Printed in the 1850 edition’s “A List of the Principal Diseases” as “—— in the Head” under “Wounds” (the dash stands for the heading above it, or its first word); shown here as “Wounds — in the Head”.
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 wound of the scalp or skull, treated from outside with an ointment. One sentence, and nothing in it on how a head wound differs from any other.
What the entries treat
1 claim: 1 with a sentence, 0 from the index alone. Shepherd’s Purse (page 171): “A good ointment may be made of it for all wounds, especially wounds in the head.” Four sentences filed under Wounds say the same of other plants: Burnet (Sanguisorba) for “wounds, both of the head and body”, Burnet Saxifrage for “the most grievous wounds of the head”, Stinking Gladwin “in all wounds, especially of the head”, Wood Betony for a “green wound in the head or body”.
scalp wound; head wound; head injury — the modern term names the same thing.
How it reads today
Reads as it did. Medicine’s concern with a head wound is what lies under it, the skull and the brain; the sentence is about the ointment. The index’s sub-line gathers one plant where the text has five; the other four are under Wounds, for their own words.
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.
1 claim: 1 with a sentence, 0 from the index alone
Shepherd’s PurseCapsella bursa-pastorisCLM-0024701850 index, p. 171Not in 1652
A good ointment may be made of it for all wounds, especially wounds in the head.