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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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♦♦*♦♦***♦♦#♦♦♦♦*** ILLS Culpcper-3p 1L L S in Qreek are colled, Km-mw, in Latin, Pilulac: which fignipe Uttle hals, becau/e they are made up in fuch a fork, that they may be the better/wallowed down, by reafon ofthe ofenfiveneffof their tall • They were firft invented for the /urging of,the Head (however fhyfitians have fince ordered the buftnefs) becaufe the matter there offending is not fo joon taken away by any other Tbyfick. Such as have Scammony (othertoife called Diagry- dhm) in them, or Colocynthis, Tvorkftrongly, andmujl be taken in the mornimr, and the body well regulated after them, keeping your Chamber, and a good fin Ifhall mfirnSt you m the Do/e as I come to they, fuch as have neither Colocyn* this, nor Diagrydium, may bejlbe taken in the evening neither need you keep the Houfe for them. — ------'x Pilttlx de Agarics. Page hi. Latin. Or, Pills of Agrick. Colledg.] Tafe of Agaric f three ( drains. Our own blut Orris roots, Maffick, Horehoundy of each one dram. Tttrbith five drams. Species Hiera pier a half an ounce. Colocynthis, Sarcocol, of each two drams. Mirth one dram. Sapa as much as is fufficitnt. Make it into a Maff according to ^frt Culpeper.] It was invented to clenfe the Breaft and Lungs of flegm, it Works pretty titeIy,therefote requires a good Phyfitian to dire# it. Half aaram at a time (keeping your felt warm) cannot wel do you harm, un- lcfs you be very weak. Virtv.es newly added. They were invented to purge the Breft and Lungs from Rheum and Flegm, and fo to cure the Tifftck and all fhortnefs of breath ; old Coughs, and the like difeafes arifing from thick and Flsgmstick Humors. Their dofe is a dram. Juyce of Agrimony, and jVorm- wood made thicks of ejtch two drams. Diagrydium five drams. grief, Colocynthis, Polypodium, of each Two drams. T urbith, siloes, of each fix drams. Maffick, Red Rofes, Sal. Gem. Epithymum, fnnis feed, Ginger, of each a dram. . With Syrup of Damns fjfofe;, Alakp it into a Mafs according d^Frt. Pilulx ^flcephanginx. Page 121 Latin. ViluU^tggregaiiva.V&ge rzi. Latin. Or, Aggregative Pills. Colledg.] Tafe of Citron Mirola- lant, Rhubarb, of each half an ounce. Culpeper.] It purge* the Head of Choller, Flegm, <rnd Melancholly, and that ftoucly : it is good againft quotidian A gues, and faults In the Stomach and Liver; yet becaufe ic is well corre&ed if you take but half a dram at a time, and keep your felf warm, I fuppofe you may take it without danger. Vtrims newly added. They are fo calledl conceive be¬ caufe they purge ail the humors. Alfo they are termed Polychrefte, that is good for many things. They purge Choller, Melancholly and Flegm, from the Head and Eyes, Stomach, Liver and Spleen, and are good for all difeafes of thofe parts arilmg from the faid humors. 'The dofe is one drain in the morning about five a clock, the patient flee, ping after them and keeping bed till f<ven or eight, yet without fwea- ti*£. Colledg.] Take of Cinnamon, Cloves, Cardamoms the left. Nutmegs, Mace, Calamus ^Trontaticus, Carpobalfxmum, or Juniper her* ries, Sfuinamhi Wood of sTlees}' Tellow Sanders, Red Rofes dried, IP ormwcod, of each half an ounce. Let the Tinclnre be taken cutofthefh being groffy bmifed in (fiirit of lVtne,tbt vejfel being dofe flopped $ in three pound of this Tin&ure being ff rained, dif- folve ^Tloes one pound. • • - Which being dijfolved, add Maffich, Mirrh, of each half an ounce. Saffron tivo drams. Pal font of Pern one dram. The fiiperfluons Liquors being c-nfumed, either over loot ^tfhes or a Haw, bring it into a Maff of Pills. Culpeper.] It elenfetfi both fit)- ma*ch and brain ofgrofs and nutri¬ fied Humors, and Lets the fences free when they are thereby troubled : ic clenfeth the brain offended by ill hu¬ mors, wind, Sec. helos vertigo andf head-aches, and ftrengthens the brain’ exceedingly, helps concoifHons, and- Arengthens the ftomacb. I have of**

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