The English physitian enlarged

Author: Culpeper, Nicholas Person page
Author Occupation: gentleman
Author Occupation: astrologer or astronomer
Author Occupation: physician
Printer: Cole, Peter   Person page
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.
Short Title: The English physitian enlarged
Imprint: London : printed by Peter Cole, printer and book-seller, at the sign of the Printing-press in Cornhill, near the Royal Exchange, 1656.
Date: 1656
First Edition: n
Pages: 322
Format: 8
Genre: herbal
Topic: astrology
Topic: plant
Topic: remedies, multiple
Place of: Printer    Place: Printing-Press in Cornhil, neer the Royal Exchange, London
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ESTC: http://estc.bl.uk/R236836