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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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$pl|[ Ii 'i j i; 8 i ,■ Lj.j ! 111 ■ mm I Colledg.] Tab of Citron ViUsfrt- fervtd, Confer vc oftht flowers of Violets and Buglofl, Diatragacanthum frigidum DUcrydium, of each half an ounce. Turbith five drams. Ginger half a dram. Senna fix drams. Swat fennel feeds one dram. . White Sugar diffolved in Rofie water, and boyled according to art, ten ounces. Make a felid EleSluary according to Art. Venues newly added. Colledg.] Taft of the barf of Ci¬ trons Myrobalans two ounces, Myrobalans, Chebs and blacky, Violets, Colocynthis, Volypodium of the Oaf, of each one ounce and an half. Wormwood, Time, of each half an ounce. Seeds of ylnnis, and Fennel, Flowers of red Rofies of each three drams. Let all of them being bruified be iufufed one day in fix pound op Whey, then boy- EltSluarium Lenhivum. Page ijC.Lm. Or, The Lenetive Electuary. Colledg.] Take oj Raifons of the Sun ftoned. Volypodium of the Oaf, Senna, of each two ounces. Mercury one handful and an half. Jujubes, Sebefiens of each twenty. Maiden-hair,. Violets, French Barley, of each one handful. DamasfVrunesfioned, Tamerinds of each fix drams. 'Liquorh half an ounce. Boy l them in ten pound of Water till two one aay in ux pouna oi yv nty, iwrtvuy- - r . , r , a • • t,drill half Lcfiimd, ,M'd m,b J J ~ . • /toon n 11 n/^r ifi 7*? TiPi'Prr in+t It purges choler and Flegm chiefly. It is well tailed, good for difeafes caufed by the forefaid Humors. The dofe is three drains or half an ounce in Cichory water, with two ounces ©f Syrup of Violets. Eleftuariun Elefcoph. Page 115.Latin. Or, the Bifliops Ele&uary. Colledg. Take ofDiacrydium, Turbith, of each fix drams. Cloves, Cinnamon, Gingery Myrobalans pmblicks. flumegs, Volypodium, of each two drams and an half. Sugar fix ounces. Clarified Honey ten ounces. Make it into an Elechiary according to art. your hands andpreffed out: to the De- coflion add Jtiyce of Fumitory, Pulp of prnens, and Raifons of the Sun, of each half a pound. White Sugar, Clarified Honey, of each one pound. Boyl it to thiefntfs of Honey, firewing in towards the end. ^fgricl\ T rochifcated. Senna of each two ounces. Rhubarb one ounce and an half Epithimum one ounce. Diacrydium fix drams. Cinnamon half an ounce. Ginger two drams, Seeds of Fumitory and «rfnnk, Spickyiard of each one dram, Make it into an Ele fluary according to M’rt. CulpeperThe Receipt is chiefly appropriated as a purge for Melan¬ cholly and fait flegm, and difeafes thence arifing, as Scabs, Itch,Lepro- fies,Cancers,*infirmities of the $kin,it and dijfolve in the Decefiian Pulp of Ca ffia, Tamarinds, and Fvefb Brunei, Sugar of Violets, of each fix ounces. Sugar two pound, *ATt laft addpouder of Senna leaves, one ounce and an half, ^/fnnis feeds in pouier two drams to each pound of Eleffwary. sindfo bring it into the form of an filt- fluary according to art. Culpeper.] It gently opens and molifies the bowels, bringeth forth choller, flegm, and Melum holly,and that without trouble. It is cooling, and therefore is profitable in Picul c- fies, and for wounded people: A man of reafonable ftrengtlimay take an ounce of it going to bed, which will work next morning- And ini truth they have done well hr re to ;ul the Annis feeds to corrsCt the Sen¬ na- Vertues newly added. It is an excellent remedy for fuel* as are naturally Collive, half an Culptfer.~] : A/eJue appoints only clfliyfied Honey, one pound and four ounces, to make it up into an Ele&- Dary 5 and faith, it purgeth choller and flegm, aud wind from all parts of the Body ; helps pains of the Jovnts and -fides, the Chollick, it clenfeth the Reins and Bladder; yet I advife you not to take too much of it at a time, for it works pretty vio¬ lently, though well corre&ed by the pen of a Me fine : let half an ounce be the moft, for fuch whofe bodies are ftron'g, alwaies remem bring that you had better ten times take too little, than once too much ; you may take . cr it in white Wine, and keep your felf ,®ocllcs To diree drams theicor lix vvaml4 /drams of EleCtuanum Lemtivum purgeth adduft Humors and is good ' ounce being taken half an. hour bc- - 1--r- A/,■, c~~ fore dinner with one fcruple of white Tartar, poudered. The freqttcut life thereof, is good to prevent the bree¬ ding of the Stone in dry and Cdftk e Bodies. It is good in the beginning and declination of Feavers, and may fupply the place of Clyfters, fix i drams being given the Patient from a Knives point at night; and fo it efr- clines alfo to reft. Taken in the hot weather before dinner as afore/aid,it inablcs a man to endure the extremi¬ ty of the heat with lightfomenefs aftdl a&ivity. It is good agamft bleedmg at the Nofe, and mitigates the fharp- nefs of Humors in the Gonorrhsa and Strangury. agaTnft madnefs, Melancholly, for- getfulnefs. Vertigo. It purgeth very violently, and is notfafe given alone. I would advife the unskilful not to medic with it inwardly: You may give half an ounce of it in Clyfters,in Melancholly difeafes, which com¬ monly have aftringency a conftant companion with them. Vertues newly added. The dofe is from half an ounce to fix drams in fubftance or one ounce in Infufion. It is given in white Wine with an ounce of Syrup ofVio- lets or two ounces. In hot and dry Thofe that would give help againft alj Infirmities, let them read thefb Books of mine, of the laft Edition, \iz. Riverius, Rfiolanut, Johrifion, Veflingus, Stnntrfnf, and Pkyfic\for the Poor. may be added, which will facilitate and indemnifie the opperation. Ex¬ perience in thoufands hath (hewed this Medicamentt to be fafe enough, for all Culpepers Panick feares. Eleffuarium Vaffulatum.Vage 1 ry.Laf,' Or, Electuary of Raifons. Colledg. Tttfc of fiejh Polypediuni Roots three ounces. Frejh Marflj-mallcws Roots, ' ' Semin$

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