Culpeper's School of Physick: Or The experimental practice of the Whole Art. : Wherein are contained all inward Diseases from the Head to the Foot, with their proper and effectual cures; such Diet set down as ought to be observed in Sickness or in Health. With other safe waies for preserving of Life, in excellent Aphorisms, and approved Medicines, so plainly and easily treated of, that the Free-born Student rightly understanding this Method, may judg of the Practice of Physick, so far as it concerns himself, or the cure of others, &c. A work never before publisht, very necessary for all that desire to be rightly informed in Physick, Chyrurgery, chymistry, &c. / By Nich. Culpeper, late Student in Physick and Astrology. The narrative of the Authors Life is prefixed, with his Nativity Calculated; together with the Testimony of his late Wife, Mrs. Alice Culpeper, and others. The general Contents of this Work are in the next page: With two perfect Tables very useful to the Reader. / [Nicholas Culpeper].

  • Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654.
Date:
[1678]
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Also known as

School of physick. English

Publication/Creation

London : O. B[lagrave and R. H[arford & sold by R. Clavel], [1678]

Physical description

28 unnumbered leaves, 461 pages, 9 unnumbered leaves : diagram ; (8vo)

Edition

2 ed.

Notes

The additional title pages"Culpeper's school of physick, or the English apothecary" (p.1), "Fragmenta aurea" (p.85), "The chirurgeon's guide" (p.193), "The treasury of life" (p.227), "The expert lapidary" (p.261), "Doctor Diets directorie" (p.277), "Doctor Reason and Doctor Experience consulted with" (p.343), and "Chymical institutions" (p.403) (lacking in this copy) are dated 1677 and the imprints have R. Harford's name or initials; register and pagination are continuous.
Main t.p. mounted.
Copy 1 Note: Port. The following leaves are missing (28 in all): A2, L3 (117-118), L4 (119-120), L5 (121-122), L6 (123-124), N8 (159-160), O5 (169-170), O6 (171-172), O7 (173-174), Q2 (195-196), Q3 (197-198), Q4 (199-200), Q5 (201-202), R2 (211-212), R3 (213-214), T1 (241-242), T2 (243-244), T3 (245-246), T4 (247-248), T5 (249-250), T6 (251-252), T7 (253-254), X1 (273-274), X7 (285-286), X8 (287-288), Cc3 (357-358), Ff (401-402), pp.403-461 (final page 400). Lacks engraved portrait frontispiece.

References note

Wing C7545
Arber, E., The Term Catalogues, 1668-1709, vol. 1, p. 305
ESTC R37708
Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), C7545

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