Printed in the 1850 edition’s “A List of the Principal Diseases” as “—— (ulcers of)” under “Lungs” (the dash stands for the heading above it, or its first word); shown here as “Lungs — (ulcers 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 sore or raw place in the lungs, named with “excoriations” (raw, fretted surfaces) and, in the index’s pairing, with the consumption. Which disease Culpeper saw as an ulcer of the lungs the two sentences do not say.
What the entries treat
2 claims: 2 with a sentence, 0 from the index alone. Moneywort “is very good also for the ulcers or excoriations of the lungs, or other inward parts”; Horehound, which the index files here from p. 240, has no ulcer in its sentence: it is “a remedy for those that are short-winded, have a cough, or are fallen into a consumption, either through long sickness, or thin distillations of rheum upon the lungs”. Under Lungs the same words keep company with the consumption sentences.
lung abscess; a cavity in the lung; tuberculosis, where the ulcer is the consumption’s — uncertain: the text does not let us tell.
How it reads today
Medicine has no “ulcer of the lungs”; a reader looking for the nearest modern thing will meet lung abscess and cavity in the lung, and the consumption the index puts beside this has its own heading, Consumption, with the modern word tuberculosis. Two sentences, one of them without the word, do not let us tell what Culpeper meant, so the mapping is uncertain.
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.
2 claims: 2 with a sentence, 0 from the index alone
HorehoundMarrubium vulgareCLM-0023661850 index, p. 240
A decoction of the dried herb, with the seed, or the juice of the green herb taken with honey, is a remedy for those that are short-winded, have a cough, or are fallen into a consumption, either through long sickness, or thin distillations of rheum upon the lungs.