Nicholas Culpeper
Nicholas Culpeper
Nicholas Culpeperwas an English botanist, herbalist, physician, and astrologer. His published books include The English Physitianand the Complete Herbal, which contain a rich store of pharmaceutical and herbal knowledge, and Astrological Judgement of Diseases from the Decumbiture of the Sick, which is one of the most detailed documents known on the practice of medical astrology in Early Modern Europe...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionScientist
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If you will sweeten your Decoction with Sugar, or any Syrup fit for the occasion you take it for which is better, you may and no harm done.
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Such Roots as are soft, your best way is to dry in the Sun, or else hang them up in the Chimney corner upon a string; as for such as are hard you may dry them any where.
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In all Diseases, strengthen the part of the Body afflicted.
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Let your Medicine be something of the Nature of the Sign ascending.