The Herbalist: Nicholas Culpeper and the Fight for Medical Freedom
Benjamin Woolley, "The Herbalist: Nicholas Culpeper and the Fight for Medical Freedom"
English | ISBN: 0007126581 | 2016 | 432 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
English | ISBN: 0007126581 | 2016 | 432 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
From the bestselling author of ‘The Queen’s Conjuror’, comes the story of Nicholas Culpeper – legendary rebel, radical, Puritan, and author of the great ‘Herbal’. This is a powerful history of medicine’s first freedom fighter set in London during Britain’s age of revolution.
In the mid-17th century, England was visited by the four horsemen of the apocalypse: a civil war which saw levels of slaughter not matched until the Somme, famine in a succession of failed harvests that reduced peasants to 'anatomies', epidemics to rival the Black Death in their enormity, and infant mortality rates that left childless even women who had borne eight or nine children. In the midst of these terrible times came Nicholas Culpeper’s ‘Herbal’ – one of the most popular and enduring books ever published.
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