charitably judge them. Either the virtue of the hellebore will fly away in such a martydom, or else it will remain in the decoction. If it evaporate away, then is the medicine good for nothing; if it remain in it is enough to spoil the strongest man living. (1.) Because it is too strong. (2.) Because it is not corrected in the least. And because they have not corrected that, I take leave to correct them."
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Culpepper.
(From an old book of his.)
This passage is not selected as a favourable specimen of Culpepper's pharmaceutical skill, but as a sample of the manner in which he often rates "the College." His own opinions are open to quite as severe criticism. A large part of his lore is astrological; and he is very confident about the doctrine of signatures. But he knew herbs well, and his general advice is sound.
Perhaps many of those who have studied his works have formed the idea that he was a bent old man with
