MARC Record from Library of Congress

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040 $aDLC/ICU$cICU$dDLC$dDLC
043 $ae-uk-en
050 00 $aRS81$b.C9 1652
100 1 $aCulpeper, Nicholas,$d1616-1654.
245 14 $aThe English physitian, or, An astrologo-physical discourse of the vulgar herbs of this nation :$bbeing 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 ... /$cBy Nich. Culpeper, Gent. student in physick and astrologie.
246 30 $aEnglish physitian
246 30 $aAstrologo-physical discourse of the vulgar herbs of this nation
260 $aLondon :$bprinted by Peter Cole, at the sign of the Printing-Press in Cornhil, near the Royal Exchange,$c1652.
300 $a[14], 92, 189-255, [5] p., [1] leaf of plates :$bport. ;$c26 cm.
500 $aEngraved frontispiece portrait or Nicholas Culpeper signed: Cross sculpsit.
500 $aSignatures: pi1 A-2G² 2M-3B².
510 4 $aESTC$cR24897
510 4 $aNUC pre-1956$cNC 0828699
500 $aIncludes index.
505 0 $a(from t.p.) ... . Herein is also shewed, 1. The way of making plaisters, oyntments, oyls, pultisses, syrups, decoctions, julips, or waters, of all sorts of physical herbs, that you may have them readie for your use at all times of the yeer -- 2. What planet governeth every herb or tree (used in physick) that groweth in England -- 3. The time of gathering all herbs, both vulgarly, and astrologically -- 4. The way of drying and keeping the herbs all the yeer -- 5. The way of keeping their juyces ready for use at all times -- 6. The way of making and keeping all kind of useful compounds made of herbs -- 7 The way of mixing medicines according to cause and and [sic] mixture of the disease, and part of the body afflicted.
500 $aLC copy has four pages of manuscript notes at end.$5DLC
650 0 $aMateria medica, Vegetable$vEarly works to 1800.
650 0 $aMedicinal plants$vEarly works to 1800.
650 0 $aMedicinal plants$zEngland$vEarly works to 1800.
650 0 $aTherapeutics$vEarly works to 1800.
700 1 $aCross, Thomas,$dactive 1632-1682,$eengraver.