The English Physitian: or an Astrologo-Physical Discourse of the Vulgar Herbs of this Nation. Being a Compleat Method of Physick, whereby a man may preserve his Body in Health, or cure himself, being sick, for three pence charge, with such things only as grow in England, they being most fit for English Bodies.

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2°. 1st edition. [14], 92, 189-255, [5] pp. Text continuous despite pagination. With an engraved frontispiece portrait (plate) signed: Cross sculpsit. In contemporary full mottled, unlettered calf, re-backed with original spine laid down. The volume has been fully conserved with title page and frontis laid down. This first edition of The English Physitian (1652), is otherwise known as the Complete Herbal (1653 ff.), and contains the store of pharmaceutical and herbal knowledge that Culpeper had amassed at Cambridge and whilst apprenticed to an apothecary. A fortunate marriage allowed him to set up a pharmacy in Spitalfields (outside the authority of the City of London) and provide his services free of charge. Using a combination of experience and astrology he treated his patients with herbs gathered from the countryside nearby. ESTC R24897; Wing C7501; OTA A35365; Henrey 53 and pp 82-88; Norman 541. Seller Inventory # PS.596

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