English botanist, herbalist, physician, and astrologer (1616-1654)
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Nicholas Culpeper
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The English physitian enlarged : with three hundred, sixty and nine medicines made of English herbs that were not in any impression until this : being an astrologo-phisical discourse of the vulgar herbs of this nation, containing a compleat method of physick, whereby a man may preserve his body in health, or cure himself, being sick, for three pence charge, with such things only as grow in England, they being most fit for English bodies.
Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654Date: 1683- Books
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A directory for midvvives, or, a guide for women, in their conception, bearing, and suckling their children. Containing, 1. The anatomie of the vessels of generation. 2. The formation of the child in the womb. 3. What hinders conception, and its remedies. 4. What furthers conception. 6. Of miscarriage in women. 7. A guide for women in their labor. 8. A guide for women in their lying-in. 9. Of nursing children. By Nich. Culpeper, Gent. Student in physick and astrologie.
Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654Date: 1651- Books
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Galens art of physick : wherein is laid down, 1. A description of bodies, healthful, unhealthful, and neutral. 2. Signs of good and bad constitutions. 3. Signs of the brain, heart, liver, testicles, temperature, lungues, stomach, &c. being too hot, cold, dry, moist, hot and dry, hot and moist, cold and dry, cold and moist. 4. Signs and causes of sickness. With many other excellent things, the particulars of which, the table of chapters will specifie. Translated into English, and largely commented on. Together with convenient medicines for al [sic] particular distempers of the parts, a description of the complexions, their condition, and what diet and exercise is fittest for them. By Nich. Culpeper, gent. student in physick and astrology.
GalenDate: 1657- Books
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The compleat midvvife's practice enlarged : In the most weighty and high concernments of the birth of man. Containing perfect rules for midwives and nurses, as also for women in their conception, bearing, and nursing of children: from the experience, not onely of our English, but also the most accomplisht and absolute practicers among the French, Spanish, Italian, and other nations. A work so plain, that the weakest capacity may easily attain the knowledge of the whole art. With instructions of the Queen of France's midwife to her daughter, a little before her death, touching the practice of the said art. Published with the approbation and good liking of sundry the most knowing professors of midwifry, now living in the City of London, and other places. Illustrated with severall cuts in brasse.
Chamberlayne, ThomasDate: 1659- Books
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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 other rare and choice aphorisms, fitted to the understanding of the meanest capacities. Never publisht before in any of his other works. / by Nicholas Culpeper.
Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654Date: 1662