The English physitian enlarged : with three hundred, sixty, and nine medicines made of English herbs that were not in any impression until this: the epistle will inform you how to know this impression from any other. Being an astrologo-physical discourse of the vulgar herbs of this nation: containing a compleat method of physick, whereby a man may preserve his body in health; or cure himself when 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: vis. 1 The way of making plaisters, oyntments, oyls, pultisses, syrups, decoctions, juleps, or waters, of al sorts of physical hervs, that you may have them ready for your use at al times of the yeer. 2 What planet governeth every herb or tree (used in physick) that groweth in England. 3 The time of gathering al herbs, both vulgarrly, and astrologically. 4 The way of drying and keeping the herbs al the yeer. 5 The way of keeping their juyces ready for use at all times. 6 The way of making and keeping al kind of useful compounds made of herbs. 7 The way of mixing medicines according to cause and misture of the disease, and part of the body afflicted. ... /

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Main Author: Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654
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Language:English
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