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Back to EpisodesThe Complete Herbal and English Physician Enlarged, by Nicholas Culpeper, Part 1
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Let's, uh, improve our health with this compendium of questionable herbal advice from 1650. But first, the kind of sleep-inducing, self-congratulatory introduction in which only a 17th-century apothecary can excel. Delightful!
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