The English physitian enlarged: with three hundred, sixty, and nine medicines, made of English herbs that were not in any impre[ss]ion until this: the epistle will inform you how to know this impre[ss]ion from any other. Being an astrologo-physical discourse of the vulga 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 al sorts of physical herbs ... 7 The way of mixing medicines according to cause and mixture of the disease, and part of the body afflicted. By Nich. Culpeper, Gent. student in physick and astrologie: living in Spittle-Fields.

People / Organizations

• Nicholas Culpeper (Author)

Imprint

London: printed by Peter Cole in Leaden-Hall, and at the sign of the Printing-pre[ss] in Cornhil, neer the Royal Exchange, 1655.

Publication year

1655-1655

ESTC No.

R231724

Grub Street ID

103705

Description

[22], 173, 284-398, [16] p. : port. ; 8⁰

Note

Frontis. portrait is signed: Cross fecit in Aqua[...].

Uncontrolled note

[ss] is represented on title page by a capital Beta. Verify text of Thomas Cross's signature. Copy cataloged, tightly bound