Printed in the 1850 edition’s “A List of the Principal Diseases” as “—— in the sides” under “Inflammations” (the dash stands for the heading above it, or its first word); shown here as “Inflammations — in the sides”.
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
An inflammation in the side of the body, the chest wall: the index’s words, which the one sentence it points to does not repeat. Read as the pleurisy, our reading, from the plant’s other sentence.
What the entries treat
One index name, Violets (p. 247), whose only sentence here is the one the index also files under Inflammations and Imposthumes: “inflammations in the eyes, in the matrix or fundament, in imposthumes also, and hot swellings”, with nothing about the sides. Violets’ sentence under Hoarseness (CND-0065) names the pleurisy and the diseases of the lungs, which is the nearest the plant’s entries come to an inflammation in the side.
pleurisy (our reading of “in the sides”); pain in the side — uncertain: the text does not let us tell.
How it reads today
Pleurisy, an inflamed lining of the chest, is what we read a 1653 “inflammation in the sides” as naming, and Culpeper’s Violets entry does name the pleurisy under another heading; but the sentence the index points to here says nothing of the side, so the text does not let us tell. Uncertain, and read under Inflammations; the pleurisies have a heading of their own (CND-0106).
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: 1 with a sentence, 0 from the index alone
All the Violets are cold and moist while they are fresh and green, and are used to cool any heat, or distemperature of the body, either inwardly or outwardly, as inflammations in the eyes, in the matrix or fundament, in imposthumes also, and hot swellings, to drink the decoction of the leaves and flowers made with water in wine, or to apply them poultice-wise to the grieved places: