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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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$isprofiwWy given again!! theLepvo- fie, at the beginning of the difeale. The dole is two or three drams thtce times a month, in a draught of Mead or Muld-Sack, with a fpoonful ot fait. It is only for ftrong bodies and otherwife ^incurable difeafes. Halt i dram may ufefully and without dancer be put into a Suppolitory in fleepy difeafes of the Head, and fuch •ike, alfo half an ounce may be given -n a clyfter in like cafes, and agamit the Palfie and the ftoppage ot the Courfes, Melancholly and madnels 'thereof arifing, fits of the ftone or co¬ lick, and ftoppage of Urine. gar, twenty drams. Let the Myrobolans be roped a little M fieJJj butter, let the reft b6ng f ou- dered, be (printed with Oyl of ^Tl- monds, then add Musfone dram. Honey their treble weight, Maky it into an EleBuary according to Strt. ***&*****>****** ELECTUARIES. left out in this new Edition. Hiera Diacolocynthidos. Page 118. Latin. Colledg. Take of Colotynthis, JrfgrUk, Germander, White fJorehound, Stesha*; of each ten drams. Sagapen. parfly feeds, pvottnd Binhwon roots, Opop&nax, White Pepper,of each five drams. Spickpard, Cinnamon, Mirrh, Indian leaf or Mace, Saffron of each four drams, ftSndfe the Gums in a Mortar, fift the reft, ard with three pound of clarified Honey, three ounces and five drams. Make it an EleBuary according to art. Culpeper .] It helps the immode¬ rate flowing of the terms in Women, and the Hemorrhoids. It helps weaknels of the Stomach, and ie- ftores color loft. It frees the body from crude humors, and ftrengthens j the bladder, helps Melancholly, ant. reftlfies the diftempers of the Spleen. You may take a dram in the moin- ing,or two if your body be any thing ^Chipeperf They that think the ufe of thele Medicines are too brief, ( its fo only for cheapnefs of the Book) Let them read thefeBooks, of the laft Edition, vio^. Bjvfriits, Bjolanus, Johnfton, VeflingHf, Sennertw, anti phyfieffor the Poor* ' • ’ . . v. V' V* * Vr •. v- ’.H jtfthan&fla Mithridatii, or King Mi- thridate his Medicine to caule a long life. Trypherx folmive. Page 11?. Latin. Or, the delicious purging Ele&uary. Col- rlTf^fkyof Cinnamen, ledg.l- JL Caftia, Schcenanth, of each an ounce and an half. Saffron, Mirrh, of each one ounces, \ , y Cofius, Spicknard, Sioorus, > -*gr%K> ■ Scordium, Carrots, Parfly,of each half an ounce. White Pepper eleven grains. _ Honey as much as is fufficicnt to make it into an EleBu&ty accord¬ ing to ar(. % Culpeper.] It helps the Falling- ficknefs, Madnefs, and the pain m the head called KZ$a.K&Hyta, pains in the breaft and ftomach whether <they come by ficknefs or bruifes, •pains in the Loyns or Back-bone, bardnefs of Womens breafts, putn- •faciions of meat in the ftomach and fowr belching. It is but feldorn ufed and therefore hard-to be gotten. Trypherx the greater. Page 118. Latin. ColUdg.] Take ofMyrobolans Chehs, Pellericks, jnds and Emblicky, Nutmegs, of each five drams. Water-creft feeds, ^farabacca roots, perfian Origanum, orclfc Dittany ofCreet, 'Blacky pepper, Olibanum, ytmmi. Ginger, Tamaris, Indian Nard, Squinanth, Cyperus root, of each half an oisnce. Filings of fleet prepared with Fine- i i Colledg.) Take of Diacrydium ten drams' Turbith an ounce and an half. Cardamoms the left. Cloves, Cinnamon, Honey of each three drams. Tellow Saunders, Liquorls, Sweet Fennel feeds, of each half an vunte. „Acorns, Schcenanth, of each a draw. Red Upfes, Citron pills preferved, of etch three drams. piolets two drams. Penidsfour ounces, w hite Sugar half apound. Honey clarified in juyee of ytpples one pound. Make an EleBuary according to an fon, and the bi.tings of venemous Beafts, and helps fuch whofe meat rutiifies in their ftomach, flaies vo¬ miting of blood, helps old ‘Coughs^ and cold difeafes of the liver, fifteen, bladder, and matrix. The ciofe xs talf a dram. Firtues newly added. Cnlpeptr'] It prevails againft poy- 2 |_ 1 . . _ .— ... a. ^. am' A AM AT. •. A FieBuarinm *fcoriaferri. Rhafis. [ * Scoria ferri ft properly thofe flakes that Smiths beat from Iron when it is red hot ] . ’ Colledg. Tafe of the flakys of Iron inf ufed in Vinegar feven dans and dried, three drams, Indian Spicknard, Schcenanth, Cyperus, V-. ‘ft* G inter. Pepper, Ftfho I conceive this Eleftuary had its name from the pleafant taft. . It pui- ges choler and phlegm and is good for all difeafes arifing from thofe humors. The dofe is two drams or three with two ounces . of Sy rup of Violets and three ounces of Ci- chory water. It is fit fov thofe that mull needs havea wel-tafted purge. V Bijhops weed, Franifincenfe, of each half an ounct. Myrobolans, Indian Bellericks and Emblicks, Honey boyled with the DecoBion of Emblicks, fifteen ounces. Mix them together, and make of them a.r. EleBuary. ■ , ~ Culpeper. Kjiafts an Arabian Phy- fitian, the Author of the Receipt,ap- poins a dram of each : the medicine heets the fpieen gently, purgeth me- lancholly,eafeth pains in the ftomach and' fpieen, and ftrengthens digeftR on. People that are ftrong may take half an ounce in the moming faftmg, ■ and' 4*$

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