226 POT-POURRI FROM A SURREY GARDEN 



< Spitalfields, next door to the Bed Lion, September 5, 

 1653.' The frontispiece has Culpepper's portrait a 

 sharp amiable face, with long hair, a white collar, and 

 a Puritan dress. Below is a little picture of the upright, 

 modern-looking London house, surrounded though it is by 

 fields, in which he lived an-d died. 



The instructions for ' the right use of the book ' are 

 so curious that I may as well copy them : ' And herein 

 let me premise a word or two. The herbs, plants, &c., 

 are now in the book appropriated to their proper planets. 

 Therefore, first consider what planet causes disease ; that 

 thou mayst find it in my aforesaid judgement of diseases. 

 Secondly, consider what part of the body is afflicted by 

 the disease, and whether it lies in the flesh, or blood, or 

 bone, or ventricles. 



'Thirdly, consider by what planet the afflicted part 

 of the body is governed; that my judgement of disease 

 will inform you also. 



' Fourthly, you may oppose diseases by Herbs of the 

 planet opposite to the planet that causes them, as 

 diseases of Jupiter by Herbs of Mercury, and the con- 

 trary ; diseases of the Luminaries by the Herbs of 

 Saturn, and the contrary ; diseases of Mars by Herbs of 

 Venus, and the contrary. 



' Fifthly, there is a way to cure diseases sometimes 

 by Sympathy, and so every planet cures his own disease ; 

 as the Sun and Moon by their Herbs cure the Eyes, 

 Saturn the Spleen, Jupiter the Liver, Mars the gall and 

 diseases of choler, and Venus diseases in the instruments 

 of Generation. 



' (Signed) NIGH. CULPEPPER.' 



The whole book runs on the same lines. Of course it 

 can only have been re-published as late as 1835 as a 

 curiosity. 



