The Complete Herbal: To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic.
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- First published
- 1652 (original herbal)
- Pages
- 587Digital editionReference edition
- Reading time
- About 12 hours24 half-hour sittings
- Language
- English
- Reading difficulty
- Not set
A little about the book
Culpeper describes plants and their reputed uses in the vocabulary of seventeenth-century medicine. Observations about where an herb grows can sit beside instructions that depend on planetary influences.
The entries work well in short visits. Choose a plant you know and see how the book connects appearance, growing conditions and the medical system its readers would have recognised.
Is it for you?
You’ll enjoy it if you like
- history of medicine
- traditional herbals
- old reference works
Things You May Not Know About The Complete Herbal
- Astrological associations appear throughout the entries.
- The edition includes later supplementary material.
About this edition
This English edition comes from Project Gutenberg. The Freebookia PDF has 587 pages. The EPUB adjusts to your reading settings.
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