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Source: Culpeper's English family physician : or medical herbal enlarged, with several hundred additional plants principally from Sir John Hill medicinally and astrologically arranged, after the manner of Culpeper : and, a new dispensatory from the ms. of the late Dr. Saunders by Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654; Hamilton, Joshua (Editor) Saunders, William, 1743-1817; Royal College of Physicians of London (1792), narrative-offset-1035000.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• Wounc: 393 Fir ft, let nine or ten ounces of blood be taken away; then for four mornings lucceftively, let a fourth part of the following powder be given to the patient in warm cow’s milk, viz. — Take of afh-coloured Ground Liverwort, half an ounce, of black pepper, two drams, both finely powdered, mixed, and divided into four equal parts. , Having firft taken the four dofes, let the perfon, for one month, bathe two or thre

Method as extracted

1. Grind according to the source passage: 393 Fir ft, let nine or ten ounces of blood be taken away; then for four mornings lucceftively, let a fourth part of the following powder be given to the patient in warm cow’s milk, viz. — Take of afh-coloured Ground Liverwort, half an ounce, of black pepper, two drams, both finely powdered, mixed, and divided into four equal parts. , Having firft taken the four dofes, let the perfon, for one month, bathe two or three times a day in the fea, and the longer he ftays in each time, the better; but if the accident happens at a diftance from the fea, the fhorteft way to prevent ill confequences is, to cut out the bite, if in a flelhy part, and apply a cupping-glafs in order to draw off a good quantity of blood; or to fcarifythe bitten fpot, if in a fkinny part,, and likcvvife to apply a cupping glafstothe fame end, after which the inward remedy may be applied with greater certainty cf fuccefs, and the wound treated as any other common wound.

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