CULPEPER'S
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 his
ENGLISH PHYSICIAN ENLARGED,
AND
KEY TO PHYSIC,
WITH
RULES for Compounding MEDICINE according to the true SYSTEM of NATURE.
FORMING A COMPLETE
FAMILY DISPENSATORY,
AND
NATURAL SYSTEM OF PHYSIC,
TO WHICH IS ALSO ADDED
UPWARDS OF FIFTY CHOICE RECEIPTS, Selected from the Author's last Legacy to his Wife.
EMBELLISHED WITH ENGRAVINGS OF UPWARDS OF FOUR HUNDRED DIFFERENT PLANTS,
WITH OTHER
SUBJECTS TO ILLUSTRATE THE WORK.
"The Lord hath created Medicines out of the Earth; and he that is wise will not abhor them."-- Ecc. xxxviii. 4.
LONDON:
Published by RICHARD EVANS, No. 8, White's Row, Spitalfields.
CULPEPER's
EPISTLE TO THE READER.
TAKE Notice, That in this Edition I have made very many Additions to every sheet in the book: and, also, that those books of mine that are printed of that Letter the small Bibles are printed with, are very falsely printed; there being twenty or thirty gross mistakes in every sheet, many of them such as are exceedingly dangerous to such as shall venture to use them: And therefore I do warn the Public of them: I can do no more at present; only take notice of these Directions by which …