The complete herbal
Subtitle: to which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind : to which are now first annexed, The English physician enlarged, and Key to physic : with rules for compounding medicine according to the true system of nature : forming a complete family dispensatory and natural system of physic
By: by Nicholas Culpeper, M.D. ; to which is also added, upwards of fifty choice receipts, selected from the author's last legacy to his wife
Edition: New ed., with a list of the principal diseases to which the human body is liable and a general index
Publisher: Thomas Kelly
Published: 1849
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 398
Subjects: Herbals; Medicinal plants; Botany, Medical; Materia medica, Vegetable -- Early works to 1800
Other titles: Culpeper's complete herbal; Complete herbal and English physician enlarged; English Physician enlarged; Key to Galen's method of physic
Work titles: Complete herbal.
Notes: Includes index

Originally published under the title : The English Physician

"Illustrated by engravings of numerous British herbs and plants, correctly coloured from nature"--T.p

Frontispiece is an engraved portrait of Culpeper

"Directions by which you shall be sure to know the True one from the False.  The first Direction--The true one hath this title over the head of every Book, The Complete Herbal and English Physician Enlarged. The small Counterfeit ones have only this Title, The English Physician.  The second Direction--The true one hath these words, Government and Virtues, following the time of the Plants flowering, &c.  The counterfeit ones have these words, Virtues and Use, following the time of the Plants flowering.  The third Direction--The true one is of a larger Letter than the counterfeit ones, which are in Twelves, &c., of the Letter small Bibles used to be printed on"--p. iii

Spine title: Culpeper's complete herbal

Running title: Complete herbal and English physician enlarged

Bookplate of Georgiana T.W. Erdmann