Abstract
In 1648 at Christmas time Anthony and Elisabeth Parris came to visit their nephew Nicholas and his wife Alice. They had travelled all the way up from Isfield, Sussex, to London.1
Go, take physic, dote upon
Some big-named composition
The oraculous doctors’ mystic bills-
Certain hard words made into pills;
And what at last shalt thou gain by these?
Only costlier disease.
Richard Crashaw, 1613–1649
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Thulesius, O. (1992). Pandora’s Box, 1649. In: Nicholas Culpeper. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230371538_8
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