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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Culpepper's Family physician: The English physician enlarged: containing 300 medicines, made of American herbs |
| Reference | 72353.O |
| Library | The Library Company of Philadelphia |
| Date | 1824 |
| Author | Culpepper, Nicholas |
| Publisher / Printer / Lithographer | Scammon, James |
| Place of Creation | Exeter, New Hampshire |
| Description | First edition; reissued at Exeter in 1825. A century later, Culpepper was still in print, revised to include American plants by a New Hampshire herbalist, who was also the books publisher. |
| Document Type | Printed Book |
| Theme(s) | Botanic Medicine |
| Keywords | botany, medicine, physician, herbs, plasters, lotion, water, receipt, cough, cold, rheumatism, fever, cramp, disease |
| Parts of the Body | head, teeth, bones, skin |
| Additional Information | Culpepper's limited appeal on this side of the Atlantic may have been due to scepticism toward the more occult aspects of his system, i.e., his adherence to the doctrine of signatures and his belief in the influence of the heavens on the human body, on the diseases to which it is subject, and on the plants that heal it. |
| Note | Please note that some of the metadata for this document has been drawn from the Library Company of Philadelphia’s catalogue, and 'An Annotated Catalogue of the Edward C. Atwater Collection of American Popular Medicine and Health Reform', compiled by Christopher Hoolihan. |
| Copyright | The Library Company of Philadelphia |