Culpeper's School of physick : or the experimental practice of the whole art. Wherin are contained all inward diseases from the head to the food, with their proper and effectual cures; such diet set down as ought to be observed in sickness or in health. with other safe waies for preserving of life, in excellent aphorisms, and approved medicines, so plainly and easily treated of, that the free-born student rightly understanding this method, may judg of the practice of physick, so far as it concerns himself, or the cure of others, &c. A work never before published, very necessary for all that desire to ve rightly informed in physick, shyrurgery, chymistry, &c. /
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| Language: | English |
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London :
printed for R. Harford, and are to be sold as his shop at the Angel in Cornhill,
1678.
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| Edition: | Second edition. |
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| Item Description: | "The narrative of the authors life is prefixed, with his nativity calculated; together with the testimony of his late wife, Mrs. Alice Culpeper, and others." Additional title page (page 1): "Culpeper's school of physick, or the English apothecare. A treatise of the transcendent sufficiency of our English herbs, as they may be rightly used in medicine. Being a brief account of the chiefest concerns of the whole herbary art; as also of the excellency of our English home physick"; imprint: "London, Printed for Obadiah Blagrave, at the Sign of the Bear in St. Paul's Church-yard, and R. Harford at the Angel in Corn-hill, 1677." Additional title page (page 193): "The chirurgeon's guide: or the errors of some unskilful practitioners in chirurgery"; imprint: "London, Printed for O.B. and R.H. 1677." Additional title page (page 227): "The treasury of life: or, salves for every sore. Experienced and tryed recipes, for the cure of the most usual diseases that our frail bodies are most subject to, whilst we remain in this life"; imprint: "London, Printed for O.B. and R.H. 1677." Additional title page (page 261): "The expert lapidary: or a physical treatise of the secret virtues of stones"; imprint: "London, Printed for O.B. and R.H. 1677." Additional title page (page 277): "Doctor diets directorie; or the physicians vade mecum. Or, short bt safe rules to preserve health in a methodical way, passing by the impertinencies and nicities of former physicians, treating only of familian and the most useful things in diet, such as chiefly nourish and continue life"; imprint: "London, Printed for O.B. and R.H. 1677." Additional title page (page 343): "Doctor reason and doctor experience consulted with. Or the mystery of the skill of physick made easie. Short, clear, and certain rules how to discern, judge and determine what any usual diseease is, from the parts of the body affected; the cuases, signs or symptomes, collected and observed from the most approved authors, and constantly practiced"; imprint: "London, Printed for O.B. and R.H. 1677." Additional title page (page 403): "Chimical institutions, describing natures choicest secrets in experienced chymical practice. Shewing the several degrees of progression in the physical cabinet of that art"; imprint: "London, Printed for O.B. and R.H. 1677." |
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| Physical Description: | 28 unnumbered leaves, 461 pages, 9 unnumbered leaves : engr. frontispiece (portrait) & diagram ; (octavo) |