[Herbal medicine] CULPERER - Complete English physician An universal medical herbal 1802

Complete English physician enlarged and improved, or, An universal medical herbal, and botanical and astrological practice of physic, with many hundred additional plants, alphabetically arranged, and their medicinal and astrological applications faithfully given in three parts:

The FIRST, containing that Great Man's very useful ENGLISH FAMILY PHYSICIAN and HERBAL, Enlarged, with the History, Description, Character, Nature, Place of Growth, and specific Virtues of all such British Plants, wild or cultivated, as are now used for Aliment or Medicine, Directions plainly intelligible, and an easy Method of preserving Health to each Sex, and curing all the Difeafes incident to the Human Conftitution, with the simple Herbs of our own Country only; the Method of giving them, and Management of the Patients in every ilness, as proved owed by the Practice of the most eminent and successful Physicians.

The SECOND, A New and Complete LONDON DISPENSATORY, including all the Improvements of the College of Physicians, and the necessary Deviations (according to the different Consitutions) as recommended by Drs. Wallis, Buchan, Willis, Smith, Fordyce, Hunter, Fothergill, Lettiom, Kentish, and other celebrated Physicians.

The THIRD PART, containing the Great CULPEPER's celebrated ASTROLOGICAL JUDGMENTS of all DISEASES of the human body first enlarged by Himself, and now by the Editor.

A handbook of botany and herbal medicine with descriptions of individual plant species and their medical and astrological uses, along with proper dosage with 62 full-page plates with engravings of each herb species

by Nicholas Culpeper

Nicholas Culpeper (1616 - 1654) - English botanist, herbalist, physician and astrologer. His book The English Physitian (...) is an important source of pharmaceutical and herbal knowledge of the time. Culpeper's works, written in English rather than Latin, had a huge impact on medical knowledge in the first British colonies in America. Colonists were able to easily import medicinal plants from Europe to the New World, based on Culpeper's herbarium. He is also credited with describing the medical use of digitalis, still used today to treat heart disease.

The examplary has some shortcomings: in the first chapter, the alphabetically arranged descriptions of the various species of herbs end with the letter g; the second chapter "New and complete London Dispensatory" is missing; the third chapter "Astrological Judgements of all Diseases "breaks off at chapter XVI of XXVIII

Year of publication: London 1802, Printed for Alex Hogg, at the King's Arms, N 16, Paternofter-Row

s. XII, 264, 62 plates with engravings, 60., frontispiece with portrait of the author

Format: 21 x 13 cm

Binding: period half-leather/chevron with titling on spine

Condition: consistent - spine and blocks tight, cover with rubbing, front and back cover loose, no signatures or underlining, minor rust discoloration [foxing - no harm to text or illustrations].