Culpeper's English physician ; and complete herbal ... Illustrated with notes and observations, critical and explanatory / By E. Sibly.

  • Nicholas Culpeper
Date:
1789
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Credit: Culpeper's English physician ; and complete herbal ... Illustrated with notes and observations, critical and explanatory / By E. Sibly. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    To THOMAS DUNCKERLY, Efq. PROVINCIAL GRAND MASTER OF THE ANCIENT AND HONOURABLE FRATERNITY OF FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS OF DORSET, ESSEX, GLOUCESTER, SOMERSET, BRISTOL, SOUTH- AMPTON, AND THE ISLE OF WIGHT. S I R, PRESUMING on the well-known goodncfs of your Heart, and that liberality: pf ^Sentiment, which ren- ders your Adlions, like your Defcent, NOBLE, permit me to follcit your Protedlion to a Work, which, though of the firfl: Importance in the Caufc of Humanity, will acquire new Vigour under your Aufpices, and dawn forth with accumulated Luftre, under the Shield of your Arm; which, like that of the good Samaritan, is ever reached out to adminifter Comfort and Relief to your affli^fled fellow Creatures. It has been a long eftablifhed Maxim among civilized Societies, to lubmit to their Prefident whatever is thought conducive to the general Good. You are the illullrious Head of many refpedlable Lodges of free and accepted Mafons, whofe Care it has been to cherilh a Contempla- tion