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A revised and refreshed edition of Culpeper's classic book on
herbal remedies. "[An] updated and beautifully designed guide . . .
" --Booklist For more than 360 years, Nicholas Culpeper's historic
guide to herbal remedies has been THE definitive book on the
subject. Culpeper, an English herbalist, is the author of the
bestselling herbal guide of all time. He offered valuable and
sometimes unusual advice on using, gathering, and preparing herbs.
Now, this beautifully illustrated new edition, edited and with
commentary by acclaimed US herbalist and bestselling author Steven
Foster, combines the charm and information of Culpeper's original
seventeenth-century text with up-to-date, modern, practical usage.
It includes details about where to find each herb, astrology, and
medicinal benefits.
Nicholas Culpeper (1616 - 1654), is best known today for his
English Physician, a comprehensive guide to the medicinal uses of
native plants and herbs, the first such book published in English.
Culpeper, a Puritan, was the son of a clergyman. In 1634 he spent a
year at Cambridge, where he learned Greek and Latin, which enabled
him to study old medical texts. He was apprenticed to an apothecary
and started his formal practice in Spitalfields, London, around
1640. Culpeper supported the Parliamentary side in the English
Civil War, suffering a severe chest wound in 1643. After recovering
he returned to his medical practice in London, where he established
a reputation as an outstanding healer. War wounds combined with
overwork led to his death by exhaustion in 1654, aged 37. According
to his widow, he left behind some 70 unfinished manuscripts.
Astrological Judgement of Diseases from the Decumbiture of the
Sick, was published posthumously. This book is the astrological
companion to his better-known English Physician. In this book is
the distilled experience of a very busy practitioner. The text,
while newly reset, retains the spelling and punctuation of the
original.
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