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 f 

 than men, especially such as are either with : 

 child, or subject to the fits of the mother, i 



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, i 

 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 ot 

 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. 



Select Medicinal Aphorisms and Receipts, for many diseases our frail 



natures are incident to. 



1. A general Caution. 



LET such as love their heads or brains, \ 

 either forbear such things as are obnoxious i 

 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 

 js purged by sneezing ; but be sure if you 



would keep your brain clear, keep your 



stomach clean. 



3. -For a rheum in the Head, and the Paku. 



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 day, 

 whilst it is very hot. 



4. For a rheum in the Head. 



Boil Pimpernel well in Wine, and drink 



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