Printed in the 1850 edition’s “A List of the Principal Diseases” as “—— (inflammation of)” under “Liver” (the dash stands for the heading above it, or its first word); shown here as “Liver — (inflammation 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
An inflamed, hot liver, as the humoral scheme has inflammation. One sentence, which says no more.
What the entries treat
1 claim: 1 with a sentence, 0 from the index alone. Wild Thyme “provokes urine and the terms, and eases the griping pain of the belly, cramps, ruptures, and inflamation of the liver” (the book’s spelling); the index lists it on p. 183, and the sentence sits under Liver too.
hepatitis (the word means inflammation of the liver); liver inflammation — a broad match: the heading covers more than this, or several modern things.
How it reads today
Hepatitis is the plain translation, inflammation of the liver by whatever cause. One sentence and no description, so the match is of the words; the mapping is broad because the old diagnosis was a hot, inflamed liver in the humoral scheme, a looser thing than the modern term.
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