Whitlows

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

Modern reading: whitlow. Searched in PubMed as each plant’s Latin name with paronychia OR felon OR "finger infection" OR abscess. The counts and papers are on the Concordance page.

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.

2 claims: 2 with a sentence, 0 from the index alone

  1. Briony, Or Wild Vine Bryonia dioicaCLM-002080
    and being applied with a little wine mixed therewith, it breaks boils, and helps whitlows on the joints.—For all these latter, beginning at sores, cancers, &c.
    QUO-000233Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  2. Nailwort, Or Whitlow-Grass Draba vernaCLM-0020811850 index 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.
    QUO-000669Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance

Source

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