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The Herbalist - Nicholas Culpeper and the Fight for Medical Freedom (Paperback, New Ed)
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The Herbalist - Nicholas Culpeper and the Fight for Medical Freedom (Paperback, New Ed)
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From the bestselling author of 'The Queen's Conjuror', comes the
story of Nicholas Culpeper - legendary rebel, radical, Puritan, and
author of the great 'Herbal'. This is a powerful history of
medicine's first freedom fighter set in London during Britain's age
of revolution. In the mid-17th century, England was visited by the
four horsemen of the apocalypse: a civil war which saw levels of
slaughter not matched until the Somme, famine in a succession of
failed harvests that reduced peasants to 'anatomies', epidemics to
rival the Black Death in their enormity, and infant mortality rates
that left childless even women who had borne eight or nine
children. In the midst of these terrible times came Nicholas
Culpeper's 'Herbal' - one of the most popular and enduring books
ever published. Culpeper was a virtual outcast from birth.
Rebelling against a tyrannical grandfather and the prospect of a
life in the church, he abandoned his university education after a
doomed attempt at elopement. Disinherited, he went to London, where
he was to find his vocation in instigating revolution. London's
medical regime was then in the grip of the College of Physicians, a
powerful body personified in the 'immortal' William Harvey,
anatomist, royal physician and discoverer of the circulation of the
blood. Working in the underground world of religious sects, secret
printing presses and unlicensed apothecary shops, Culpeper
challenged this stronghold at the time it was reaching the very
pinnacle of its power - and in the process helped spark the
revolution that toppled a monarchy. In a spellbinding narrative of
impulse, romance and heroism, Benjamin Woolley vividly recreates
these momentous struggles and the roots of today's hopes and fears
about the power of medical science, professional institutions and
government. 'The Herbalist' tells the story of a medical rebel who
took on the authorities and paid the price.
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