Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Culpeper’s Complete Herbal

  • Nicholas Culpeper and Herbal Medicine

    JMS PearceHull, England Apart from crude measures such as amputation and surgery without anesthesia, most medical treatments were ineffective until the twentieth century. Herbal remedies dominated from the time of ancient Hindu and Chinese cultures. Herbals were used by the Greek scholar Theophrastus (371 – 287 BC) and by Pedanius Dioscorides (AD 40 – 90),…