Culpeper's last legacy : left and bequeathed to his dearest wife, for the publick 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 several sciences, more especially in chyrurgery and physick: viz. compounding of medicines, making of waters, syrups, oyles, electuaries, conserves, salts, pills, purges, and trochischs. With two particular treatises; the one of feavers, the other of pestilence: as also rare and choice aphorisms and receipts, fitted to the understanding of the meanest capacities. The fifth impression; whereunto is added 200 choice receipts, lately found, never publisht before in any of his other works; with a compleat table. By Nicholas Culpeper Gent. student in astrology and physick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654.

Series:

Early English books online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anatomy--Early works to 1800.

Anatomy.

Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions--Early works to 1800.

Medicine.

Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.

Medicine--Aphorisms--Early works to 1800.

Surgery--Early works to 1800.

Surgery.

Genre:

Sayings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (8 unnumbered pages, 276 pages, 12 unnumbered pages)

Place of Publication:

London : printed for Nath. Brooke at the Angel in Cornhil, and Obad. Blagrave at the printing-press in Little-Britain over against the Pump, 1671.

System Details:

text file

Notes:

Each part has a separate title page dated 1671; text and register are continuous.

With a final advertisement leaf.

Includes index.

Reproduction of original in the British Library.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2530:7) s1999 miun s

Cited in:

Wing (CD-ROM, 1996) C7521

Contains:

Febrilia: or, a treatise of feavers.

Treatise of the pestilence.

Composita: or, a synopsis of the chiefest compositions.

Aphorisms exceeding requisite.

Select aphorisms concerning the operation of medicines.

Select medicinal aphorisms.

Rare secrets in physick.

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