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The English physitian enlarged

Full Title

Full Title
The English physitian enlarged: with three hundred, sixty, and nine medicines, made of English herbs that were not in any impression untill this: the epistle will inform you how to know this impression from any other. 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 fit for English bodies. Herein is also shewed these seven things: viz. 1 The way of making plaisters, ointments, oils, ... or waters, of all sorts of physical herbs, ... 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 juyces ready for use at all times. 6 The way of making and keeping all kind of usefull compounds made of herbs. 7 The way of mixing medicines according to cause and mixture of the disease, and part of the body afflicted. By Nich. Culpeper, Gent. student in physick and astrology.

Author

Culpeper, Nicholas

Last Name

Last Name
Culpeper

First Name

First Name
Nicholas

Date

Date
1656

Publication City

Publication City

Imprint

Imprint
London : printed by Peter Cole, printer and book-seller, at the sign of the Printing-press in Cornhill, near the Royal Exchange, 1656.

Topic

Genre

herbal

ESTC

http://estc.bl.uk/R236836

Format

Format
8

Printer

Printer

Printer Place

Pages

Pages
321

ID

ID
R236836