Printed in the 1850 edition’s “A List of the Principal Diseases” as “—— in the Throat” under “Swellings” (the dash stands for the heading above it, or its first word); shown here as “Swellings — in the 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
Swellings in and about the throat: the tonsils (“almonds”), the glands of the neck (“the king’s evil”), and the hot inflamed throat.
What the entries treat
Three claims, all with a sentence: two also under Swellings, Devil’s-bit under Tumours as well; Stinking Gladwin’s sentence is here only. Devil’s-bit with honey of roses, gargled, “to help the inveterate tumours and swellings of the almonds and throat”; Stinking Gladwin boiled in vinegar and laid on dissolves “even the swellings of the throat called the king’s evil”; Water-Caltrops in a poultice for “hot inflammations, swellings, cankers, sore mouths and throats”. The quinsy, Hyssop’s word, sits under the parent.
Today’s words
swollen tonsils (tonsillitis); swollen glands in the neck (cervical lymphadenopathy); scrofula (the “king’s evil”); quinsy (peritonsillar abscess, under the parent) — a broad match: the heading covers more than this, or several modern things.
How it reads today
A swollen throat today is sorted into tonsillitis, swollen lymph nodes in the neck and the tuberculous nodes of scrofula; the three sentences cover all three without telling them apart. The “almonds” are the tonsils (Almonds of the Ears, CND-0008). The word is under CND-0137, with the king’s evil and the quinsy.
References
see CND-0137; see CND-0008
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
Devil’s-BitSuccisa pratensisCLM-0024341850 index, p. 63
The decoction of the herb, with honey of roses put therein, is very effectual to help the inveterate tumours and swellings of the almonds and throat, by often gargling the mouth therewith.
The same boiled in vinegar, and laid upon an eruption or swelling, doth very effectually dissolve and consume them; yea, even the swellings of the throat called the king’s evil;
Water-CaltropsTrapa natansCLM-0024331850 index, p. 39Not in 1652
They are under the dominion of the Moon, and being made into a poultice, are excellently good for hot inflammations, swellings, cankers, sore mouths and throats, being washed with the decoction;