Printed in the 1850 edition’s “A List of the Principal Diseases” as “—— in Labour” under “Women’s Diseases” (the dash stands for the heading above it, or its first word); shown here as “Women’s Diseases — in Labour”.
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
Childbirth and what follows it: the index’s line for the labouring woman. The one sentence is about a birth gone wrong, bringing away “the dead child and after-birth”.
What the entries treat
3 claims: 1 with a sentence, 2 from the index alone. Pennyroyal, boiled and drank, “provokes women’s courses, and expels the dead child and after-birth”. Cinnamon (page 227) is an index name the book has no entry for; Horehound (page 240) is listed with no sentence naming it.
Today’s words
labour (childbirth); retained placenta (the “after-birth” that will not come away); stillbirth (the “dead child”, our reading) — a broad match: the heading covers more than this, or several modern things.
How it reads today
Reads as it did: labour is still labour. The one sentence is darker than the heading, a remedy to bring away a dead child and a placenta that has not come; medicine’s words are stillbirth and retained placenta (our reading of the sentence). Pennyroyal’s same sentence sits under Vomiting (to stay) for its last clause.
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: 1 with a sentence, 2 from the index alone
PennyroyalMentha pulegiumCLM-0024681850 index, p. 243
Being boiled and drank, it provokes women’s courses, and expels the dead child and after-birth, and stays the disposition to vomit, being taken in water and vinegar mingled together.