Printed in the 1850 edition’s “A List of the Principal Diseases” as “—— Mouth” under “Sore Breasts” (the dash stands for the heading above it, or its first word); shown here as “Sore Mouth”.
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
Sores and ulcers inside the mouth, treated with washes and lotions.
What the entries treat
Three claims, all with a sentence. Blue-Bottle juice “is very effectual to heal all ulcers and sores in the mouth”; Golden Rod “is of especial use in all lotions for sores or ulcers in the mouth, throat, or privy parts of man or woman”; the Birch tree “is good also to wash sore mouths”.
Today’s words
mouth ulcers; canker sores (aphthous ulcers); stomatitis; mouth sores — the modern term names the same thing.
How it reads today
Reads as it did. Mouth ulcers and canker sores are the everyday names; stomatitis is medicine’s word for an inflamed mouth. The sentences do not tell one cause from another.
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.
3 claims: 3 with a sentence, 0 from the index alone
Blue-BottleCentaurea cyanusCLM-0024131850 index, p. 28
The juice put into fresh or green wounds, doth quickly solder up the lips of them together, and is very effectual to heal all ulcers and sores in the mouth.