Culpeper's complete English physician enlarged and improved, or, An universal medical herbal and botanical and astrological practice of physic
Subtitle: with many hundred additional plants, alphabetically arranged, and their medicinal and astrological applications faithfully given ...
By: by Nicholas Culpeper ; with valuable additions and improvements by Geo Alex. Gordon ...
Contributors: Gordon, Geo. Alex.
Edition: An entire new and complete ed.
Publisher: Alex. Hogg
Published: 1802
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Materia medica, Vegetable.; Medicinal plants.; Therapeutics.
Other titles: English physician enlarged and improved.; Universal medical herbal and botanical and astrological practice of physic.
Notes: Vol. 1: xii, 664, 96 p., 1 leaf of plates; v. 2: [4], 770, [34] p.; v. 3: [4] p., 204, [5] leaves of plates.
Includes indexes.
Original title: The English physitian.
"In three parts. The first, containing that great man's very useful English family physician and herbal, enlarged, with the history, description, character, nature, place of growth, and specific virtues of all such British plants, wild or cultivated, as are now used for aliment or medicine ... The second, a new and complete London dispensatory, including all the improvements of the College of physicians ... The third part, containing the great Culpeper's celebrated astrological judgements of all diseases of the human body, first enlarged by himself, and now by the editor. To which will be added a treatise, containing general rules to know by what planet every herb or plant is governed, and the most approved methods of gathering at the planetary hours, etc."