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"Culpeper's Complete Herbal" 1975 CULPEPER, Nicholas

Consisting Of A Comprehensive Description Of Nearly All Herbs With Their Medicinal Properties

CULPEPER, Nicholas

Nicholas Culpeper (18 October 1616 – 10 January 1654) was an English botanist, herbalist, physician and astrologer. His The English Physician (1652, later Complete Herbal, 1653 ff.) is a source of pharmaceutical and herbal lore of the time, and Astrological Judgement of Diseases from the Decumbiture of the Sick (1655) one of the most detailed works on medical astrology in Early Modern Europe. Culpeper catalogued hundreds of outdoor medicinal herbs.

[430] pp.

W. Foulsham & Co., Ltd.


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