Culpeper's last legacy : left and bequeathed to his dearest wife, for the publick 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 several sciences, more especially in chyrurgery and physick: viz. compounding of medicines, making of waters, syrups, oyles, electuaries, conserves, salts, pills, purges, and trochischs. With two particular treatises ; the one of feavers, the other of pestilence: as also rare and choice aphorisms and receipts, fitted to the understanding of the meanest capacities. The fifth impression ; whereunto is added 200 choice receipts, lately found, never publisht before in any of his other works ; with a compleat table. By Nicholas Culpeper Gent. student in astrology and physick.

Culpeper's last legacy : left and bequeathed to his dearest wife, for the publick 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 several sciences, more especially in chyrurgery and physick: viz. compounding of medicines, making of waters, syrups, oyles, electuaries, conserves, salts, pills, purges, and trochischs. With two particular treatises ; the one of feavers, the other of pestilence: as also rare and choice aphorisms and receipts, fitted to the understanding of the meanest capacities. The fifth impression ; whereunto is added 200 choice receipts, lately found, never publisht before in any of his other works ; with a compleat table. By Nicholas Culpeper Gent. student in astrology and physick.

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Author / Creator:	Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654.
Imprint:	London : Printed for Nath. Brooke at the Angel in Cornhil, and Obad. Blagrave at the printing-press in Little-Britain over against the Pump, 1671.
Description:	1 online resource ([8], 276, [12] pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Anatomy -- Early works to 1800. Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions -- Early works to 1800. Medicine -- Aphorisms -- Early works to 1800. Surgery -- Early works to 1800. Anatomy. Medicine. Surgery. Early works. Prescriptions, formulae, receipts, etc.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11471632

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Other title:	Febrilia: or, a treatise of feavers. Treatise of the pestilence. Composita: or, a synopsis of the chiefest compositions. Aphorisms exceeding requisite. Select aphorisms concerning the operation of medicines. Select medicinal aphorisms. Rare secrets in physick.
Notes:	Each part has a separate title page dated 1671; text and register are continuous. With a final advertisement leaf. Includes index. Reproduction of original in the British Library. Wing (CD-ROM, 1996) C7521

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