Culpeper's Herbal: The English Physician

First published in 1652 as The English Physician, this herbal lists hundreds of plants used in English physic and explains how each may be gathered, prepared, and applied. Culpeper assigns herbs to planets and uses astrological correspondences together with humoral theory to match a plant to a disease. Entries cover common English weeds and garden plants as well as some imported drugs, with notes on names, appearance, places of growth, and specific uses for wounds, fevers, women's complaints, and chronic illness. The book is written for household readers rather than licensed physicians. It is a practical directory of plant medicine, not a botanical classification or a narrative.

Bound in pattern blocked green cloth. Dark red endleaves. Dark red slipcase.