Felons of the Finger

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Historical label: “Felons of the Finger” in the 1850 edition’s “A List of the Principal Diseases”.

Modern literature has not yet been searched for this heading’s claims: it comes only from the 1850 index and has no search words yet.

Old claims, quoted verbatim: not medical advice. A warning sits above the claims and never hides them; no warning does not mean safe, only that no source here has flagged the plant.

3 claims: 2 with a sentence, 1 from the index alone

1. Amara Dulcis Solanum dulcamaraCLM-0023061850 index, p. 1 Not in 1652

   Country people commonly take the berries of it, and having bruised them, apply them to felons, and thereby soon rid their fingers of such troublesome guests.

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2. Nailwort, Or Whitlow-Grass Draba vernaCLM-0023081850 index, p. 126 Not in 1652

   It is held to be exceedingly good for those imposthumes in the joints, and under the nails, which they call Whitlows, Felons, Andicorns and Nail-wheals.

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3. True LoveCLM-0023071850 index, p. 94

   Listed in the 1850 index under a name the book has no herbal entry for. No quotation is recorded.

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Source

Nicholas Culpeper, The Complete Herbal, a new edition (London: Thomas Kelly, 1850). Project Gutenberg eBook #49513. SRC-CUL-1850