Culpeper's last legacy: left and bequeathed to his dearest wife, for the publick good. Being the choycest and most profitable of those secrets which while he lived were lockt up in his breast, and resolved never to be publisht till after his death. Containing sundry admirable experiences in severall sciences, more especially in chyrurgery and physick: viz. compounding of medicines, making of waters, syrups, oyles, electuaries, conserves, salts, pills, purges, and trochischs. With two particular treatises; the one of feavers, the other of pestilence: as also rare and choyce aphorismes and receipts, fitted to the understanding of the meanest capacities. The fourth impression; whereunto is added 200 choyce receipts, lately found, never publisht before in any of his other works; with a compleat table. By Nicholas Culpeper Gent. student in astrology and physick.
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London: printed by Tho. Ratcliffe for Nath. Brooke at the Angel in Gresham-colledge; and for Ben. Billingsley and Obadiah Blagrave at the Printing Press in Broadstreet, 1668.
- Publication year
- 1668-1668
- ESTC No.
- R227436
- Grub Street ID
- 100344
- Description
- [8], 176, 179-276, [12] p., [1] leaf of plates ; 8⁰
- Note
- With a final advertisement leaf.
With numerous errors in pagination.
Includes index.Citation/references Wing (CD-Rom, 1996), C7520