The english physician enlarged, with three hundred and sixty-nine medicines, made of english herbs, that were not in any impression until this. Being an astrologo-physical discourse of the vulgar herbs of this nation, containing a complete method of physic, 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. Herein is also shewed these seven things, viz. 1. the way of making plaisters, ointments, oils, poultices, syrups, decoctions, juleps, or waters, of all sorts of physical herbs, that you may have them ready for your us at all times of the year. 2. What planet governeth every herb or tree (used in physic) that groweth in Engalnd. 3. The tine of gathering all herbs, both vulgarly and astrologically. 4. The way of drying and keeping the herbs all the year. 5. The way of keeping their jucie ready for use at all times. 6. The way of making and keeping all kinds of useful compounds, made ofherbs. 7. The way of mixing medicines according to the cause and mixture of the disease and part of the body afflicted

Författare
1616-1654 Nicholas Culpeper
(Nich. Culpepper)
Språk
Engelska
Förlag År Ort Om boken ISBN
Bruce 1787 Storbritannien, London [12], 348 sidor. 8:o