| Description Of Item | The volume was probably written as a doctor's aid to practice and consists of abridgements of works by Culpeper and Pemell. It starts with an extensive index titled 'A Catalogue or Alphabeticall Table of all the diseases contained in his booke the numbers [joints?] with the pages'. The first section is from 'The English Physician or an Astrologo-Physical discourse of the vulgar herbs of this nation' by Nicholas Culpeper, 1652. Pages 1-213 correspond to the first part of the book which lists herbs and their uses. Pages 214-359 may be from 'A Physicall Directory or a Translation of the London Dispensatory' also by Nicholas Culpeper. The third section (pages numbered 1-225) is from 'Tractatus de simplicium medicamentorum facultatibus' by Robert Pemell, 1652. It starts with an index to the simple and compound medicines in the treatise and a preface signed by Pemell, dated September 16th 1654. At the end are indexes to the diseases treated by simple medicines and compound medicines. The fourth section (pages numbered 1-199) is from 'Semeiotica Uranica or an Astrological Judgement of Diseases' by Nicholas Culpeper, 1651. It starts with a table of contents to the treatise. The last seven pages are titled 'Cure of A Cancer' and it is not clear whether these are also from the Culpeper book. The original manuscripts catalogue lists the books from which the extracts were taken and the pages from 'The English Physician' were confirmed at the time of cataloguing. |