The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-02-03
WHEN ILL rRv rHEse.
People Believed In Them 2s5 Years
And They May still Do Good.

A copy Of "The London Dispensatory"
by Mich Culpeper, dated 255 years ago,
has come to light in New York an
tique shop. Some Of it's theories and
prescriptions follw:
"Hounds-tongue cold and dry;
against the biting of dogs. Some say II
you put the herb under your feet with
in your stockings, no dog will bark at
you.
Tree ivy is admirable for Ill effects
coming of drunkenness and therefore
the poets feigned Bacchus to have his
head bound with them. Your best way
is to boil them in the same liquor you
got your surfeit by drinking.
"Cowslips strengthen the brain,
senses. and the memory exceedingly,
and quell all diseases there as convul-
sions, palsies, &C.
The flesh Of vipers being eaten
clears the sight, helps vices of the
nerves. reslsts poison exceedingly,
neither is there any better remedy un-
der the sun for their billings than the
head of the viper that bit you, bruised
and applied to the place, and the flesh
eaten, you need not eat above a dram
at time, and make It up as you shall
be taught in troches of vipers.
"Earthworms are an admirable rem
edy for cut nerves, being applied to
the place Earthworms made into pow
der and put into hollow tooth makes
1t drop out
"To draw a tooth without pain. fill
an earthen crucible full OF emmets or
ants, call them by which name you
will, eggs and all, and when you have
burnt them, keep the ashes, with
| which II you touch a tooth 1t will fall
out.
Eels being put into wine or beer
and suffered to die in It, he that drinks
1t will never indure that sort Of liquor
again. Grasshoppers being eaten ease
the cholick. Swallows being eaten pre-
serve the sight and preserve from
! Drunkenness.
A head mouse dried and beaten into
a powder and given at time help
such as have diabetes. Unicorns horns
repels poison and the pestilance. The
skull of a man that was never buried
being beaten into a powder and given
inwardly repels palsies. A ring made
OF an elks claw helps the cramp. The
froth of the sea makes teeth white
and helps badness"
DR.. Culpeper devotes a chapter to
metals, minerals and stones:
Gold is temperate In quality, It
wonderfully strengthens the heart
and vital spirits.
THE emerald being worn in a ring
takes away vain and foolish fears, as
Of devils, hobgoblins, &c. II takes
away folly and anger, and II 1t do so,
being worn about one, reason will tell
him that being beaten into a powder
and taken inwardly 1t will do much
more.
"A diamond is reported to make him
that bears II unfortunate. There IL
stone about the bigness OF a bean
found in the gizard of an old COCK
which makes him that bears it be
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fighting, beloved by women and potent
in sports.
"Lapsis calcidonius being huns
about the neck helps melancholy IL
lusions and melancholy fancies. Fol
the cure OF warts-rub them with III
leaves, bury the leaves In the grount
and the warts will consume away"
DR.. Culpeper gives a recipe for pre-
, pairing earthworms.
silt them down the middle" h
, writes, "and wash them in white win
so often till they be cleansed iron
! their impurities, then dry and kee
!, them for your use"
Tie book concludes with an apolog
by the author:
J, "If thou findest me here and there
little lavish in such expressions a
u many like not, pray pardon that.
y is my dialect. cannot write wlthou
= II; assure thee 1t was not premeo
). itated. II thou thinkest did 1t fo
o gain thou art so wide from the trut
4 that unless thou change thy opinio
t 'tis to be feared that truth and yo
4 will not meet again for a long time.
j. Il weigh not the Ill language {
= those that mind earthly things, wis
them all the richest their hearts ca
=, desire, for they have all their wit a
4. ready; tits comfortable enough for IN
G. that am beloved OF the honest; m
i. reward | expect hereafter In that plat
,e whereunto no earthly minded or Sc
ly ish man shall come"
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