Description
Enlarged edition of The English Physician by Nicholas Culpepper.
Small octavo, [12], 346pp, [2], [12pp ads]. Full leather, rebacked with new leather spine, title in gilt on red leather spine label. Solid text block, heavy wear to covers, foxing and toning to leaves as expected with age, small creases to a few leaves. Occasional marginalia. A scarce edition.
Nicholas Culpepper (1616-1654) cataloged hundreds of medicinal herbs throughout his life as a botanist, physician, and astrologer. He combined these three fields to advance his medicinal practice, writing both this piece and Astrological Judgement of Diseases from the Decumbiture of the Sick (1655). Culpepper’s discoveries were so impactful that some species he cataloged were taken from England to the New World.
