Printed in the 1850 edition’s “A List of the Principal Diseases” as “—— (palpitation of)” under “Heart-Burn” (the dash stands for the heading above it, or its first word); shown here as “Heart (palpitation 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.
A note on the heading
Plain sense
A fluttering or pounding of the heart that the person feels. The index gives the word; the book gives no sentence for it.
What the entries treat
One index name and no sentence: Syrup of Apples (p. 303), a name the book has no herbal entry under. The index prints the line as “—— (palpitation of)” under “Heart-Burn”, the dash standing for the first word, so the heading is Heart (palpitation of).
Where the word comes from
Middle French palpitation, from Latin palpitatio.
Today’s words
palpitations; irregular or pounding heartbeat — the modern term names the same thing.
How it reads today
Reads as it did: palpitation is still the word, an abnormal beating of the heart that the patient notices. Medicine then asks what rhythm underlies it; the index asks nothing, and the one name points at a syrup in the book’s later pages.
References
Wiktionary, s.v. “palpitation” (accessed 2026-10-28): “From Middle French palpitation, from Latin palpitatio”; sense “an abnormal beating of the heart that may be perceived by the patient, a result of excitement, exertion, or illness”.
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.
1 claim: 0 with a sentence, 1 from the index alone