The Complete Herbal

SRC-CUL-1850historical source

Drawn from it on this site: 2,470 claims, 1,460 quotations, 345 herbs, 164 headings.

AuthorNicholas Culpeper
TitleThe 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
EditionA new edition, with a list of the principal diseases to which the human body is liable, and a general index
PlaceLondon
PublisherThomas Kelly, 17, Paternoster Row
Year1850 (MDCCCL on the title page; printed by A. Cross, 89 Paul Street, Finsbury)
ComposedThe English Physitian, 1652, enlarged by Culpeper in 1653; this 1850 edition adds entries it does not mark (see SRC-CUL-1652)
Full citationNicholas Culpeper, The Complete Herbal, a new edition (London: Thomas Kelly, 1850). Project Gutenberg eBook #49513.
Web addresshttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/49513
ScanProject Gutenberg's credits say the file was produced from images made available by the Internet Archive; the item is not named, so no scan link is recorded.
Archive identifierProject Gutenberg #49513 (released 24 July 2015, most recently updated 24 October 2024)
Text usedThe Project Gutenberg plain-text file: its 328 herbal entries, and its List of the Principal Diseases (149 headings, 393 herb references)
LocatorEach quotation carries its entry heading as printed. Pairs from the List of the Principal Diseases carry that list's page number of the printed book. The Gutenberg text has no page numbers, so a sentence found by the sweep has no page locator.
Used forEvery quotation and claim on the page; each herb's ruling planet, read from its entry's Government and virtues.
AccessedText on disk since 2026-08-25; the 1850 index parsed 2026-09-10; every claim read for direction 2026-10-26
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