 
ee ae hs “Having 
powdered, and mixed together, and about an ounce of the mix- ne 
