A heading of ours (added October 2026), not the 1850 index’s. It holds sentences the index would have filed under “Fevers”, read for direction: here Culpeper says the plant causes or harms, or the index heading did not fit.
Modern reading: fever. Searched in PubMed as each plant’s Latin name with fever OR antipyretic OR pyrexia. The counts and papers are on the Concordance page.
A note on the heading
Plain sense
A food to leave alone in a fever: the fruit “putrifying in the stomach” would feed the fits, in the old physiology.
What the entries treat
One warning the verb pass (2026-10-26) moved here: Strawberries, “yet it is not amiss to refrain from them in a fever, lest by their putrifying in the stomach they increase the fits”.
fever; strawberries; diet in a fever — a broad match: the heading covers more than this, or several modern things.
How it reads today
The condition named is fever, so the mapping is broad like the parent’s, and the warning is about fevers. The sentence is a diet rule: the fruit “putrifying in the stomach” feeds the fits, and it reads today as Culpeper’s caution, not as a finding about the fruit. A heading of ours, from the verb pass: a reader looking under Fevers for help would otherwise have found a warning. The word is under CND-0048.
ThinkDeep333, 2026-10-28 · draft, not yet checked. Offered beside Culpeper’s heading, never in its place; nothing here says whether a plant works.
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.
This heading is ours. A keyword search had filed these under “Fevers”, but in each sentence Culpeper says the plant harms it. They are listed so his words stay on record, not as a remedy.
1 claim: 1 with a sentence, 0 from the index alone