Culpeper's School of Physick: Or The experimental practice of the Whole Art. : Wherein are contained all inward Diseases from the Head to the Foot, with their proper and effectual cures; such Diet set down as ought to be observed in Sickness or in Health. With other safe waies for preserving of Life, in excellent Aphorisms, and approved Medicines, so plainly and easily treated of, that the Free-born Student rightly understanding this Method, may judg of the Practice of Physick, so far as it concerns himself, or the cure of others, &c. A work never before publisht, very necessary for all that desire to be rightly informed in Physick, Chyrurgery, chymistry, &c. / By Nich. Culpeper, late Student in Physick and Astrology. The narrative of the Authors Life is prefixed, with his Nativity Calculated; together with the Testimony of his late Wife, Mrs. Alice Culpeper, and others. The general Contents of this Work are in the next page: With two perfect Tables very useful to the Reader. / [Nicholas Culpeper].

Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654. School of physick

Date:: [1678]

Credit: Culpeper's School of Physick: Or The experimental practice of the Whole Art. : Wherein are contained all inward Diseases from the Head to the Foot, with their proper and effectual cures; such Diet set down as ought to be observed in Sickness or in Health. With other safe waies for preserving of Life, in excellent Aphorisms, and approved Medicines, so plainly and easily treated of, that the Free-born Student rightly understanding this Method, may judg of the Practice of Physick, so far as it concerns himself, or the cure of others, &c. A work never before publisht, very necessary for all that desire to be rightly informed in Physick, Chyrurgery, chymistry, &c. / By Nich. Culpeper, late Student in Physick and Astrology. The narrative of the Authors Life is prefixed, with his Nativity Calculated; together with the Testimony of his late Wife, Mrs. Alice Culpeper, and others. The general Contents of this Work are in the next page: With two perfect Tables very useful to the Reader. / [Nicholas Culpeper]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Culpeper’s School of Phy fick. | ving rather for a cer tain pomp, then for main- | d tenance of life:and which without great work- | i ing of the wits might be proved to bring more t harm to our Country-men, then commodity; |) 4 both in refpect of the dive rfity of complexion | th of our bodies from thofé of ftrange Narionsto 4% whom they properly belong the ¢ corruption of . 4b ; their outlandifh Wares,the felling of one thing jit ne for another, and the withholding from us the | a beft of choice.But of this Hereafter: Moreover, 4 t i Navigation being of a latéf invention then the || t H necefli ty of Medicine, neither practifed of many Ip Nations at this day, cannot fypply this wantjor | 1 t if men began then firft to be difeafed,when they began to ” find ways inthe Sea to thofe far 9] p i Countries,doth it notgreatly detract fromthat | 0 ; Providence whereby all things are guided, to | bh if lay the recovery of mans health upon the ad- | th Ht ventures of Merchants ? and the Difeafe being 4 1 inthe oné part of the world,to have the Mediz | 1 cine in the other:yea,as far diftant as the Eaft is from the Wei, and the Life and Death of a man to ftand npon a halfpenny weight of Scam- mony,or a dram or twain of Rhewbarb. Nay, which is yet more abfurd,that the health offo Aa Chriftian Nations fhould hang.upon the courtefie of thofe Heathen and barbarousNati- i ons,t0 whonr nothing is more odious, then the i very name of Chriftianity ; and who of malice do withhold from us fach Medicines as they’ know méft for’our ufé. Whereupon theTurk denieth unto theChriftians at this day,theTerra Lemaiaja Medicine to be preferred before the chief et BE bien tac ener ee a ar ies . 5 Sagres ee ee te ee a

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