THE ENGLISH PHYSICIAN, ENLARGED WITH THREE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-NINE MEDICINES MADE OF ENGLISH HERBS, NOT IN ANY FORMER IMPRESSION OF CULPEPER'S BRITISH HERBAL, CONTAINING An Astrologo-Physical Discourse on the various Herbs of this Nation and also a complete Method of Physic, whereby Man may preserve his Body in Health, or cure himself when sick, with such Remedies only as grow in England, being the best adapted for English Constitutions: ILLUSTRATED WITH Correct Copper Plates of the most Useful and Remarkable Plants TO WHICH IS ADDED THE FAMILY PHYSICIAN, AND A PRESENT FOR THE LADIES, Containing the best Remedies for every Disease incident to the Human Body By Dr. PARKINS, Author of the HOLY TEMPLE OF WISDOM, &c. The Lord hath created Medicines out of the Earth; and he that is wise will not abhor them. Ecclesiasticus, xxxviii, 4. LONDON: Printed by J. & E. Hodson, Cross Street, Hatton Garden, For B. CROSBY & Co. Stationer's Court, Paternoster Row, Sold also by every Bookseller in the United Kingdom. 1809. Price on Fine Paper, with coloured Plates, 7s. 6d. boards. On Small Paper, with plain Plates, 5s. bound. K-KS$1 с 9 GENERAL CONTENTS. Preface. Explantion of the Temperaments of the Herbs.... Of the Principal Virtues.. Alphabetical Table of Herbs and Plants Tables for gathering Herbs and Plants..... to find the beginning and ending of the Planetary ix xi xiv xxini 1 349 365 366 368 ..370 Hour..... 372 to find the Planetary Hour every Day in the 375 Explanation of the Tables. 376 The Family Physician. M350880 THE PREFACE. COURTEOUS READER, INow enjoy the heartfelt satisfaction of laying before you a new and elegant improvement of CULPEPER'S HERBAL; which work having gone through such a vast number of editions, will, I trust, prove a sufficient recommendation in respect to its great utility and benefit to the public at large, with the addition of some elegant Plates, in order to enable you to know the various and different kinds of Herbs when you see them. We have likewise taught you to know the true nature of each plant, in respect to the temperament of the same. You have also herein a complete Family Physician, together with the best remedies for every disease incident to the Human Body; for seeing that our frail mortal bodies are subject to a vast multitude of diseases, both internal and external, it hath most graciously pleased Almighty God, of his infinite mercy, goodness and compassion to sinful man, to plant remedies in our gar dens, before our doors, and even on every side of our paths, in order that we might (with our hearts full of gratitude and thanksgivings) put forth our hands, and duly receive the healing balm, in the day of pain and most grievous afflic tion. We must really stand astonished, and be even lost in admiration, when we find that all these plants are impregnated with, and do possess, such an healing property as is found to overcome and vanquish every disease incident to the human body! and the plain reason thereof is this, because they are governed, made rich, preserved, and are |
