[Transcriber's Note: As with any medicinal work first published in the 1600s and rewritten countless times, it should go without saying to not attempt these recipes. Just in case, the transcriber has now said it. Also, many and varied were the printing and publishing anomalies, for a more complete explanation, see the extensive notes collected at the end of this text.] [Illustration: NICHOLAS CULPEPER, M.D. Author of the Family Herbal.] [Illustration: RED LION HOUSE, SPITALFIELDS IN WHICH CULPEPER LIVED, STUDIED AND DIED] THE COMPLETE HERBAL; TO WHICH IS NOW ADDED, UPWARDS OF ONE HUNDRED ADDITIONAL HERBS, WITH A DISPLAY OF THEIR Medicinal and Occult Qualities PHYSICALLY APPLIED TO THE CURE OF ALL DISORDERS INCIDENT TO MANKIND: TO WHICH ARE NOW FIRST ANNEXED, THE ENGLISH PHYSICIAN ENLARGED, AND KEY TO PHYSIC. WITH RULES FOR COMPOUNDING MEDICINE ACCORDING TO THE TRUE SYSTEM OF NATURE. FORMING A COMPLETE FAMILY DISPENSATORY AND NATURAL SYSTEM OF PHYSIC. ———————————— BY NICHOLAS CULPEPER, M.D. ———————————— TO WHICH IS ALSO ADDED, UPWARDS OF FIFTY CHOICE RECEIPTS, SELECTED FROM THE AUTHOR’S LAST LEGACY TO HIS WIFE. A NEW EDITION, WITH A LIST OF THE PRINCIPAL DISEASES TO WHICH THE HUMAN BODY IS LIABLE, AND A GENERAL INDEX. _Illustrated by Engravings of numerous British Herbs and Plants, correctly coloured from nature._ ——————— “The Lord hath created Medicines out of the earth; and he that is wise will not abhor them.”—_Ecc._ xxxviii. 4. ——————— LONDON: THOMAS KELLY, 17, PATERNOSTER ROW. ——— MDCCCL. LONDON; A. CROSS, PRINTER, 89, PAUL STREET, FINSBURY. [Transcriber's Notes: All plates were done by: THOMAS KELLY, LONDON] PLATE 1. Alexander Agrimony Alkanet Allheal Amara Dulcis _or_ Bitter Sweet Amaranthus Adder's Tongue Angelica Alehoof _or_ Ground Ivy PLATE 2. Garden Arrach Avens Ars smart Basil Archangel Beets Yellow Bedstraw White Bedstraw Water Betony PLATE 3. Bird’s Foot Bishop’s Weed Bistort _or_ Snakeweed White Briony Borage Brooklime Bucks-horn Plantain Brank Ursine Blue Bottle PLATE 4. Burdock Butter-bur Wall Bugloss Bugle Camomile Carraway Centaury Wild Carrot Celandine PLATE 5. Chervill Comfry Cleavers Coltsfoot Crabs Claws _or_ Fresh water Soldier Cowslip Columbine Shrub Cinquefoil Costmary PLATE 6. Crowfoot Cuckow Point Water Cress Cudweed Crosswort Dill Dandelion Daisy Devils Bit PLATE 7. Eringo Eyebright Elecampane Dock Dragons Dog’s Grass Dropwort Dove’s Foot Bloody Dock PLATE 8. Foxglove Flower-de-luce Figwort Fleawort Fumitory Fluellin Fennel Flaxweed Feverfew PLATE 9.