The English physitian enlarged; with three hundred sixty and nine medicines, made of English herbs, that were not in any impression until this. Being an astrologo-physical discourse of the vulgar herbs of this nation; containing a compleat method of physick, whereby a ma 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, ... 2. What planet governeth every herb or tree ... 3. The time of gathering all herbs, ... 4. The way of drying and keeping the herbs all the year. 5. The way of keeping their juyces ready for use at all times. 6. The way of making and keeping all kind of useful compounds made of 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 A. and J. Churchill, at the Black Swan in Pater-Noster-Row, 1698.

Publication year

1698-1698

ESTC No.

R231887

Grub Street ID

103811

Description

[12], 284, [16] p. ; 8⁰