Medicaments for the poor; or, Physick for the common people : Containing, excellent remedies for most common diseases, incident to mans body; made of such things as are common to be had in almost every country in the world: and are made with little art, and small charge. This book is of admirable use for, 1. Purging medicines, for choler, flegm, melancholly, or watry [sic] humors. ... 20. Or in dissolved unity. Hereunto is added an excellent book, called Health for rich and poor, by diet without physick. / By Nich. Culpeper, student in physick and astrology.
- Prevost, Jean, 1585-1631
- Date:
- 1662
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About this work
Also known as
Medicina pauperum. English. 1664
Physick for the common people
Publication/Creation
London : Printed by Peter Cole ..., 1662.
Physical description
23 unnumbered pages, 388 pages, 5 unnumbered pages, 41 pages
Edition
The 2nd ed.
References note
Wing (2nd ed.) P3325
Notes
Translation of Prevost's Medicina pauperum, with the addition of Culpeper's Health for the rich and poor; first appeared in English as: Two books of physick.
Pt. 2 has separate pagination and special t.p.: Health for the rich and poor, by dyet, without physick. / by Nich. Culpeper ... Edinburgh : Printed by a Society of Stationers, 1665.
Includes: Mris. Culpepers information, vindication, and testimony, concerning her husbands books to be published after his death.
Imperfect: tightly bound with some loss of text.
Reproduction of original in: John Crerar Library.
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English Books, 1641-1700 ; 2809:4) s1999 miun s