The English physitian enlarged; with three hundred, sixty and nine medicines made of English herbs, that were not in any impression untill this. Being an astrologo-physical discourse of the vulgar herbs of this nation; containing a compleat method of physick, whereby a man may preserve his body in health, or cure himself, being sick, for three pence charge, with such things only as grow in England, they being most fit for English bodies. Herein is also shewed these seven things, viz. 1. The way of making plaisters, oyntments, oyls, pultisses, syrups, decoctions, juleps or waters, of all sorts of physical herbs, ... 7. The way of mixing medicines according to the cause and mixture of the disease, and part of the body afflicted. By Nich. Culpeper, Gent. student in physick and astrology.

People / Organizations

• Nicholas Culpeper (Author)

Imprint

London: printed for Hannah Sawbridge at the Bible on Ludgate-Hill, 1684.

Publication year

1684-1684

ESTC No.

R218185

Grub Street ID

92885

Description

[14], 285, [17] p. ; 8⁰

Note

Includes a preliminary index, and a table of diseases.

Identified as Wing (2nd ed., 1994) C7512A on UMI microfilm "Early English books, 1641-1700" reel 2026.

Uncontrolled note

Incomplete? Not published separately (cf. Wing); title page is C2