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1846 RARE Complete HERBAL Family Physician CULPEPER Medicine Botany Astrology
1846 RARE Complete HERBAL Family Physician CULPEPER Medicine Botany Astrology
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1846 RARE Complete HERBAL Family Physician CULPEPER Medicine Botany Astrology



Nicholas Culpepers comprehensive, iconic medicinal work, “The Complete Herbal,” provides a myriad of detailed descriptions of herbs and their medicinal properties. As an English botanist, herbalist, physician, and astrologer, Culpeper shared in this book his knowledge of plants and their ties to human health. He was innovative in his time, translating Latin documents about American medicinal plants, influencing both European and North American medicine. The book is a rich collection of herbal and pharmaceutical knowledge, profusely illustrated with hand-colored illustrations of herbs and plants. Culpeper emphasized understanding the reason behind medicinal properties of herbs based on astrological insights, aiming to provide a logical foundation to herbal medicine. He also provided guidelines on how to best use the book, considering the astrological cause of a disease and the affected body part to choose the right herb for treatment. Through his work, he had hoped that readers would grasp what he believed was the intricate harmony between the cosmos, plants, and human health.



Item number: #41517

Price: $750



CULPEPER, Nicholas



The Complete Herbal, to Which is Added, Upwards of One Hundred Additional Herbs, with a Display of their Medicinal and Occult Qualities Physically Applied to the Cure of All Disorders Incident to Mankind: to Which are Now First Annexed, the English Physician Enlarged, and Key to Physic. With Rules for Compounding Medicine According to the True System of Nature. Forming a Complete Family Dispensatory and Natural System of Physic. To Which is Also Added, Upwards of Fifty Choice Receipts, Selected from the Authors Last Legacy to his Wife. A New Edition, with a List of the Principal Diseases to Which the Human Body is Liable, and a General Index. Illustrated by Engravings of Numerous British Herbs and Plants, Correctly Coloured from Nature.



London: Thomas Kelly, 1846.



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Collation: Complete

v, [1], 398, [4]

21 engraved plates (20 in color)

Reference(s): Adams, Hideous Absinthe; Lowndes 567

Culpeper wanted medical treatments to be more accessible to everyone, including the poor. He intended to educate them on their health and provided explanations of these herbs and their medical, healing properties. Culpeper offers a cure for venereal disease in wormwood and intestinal worms to cure drunkenness! (Adams, pg. 17)

Language: English

Binding: Leather; tight and secure

Size: ~11.25in X 8.75in (28.5cm x 22.5cm)



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