Nicholas Culpeper, English Herbalist

Nicholas Culpeper, English Herbalist

Nicholas Culpeper (October 18, 1616 - January 10, 1654) was an English botanist, herbalist, physician, and astrologer. His published books includes The English Physitian (1652), The Complete Herbal (1653), which contains a rich store of pharmaceutical and herbal knowledge, and Astrological Judgement of Diseases from the Decumbiture of the Sick (1655), which is one of the most detailed documents known on the practice of medical astrology. Culpeper believed medicine was a public asset rather than a commercial secret, and the prices physicians charged were far too expensive compared to the cheap and universal availability of nature's medicine. He felt the use of Latin and expensive fees charged by doctors, lawyers and priests worked to keep power and freedom from the general public. Culpeper attempted to make medical treatments more accessible to laypersons by educating them about maintaining their health. Culpeper was a radical in his time, angering his fellow physicians by condemning their greed, unwillingness to stray from Galen and their use of harmful practices such as toxic remedies and bloodletting. He died of tuberculosis in 1654 at the age of 37. No artist credited, 1817.

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