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Show 5928 YOXGLOVE) FOXGLOVE. tuail against thefalling sicknesse, that divers have beene cured thereby; for after the taking of the decoction of two handfulls thereof, with four ouncesof pollipody, of the oake bruised made in ale, they that have beene troubled with that disease 26 yeares, and have fallen once in a weeke or twoorthree times in a moneth, have not fallen once in 14 or 15 moneths, that is, untill the writing hereof, which I thinke may be sayd to be an absolut e cure, not to be presumed that after so long stay it should re. turneagaine.”’ Old Gerard, p. 791, says: ‘* Foxgloue boiled in water or wine, and drunken, doth cut and consume the thicke toughnesse of grosse andslimie flegme and naughty humours; it openeth also the stoppi ng of the liver, spleene, and milt, and of other inward parts. “¢ The same taken in like manner, or boiled with honied water or sugar, doth scoure and clense the brest; ripeneth and bringeth forth tough and clammie flegme.” Ray, in chap. v. De Digitali, p. 767, speaking of the vire tues of the foxglove, says: “* Digitalis herba emetica est. Somerseti A ngliz rustica turba hujus decocto febricitantibus purgationes et interd um superpure gationes et vomitiones humidioribus alvo molitur. Lob, Ob. “* Parkinsonus eflicacemesse contra epilepsiam affirmat , si duo ejus manipuli cum iv. polypodii quercini in cerevisia deco- quatur, et decoctum propinetur. Qui enimvi ginti et sex annos continuos eo morbo laborarant ita ut singulis mensibus bis térve caderent, hujus decocti usu penitus liberati sunt, saltem per integros sedecim menses né unum quidem paroxysmum senserunt. Verium medicamentum hoc robustioribus tantium convenit, siquidem violenter admodum purgat et vomitiones immane s excitat. “* Strumosis conducere tritam et impositam stiicctimve ejus in unguento experientid compertum est. Park. Novi plures (inquit D. Batesius in MS. nondum edito) qui in strumosis tumori bus digitalis floribus valdé confidant, quos quidam in butyro Maiali, quot possunt immittentes curant insolandos per zstatem. Alii cum adipe porcino miscent, et sub terra defodi unt per quadra- ginta dies, utrique flores cum unguento reservant, una linteis inducunt et tumoribus applicant: hosce tumoribus discuti endis vel maturandis, ulceribus detergendis vel explend is sufficere fea runt se expertos. Quinto et sexto quoque die diacarthamo purs gant, interim continue decoctum herbe Robertianz prebent : 595 wars tiléeris rubens parte unguenti tenuioreillinatur: pars autem crassior unguenti linteamini imponatur, quod nungquam muteturs Sunt qui novella et primo erumpentia planta germina accipiiunt eortimque succum expressum in butyro coquant ad succi consumptionem, atque hoc novo succo addito bis serve cepenaie) ‘¢ N. 1. Oportet ut paretur sufficiens quantitas ungaenti eo anni tempore quo flores haberi possunt, cium nonnunquam integer annus aut co amplius ad curam perficiendam requiratur. “ N. 2. Quamvis ulcera primd majora fiant ne metuas, Siquidem unguentum postquam humores omnes absumpserit et ex siccaverit, ca demum sanabit & cute obducet. ; “ N. 3. Unguentum hoe in scrophulis humidis et pure mah nantibus pracipué utile est, in siccis parum valet ; setae laa licon et precipitatum confugiendum. Habnui ex relatione 7 amicissimi, tum rei herbaria tum totius medicine peritissimi D. E. Hulse. , “ Proverbium est Italicum, Aralda tutte le piaghe salda; i. é: Digitalis sanat omnia vulnera.” ¢ Digitalis cures every wound.’ Salmon gives the foxglove the following very high encomium: “* This specific,” says he, in the New London Dispensatory, “which transcends all the medicines here mentioned, and many others besides, is the herb foxglove. A weak decoction ofthe herb in water, or in wine, orin half water and half wine, may be drunkas ordinary drink ; and of the juice of the herb and flowers may be made a rob or syrup, with honey, which being taken, three spoonsful at a time, first in the morning fasting $ second, at ten in the morning; thirdly, at fourin the afternoon; and lastly, at going to bed, will restore, where the patient is hot past cure, beyond all expectation. It cures a phthisis or ulcer of the lungs whenall other medicines havefailed, and the sick are esteemed past cure: but as it is a very strong medicament, and emetic withal, soit ought to be given With discretion, Not to transcend the strength of the patient, for then instead of ding Jood it may do hurt; and therefore the syrup ought to be taken at first itt a lesser dose, and to be increased as you see cause, It opens the breast and lungs, frees them from phlegm, and cleanses the ulcer and heals it when all other remedies act without effect. I have known it to do wonders, and speak here from a long experience. Persons in deep consumptions, and given over byall physicians, have bythe use ofthis herb been strangely recovered, and so perfectly as to growfat again.” 200 |