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For God's sake build not your faith upon Tradition, 'tis as rotten as a rotten Post.

Nicholas Culpeper

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Nicholas Culpeper
Age: 38 †
Born: 1616
Born: January 1
Died: 1654
Died: January 1
Astrologer
Botanist
Pharmacist
Physician
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If you dry the chestnut, both the barks being taken away, beat them into powder and make the powder up into an electuary with honey, it is a first-rate remedy for cough and spitting of blood.
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The Herbs ought to be distilled when they are in their greatest vigor, and so ought the Flowers also.
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The roots and herbes beaten and put into new ale or beer and daily drunk, cleareth, strengtheneth and quickeneth the sight of the eyes.
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