Nicholas Culpeper, English botanist (died 1654)

Nicholas Culpeper

English botanist and physician (1616–1654)

Nicholas Culpeper was an English botanist, herbalist, physician and astrologer. His book The English Physitian 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…