Aspiring to the Extraordinary: Finishing What Culpeper Started

In 1652, Nicholas Culpeper broke ranks with the College of Physicians and published The English Physitian in plain English, so that ordinary people could read their own bodies and the sky above them without paying a guild for the privilege. That is still the aspiration here.

“Culpeper put the physician’s secrets into plain English so that any man or woman could read the stars, read the body, and tend their own health. Nearly four centuries later, that work isn’t finished. We should aspire to the same thing he did: that astrology and medicine are not the property of a guild, but a common inheritance — accessible to everyone, so that every person can understand and manage their own health and well-being.”

— Mason Gaspervic, DO