{"id":2205,"date":"2010-10-12T08:29:35","date_gmt":"2010-10-12T14:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/?p=2205"},"modified":"2010-10-12T08:29:35","modified_gmt":"2010-10-12T14:29:35","slug":"notes-from-the-john-martin-rare-book-room-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/2010\/10\/12\/notes-from-the-john-martin-rare-book-room-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/files\/2010\/10\/C-ulpepper.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2206\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/files\/2010\/10\/C-ulpepper.jpg\" alt=\"Culpepper\" width=\"432\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/files\/2010\/10\/C-ulpepper.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/files\/2010\/10\/C-ulpepper-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/files\/2010\/10\/C-ulpepper-437x300.jpg 437w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Nicholas Culpeper<\/span><\/strong> (1616\u20131654) was an English botanist, herbalist, physician, and astrologer. His published books, The English Physician (1652) and the Complete Herbal (1653), contain a rich store of pharmaceutical and herbal knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>Culpeper spent the greater part of his life in the English outdoors cataloging hundreds of medicinal herbs. He criticized what he considered the unnatural methods of his contemporaries, writing: &#8220;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.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Nicholas Culpeper (1616\u20131654) was an English botanist, herbalist, physician, and astrologer. His published books, The English Physician (1652) and the Complete Herbal (1653), contain a rich store of pharmaceutical and herbal knowledge. Culpeper spent the greater part of his life in the English outdoors cataloging hundreds of medicinal herbs. He criticized what he considered<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/2010\/10\/12\/notes-from-the-john-martin-rare-book-room-15\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,17,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}