The Complete Herbal
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Title: The Complete Herbal
Author: Nicholas Culpeper
Release date: July 24, 2015 [eBook #49513]
Most recently updated: October 24, 2024
Language: English
Credits: Produced by Chris Curnow, Emmy and the Online Distributed
Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was
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Internet Archive) In loving memory of Poppy Curnow, who
loved her herb garden.
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[Transcriber's Note: As with any medicinal work first published in the
1600s and rewritten countless times, it should go without saying to not
attempt these recipes. Just in case, the transcriber has now said it.
Also, many and varied were the printing and publishing anomalies, for a
more complete explanation, see the extensive notes collected at the end
of this text.]
[Illustration: NICHOLAS CULPEPER, M.D.
Author of the Family Herbal.]
[Illustration: RED LION HOUSE, SPITALFIELDS
IN WHICH CULPEPER LIVED, STUDIED AND DIED]
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.
WITH
RULES FOR COMPOUNDING MEDICINE ACCORDING TO THE TRUE SYSTEM OF NATURE.
FORMING A COMPLETE
FAMILY DISPENSATORY AND NATURAL SYSTEM OF PHYSIC.
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BY NICHOLAS CULPEPER, M.D.
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TO WHICH IS ALSO ADDED,
UPWARDS OF FIFTY CHOICE RECEIPTS,
SELECTED FROM THE AUTHOR’S LAST LEGACY TO HIS WIFE.
A NEW EDITION,
WITH A LIST OF THE PRINCIPAL DISEASES TO WHICH THE HUMAN BODY IS
LIABLE,
AND A GENERAL INDEX.
\_Illustrated by Engravings of numerous British Herbs and Plants,
correctly coloured from nature._
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“The Lord hath created Medicines out of the earth; and he that is
wise will not abhor them.”—\_Ecc._ xxxviii. 4.
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LONDON:
THOMAS KELLY, 17, PATERNOSTER ROW.
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