This invaluable volume combines the knowledge of two herbal doctors, Nicholas Culpeper and W. J. Simmonite, to form an alternative medicine reference book.
Nicholas Culpeper was a famous physician in the seventeenth century and W. J. Simmonite was well-known for his innovative herbal remedies in the 1900s. Combining the studies of these two doctors provides a valuable reference book for those looking for alternative remedies for their ailments.
This volume features three parts:
- Selected Herbs-Their Description and Medicinal Properties
- Ailments and Diseases in General-Their Symptoms and Cure
- Useful Prescriptions Which Can Be Made Up At Home
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Höhe: 216 mm
Breite: 140 mm
Dicke: 7 mm
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ISBN-13
978-1-4067-9877-7 (9781406798777)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Nicholas Culpeper (probably born at Ockley, Surrey, 18 October 1616; died at Spitalfields, London, 10 January 1654) was an English botanist, herbalist, physician and astrologer. His book The English Physitian (1652, later the Complete Herbal, 1653 ff.) is a store of pharmaceutical and herbal knowledge, and Astrological Judgement of Diseases from the Decumbiture of the Sick (1655) is one of the most detailed works on medical astrology in Early Modern Europe. Culpeper spent much time outdoors cataloguing hundreds of medicinal herbs. He scolded some methods of contemporaries:
"This not being pleasing, and less profitable to me, I consulted with my two brothers, Dr. Reason and Dr. Experience, and took a voyage to visit my mother Nature, by whose advice, together with the help of Dr. Diligence, I at last obtained my desire; and, being warned by Mr. Honesty, a stranger in our days, to publish it to the world, I have done it."
Culpeper came from a line of notabilities, including Thomas Culpeper, lover of Queen Catherine Howard, also a distant relative, sentenced to death by her husband, King Henry VIII.
