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Culpeper's complete herbal and English physician : wherin several hundred herbs with a display of their medicinal and occult properties, are physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind : to which are added, rules for compounding medicines, and upwards of fifty choice receipts, selected from the author's last legacies : forming a complete family dispensatory, and system of physic.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654.
- Standardized Title:
- English physitian
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Materia medica--Early works to 1800.
- Materia medica.
- Botany, Medical.
- Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.
- Medicine.
- Materia medica, Vegetable--Early works to 1800.
- Materia medica, Vegetable.
- Phytotherapy.
- Plants, Medicinal.
- Medical Subjects:
- Phytotherapy.
- Plants, Medicinal.
- Genre:
- Early works.
- Prescriptions, formulae, receipts, etc.
- Penn Provenance:
- Malgieri, Nick (donor) (Malgieri Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 2 unnumbered pages, iv, 240 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 22 unnumbered leaves of color plates : llustrations, portraits ; 27 cm
- Edition:
- [Facs. reprinted].
- Manufacture:
- Avon, England : Printed and bound by Pitman Press Limited.
- Other Title:
- Complete herbal and English physician
- Culpeper's complete herbal
- Place of Publication:
- [Great Britain?] : [Harvey Sales], [©1981.]
- Notes:
- Originally published in London in 1652 under title: The English physitian.
- Original title page: Manchester: Printed and published by J. Gleave and Son, Deansgate, 1826."
- "Reproduced from an original edition publlished in 1826"--T.p. verso.
- "Our edition is a true facsimile of the 1826 edition of this famous work ... The herbs and their uses are presented in alphabetical order, and are illustrated with 200 hand-coloured drawings which are exquisitely reproduced. There follows an explanation of the temperaments of the herbs, directions for making syrups and ointments, a separate discussion of herbal medicines and their appliances, Culpeper's selected aphorisms and recipes, plus an addenda of additional herbs."--Dust jacket.
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Nick Malgieri Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Nick Malgieri.
- Malgieri Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654. Culpeper's complete herbal and English physician.
- OCLC:
- 29147375
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