The English physician enlarged
Subtitle: with three hundred sixty and nine medicines, made of English herbs, that were not in any impression until this. Being an astrologo-physical discourse of the vulgar herbs of this nation; containing a compleat method of physick, 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 fir for English bodies. Herein is also shewed these seven things, viz 1. The way of making plaisters, oyntments, oyls, ... 2. What planet governeth every herb or tree ... 3. The time of gathering all herbs, ... 4. The way of drying and keeping the herbs all year. 5. The way of keeping their juyces ready for use at all times. 6. The way of making and keeping all kind of useful compounds made of herbs. 7. The way of mixing medicines according to the cause and mixture of the disease, and part of the body afflicted. By Nich. Culpeper, Gent. Student in Physick and Astrology
Publisher: printed for A. and J. Churchill, at the Black Swan in Pater-Noster-Row
Published: 1698
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
Subjects: Medical Botany; Early works to 1800; Materia medica; Popular Medicine; Medicinal plants
Work titles: English physitian