The Herbalist: Nicholas Culpeper and the Fight for Medical Freedom

by Benjamin Woolley

Book Overview

From the bestselling author of 'The Queen's Conjuror', comes the story of Nicholas Culpeper - legendary rebel, radical, Puritan, and author of the great 'Herbal'. This is a powerful history of medicine's first freedom fighter set in London during Britain's age of revolution.

In the mid-17th century, England was visited by the four horsemen of the apocalypse: a civil war which saw levels of slaughter not matched until the Somme, famine in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0007126581
• ISBN13: 9780007126583
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.0" x 8.0"