Nicholas Culpepper, the celebrated herbalist and astrologer, was born in London in 1616, and after receiving his education at the university of Cambridge, was apprenticed to an apothecary.
The plan on which the herbalist lays out his letterpress is methodical in the extreme.
The herbalist and his editor write from personal experience, and this gives them a great advantage in dealing with superstitions.
Linnaeus named this group of plants for Matthias de l'Obel, a Flemish botanist, or herbalist more likely, who became physician to James I.
This exquisite plant was forwarded from the Virginia colony to England for the gardens of Hampton Court by a young kinsman of Tradescant, gardener and herbalist to Charles I.
Thrift has been a common edging since the days of the old herbalist Gerarde.
The old English herbalist says "children with delight make chains and pretty gewgaws of the fruit of roses.
In fine, the herbalist of old was one "Who knew the cause of everie maladie, Were it of colde or hote, or moist or drie.
I am not, observe, here concerned with the question as to whether the dose of digitalis was judicious or not; the point is, that a farm laborer consulting a herbalist would have been treated in exactly the same way.
I have never been able to perceive any distinction between the science of the herbalist and that of the duly registered doctor.
Virginia Snake Root fascinates the imagination of the herbalist as mercury used to fascinate the alchemists.
Accordingly he went in and found the Pieman and the Herbalist there sitting and he salam'd to the twain who returned his salute; then he asked them, "What hath brought you hither?
He did her bidding, whereupon she went forth and threw open the door when behold, it was the Herbalist and she said to him, "This is a time betimes.
Named in honor of John Robin, herbalist to Henry IV.
Named in honor of Adam Lonitzer, latinized Lonicerus, a German herbalist of the 16th century.
We will only now refer to one of the later champions of the signatures of plants, an English herbalist of the seventeenth century, who made the subject peculiarly his own.
There is still another German herbalist of the sixteenth century whose work must not be overlooked.
Of the first the herbalist writes, "This herbe hathe leves somdele reed lyke unto ye leves of Orage.
For instance he quotes with ridicule the idea that the Peony should be gathered at night, since, if the fruit is collected in the daytime, and a wood-pecker happens to witness the act, the eyes of the herbalist are endangered.
The herbalist thus erects his scheme on a basis consisting of a confused medley of ecological, medical, and morphological principles.
At any rate, he died in 1605, though whether from the gentle handling of the stableman and herbalist is not recorded in these entries.
The Cress of theherbalist is a noun of multitude: it comprises several sorts, differing in kind but possessing the common properties of wholesomeness and pungency.
Hippocrates gave the bark as a purgative; and from his time the whole tree has possessed a medicinal celebrity, whilst its fame in the hands of the herbalist is immemorial.
And we know that the followers of Epicurus received from their master, without apparent suspicion, fables still more extravagant, and that wanted even such a shadow of proof to support them as satisfied the herbalist and the historian.
And the result is that all this talk of the herbalist and birdlorist, to quote the philosopher again, seems “little better than cant and self-deception.
Parkinson regards the use of herbs against witchcraft as sheer foolishness, but he is the only herbalist who gives us a potion[104] which "resisteth such charmes or the like witchery that is used in such drinkes that are given to produce love.
Parkinson is the only herbalist who gives recipes to enable people to get thin and also to look pale.
Turner, again, is the only old herbalist who refers to the old and widespread belief that larch was fire-proof.
The Herbalist Woodward now amused himself by walking and riding about the country and viewing its scenery, most of which he had forgotten during his long absence from home.
That of the herbalist lay principally in his ferret eyes.
The herbalist felt the energy of his language and was subdued.
Now, Barney knew the assertion to be a lie, because it was only a day or two previous to the conversation that he had heard Mr. Lindsay express his intention of building the old herbalist a new one.
This old herbalist was no judge of the value of evidence.
I once met an old herbalist from Wigan-Wigan of all places in beautiful England!
But the professed herbalist in our country towns is very often not a herbalist at all, but a mere impostor.
I believe he has a weakness for your neighbour, the herbalist woman.
Hadn't he, one night on coming home unexpectedly, found him treating Mathilde, the herbalist woman, to a pot of jam?
A herbalist does not need to carry drugs," he said.
He would, therefore, do his utmost within the next few days to approach Sir Amyas and ask for the admission of the young herbalist who had done her Grace so much good at Chartley.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "herbalist" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
