Culpeper's last legacy: left and bequeathed to his dearest wife, for the publick good. Being the choycest and most profitable of those secrets which while he lived were lockt up in his breast, and resolved never to be publish'd till after his death. Containing sundry admirable experiences in several sciences, more especially in chirurgery, and physick: viz. compounding of medicines, making of waters, syrups, oyls, electuaries, conserves, salts, pills, purges and trochischs. With two particular treatises the one of fevers, the other of pestilence: as also rare and choyce aphorisms and receipts, fitted to the understanding of the meanest capacities. With an addition of two hundred choyce receipts, lately found, never publish'd before in any of his other works; and a compleat table. The fifth impression; whereunto is added An exact and perfect treatise of anatomy of the reins and bladder, brain and nerves of all the parts of the body, never published before this year 1677. By Nicholas Culpeper

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  • Culpeper's last legacy: left and bequeathed to his dearest wife, for the publick good. Being the choycest and most profitable of those secrets which while he lived were lockt up in his breast, and resolved never to be publish'd till after his death. Containing sundry admirable experiences in several sciences, more especially in chirurgery, and physick: viz. compounding of medicines, making of waters, syrups, oyls, electuaries, conserves, salts, pills, purges and trochischs. With two particular treatises the one of fevers, the other of pestilence: as also rare and choyce aphorisms and receipts, fitted to the understanding of the meanest capacities. With an addition of two hundred choyce receipts, lately found, never publish'd before in any of his other works; and a compleat table. The fifth impression; whereunto is added An exact and perfect treatise of anatomy of the reins and bladder, brain and nerves of all the parts of the body, never published before this year 1677. By Nicholas Culpeper
  • Febrilia; or, A treatise of fevers in general.; Treatise of the pestilence.; Composita: or, A synopsis of the chiefest compositions now in use with our physicians.; Aphorisms exceeding requisite for such as intend the noble (though too much abused) practice of physick.; Select aphorisms concerning the operation of medicines.; Select medicinal aphorisms and receipts.; Rare secrets in physick and chirurgery.; Opus physicum.; Anatomy of the brain & nerves.; Eyes anatomized. ; Aphorisms exceeding requisite for such as intend the noble (though too much abused) practice of physic.; Rare secrets in physic and surgery.; Anatomy of the brain and nerves.
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Imprint
London : printed for Obadiah Blagrave at the Sign of the Bear in St. Paul's Church Yard, near the Little North Door, 1677.
Publication year
1677
ESTC No.
R29688
Grub Street ID
112633
Description
[8], 176, 179-276, [16], 60, [18] p., [1] leaf of plates ; 8°.
Note
The words "compounding of medicines," and "making of waters, syrups, oyls, electuaries, conserves, salts, pills, purges and trochischs." in title are gathered respectively by a right and a left hand brace

'Febrilia; or, A treatise of fevers in general' has a separate title page (E1r) with imprint: London, printed in the year 1676, pagination and register are continuous. The following all have separate title pages with imprint: London, printed for Nath. Brooke at the Angel in Cornhil, near the Royal Exchange, 1676: 'A treatise of the pestilence' (H8r), 'Composita: or, A synopsis of the chiefest compositions now in use with our physicians' (I7r), 'Aphorisms exceeding requisite for such as intend the noble (though too much abused) practice of physick' (L8r), 'Select aphorisms concerning the operation of medicines' (M5r), 'Select medicinal aphorisms and receipts' (O5r) and 'Rare secrets in physick and chirurgery' (R1r), pagination and register are continuous throughout

'Opus physicum' has a separate title page (V1r) with imprint: London, printed for Nath. Brooke at the Angel in Cornhil, near the Royal Exchange, 1676, and separate pagination, register is continuous. 'The anatomy of the brain & nerves' and 'The eyes anatomized' both have separate title pages (V6r and Z3r respectively) with imprint: London, printed for Nath. Brooke at the Angel in Cornhil, near the Royal Exchange, 1676, pagination and register are continuous

Reissue of the 1676 "fifth impression" (Wing C7521A), with a new title page

Wing reports: "Fifth" edition

Text and register are continuous despite pagination

Frontis. = plate = port

With marginal notes

Includes index

With 17 final pages of advertisements: Books printed for Nathaniel Brooke at the Angel in Cornhil near the Royal Exchange

Signatures: A]4] B-2A]8

Copy at UMI microfilm Early English Books 1641-1700, reel 1439 is imperfect, wanting frontis., and leaves Z3, 2A7 and 2A8.
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Catalogued from a copy at the British Library