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The Complete Herbal / 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. — Nicholas Culpeper

The Complete Herbal / 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.

Nicholas Culpeper

  • Essays
  • Book language: English
  • 783 pages

The Complete Herbal by Nicholas Culpeper is a 17th-century English herbal and medical guide. It presents herbs, their medicinal and astrological qualities, and traditional remedies for human ailments. It offers a vivid view of early modern plant medicine and domestic healing.

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Contents

  1. The Complete Herbal
  2. CULPEPER’S ORIGINAL EPISTLE TO THE READER.
  3. TO HIS DEAREST CONSORT MRS. ALICE CULPEPER.
  4. THE ENGLISH PHYSICIAN ENLARGED.
  5. DIRECTIONS FOR MAKING SYRUPS, CONSERVES, &c. &c.
  6. SECTION II. The way of making and keeping all necessary Compounds.
  7. CHAPTER II. Of Syrups.
  8. THE ENGLISH PHYSICIAN AND FAMILY DISPENSATORY.
  9. ROOTS.
  10. BARKS.
  11. WOODS AND THEIR CHIPS, OR RASPINGS.
  12. HERBS AND THEIR LEAVES.
  13. FLOWERS.
  14. FRUITS AND THEIR BUDS.
  15. SEEDS OR GRAINS.
  16. TEARS, LIQUORS, AND ROZINS.
  17. JUICES.
  18. THINGS BRED FROM PLANTS.
  19. LIVING CREATURES.
  20. PARTS OF LIVING CREATURES, AND EXCREMENTS.
  21. BELONGING TO THE SEA.
  22. METALS, MINERALS, AND STONES.
  23. A CATALOGUE OF SIMPLES IN THE NEW DISPENSATORY.
  24. A KEY TO GALEN’S METHOD OF PHYSIC.
  25. SECTION I.
  26. SECTION II. Of the appropriation of Medicines to the several parts of the body.
  27. SECTION III. Of the propriety or operation of Medicines.
  28. CULPEPER’S LAST LEGACIES.
  29. GENERAL INDEX TO THE ENGLISH PHYSICIAN ENLARGED, AND GALEN’S KEY TO PHYSIC.
  30. A LIST OF THE PRINCIPAL DISEASES.

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