Culpeper's last legacy : left and bequeathed to his dearest wife, for the publicke good : being the choicest and most profitable of those secrets which while he lived were lockt up in his breast, and resolved never to be publisht till after his death : containing sundry admirable experiences in severall sciences, more especially in chyrurgery and physick ... : with two particular treatises, the one of feavers, the other of pestilence, as also other rare and choice aphorisms ... never publisht before in any of his other works / by Nicholas Culpeper.
- Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654
- Date:
- 1655
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Publication/Creation
[London] : Printed for N. Brooke ..., 1655.
Physical description
7 unnumbered pages, 48 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 73 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 144, that is, 140 pages : portrait
Contributors
Notes
Each treatise, except the first and third, has special t.p.
"The authenticity of this work ... seems in the main undoubted, in spite of Mrs. Culpeper's denials"--DNB.
Imperfect: film lacks second group of pagings ([4], 73 p.) which includes the second through the fourth titles in the Contents.
Reproduction of original in Thomason Collection, British Library.
Contents
A treatise of the head -- Febrilia, or, A treatise of feavers in generall -- Physical aphorismes -- A treatise of the pestilence -- Composita, or, A synopsis of the chiefest compositions in use now with Galenists --Aphorismes -- Select aphorismes -- Select medicinall aphorismes.
References note
Wing C7518
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 138:12) s1999 miun s