The Herbalist: Nicholas Culpeper and the Fight for Medical Freedom

In a spellbinding narrative of impulse, romance, and heroism during Britain's age of revolution, learn of the story of Nicholas Culpeper - legendary revel, radical, Puritan, and author of the groundbreaking Herbal. In a time where London's medical regime was in the grip of the College of Physicians, a powerful body personified in the "immortal" William Harvey, Culpeper challenged this stronghold at the time it was reaching the very pinnacle of its power - and in the process helped spark the revolution that toppled a monarchy. Impactful today as it was during Culpeper's time, this narrative recreates the momentous struggles and the roots of today's hopes and fears about the power of medical science and the professional institutions that may or may not have your best interests at heart.