The English physitian enlarged. With three hundred sixty and nine medicines, made of English herbs that were not in any impression until now: the epistle will inform you how to know this impression from any other. 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 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 by Peter Cole, printer and book seller, at the sign of the printing-press in Cornhil, near the Royal Exchange, 1662.

Publication year

1662-1662

ESTC No.

R232060

Grub Street ID

103938

Description

[24], 173, 284-398, [16] p. ; 8⁰

Note

Includes a preliminary index, and a table of diseases.

Text and register continuous despite pagination.Citation/references Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), C7504A