Person:Nicholas Culpepper (4)

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Nicholas Culpeper (18 October 1616 – 10 January 1654) was an English botanist, herbalist, physician and astrologer. His The English Physician (1652, later Complete Herbal, 1653 ff.) is a source of pharmaceutical and herbal lore of the time, and Astrological Judgement of Diseases from the Decumbiture of the Sick (1655) one of the most detailed works on medical astrology in Early Modern Europe. Culpeper catalogued hundreds of outdoor medicinal herbs. He scolded contemporaries for some of the methods they used: "This not being pleasing, and less profitable to me, I consulted with my two brothers, and , and took a voyage to visit my mother , by whose advice, together with the help of , I at last obtained my desire; and, being warned by , a stranger in our days, to publish it to the world, I have done it."

Culpeper came from a line of notabilities, including the courtier Thomas Culpeper, who was reputed to be a lover of Catherine Howard (also a distant relative), the fifth wife of Henry VIII.

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} The Sussex Colepepers. Part II. By Colonel F.W.T.Attree, R.E., F.S.A., and the late Rev. J.H.L.Booker, M.A., in Sussex Archaeological Collections
   Volume XLVIII, pages 65 to 98, 1905.

   http://www.archive.org/stream/sussexarchaeolo17socigoog#page/n126/mode/2up

2.   Nicholas Culpeper, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.