Culpeper's last legacy: left and bequeathed to his dearest wife, for the publick good. Being the choycest and most profitable of those secrets which while he lived were lockt up in his breast, and resolved never to be publish'd till after his death. Containing sundry admirable experiences in several sciences, more especially in chirurgery, and physick: viz. compounding of medicines, making of waters, syrups, oyls, electuaries, conserves, salts, pills, purges and trochischs. With two particular treatises the one of fevers, the other of pestilence: as also rare and choyce aphorisms and receipts, fitted to the understanding of the meanest capacities. With an addition of two hundred choyce receipts, lately found, never publish'd before in any of his other works; and a compleat table. The fifth impression; whereunto is added An exact and perfect treatise of anatomy of the reins and bladder, brain and nerves of all the parts of the body, never published before this year 1677. By Nicholas Cul

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  • Culpeper's last legacy: left and bequeathed to his dearest wife, for the publick good. Being the choycest and most profitable of those secrets which while he lived were lockt up in his breast, and resolved never to be publish'd till after his death. Containing sundry admirable experiences in several sciences, more especially in chirurgery, and physick: viz. compounding of medicines, making of waters, syrups, oyls, electuaries, conserves, salts, pills, purges and trochischs. With two particular treatises the one of fevers, the other of pestilence: as also rare and choyce aphorisms and receipts, fitted to the understanding of the meanest capacities. With an addition of two hundred choyce receipts, lately found, never publish'd before in any of his other works; and a compleat table. The fifth impression; whereunto is added An exact and perfect treatise of anatomy of the reins and bladder, brain and nerves of all the parts of the body, never published before this year 1677. By Nicholas Cul
  • Febrilia; or, A treatise of fevers in general.
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Imprint
London: printed for Obadiah Blagrave at the Sign of the Bear in St. Paul's Church Yard, near the Little North Door, 1677.
Publication year
1677-1677
ESTC No.
R29688
Grub Street ID
112633
Description
[8], 176, 179-276, [16], 60, [18] p., [1] leaf of plates ; 8⁰
Note
The words "compounding of medicines," and "making of waters, syrups, oyls, electuaries, conserves, salts, pills, purges and trochischs." in title are gathered respectively by a right and a left hand brace.

'Febrilia; or, A treatise of fevers in general' has a separate title page (E1r) with imprint: London, printed in the year 1676, pagination and register are continuous. The following all have separate title pages with imprint: London, printed for Nath. Brooke at the Angel in Cornhil, near the Royal Exchange, 1676: 'A treatise of the pestilence' (H8r), 'Composita: or, A synopsis of the chiefest compositions now in use with our physicians' (I7r), 'Aphorisms exceeding requisite for such as intend the noble (though too much abused) practice of physick' (L8r), 'Select aphorisms concerning the operation of medicines' (M5r), 'Select medicinal aphorisms and receipts' (O5r) and 'Rare secrets in physick and chirurgery' (R1r), pagination and register are continuous throughout.

'Opus physicum' has a separate title page (V1r) with imprint: London, printed for Nath. Brooke at the Angel in Cornhil, near the Royal Exchange, 1676, and separate pagination, register is continuous. 'The anatomy of the brain & nerves' and 'The eyes anatomized' both have separate title pages (V6r and Z3r respectively) with imprint: London, printed for Nath. Brooke at the Angel in Cornhil, near the Royal Exchange, 1676, pagination and register are continuous.

Reissue of the 1676 "fifth impression" (Wing C7521A), with a new title page.
Uncontrolled note
Catalogued from a copy at the British Library