Culpeper's 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 : to which are annexed, rules for compounding medicine according to the true system of nature, forming a complete family dispensatory, and natural system of physic, beautified and enriched with engravings of upwards of four hundred and fifty different plants and a set of anatomical figures, illustrated with notes and observations, critical and explanatory / by E. Sibly, Fellow of the Harmonic Philosophical Society at Paris; and author of the Complete illustration of astrology. [Pt.1].

Nicholas Culpeper

Date:: [1794?]

Credit: Culpeper's 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 : to which are annexed, rules for compounding medicine according to the true system of nature, forming a complete family dispensatory, and natural system of physic, beautified and enriched with engravings of upwards of four hundred and fifty different plants and a set of anatomical figures, illustrated with notes and observations, critical and explanatory / by E. Sibly, Fellow of the Harmonic Philosophical Society at Paris; and author of the Complete illustration of astrology. [Pt.1]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by University of Bristol Library. The original may be consulted at University of Bristol Library.

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The PREFACE. DISEASE is undoubtedly the moft fatal enemy of mankind. To prevent its approaches, or to overcome its attac ks, is perhaps the mod important concern of our lives; and an inquifition that appears only attainable by the moll natural and fimple means. For this purpofc Mr. Nicholas Culpeper's English Physician feems peculiarly well adapted; fince it reforts, for every mode of Cure, to that infallible fource prepared by God and Nature, in the vegetable fyftem; whence flow fpontaneoufly the genuine Virtues of Medicine, diffufed univerfally over the face of the whole earth, where nothing grows in vain! Indeed, had this ingenious and moft invaluable Work no other recom- mendation than having paffed through fo many editions, yet would it fufficiently juftify my offering it once more to the notice and confideration of an enlightened public. But, when we reflect on the difcoveries fince made in the botanical world—the great acquifitions derived to the Work by the addition of upwards of one hundred newly difcovered aromatic and balfamic herbs—independent of the phyfical (kill and philofophical perception difplayed by its Author, we (hall find innumerable inflances of its utility, and perceive in it a fund of information and medical ac- quirements, which promife the moft extenfive benefits to fociety, by forming a Domejiic Phyjician in every Family. It might perhaps have been replete with the happieft confequences to our beloved King under his late infirmity, and would unqueftionably have tended more quickly to difpel the painful apprehenfions of his afflicted peo- No. i. a pic,

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