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Pharmacopoeia Londinensis: or, the London dispensatory further adorned by the studies and collections of the Fellows, now living of the said colledg [sic] ... In which is printed, I. The vertues, qualities, and properties of every simple ... VI. The Latin names of every one of the compounds / ... By Nich. Culpeper ... In this impression, 1661. There is added, to the compounds, many vertues and uses. By divers learned W.R.A.C.J.W., doctors of physick ... And, by Abdiah Cole.

Nicholas Culpeper

Date:: 1661

Credit: Pharmacopoeia Londinensis: or, the London dispensatory further adorned by the studies and collections of the Fellows, now living of the said colledg [sic] ... In which is printed, I. The vertues, qualities, and properties of every simple ... VI. The Latin names of every one of the compounds / ... By Nich. Culpeper ... In this impression, 1661. There is added, to the compounds, many vertues and uses. By divers learned W.R.A.C.J.W., doctors of physick ... And, by Abdiah Cole. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$ing, or half an ounce in a Clyfter ac¬ cording as the difeafe is. Diacapparis. Page lor. Latin. Bole-armeniclg, ■ Dragons-blood, of each one dram. Pearls half a dram. Wood of fifloes, *Led K?fes> Gum Tragacanth, j Cinnamon of each two fcruples. Collodg. Takjt of Cap art four ounces} j Sanders white and red of each one Agrimony roots, / j fcruple. Nigclla feeds, With four times its weight in Sugar ,dif- Squils, 1 folved in frnal cinnamon water, make it Jtfarabacca, into an EleBnary according to slrt. Centaury, Blacfi Pepper, Cdps per.'] It comforts and ftreng- SmaUage, thens the heart “exceedingly, and re- Time of each an ounce. ftores fuch as are in confumptions, it Honey three times their weight. ; is cooling, therefore good in hecflick Colledg. Take of the juyee of Quin* Make it into an EleBuary according to 1 leavers ; very binding, and therefore Ces, K' J flops Fluxes } neither do I know a Sugar, of each two pound. ! better Medicine in all the Difpcnfa- White Wine Vinegar half a pound Culpeper.} It helps infirmities of | tory for fuch as have a confumptionj added at the end of the DeccBion, the fpleen ; and the name doth pro- accompanied with a loofnefs. It It being gently boy led, andthefeumta- mifefomuch: it is good for cold flops the terms and Whites in women ken away, add *43 DiacydonJum. Or, Ee£hlary of Quin- ces ample. Pag. 102. Latin. Colledg.] Take of the fief, of Quin* ces cut and boy led in fair water to a thiefnef, eight pound. White Sugar fix pound. Boyl it to its juft thichyief. Diacidonium with Species. Page 102. Latin. bodies, if they have flrength of na- if adminiflred by one\vhofe wits are ture in them : the next looks more loyely in my eyes which is —« Diacinnamomu Page. ior. Latin. J > Colledg.] Take of Cinnamon fifteen drams, Caflia Lignea, osflicantpane roots, of each half an ounce. Galanga, [even drams. Cloves, Long Pepper, Cardamoms of both forts, Ginger, Mace, Nutmegs, Wood of siloes, of each three drams. Saffron one dram. Sugar five drams, Musktwofcruples, to be added ac¬ cording to the prefeript of the Phyfi- tian, and by adding three pound tight ounces of clarified honey , boyl w and make it into an EleSluary accor¬ ding to art. Ctifpeper.} Diacinnamomtm}ox The compofition of cinnamon, heats the Sto¬ mach, caufeth digeflion, provokes the Terms in Women, flrengthens the ftomach and other parts that di- flribute the nourifhment of the body. A dram of it takenin the morning fa- not a wool-gathering. Take but a dram at a time every morning, be- caufe of its binding quality, except you have a loofnefs j for then may' the thickpefi of Honey, you take fo much two or three times a day. Ginger two ounces, . _ , White Pepper ten drams and two fcm¬ ples. *- t Bruife them grofly, and boyl it again to Diacorum. Pag. lol. Lat. Colledg.] Tafe of the Spots of C icers, cor us, or Calamus yiromaticus. Pine-nuts, of each a pound and an half. Let the deers roots, being clenfed, cut, boy led,and pulped,be added to ten pound of clarified Honey, and boy led ( (lining it) to its juft thicknefi, then being re¬ moved fiom the fire, add the corns roqts beaten, the Pinenuts cut, and thefe following in ponder. Take of blaefiPepper an ounce. Long pepper. Cloves, Ginger, M ace, of each half an ounce. Nutmegs, Ga/anga, Cardamoms, of each three dram. Mix them with the mots and Honey in to an EleBuary according to Art. Diacidonium compound. Magi fieri.si. Page 102. Latin. , i X t Colledg.] Take of white Sugar fix pound, Spring Water four pound. r - Clarifie them wel with the white of an Egg, feumming them ; then Take cf ripe Quinces elenfed fiom thf rind and feeds, and cut in four quar¬ ters, eight pound : Boyl them in the foregningSyrup til-they be tender, then firain the Syrup through a linnen cloth,vocata Anglice Boultery Boyl them again to a jelly, adding four ounces of white Wine fTinegar towards the end ; remove it fiom the fire, and whilfi it is warm put in thefe following Species in grofi ponder. Ginger an ouunce, Wlntc Pepper, Cinnamon, Nutmegs, of each two drams' Jfieep it in divers boxes. Culpeper.} The Vertues of all thefe three are. They comfort the Sto- Culpeper.] The Ele&uary provokes Lull, heats the Brain, flrengthens the J mach, help digeflion, flay vomiting. Nerves, quickens the Senfes, caufeth : belching, &c, flop < Fluxes arid the an acute Wit, eafeth pains in the Terms in Women. They are al harm¬ ing is exceding good for ancient j head, helps the Faljing-ficknefs and lefs, you may take the quantity of a people &cold bodies,fuch as are fub- ■ Convulfions, Coughs, Cathars, and , Nutmeg of them at a time ; before VpA tA JK* 1f.-. .-,11 __-J] C.__1 J r ,__ .'r 1. .1 l: nr t n jefl to Dropfies & difeafes of Flegm, or Wind ; for it comforts and ftreng- thens Nature much If you take it to help digeflion, take it an hour be¬ fore meat: do fo in all things of like quality. Diacorallion. Page ior. Latin. Colledg.] Takt cf Cord whitt and rid, all difeafes proceeding from coldnefs of the brain. Haifa dram is enough to take at one time, becaufe of its heat. meat to help digeflion and fluxes ; after meat to flay vomiting j in the morning for the reft. Wertucs newly added. Peony is an Herb of the Sun, the ) They ftrengthen the ftomach, flop Roots of it cure the Falling-lick- Vomitings and Loofenefs.Being fea- nefs. Thofe that would give help againft all Infirmities, let them read thefe Books of mine, of the I aft Edition, viz. Ejverius, Bfiolanus, Joknfion, Vefiinguf, Sennerfus, and Phyfeoffor tht Poor. fonably adminiflred they Hod a Am¬ ple Gonorrhoea, and aflwage the Flux of Whites in women : and help Barrennefs arifing from over Loof-; nefs of the Spertnatick Veffels and thinnefs of the Seed. - . - , Qonftftio$

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