Printed in the 1850 edition’s “A List of the Principal Diseases” as “—— (to drive out)” under “Measles” (the dash stands for the heading above it, or its first word); shown here as “Measles — (to drive out)”.
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
To bring the measles out onto the skin. In the old practice the rash was the disease leaving, and a remedy that made it come out was doing its work: our reading of “drive out” and “expulsive”, from these sentences and the sweating cure under the parent.
What the entries treat
2 claims: 2 with a sentence, 0 from the index alone, both under Measles as well: Alkanet, “as gallant a remedy to drive out the small pox and measles as any is”; Marigolds, “very expulsive, and a little less effectual in the small-pox and measles than saffron”.
measles (the condition) — a broad match: the heading covers more than this, or several modern things.
How it reads today
The condition is the parent’s; the aim is Culpeper’s and has no modern counterpart (medicine does not bring a rash out), since the rash is now read as a sign of the infection, not the venom leaving. Read it under Measles.
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
AlkanetAlkanna tinctoriaCLM-0023671850 index, p. 2Not in 1652
It helps bruises and falls, and is as gallant a remedy to drive out the small pox and measles as any is;