Womb (diseases of)

CND-0156Women and childbirth

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Printed in the 1850 edition’s “A List of the Principal Diseases” as “—— (diseases of)” under “Womb, (cold infirmities of)” (the dash stands for the heading above it, or its first word); shown here as “Womb (diseases of)”.

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.

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

1. Feverfew Or Featherfew Tanacetum partheniumCLM-0024611850 index, pp. 72, 365

   Venus commands this herb, and has commended it to succour her sisters (women) and to be a general strengthener of their wombs, and remedy such infirmities as a careless midwife hath there caused if they will but be pleased to make use of her herb boiled in white wine, and drink the decoction;

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2. Wild ArrachCLM-0024601850 index, p. 10

   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