Culpeper's Complete Herbal and English Physician

Agrimony to yarrow: Nicholas Culpeper's outlaw herbal gave every English family the apothecary's secrets — each plant with its government, its virtues, and the diseases it was trusted to cure.

The Family Physician

4 pages in this part of Culpeper's Complete Herbal.

The Family Physician

How to make Eye-water.

The Family Physician: Chemist

If I was to tell you how these valuable oils are made, it would be of no use to you, as you do not know the art and work of the Chemist, it…

The Family Physician: Take

Take friar's balsam and tincture of myrrh, of each one ounce, spirits of turpentine two ounces, and good old strong ale dregs three ounces…

The Family Physician: Dissolve

Dissolve two ounces of hepatic aloes, with a small spoonfull of sweet oil, add as much water, in a porringer, over a small fire. - When it…

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