Culpeper's Complete Herbal and English Physician

Agrimony to yarrow: Nicholas Culpeper's outlaw herbal gave every English family the apothecary's secrets — each plant with its government, its virtues, and the diseases it was trusted to cure.

Blue-Bottle

2 pages in this part of Culpeper's Complete Herbal.

Blue-Bottle

Names. It is called Syanus, I suppose from the colour of it; hurt-sickle, because it turns the edges of sickles that reap the corn…

Blue-Bottle: Saturn

The truth is, I have known this herb cure some diseases of Saturn, of which I thought good to quote one. Many times such as give themselves…

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