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Title: The 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, the English Physician Enlarged, and Key to Physic. With Rules for Compounding Medicine … A New Edition. Author: Culpeper, Nicholas Place: London Publisher: Thomas Kelly Date: 1850 Description: [6], (iii)-vi, 398 pp. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Culpeper, 20 hand-colored plates (each with 9 plants illustrated). (4to) 27.5x21 cm (10¾x8¼"), later calf-backed marbled boards, black leather spine label, endpaper renewed. Nicholas Culpeper (1616-1654), an English botanist, physician, and astrologer, is a legendary figure in the field of herbal medicine. He studied in Cambridge, became apprenticed to an apothecary, and later ran a pharmacy in London. He believed that the use of Latin by doctors, lawyers and priests was a conspiracy to keep power and freedom away from the general public. In keeping with his beliefs, he challenged the monopoly of the medical establishment, and in 1649 published an English translation of the physicians pharmacopoeia “A Physicall Directory” that had up until then only been published in Latin. In addition, he used the English common names of plants in his practice rather than Latin names to communicate with his poorer clients, who might collect their remedies in the nearby countryside. In 1653, he published his famous “The English Physician, or Herball.” Culpeper died of tuberculosis at the young age of 38. Lot Amendments Condition: Spine sunned, light wear to joints; small repairs to two plates; very good. Item number: 233405