Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician (1652)
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Date
1652
Author
Nicholas Culpeper Note: 30/09/2005
Book title
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
Publication place
London
Publisher
Peter Cole
Transcription source
Transcript by Richard Siderits at the Medical Historical Library
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
- herbal
- medicine
Summary
A catalogue of simples
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: logical
sample: The Beech-Tree. In treating of this Tree, you must understand that I mean the great Mast Beech; which is by way of distinction from that other smal rough sort, called in Sussex, the small Beech; but in Essex, Hornbeam. I suppose it needless to describe it, being already so wel known to my Countrymen. Place. It groweth in Woods amongst Oaks, and other Trees, and in Parks, Forrests, and Chases, to feed Deer; and in other places to fatten Swine. Time. It bloometh in the end of April, or begining of May for the most part, and the Fruit is ripe in September. Vertues and Use. The Leavs of the Beech-Tree are cooling and binding, and therfore good to be applied to hot Swellings to discuss them: The Nuts do much nourish such Beasts as feed thereon: The Water that is found in the hollow places of decaying Beeches, will cure both Man and Beast of any Scurf, Scab, or running Tetters, if they be washed therwith. You may boyl the Leavs into a Pultis, or make an Ointment of them when time of year serves. (p. 15)
sample: The Beech-Tree. In treating of this Tree, you must understand that I mean the great Mast Beech; which is by way of distinction from that other smal rough sort, called in Sussex, the small Beech; but in Essex, Hornbeam. I suppose it needless to describe it, being already so wel known to my Countrymen. Place. It groweth in Woods amongst Oaks, and other Trees, and in Parks, Forrests, and Chases, to feed Deer; and in other places to fatten Swine. Time. It bloometh in the end of April, or begining of May for the most part, and the Fruit is ripe in September. Vertues and Use. The Leavs of the Beech-Tree are cooling and binding, and therfore good to be applied to hot Swellings to discuss them: The Nuts do much nourish such Beasts as feed thereon: The Water that is found in the hollow places of decaying Beeches, will cure both Man and Beast of any Scurf, Scab, or running Tetters, if they be washed therwith. You may boyl the Leavs into a Pultis, or make an Ointment of them when time of year serves. (p. 15)
Alston
XVII.I.169
Wing
C7501
Other editions
1652: Wing C7501A (Alston XVII.I.170);
1652: Wing C7500 (Alston XVII.I.171);
1652: not in Wing (Alston XVII.I.172);
1653: Wing C7502 (Alston XVII.I.173);
1655: Wing C7502A (Alston XVII.I.174);
1656: Wing C7503 (Alston XVII.I.175);
1661: Wing C7504 (Alston XVII.I.176);
1662: Wing C7504A (Alston XVII.I.177);
1665: Wing C7505 (Alston XVII.I.178);
1666: Wing C7506 (Alston XVII.I.179);
1669: Wing C7507 (Alston XVII.I.180);
1671: Wing C7508 (Alston XVII.I.181);
1674: Wing C7509 (Alston XVII.I.182);
1676: Wing C7510 (Alston XVII.I.183);
1681: Wing C7511 (Alston XVII.I.184);
1683: Wing C7512 (Alston XVII.I.185);
1683: not in Wing (Alston XVII.I.186);
1684: Wing C7513 (Alston XVII.I.187);
1684: Wing C7512A (Alston XVII.I.188);
1695: Wing C7514 (Alston XVII.I.189);
1698: Wing C7514A (Alston XVII.I.190)
1652: Wing C7500 (Alston XVII.I.171);
1652: not in Wing (Alston XVII.I.172);
1653: Wing C7502 (Alston XVII.I.173);
1655: Wing C7502A (Alston XVII.I.174);
1656: Wing C7503 (Alston XVII.I.175);
1661: Wing C7504 (Alston XVII.I.176);
1662: Wing C7504A (Alston XVII.I.177);
1665: Wing C7505 (Alston XVII.I.178);
1666: Wing C7506 (Alston XVII.I.179);
1669: Wing C7507 (Alston XVII.I.180);
1671: Wing C7508 (Alston XVII.I.181);
1674: Wing C7509 (Alston XVII.I.182);
1676: Wing C7510 (Alston XVII.I.183);
1681: Wing C7511 (Alston XVII.I.184);
1683: Wing C7512 (Alston XVII.I.185);
1683: not in Wing (Alston XVII.I.186);
1684: Wing C7513 (Alston XVII.I.187);
1684: Wing C7512A (Alston XVII.I.188);
1695: Wing C7514 (Alston XVII.I.189);
1698: Wing C7514A (Alston XVII.I.190)
Criticisms
Clucas, Stephen. "The Correspondence of a XVII-century `Chymicall Gentleman': Sir Cheney Culpeper and the Chemical Interests of the Hartlib Circle." Ambix 40.3 (1993): 147-70. view record
Jones, Richard Foster. "Genealogy of a Classic: `The English physitian' of Nicholas Culpeper." Ph.D. dissertation. view record
Jones, Richard Foster. "Genealogy of a Classic: `The English physitian' of Nicholas Culpeper." Ph.D. dissertation. view record
