Nicholas Culpeper Quotes
All Juleps are made for present use, and therefore it is in vain to speak of their duration.
Culpeper, Nicholas. The English Physitian Enlarged. Peter Cole, 1653.
Asked if "Doonesbury" creator Garry Trudeau, who was highly critical of President George W. Bush, would be invited to the White House with other editorial cartoonists to have lunch with President Bush:
Greece claims him as well since the Greek culture was dominant throughout the Mediterranean at the time.
Nicholas Culpeper was an English botanist, herbalist, physician and astrologer. His The English Physitian (1652, later Complete Herbal, 1653 ff.) is a store of pharmaceutical and herbal knowledge, and Astrological Judgement of Diseases from the Decumbiture of the Sick (1655) one of the most detailed works on medical astrology in Early Modern Europe. Culpeper catalogued hundreds of outdoor medicinal herbs. He scolded some methods of contemporaries: "This not being pleasing, and less profitable to me, I consulted with my two brothers, Dr. Reason and Dr. Experience, and took a voyage to visit my mother Nature, by whose advice, together with the help of Dr. Diligence, I at last obtained my desire; and, being warned by Mr. Honesty, a stranger in our days, to publish it to the world, I have done it." Culpeper came from a line of notabilities, including Thomas Culpeper, lover of Queen Catherine Howard, also a distant relative, sentenced to death by her husband, Henry VIII.
