Culpeper's last legacy: left and bequeathed to his dearest wife, for the publike good, being the choicest 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, pils, purges and trochischs. With two particular treatises; the one of feavers; the other of pestilence; as also other rare and choice aphorisms, fitted to the understanding of the meanest capacities. Never publisht before in any of his other works: by Nicholas Culpeper, late student in astrology and physick.

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  • Culpeper's last legacy: left and bequeathed to his dearest wife, for the publike good, being the choicest 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, pils, purges and trochischs. With two particular treatises; the one of feavers; the other of pestilence; as also other rare and choice aphorisms, fitted to the understanding of the meanest capacities. Never publisht before in any of his other works: by Nicholas Culpeper, late student in astrology and physick.
  • Febrilia: or, A treatise of feavers in generall Treatise of the pestilence Composita: or, A synopsis of the chiefest compositions in use now with Galenists Aphorismes: exceeding requisite for such as intended the noble ... practise of physick Select aphorismes: concerning the operation of medicines according to place in the body of fraile man Select medicinal aphorismes, for most diseases
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Imprint
[London]: Printed for N. Brooke at the Angell in Cornhill, 1657.
Publication year
1657-1657
ESTC No.
R23851
Grub Street ID
107698
Description
[8], 48, [4], 73, [7], 27, 32-144, [16] p. : port. ; 8⁰
Note
Place of publication from Wing.

With an engraved frontispiece portrait.

Vertical half-title reads "Culpepers last legacies"; it is printed as ?K8r.

The pages between p. 15 and p. 27 of the third sequence are actually numbered 20, 21, 18, 19, 24, 25, 22, 23, 28, 29, 26.