The English physitian: or An astrologo-physical discourse of the vulgar herbs of this nation. Being 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, 1. The way of making plaisters, oyntments, oyls, ... or waters, of all sorts of physical herbs, ... 2. What planet governeth every herb or tree (used in physick) that groweth in England. 3. The time of gathering all herbs, both vulgarly, and astrologically. 4. The way of drying and keeping the herbs all the yeer. 5. The way of keeping their juyces ready for use at all times. 6. The way of making and keeping ... compounds made of herbs. 7 The way of mixing medicines according to cause and and [sic] mixture of the disease, and part of the body afflicted. By Nich. Culpeper, Gent. student in physick and astrologie.

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• The English physitian: or An astrologo-physical discourse of the vulgar herbs of this nation. Being 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, 1. The way of making plaisters, oyntments, oyls, ... or waters, of all sorts of physical herbs, ... 2. What planet governeth every herb or tree (used in physick) that groweth in England. 3. The time of gathering all herbs, both vulgarly, and astrologically. 4. The way of drying and keeping the herbs all the yeer. 5. The way of keeping their juyces ready for use at all times. 6. The way of making and keeping ... compounds made of herbs. 7 The way of mixing medicines according to cause and and [sic] mixture of the disease, and part of the body afflicted. By Nich. Culpeper, Gent. student in physick and astrologie.
• English physician

People / Organizations

• Nicholas Culpeper (Author)

Imprint

London: printed by Peter Cole, at the sign of the Printing-Press in Cornhil, near the Royal Exchange, 1652.

Publication year

1652-1652

ESTC No.

R24897

Grub Street ID

108636

Description

[14], 92, 189-255, [5] p., [1] leaf of plates ; port. ; 2⁰

Note

With an engraved frontispiece portrait (plate) signed: Cross sculpsit.

Text continuous despite pagination.

Includes index.

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