Culpeper's Complete Herbal: Over 400 Herbs And Their Uses

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Scialabba, George (30 November 2004). "The Worst Medicine; book review of 'Heal Thyself: Nicholas Culpeper and the Seventeenth-Century Struggle to Bring Medicine to the People' ". Washington Post (online) . Retrieved 31 October 2007. Affordable, witty and highly practical, Culpeper's herbal went on to become one of the most popular and enduring books in publishing history, so much so that it is still in print today. the liver, Mars the Gall and diseases of choler, and Venus diseases in the instruments of Generation. Culpeper, Nicholas (1835). The Complete Herbal. University of California Libraries (1835ed.). London: Thomas Kelly. Written in informal, accessible language, it provided a handy index of ailments, making it easy to find the correct herb for a cure. The tone of the book added to its success and popularity: it was funny, rude, and full of anger. Also, it was very cheap compared to other herbals of the day; Culpeper's was priced at only three pence, the same amount it would have cost to buy a pound of almonds. The price made the text accessible to those with little money, who previously would have relied on the service of expensive physicians. When asked why rival herbals were sold at such a high price Nicholas answered:

McCarl, M. R. (1996). "Publishing the works of Nicholas Culpeper, astrological herbalist and translator of Latin medical works in seventeenth-century London". Canadian Bulletin of Medical History. 13 (2): 225–376. doi: 10.3138/cbmh.13.2.225. PMID 11620074. Culpeper was a radical in his time, angering his fellow physicians by condemning their greed, unwillingness to stray from Galen and use of harmful practices such as toxic remedies and bloodletting. The Society of Apothecaries were similarly incensed by the way he suggested cheap herbal remedies, as opposed to their expensive concoctions. [8] Philosophy of herbalism [ edit ] Culpeper saw medicine as a public asset, not a commercial secret, and the prices physicians charged as too high compared with the cheap, universal availability of nature's medicine. He felt the use of Latin and the high fees charged by doctors, lawyers and priests worked to deprive the public of power and freedom.Transcription from Pharmacopoeia Londinensis: or the London dispensatory, by Nicholas Culpeper, London: printed for Peter Cole, 1649, p. 70. POYNTER, F. N. (January 1962). "Nicholas CULPEPER and his books". Jornal de historia da medicina. 17: 152–167. doi: 10.1093/jhmas/xvii.1.152. PMID 14037402. Hellebore, causes sneezing if ground and inhaled; for killing rodents if mixed with food. (Hellebore is now known to contain poisonous alkaloids: [12] cardiac glycosides in the roots and ranunculin and protoanemonin, especially in the leaves and sap. [13] [14])

The way it was. Nicholas Culpeper—the complete herbalist". Nurs. Clin. North Am. 1 (2): 344–345. June 1966. PMID 5177326. things under the sun farewell. Farewell, my dear wife and child; farewell, Arts and Sciences, whichThulesius, O (September 1994). "Nicholas Culpeper, father of English midwifery". Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. 87 (9): 552–556. doi: 10.1177/014107689408700922. PMC 1294777. PMID 7932467. The English Physician Enlarged: With Three Hundred and Sixty-Nine Medicines, made of English Herbs, that were not in any impression until this. Being an astrologo-physical discourse of the vulgar herbs of this nation ... . Barker, London [1800] XML (Digital edition) pdf by the University and State Library Düsseldorf

Gao X.; Zhao P.-H.; Hu J.-F. (2011). "Chemical constituents of plants from the genus Dictamnus". Chemistry and Biodiversity. 8 (7): 1234–1244. doi: 10.1002/cbdv.201000132. PMID 21766445. S2CID 46187608. Culpeper’s English physician; and complete herbal, by Nicholas Culpeper, London: Printed for the author, 1794, p. 34.In 1640, Culpeper married Alice Field, the 15-year-old heiress of a wealthy grain merchant, which allowed him to set up a pharmacy at the halfway house in Spitalfields, London, outside the authority of the City of London, at a time when medical facilities in London were at breaking point. Arguing that "no man deserved to starve to pay an insulting, insolent physician" and obtaining his herbal supplies from the nearby countryside, Culpeper could provide his services free of charge. This and a willingness to examine patients in person rather than simply examining their urine (in his view, "as much piss as the Thames might hold" did not help in diagnosis), Culpeper was extremely active, sometimes seeing as many as 40 patients in a morning. Using a combination of experience and astrology, he devoted himself to using herbs to treat his patients. receive as much benefit by this, as by my Dispensatory, and that incomparable piece called, Semiotica Arber, Agnes (2010) [1912]. Herbals: Their Origin and Evolution. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-108-01671-1. Thulesius, O (December 1996). "Nicholas Culpeper, a 17th-century physician of herbal medicine: What grows in England will cure the English". Läkartidningen. 93 (51–52): 4736–7. PMID 9011726. an exact representation of which we have given under our Author’s Portrait), where he had considerable