The English physician, enlarged
Subtitle: With three hundred and sixty-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 complete 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 fit for English bodies. Herein is also shewed these seven things, viz. 1. The way of making plaisters, ointments, oils, poultices, syrups, decoctions, juleps, or waters, of all sorts of physical herbs, that you may have them ready for your use at all times of the year. 2. What planet governeth every herb or tree (used in physick) that groweth in England. 3. The time of gathering all herbs, both vulgarly and astrologically. 4. The way of drying and keeping the herbs all the year. 5. The way of keeping their juice ready for use at all times. 6. The way of making and keeping all kinds 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: By Nich. Culpepper [sic]
Publisher: Printed by H. Colbert
Published: 1787
Place of publication: Dublin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 418
Work titles: English physitian