The Complete Herbal / To which is now 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.

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Nicholas Culpeper

CULPEPER'S ORIGINAL EPISTLE TO THE READER.

TO HIS DEAREST CONSORT MRS. ALICE CULPEPER.

THE ENGLISH PHYSICIAN ENLARGED. AMARA DULCIS.

DIRECTIONS FOR MAKING SYRUPS, CONSERVES, and c. and c.

SECTION II. The way of making and keeping all necessary Compounds.

CHAPTER II. Of Syrups.

THE ENGLISH PHYSICIAN AND FAMILY DISPENSATORY.

ROOTS.

BARKS.

WOODS AND THEIR CHIPS, OR RASPINGS.

HERBS AND THEIR LEAVES.

FLOWERS.

FRUITS AND THEIR BUDS.

SEEDS OR GRAINS.

TEARS, LIQUORS, AND ROZINS.

JUICES.

THINGS BRED FROM PLANTS.

LIVING CREATURES.

PARTS OF LIVING CREATURES, AND EXCREMENTS.

BELONGING TO THE SEA.

METALS, MINERALS, AND STONES.

A CATALOGUE OF SIMPLES IN THE NEW DISPENSATORY.

A KEY TO GALEN'S METHOD OF PHYSIC.

SECTION I. Of the Temperature of Medicines.

SECTION II. Of the appropriation of Medicines to the several parts of the body.

SECTION III. Of the propriety or operation of Medicines.

CULPEPER'S LAST LEGACIES.

GENERAL INDEX TO THE ENGLISH PHYSICIAN ENLARGED, AND GALEN'S KEY TO PHYSIC.

A LIST OF THE PRINCIPAL DISEASES.

 

NICHOLAS CULPEPER, M.D. Author of the Family Herbal and RED LION HOUSE, SPITALFIELDS IN WHICH CULPEPER LIVED, STUDIED AND DIED

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THE

COMPLETE HERBAL;

TO WHICH IS NOW 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.
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BY NICHOLAS CULPEPER, M.D.
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TO WHICH IS ALSO ADDED,

UPWARDS OF FIFTY CHOICE RECEIPTS,

SELECTED FROM THE AUTHOR’S 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.

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“The Lord hath created Medicines out of the earth; and he that is wise will not abhor them.”—Ecc. xxxviii. 4.
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LONDON:
THOMAS KELLY, 17, PATERNOSTER ROW.
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MDCCCL.

LONDON;
A. CROSS, PRINTER, 89, PAUL STREET,
FINSBURY.

Plate 1
PLATE 1.
Alexander Agrimony Alkanet
Allheal Amara Dulcis or Bitter Sweet Amaranthus
Adders Tongue Angelica Alehoof or Ground Ivy

plate two
PLATE 2.
Garden Arrach Avens Ars smart
Basil Archangel Beets
Yellow Bedstraw White Bedstraw Water Betony
THOMAS KELLY, LONDON

Plate three
PLATE 3.
Bird’s Foot Bishop’s Weed Bistort or Snakeweed
White Briony Borage Brooklime
Bucks-horn Plantain Brank Ursine Blue Bottle
THOMAS KELLY, LONDON.

plate four
PLATE 4.
Burdock Butter-bur Wall Bugloss
Bugle Camomile Carraway
Centaury Wild Carrot Celandine
THOMAS KELLY, LONDON.

Plate five
PLATE 5.
Chervill Comfry Cleavers
Coltsfoot Crabs Claws
or Fresh water Soldier		 Cowslip
Columbine Shrub Cinquefoil Costmary
THOMAS KELLY, LONDON.

plate six's plants
PLATE 6.
Crowfoot Cuckow Point Water Cress
Cudweed Crosswort Dill
Dandelion Daisy Devils Bit

Seventh Plate
PLATE 7.
Eringo Eyebright Elecampane
Dock Dragons Dog’s Grass
Dropwort Dove’s Foot Bloody Dock
THOMAS KELLY, LONDON.

plate 8
PLATE 8.
Foxglove Flower-de-luce Figwort
Fleawort Fumitory Fluellin
Fennel Flaxweed Feverfew

Wall Hawkweed. Hart’s Tongue. Mouse-ear Hawkweed. Gentian. Golden Rod. Galingal. Clove Gilliflower. Groundsel. Germander.
PLATE 9.
Wall Hawkweed. Hart’s Tongue. Mouse-ear Hawkweed.
Gentian. Golden Rod. Galingal.
Clove Gilliflower. Groundsel. Germander.
THOMAS KELLY, LONDON.

PLATE 10.
Longrooted Hawkweed Hearts Ease Hounds Tongue
Herb Robert Marsh Pennywort White Horehound
Henbane Truelove Hemlock
THOMAS KELLY, LONDON.

Plate
PLATE 11.
Knapweed Lady’s Mantle Ladysmock
Sea Lavender Water Lily Liquorice
Loosestrife or Willowherb Liver Wort Lily of the Valley

more plants
PLATE 12
Lovage Lungwort Loosestrife or Wood Willow-herb
Maidenhair Field Madder Marsh Mallow
Marigold Melilot Masterwort

more plants
PLATE 13.
Mouse Ear Moon-wort Field Mouse Ear
Yellow Money-wort Black Mullein Mother-wort
Mug-wort White Mullein White Mustard
THOMAS KELLY, LONDON.

plants again
PLATE 14.
Black Mustard Common Nightshade Deadly Nightshade
Nep Nailwort Orpine
Cow Parsnip Rock Parsley Wild Parsnip
THOMAS KELLY, LONDON.

more plants
PLATE 15.
Pellitory of the Wall Periwinkle Pepper-wort
Pimpernel Plantain Polypody
White Poppy Corn Rose Poppy Primrose
THOMAS KELLY, LONDON.

plants
PLATE 16.
Privet Queen of the Meadow Meadow Rue
Cress Rocket Rattle Grass Rocket Cress
Ragwort Rapture Wort Saffron

Plants still
PLATE 17.
Meadow Saxifrage Great Sanicle Samphire
Garden Scurvygrass Scabious Shepherd’s Purse
Saracen’s Confound Self-heal Burnet Saxifrage
THOMAS KELLY, LONDON.

again, plants
PLATE 18.
Yellow Succory Solomon’s Seal Wild Succory
Spignel Wood Sorrel Common Sorrel
Smallage Sow Thistle Tansy

plants
PLATE 19.
Treacle Mustard Tustan Thorough Wax
Tooth-wort Trefoil Tormentil
Lady’s Thistle Wild Teazle Cotton Thistle

final plate of plants
PLATE 20.
Vervain Valerian Viper’s Bugloss
Woad Woodbine Wall Flower
Wormwood Sea Wormwood Yarrow
THOMAS KELLY, LONDON.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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