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Nicholas Culpeper

1616 - 1654

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Nicholas Culpeper (18 October 1616 – 10 January 1654) was an English botanist, herbalist, physician and astrologer. His book The English Physitian (1652, later Complete Herbal, 1653 ff.) is a source of pharmaceutical and herbal lore of the time, 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 contemporaries for some of the methods they used in herbal medicine: "This not being pleasing, and less profitable to me, I consulted with my two brothers, Dr. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nicholas Culpeper is the 5,676th most popular writer (down from 5,192nd in 2019), the 4,618th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,877th in 2019) and the 503rd most popular British Writer.

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Among writers, Nicholas Culpeper ranks 5,676 out of 7,302. Before him are Daniel Quinn, Johan Theorin, Delphine de Vigan, Walter Anderson, Richard Llewellyn, and Mary L. Trump. After him are Booth Tarkington, Charlotte von Ahlefeld, Gregório de Matos, William Michael Rossetti, Nahum Tate, and Emine Semiye Önasya.

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Among people born in 1616, Nicholas Culpeper ranks 18. Before him are Kuzma Minin, François de Vendôme, duc de Beaufort, John Owen, Caesar van Everdingen, Eustache Le Sueur, and Christian Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau.  Among people deceased in 1654, Nicholas Culpeper ranks 18. Before him are Jacques Lemercier, Christian I, Count Palatine of Birkenfeld-Bischweiler, Matei Basarab, Ole Worm, Athanasius III of Constantinople, and John Selden.

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Among people born in United Kingdom, Nicholas Culpeper ranks 4,619 out of 8,785. Before him are Innes Ireland (1930), Dexter Fletcher (1966), Emily Ratajkowski (1991), Ron Moody (1924), Clive Dunn (1920), and Richard Llewellyn (1906). After him are John Richardson (1934), Lando Norris (1999), Paul Anderson (1978), William Michael Rossetti (1829), Maurice Greene (1696), and Jason Orange (1970).

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Among writers born in United Kingdom, Nicholas Culpeper ranks 503. Before him are Ann Cleeves (1954), Jonathan Coe (1961), John Masefield (1878), Charles Montagu Doughty (1843), Walter de la Mare (1873), and Richard Llewellyn (1906). After him are William Michael Rossetti (1829), Charles Allston Collins (1828), George William Russell (1867), Elizabeth Montagu (1718), Jhumpa Lahiri (1967), and David Garnett (1892).

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