Culpeper came from a line of notabilities, including the courtier Thomas Culpeper, who was reputed to be a lover of Catherine Howard (also a distant relative), the fifth wife of Henry VIII. [4] [5] Biography [ edit ] A Physical Directory, or a Translation of the London Directory (1649) – translation of the Pharmacopoeia Londonesis of the Royal College of Physicians. Three kinds of people mainly disease the people – priests, physicians and lawyers – priests disease matters belonging to their souls, physicians disease matters belonging to their bodies, and lawyers disease matters belonging to their estate. receive as much benefit by this, as by my Dispensatory, and that incomparable piece called, Semiotica

in writing this work first, to satisfy myself, I drew out all the virtues of the vulgar or common [iv] The Lord hath created Medicines out of the earth; and he that is wise will not abhor them.”— Ecc. xxxviii. 4. a b c d Culpeper, Nicholas (2001). "The English Physician (1663) with 369 Medicines made of English Herbs; Rare book on CDROM". Herbal 1770 CDROM. Archived from the original on 14 August 2007 . Retrieved 31 October 2007. Thulesius, O (September 1994). "Nicholas Culpeper, father of English midwifery". Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. 87 (9): 552–556. doi: 10.1177/014107689408700922. PMC 1294777. PMID 7932467. Jones, D. A. (August 1980). "Nicholas Culpeper and his Pharmacopoeia". Pharmaceutical Historian. 10 (2): 9–10. PMID 11630704.The English Physician Enlarged: With Three Hundred and Sixty-Nine Medicines, made of English Herbs, that were not in any impression until this. Being an astrologo-physical discourse of the vulgar herbs of this nation ... . Barker, London [1800] XML (Digital edition) pdf by the University and State Library Düsseldorf COWEN, D (April 1956). "The Boston editions of Nicholas Culpeper". Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences. 11 (2): 156–165. doi: 10.1093/jhmas/XI.2.156. PMID 3306948.

To add insult to injury, Culpeper’s text was rife with funny and insulting remarks directed towards the Royal College, highlighting the failings of the original text.Hellebore, causes sneezing if ground and inhaled; for killing rodents if mixed with food. (Hellebore is now known to contain poisonous alkaloids: [12] cardiac glycosides in the roots and ranunculin and protoanemonin, especially in the leaves and sap. [13] [14])