Star Media Title: Culpeper's Medicine: A Practice of Western Holistic Medicine Author: Graeme Tobyn(19XX- ) Publisher: Element Books Limited --- Contents --- List of tables vi List of figures vii List of plate illustrations viii Picture Credits ix Acknowledgements x Notice xi Introduction: Why Read Culpeter Today? xiii .....................................................................................PART 1 . A Student of Physick and Astrology: The Life and Death of Nicholas Culpeper(1616-1654) 3 .....................................................................................PART 2 . .................................................................Western Holistic Medicine . SECTION 1: The Seven Natural Things and the Constitutional Basis of Medicine 40 SECTION 2: The Preservation of Health and the Prevention of Disease 96 .....................................................................................PART 3 . As Above, So Below: Astrology, Medicine and Hermetic Philosophy 130 .....................................................................................PART 4 . The English Physician: Herbal Medicine and Therapeutics 176 APPENDICES . The Natal Horoscope of Nicholas Culpeper 229 The Horoscope of 1651 239 Notes 248 Glossary 264 Useful addresses 267 Index 269 --- List of Tables --- Table of Primary Qualities 43 Table of Secondary Qualities related to the 4 Primary Qualities 43 Table of Elements and Temperaments 46 Table of the 8 Variations of Temperament 49 Table of certain Physical Signs associated with each of the Primary Qualities 57 Table of Physical Signs associated with each of the 4 Temperaments 57 Table of certain Physical Signs associated with Compound Temperaments 58 Table of the Temperaments of Organs 61 Table of Relationships 62 Table summarising the Faculties and Spirits of the Human Body 92 Table of the Qualities of some common articles of Diet 117 Table of Causes 126 Table of Parts of the Body ruled by the Planets and Significants of the Principles of Western Holistic Medicine by the 7 Planets 142 Table of Zodiac Melothesis, Associating the 12 Zodiac Signs with Parts of the Body from Head to Feet 144 Table of Rulership and Places of Strength and Weakness of the Planets 148 Table of Afflictions to the Ascendant 154 Table of Signs of Temporarily Acquired Temperaments 178 Table of Signs of Dominant Humour 183 Table of Some Commonly Used Medicinal Herbs Showing their Qualities and Actions 220 Table of Qualities 230 Table of Calculation 231 --- List of Figures --- 1 .....Comtemporary engraved portrait of Nicholas Culpeper frontispiece 2 .....Title page of the first edition of Culpeper's Herbal 23 3 .....Culpeper's advertisement for Aurum Potabile 31 4 .....Seasons, Elements, Temperaments and Phases of Human Life 51 5 .....Concoctions and Excretions 65 6 .....The Metaphor of the Lamp 81 7 .....Culpeper's Astrologo-Physical Discourse of the Human Virtues in the Body of Man 86 8 .....The three worlds of Hermetic philosophy, from Robert Fludd's History of the Macrocosm and the Microcosm 134 9 .....Organs and Planets 143 10 ...Horoscope Diagram 147 11 ...Title page and frontispiece of Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy 156 12 ...Planetary Hour "Snail" 171 13 ...Pulse and Urine Examination 192 14 ...Culpeper's natal horoscope 228 15 ...Horoscope Diagram 235 16 ...A decumbiture chart of 1651 238 17 .....Horoscope diagram 241 --- List of Plate Illustrations --- 1 ...........Winter 2 ...........Spring 3 ...........Summer 4 ...........Autumn 5 ...........The four temperaments 6 ...........Zodiac man 7 ...........A doctoral diploma in medicine from Padua, 1618 8-25 ...Medicinal herbs 8 ...........Elecampane 9 ...........Rue 10 .........Sage 11 .........Violets 12 .........Garlic 13 .........Liquorice 14 .........Parsley 15 .........Hyssop 16 .........Spinach 17 .........Borage 18 .........Wormwood 19 .........Betony 20 .........Centaury 21 .........Eyebright 22 .........Fumitory 23 .........St John's Wort 24 .........Deadnettle 25 .........Hops Home Copyright (c) Star Media 1999-2005 All Rights Reserved. Japanese web site. Star Media / Astrological shop in Japan.