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Title: Culpeper's Medicine: A Practice of Western Holistic Medicine
Author: Graeme Tobyn(19XX- )
Publisher: Element Books Limited


--- Contents ---
List of tables vi
List of figures vii
List of plate illustrations viii
Picture Credits ix
Acknowledgements x
Notice xi
Introduction: Why Read Culpeter Today? xiii
.....................................................................................PART 1 .
A Student of Physick and Astrology: The Life and Death of Nicholas Culpeper(1616-1654) 3
.....................................................................................PART 2 .
.................................................................Western Holistic Medicine .
SECTION 1: The Seven Natural Things and the Constitutional Basis of Medicine 40
SECTION 2: The Preservation of Health and the Prevention of Disease 96
.....................................................................................PART 3 .
As Above, So Below: Astrology, Medicine and Hermetic Philosophy 130
.....................................................................................PART 4 .
The English Physician: Herbal Medicine and Therapeutics 176
APPENDICES .
The Natal Horoscope of Nicholas Culpeper 229
The Horoscope of 1651 239
Notes 248
Glossary 264
Useful addresses 267
Index 269

--- List of Tables ---
Table of Primary Qualities 43
Table of Secondary Qualities related to the 4 Primary Qualities 43
Table of Elements and Temperaments 46
Table of the 8 Variations of Temperament 49
Table of certain Physical Signs associated with each of the Primary Qualities 57
Table of Physical Signs associated with each of the 4 Temperaments 57
Table of certain Physical Signs associated with Compound Temperaments 58
Table of the Temperaments of Organs 61
Table of Relationships 62
Table summarising the Faculties and Spirits of the Human Body 92
Table of the Qualities of some common articles of Diet 117
Table of Causes 126
Table of Parts of the Body ruled by the Planets and Significants of the Principles of Western Holistic Medicine by the 7 Planets 142
Table of Zodiac Melothesis, Associating the 12 Zodiac Signs with Parts of the Body from Head to Feet 144
Table of Rulership and Places of Strength and Weakness of the Planets 148
Table of Afflictions to the Ascendant 154
Table of Signs of Temporarily Acquired Temperaments 178
Table of Signs of Dominant Humour 183
Table of Some Commonly Used Medicinal Herbs Showing their Qualities and Actions 220
Table of Qualities 230
Table of Calculation 231

--- List of Figures ---
1 .....Comtemporary engraved portrait of Nicholas Culpeper frontispiece
2 .....Title page of the first edition of Culpeper's Herbal 23
3 .....Culpeper's advertisement for Aurum Potabile 31
4 .....Seasons, Elements, Temperaments and Phases of Human Life 51
5 .....Concoctions and Excretions 65
6 .....The Metaphor of the Lamp 81
7 .....Culpeper's Astrologo-Physical Discourse of the Human Virtues in the Body of Man 86
8 .....The three worlds of Hermetic philosophy, from Robert Fludd's History of the Macrocosm and the Microcosm 134
9 .....Organs and Planets 143
10 ...Horoscope Diagram 147
11 ...Title page and frontispiece of Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy 156
12 ...Planetary Hour "Snail" 171
13 ...Pulse and Urine Examination 192
14 ...Culpeper's natal horoscope 228
15 ...Horoscope Diagram 235
16 ...A decumbiture chart of 1651 238
17 .....Horoscope diagram 241

--- List of Plate Illustrations ---
1 ...........Winter
2 ...........Spring
3 ...........Summer
4 ...........Autumn
5 ...........The four temperaments
6 ...........Zodiac man
7 ...........A doctoral diploma in medicine from Padua, 1618
8-25 ...Medicinal herbs
8 ...........Elecampane
9 ...........Rue
10 .........Sage
11 .........Violets
12 .........Garlic
13 .........Liquorice
14 .........Parsley
15 .........Hyssop
16 .........Spinach
17 .........Borage
18 .........Wormwood
19 .........Betony
20 .........Centaury
21 .........Eyebright
22 .........Fumitory
23 .........St John's Wort
24 .........Deadnettle
25 .........Hops


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