Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 509

NICHOLAS CULPEPER (1616-1654) English physician; and complete herbal. Lewis and Hamblin 1807 Vol. I: [2] xvi, 400 pp.; Vol. II: [4] 256 [58] pp., port., col. plates. 26.5 cm.

For more information on this author or work, see number: 505

In this edition Culpeper argues that every physician should be an astrologer and sets forth the reasons why medicinal plants and herbs are dependent on the movement of the stars. Ebenezer Sibly (1751-1800), another physician-astrologer, began editing the work in 1789, and it continued under his name until the early 1800s. This particular edition has a number of tinted anatomical plates as well as twenty-nine colored plates of various medicinal herbs and plants.

Cited references: Wellcome II, p. 416

Gift of John Martin, M.D.