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Culpeper's complete herbal : with nearly four hundred medicines, made from English herbs, physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to man; with rules for compounding them: also, directions for making syrups, ointments, &c., &c., &c.

Name: Culpeper's complete herbal : with nearly four hundred medicines, made from English herbs, physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to man; with rules for compounding them: also, directions for making syrups, ointments, &c., &c., &c.
Author: Nicholas Culpeper

Nicholas Culpeper · 1852 · Scanned text · Free in the US

141,518 words · about 9 h 55 min to read

Period artwork: Interior of the Bodleian Library, 1845

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Author: Nicholas Culpeper
Language: English
Published: 1852
Length: 141,518 words · about 9 h 55 min
Sections: 22 reader sections
Source: Internet Archive (53357467.6000.emory.edu)
Text: Scanned text, read from page scans by OCR; may contain errors
Rights: Public domain in the United States · PD-US by publication date

Contents (22)

Front matter about 13 min
Chap. 1.— Of distilled Water 405 about 9 h 10 min
Section I. Of Gathering, Drying, And Keeping Simples, And Their Juices under 1 min
Section II. Of Making And Keeping Compounds about 3 min
CHAP. III. Of Seeds about 1 min
Chap. IV about 2 min
Chap. V about 1 min
CHAP. VI. Of Juices about 1 min
CHAP. I. Of Distilled Waters about 1 min
CHAP. II. Of Syrupt about 4 min
CHAP. IV. Of Decoctions about 2 min
Chap. V about 2 min
CHAP. VI. Of Electuaries about 1 min
CHAP. VII. Of Conserves about 1 min
CHAP. VIII. Of Preserves about 3 min
CHAP. IX. Of Lohochs about 1 min
CHAP. X. Of Ointments about 1 min
CHAP. XI. Of Plaisters about 1 min
CHAP. XII. Of Poultices about 1 min
CHAP. XIII. Of Troches about 1 min
Chap. XIV about 1 min
CHAP. XV. This being indeed the key of the work, I shall be about 3 min

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Culpeper's complete herbal : with nearly four hundred medicines, made from English herbs, physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to man; with rules for compounding them: also, directions for making syrups, ointments, &c., &c., &c.

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