Printed in the 1850 edition’s “A List of the Principal Diseases” as “—— Throat” under “Sore Breasts” (the dash stands for the heading above it, or its first word); shown here as “Sore Throat”.
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 throat that is sore: in the two sentences, ulcers in the throat and sores fed by hot sharp humours. The index heading is plainer than its sentences.
What the entries treat
Three claims: two with a sentence, one from the index alone. Neither sentence names a sore throat outright: Saracen’s Confound is “for all inward ulcers of the reins, mouth or throat, and inward wounds and bruises”; Self-Heal is used where “there is cause to repress the heat and sharpness of humours flowing to any sore, ulcers, inflammations, swellings, or the like”. Sanicle is listed in the index with no sentence naming it.
Today’s words
sore throat; pharyngitis; tonsillitis; throat ulcers (for Saracen’s Confound’s sentence) — a broad match: the heading covers more than this, or several modern things.
How it reads today
The heading reads as it did, and medicine calls it pharyngitis, or tonsillitis when the tonsils are the seat. The sentences under it are narrower: one is about ulcers of the throat, the other about any hot sore. The throat’s swellings and the quinsy sit under Swellings and Swellings — in the Throat.
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: 2 with a sentence, 1 from the index alone
SanicleSanicula europaeaCLM-0024161850 index, p. 164
Listed in the 1850 index; the herbal entry has no sentence naming this complaint. No quotation is recorded.
for all inward ulcers of the reins, mouth or throat, and inward wounds and bruises, likewise for such sores as happen in the privy parts of men and women;
Self-HealPrunella vulgarisCLM-0024171850 index, pp. 170, 398
Where there is cause to repress the heat and sharpness of humours flowing to any sore, ulcers, inflammations, swellings, or the like, or to stay the fluxes of blood in any wound or part, this is used with some good success;