Commentary: Nicholas Culpeper, eels and disulfiram.

摘要

Nicholas Culpeper (1616-1654) was an English physician, herbalist, botanist and astrologer. He lived at a time when these fields overlapped to a considerable extent, and unlike many of his contemporaries he took an empirical approach to the healing enterprise, cataloguing medicinal plant and their effects for himself rather than appealing to tradition. Recent commentators have placed Culpeper in the context of a radical democratization of medical knowledge and authority (Woolley, 2004).