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Nicholas Culpeper

English Physician and Astrologer

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  • © 1992

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  1. Olav Thulesius
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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Birth in Ockley

    • Olav Thulesius
    Pages 1-4

  3. Youth in Sussex

    • Olav Thulesius
    Pages 5-17

  4. Cambridge and Youthful Protest

    • Olav Thulesius
    Pages 18-26

  5. Mortar & Pestle

    • Olav Thulesius
    Pages 27-34

  6. Encounter with Lilly

    • Olav Thulesius
    Pages 35-42

  7. Alice Field

    • Olav Thulesius
    Pages 43-54

  8. Civil War & Fights

    • Olav Thulesius
    Pages 55-62

  9. Pandora’s Box, 1649

    • Olav Thulesius
    Pages 63-77

  10. Midwifery, 1651

    • Olav Thulesius
    Pages 78-101

  11. The Herbal, 1652

    • Olav Thulesius
    Pages 102-116

  12. Witchcraft & Starcraft

    • Olav Thulesius
    Pages 117-132

  13. Mysteries of Alchemy & Physick

    • Olav Thulesius
    Pages 133-146

  14. Printed Matters

    • Olav Thulesius
    Pages 147-160

  15. Culpeper’s Ghost

    • Olav Thulesius
    Pages 161-178

  16. Culpeper in America

    • Olav Thulesius
    Pages 179-183

  17. Epilogue

    • Olav Thulesius
    Pages 184-187

  18. Back Matter

    Pages 188-210
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'Olav Thulesius sets out to resurrect the sullied reputation of one of the most prolific writers of medical works during the Interregnum. - Thulesius has given us a welcome beginning of a study of a fascinating and neglected figure who made serious contributions to mid-seventeenth-century medicine while always living on the fringes of the established and licensed medical community.' - Martha Baldwin, Journal of the History or Medicine Was Nicholas Culpeper (1616-54) the father of English herbal medicine or a quacksalver and charlatan astrologer? This first modern biography shows a more complex picture. For example during the Civil War the Puritan Culpeper was wounded while fighting on the Parliamentarian side, as a physician of the poor, he had a burning desire to explain the secrets of medicine to ordinary people, He was not only the author of the famous herbal The English Physician but he also wrote the first book on midwifery and childcare and translated The London Pharmacopoeia.

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OLAV THULESIUS

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