Culpeper

Excerpt from a printed book. The book dates from 1677 and uses the long "s". It reads "39 To cure the Falling-sickness. The powder of man's bones cure the Falling-sickness, according to Galen; but Gesner avoucheth he hath done it often with the * skull of a man not buried' which is the most probably, although the other may be true. * cranium humanum."

Nicholas Culpeper, Culpeper’s Last Legacy, Printed for Obadiah Blagrave, 1677, 251. Early English Books Online.

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