English physician; and complete herbal. To which are now first added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult properties, physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind ... forming a complete family dispensatory. Illustrated with notes and observations, critical and explanatory / ... By E. Sibly.

  • Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654
Date:
[1794?]
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Credit: English physician; and complete herbal. To which are now first added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult properties, physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind ... forming a complete family dispensatory. Illustrated with notes and observations, critical and explanatory / ... By E. Sibly. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    or /iery, figns or conftellations, all doubts and difficulties are removed; a plain and obvious mode of treatment prefents itfelf to our view; and fur* niffies a ftriking proof of the wife oeconomy of the Supreme Being, in governing this inferior world by the influence and energy of the fupe- rior bodies, whofe very minutice^ as well as more magnificent phenomena, are invariably obedient to a regular and unerring law.” But, although the aftrologic fcience be thus ufeful in guiding our me- dical enquiries, and necelTary in forwarding the cure of remote and latent difeafes : yet were the enemies of Culpeper, like many of the prefent day, exultingly forward to condemn that which they do not underftand, and by attempting to baffle the fecret operations of nature, and the ftrong influences of the planetary fyftem—of the Pleiades^ ArBurust and Orion, they expofe the weaknefs of their own imaginations, which they infult- ingly oppofe to the glorious hoji of heaven* Perfeftly indifferent, myfelf, as to the cavils of diffatisfied critics or to the cenfure of interefled men, I fhall revive that Ample practice of Culpeper, which fpread, through the Britifh realms, the happy art of refloring to prifline vigour—the decaying life and health of mankind. For this purpofe, I have incorporated into the prefent edition of his Physician and Herbal, every ufeful part of all his other works ; and have added a feledlion of eafy rules, for attaining an intimate acquaintance with all the Britifh herbs and plants; for difcovering the real planetary influx ; and for gathering them at thofe particular feafons when they im- bibe a double portion of efficacy and virtue. In gathering herbs for medicinal ufes, the planetary hour is certainly of importance, however modern refinement might have exploded the Idea. In nature, the fimplefl; remedies are found to produce the mofl; falutary effedts; and in earlier times, when the art of medicine was lefs obfeured, and pradifed more from motives of benevolence, the world was lefs afflidled ] with