1799 HERBAL English Physician Culpeper Cures Diseases Alchemy Astrology



“No man ought to commit his life into the hands of that Physician, who is ignorant of Astrologic: because he is a Physician of no value.”

― Nicholas Culpeper



Rare 18th-century issue of the first herbal printed in America!



Nicholas Culpeper was a 17th-century English herbalist and physician known for his principal work “The English Physician” – the first herbal printed in North America! This work, which was first published in 1652, contains a plethora of pharmaceutical medicine as well as descriptions of important herbs. Culpeper provides proper preparations for different herbs including anemone, dittany, cottonweed, hemlock, beech-tree, tobacco, rhubarb, onions, garlic, hops, horseradish, mustard, apples, mint, parsnip, wheat, hazelnuts, fennel, oats and parsley, lavender, lettuce, roses, and hundreds more!



Culpeper wanted medical treatments to be more accessible to everyone, including the poor. He intended to educate them on their health and provided explanations of these herbs and their medical, healing properties. Culpeper offers a cure for venereal disease in wormwood and intestinal worms to cure drunkenness! (Adams, p. 17). ‘Heirs of Hippocrates’ makes note of this work:

“In it, Culpeper argues that every physician should be an astrologer and sets for the reasons why medicinal plants and herbs are dependent on the movement of the stars.”



Item number: #7772

Price: $499



CULPEPER, Nicholas



The English physician enlarged: with three hundred and sixty nine medicines, made of English herbs, that were not in any impression until this. Being an astrologo-physicial discourse of the vulgar herbs of this nation, containing a complete method of physic 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 ...



London: Printed for the Booksellers, 1799.



Details:

Collation: Complete with all pages

xii, 348

References: Adams, Hideous Absinthe; Lowndes 567; Garrison & Morton 1828.1; HoH 322;

Language: English

Binding: Leather; tight & secure

Visible repair at inner hinges

Size: ~7in X 4in (18cm x 10cm)



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