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Recipe · Culpeper, The Complete Herbal (1850 edition)

Roman Wormwood · vehicle not stated

Original passage

; and why Roman, seeing it grows familiarly in England? It may be so called, because it is good for a stinking breath, which the Romans cannot be very free from, maintaining so many bad houses by authority of his Holiness.

Nicholas Culpeper, The Complete Herbal (incl. The English Physician Enlarged, Family Dispensatory, Last Legacies) (1850 edition) · Entry “WORMWOOD.” · descript · lines 13536–13539 · passage culpeper-1850:herbal:wormwood:006

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What the pipeline extracted

  1. 1PlantRoman Wormwood“Roman Wormwood”
  2. 2Use (as written)a stinking breath“a stinking breath”
  3. PartNot stated in source
  4. Fresh or driedNot stated in source
  5. Solvent / vehicleNot stated in source
  6. HeatNot stated in source
  7. DurationNot stated in source
  8. FiltrationNot stated in source
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  10. FormNot stated in source