l8o CHAPTER 14. 
veral phyficians, and other men of learning;^ 
£hewed fonie bias towards it. Many prac- 
titioners of an inferior clafs, and numerous 
empiricSj were ftili advocates for aftrological 
influence in the preparation and application 
of iimples. 
There is an Herbal v/ritten by Roberi 
Turner, who calls himfelf Botanologice 
Stiidiojus, under the title of Botano- 
log I A, the Britifh Phyfician ; or. The 
Nature and Vertues of Englifh Plants ; 
*^ exadly defcribing fuch as grow naturally 
in the land, with their feveral names, 
Greek, Latin,or Englifh 3 natures, places 
where they flouriih, and are moft proper 
to be gathered ; their degrees of tempera- 
*^ ture, applications, and vertues, phyfical 
and aflroloRical ufes treated of, &c." 
London, 1664, 12*. But, of the aftro- 
logical herbalifls, Nicholas- Culpepper 
fiiands eminently forward. Flis Herbal," 
firft printed in 1652, whichc ontinued for 
more than a century, to be the manual of 
good ladies in the country, is well known ; 
and, to do the author juftice, his defcriptions 
of common plants were drawn up with a 
clearnefg 
