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A revised and refreshed edition of Culpeper's classic book on herbal remedies.

EXACT reproduction of the original book Culpeper's Complete Herbal: to which is now added, upwards of 100 additional herbs by Nicholas Culpeper complete with black & white plates of herbs. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures,... Read Full Overview

From Artichoke to Rhubarb- Vine to Hawthorn- The Complete Herbal provides the most comprehensive listings of herbs and their uses in existence.

First published over 350 years ago by herbalist and apothecary Nicholas Culpeper, this encyclopedic guide had an extensive... Read Full Overview

Description of Microcosm's Fall 2022 edition: For the last 350 years, since the reign of Elizabeth I, Nicholas Culpeper's encyclopedic compendium of the uses and properties of medicinal herbs has been unrivaled in completeness or charm. From Adder's Tongue to Yellow Loosestrife,... Read Full Overview

Historic Herbal Medicine

Nicholas Culpeper was a seventeenth-century English botanist, herbalist, physician and astrologer. Published over 350 years ago as a practical health guide, The Complete Herbal (1653) is still a definitive herbal guide for today... Read Full Overview

For the last 350 years, since the reign of Elizabeth I, Nicholas Culpeper's encyclopedic compendium of the uses and properties of medicinal herbs has been unrivaled in completeness or charm. From Adder's Tongue to Yarrow, each of the 411 herbs is described in detail, along with... Read Full Overview

"... Truly my own body being sickly, brought me easily into a capacity, to know that health was the greatest of all earthly blessings, and truly he was never sick that doth not believe it." --Nicholas Culpeper, Epistle to the Reader (1653)

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Culpeper's English Physician and Complete Herbal is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1790. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other... Read Full Overview

The original Culpeper's Herbal, complete in all it's charm, humor and practicality, updated with the medicinal and magickal uses of 117 Modern Herbs. For over 350 years, this historic and definitive guide to herbal remedies, written by physician Nicholas Culpeper, has been the... Read Full Overview

A treasury of plant wisdom from the seventeenth century. A practical guide for all. Culpeper's Complete Herbal sets out concise, plainly written descriptions of nearly every herb then known to English readers, outlining their medicinal properties and giving directions for compounding... Read Full Overview

Excerpt from Culpeper's Complete Herbal: Consisting of a Comprehensive Description of Nearly All Herbs; With Their Medicinal Properties and Directions for Compounding the Medicines Extracted From Them

TAKE Notice, That in this Edition I have made very many Additions to every sheet in the book: and, also, that those books of mine that are printed of that Letter the small Bibles are printed with, are very falsely printed: there being twenty or thirty gross mistakes in every... Read Full Overview

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization... Read Full Overview

EXACT reproduction of the original book Culpeper's Complete Herbal: to which is now added, upwards of 100 additional herbs by Nicholas Culpeper complete with COLOR PLATES. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks,... Read Full Overview