About the author
Nicholas Culpeper (18 October 1616 – 10 January 1654) was an English botanist, herbalist, physician and astrologer. His book The English Physitian (1652, later Complete Herbal, 1653 ff.) is a source of pharmaceutical and herbal lore of the time, and Astrological Judgement of Diseases from the Decumbiture of the Sick (1655) one of the most detailed works on medical astrology in Early Modern Europe. Culpeper catalogued hundreds of outdoor medicinal herbs. He scolded contemporaries for some of the methods they used in herbal medicine: "This not being pleasing, and less profitable to me, I consulted with my two brothers, Dr. Reason and Dr.
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“This volume serves as a crucial revival of Culpeper’s seminal work, offering a rare glimpse into 17th-century medical thought where every ailment was seen as astrologically governed. It is a dense, scholarly resource best suited…”
Esoterica Books editorial team, Occult literature desk · on Culpeper's Complete Astrology: The Lost Art of Astrological Medicine
“This volume is a specialized historical artifact rather than a general guide to astrology or medicine. It suits scholars, historians of science, and dedicated esoteric practitioners interested in Culpeper's specific…”
Esoterica Books editorial team, Occult literature desk · on Astrological Judgement of Diseases from the Decumbiture of the Sick
