AND ENGLISH PHYSICIAN ENLARGED. 
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the tunicle of the stomach, else is a vomit 
given in vain. 
Vomits are more dangerous for women 
than men, especially such as are either with 
child, or subject to the fits of the mother. 
What medicine is appropriated to the 
purging of such a humour, for seeing the 
offending matter is not alike in all, the 
purging medicine ought not to be the same 
to all, I shall speak more of this anon. 
As also of the divers ways whereby medi- 
cines draw out or cast out humours, viz. 
by lenifying, cleansing, provoking nature 
to expulsion, and (which is stranger than 
the doctor’s hidden quality) some purge by 
binding, but indeed, and in truth, such as 
are properly called purging medicines, 
which, besides these faculties, have gotten 
another, by which they draw or call out 
the humours from the most remote parts of 
the body, whether these do it by heat or by 
an hidden quality, physicians are scarce 
able to determine, it being very well known 
to modern physicians, though the ancients 
denied it, that many cold medicines purge. 
There is this faculty in all the purges of 
Galen’s model, (because he gives the whole 
simple which must needs consist of divers 
qualities, because the creation is made up of 
and consists by an harmony of contraries) 
there is (I say) this faculty in all purges of 
that nature, that they contain in them a 
substance which is inimical both to the 
stomach and bowels, and some are of 
opinion this doth good, namely, provokes 
nature the more to expulsion; the reason 
might be good if the foundation of it were 
so, for by this reason nature herself should 
purge, not the medicine, and a physician 
should help nature in her business and not 
hinder her. But to forbear being critical, 
this substance which I told you was inimi- 
cal to the stomach, must be corrected in 
every purge. 
CULPEPER’S LAST LEGACIES. 
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Select Medicinal Aphorisms and Receipts, for many diseases our frail — 
natures are incident to. 3 
1. A general Caution. 
LET such as love their heads or brains, 
either forbear such things as are obnoxious 
to the brain, as Garlick, Leeks, Onions, 
beware of surfeiting and drunkenness. 
2. To purge the Head. 
The head is purged by Gargarisms, of 
which Mustard, in my opinion, is excel- 
lent, and therefore a spoonful of Mustard 
put into the mouth, is excellent for one that 
is troubled with the lethargy: also the head 
is purged by sneezing; but be sure if you 
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would keep your brain clear, keep your 
stomach clean. 
8. Fora rheum in the Head, and the Palsy. 
Take a red Onion, and bruise it well, 
and boil it in a little Verjuice, and put 
thereto a little clarified honey, and a great 
spoonful of good Mustard, when it is well — 
boiled, raise the sick upright, and let him 
receive the smell up his nose twice a ee 
whilst it is very hot. 
4. Pera skes the Head. 
