Nicholas Culpeper

The Complete Herbal

"English Physician Enlarged & Key to Physic"

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Produktbeschreibung

Instructions for the right use of the book:And herein let me premise a word or two. The Herbs, Plants, &c. are now in the book appropriated to their proper planets. Therefore,First, Consider what planet causeth the disease; that thou mayest find it in my aforesaid Judgment of Diseases.TAKE Notice, That in this Edition I have made very many Additions to every sheet in the book: and, also, that those books of mine that are printed of that Letter the small Bibles are printed with, are very falsely printed: there being twenty or thirty gross mistakes in every sheet, many of them such as are exceedingly dangerous to such as shall venture to use them: And therefore I do warn the Public of them: I can do no more at present; only take notice of these Directions by which you shall be sure to know the True one from the False.The first Direction.-The true one hath this Title over the head of every Book, The Complete Herbal and English Physician enlarged. The small Counterfeit ones have onlythis Title, The English Physician.The second Direction.-The true one hath these words, Government and Virtues, following the time of the Plants flowering, &c.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: E-Kitap Projesi & Cheapest Books
• Seitenzahl: 706
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 37mm x 170mm x 240mm
• Gewicht: 1178g
• ISBN-13: 9786257959698
• Artikelnr.: 59182551

Autorenporträt

Nicholas Culpeper (18 October 1616 - 10 January 1654) was an English botanist, herbalist, physician and astrologer. His book The English Physitian (1652, later Complete Herbal, 1653 ff.) is a source of pharmaceutical and herbal lore of the time, and Astrological Judgement of Diseases from the Decumbiture of the Sick (1655)[2] one of the most detailed works on medical astrology in Early Modern Europe.Culpeper catalogued hundreds of outdoor medicinal herbs. He scolded contemporaries for some of the methods they used in herbal medicine: "This not being pleasing, and less profitable to me, I consulted with my two brothers, Dr. Reason and Dr. Experience, and took a voyage to visit my mother Nature, by whose advice, together with the help of Dr. Diligence, I at last obtained my desire; and, being warned by Mr. Honesty, a stranger in our days, to publish it to the world, I have done it."