Culpeper's last legacy : left and bequeathed to his dearest wife, for the publicke good : being the choicest and most profitable of those secrets which while he lived were lockt up in his breast, and resolved never to be publisht till after his death : containing sundry admirable experiences in severall sciences, more especially in chyrurgery and physick ... : with two particular treatises, the one of feavers, the other of pestilence, as also other rare and choice aphorisms ... never publisht before in any of his other works / by Nicholas Culpeper.
- Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654
- Date:
- 1655
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About this work
Publication/Creation
[London] : Printed for N. Brooke ..., 1655.
Physical description
7 unnumbered pages, 48 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 73 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 144, that is, 140 pages : portrait
Contributors
References note
Wing C7518
Notes
Each treatise, except the first and third, has special t.p.
"The authenticity of this work ... seems in the main undoubted, in spite of Mrs. Culpeper's denials"--DNB.
Imperfect: film lacks second group of pagings ([4], 73 p.) which includes the second through the fourth titles in the Contents.
Reproduction of original in Thomason Collection, British Library.
Contents
A treatise of the head -- Febrilia, or, A treatise of feavers in generall -- Physical aphorismes -- A treatise of the pestilence -- Composita, or, A synopsis of the chiefest compositions in use now with Galenists --Aphorismes -- Select aphorismes -- Select medicinall aphorismes.
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 138:12) s1999 miun s