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Nicholas Culpeper

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\'Nicholas Culpeper'—*1616, † 1654 in London—was an English botanist, physician, and astrologist. He was the son of Nicholas Culpeper, a clergyman. He studied in Cambridge, and afterwards became apprenticed to an apothecary.

He ran a pharmacy in the Halfway House in Spitalfields, London. He published A Complete Herbal and English Physician Enlarged and The English Physician and Family Dispensary.

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Culpeper, the man that first ranged the woods and climbed the mountains in search of medical and salutary herbs, undoubtedly merited the gratitude of posterity. ~ (Dr. Johnson).

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