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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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$ten made experience of it upon my own body, andalwaies with good fuccefs in fuch occafions, and there¬ fore give me leave to commend it unto my country-men, for a whol- fom clenfing Medicine,ftrengthning, no waies violent: one dram taken at night going to bed, wil work gently next day: if th* party be weak, you may give lefs; if ftrong more. If you take but half a [dram, you may go abroad the next day : but if you take a dram, you may keep the houfe; there can be no harm in that. ■ piluU de ^4flat Lota. Pago ll*. Lat. Or, Pills of warned Aloes- Colledg. Take of ^ilots wajhed with juyee of red J{ofis, one ounce, mofgrichythree drams, Mafiich, two drams, Diamofctt Dulce half a dram. Syrup o^DamashfRofesfo much as isfuf- pcient to make it into a mafi according to sirt. Culpeper.]. It purgethboth Brain, Stomach, Bowels, and Eyes of putri- fied humors, and alfo ftiengthens them. Ufe thefe as the-fucceeding. Venues newly added a fcruple, or half a dram at night go¬ ing to bed, you may walk abroad, fot it wil hardly work til next day in the afternoon. Viltthe Siurea. Page 122. Latin. Or, the Golden Pills. Colledg,] Takp of siloes, Diacrydium, of each fine drams. I{ed J{ofcs, Small age feeds, of each two drams and an half. Seeds of ^Tnms and Fennel, of each one dram and an half. Mafiich, Saffron, Trochs lhandal, of each one dram. With a fufficient quantity of Honey of kpfes, mafe it into a Mafi according to art. Culpeper.'] They are held to purge the head, to quicken the fences, e- fpecially the fight, and to expel wind from the bowels, but work fom- thing hardily. Half a dram is the utmoft dofe ; keep the fire ; take them in the morning, and fleep alter them, they wil work before noon. an able Arabian Phyfitian. They are termed alfo Cephalic* orHead-pils, from their experimented Virtue in curing difeafes of the Head out of which they purge choler and thick flegtn effedluaUy, and from the Nerves. The dofe is from two feru- ples to a dram in the morning, and fleep after. . ** Pilulre Qhochire, the left. : 'j Page 113. Latin. ’ Colledg.] Take of siloes, Scamrnony, Colocynthis, of each ot,e ounce. With equal parts of Syr Up of Worm- wood and purging thorn : make it into a Mafs according to art. V - „\rt Ve,sues newly added. , / This purges cooler more then- jflegtn and is appropriated fpr dife^- fes of the Stomach. The dofe iHrom’ one fcruple to Kalf a dram or two fcruples fii the morning falling. ^ ‘ **'N* r pilttU de Cygnogloffp'. Page. Latin. Or, Pills of Cyg- noglofla or Hounds- Tongue. yirtnes newly added. Thefe Pills have anciently had y mm mwy ~ , *.it name from their precious ef- Thefe purge more effectually then foils in purging the Head, quicken- Alephansine pils aforefaid ; which ing the eye-light, voiding wind from feem rather ftrengthening then much the ftomach and Guts and that witb- purgative. It is a neatly compofed out trouble. The dofe is one dram Pil, andbefides what is faid ofit. It does cheer and recreate the mind and fpirits. It may be familiarly ufed a Pil or two before fupper, by fuch as arecoftive, troubled wtth crudities, dim-fiphted, dull-witted, heavy- hearted or otherwife indifpofed, twice or thrice a week and a man may follow his occafions. If a man would give _it as a juft purge one dram or a dram and half may be the dofe in the morning,the Patient kee¬ ping houfe. in five Pills. Two may be taken at night and the other three in the mor¬ ning. pilulte Cochix, the greater. Page 122. Latin. Colledg.] Take of the .J\oots of Hounds-tongue dried, White Henbane feed, Opium prepared, of each half an ounce. c Mirrh fix drams, Olibannm five drams, Saffron, Cafioreum> ttyrax CalamitU, of each one dram and an half. With fyrup of Stcechas, make it [into <t Mafs. yiloeldpfata. Page 121. Latin. Colledg.] Take of siloes in ponder four ounces, Juyee of Damask, f^ofes clarified one pound. Mix them and digtfi them in the Sun, or in a bath, till the fuperfiuous liquor be drawn off, digeft it and evaporate it four times over, and keep the Mafi. Culpeper.] It is a gallant gentle purger of eholler, frees the ftomach from fuperfluous humors,opens ftop- as, and other infirmities of the j proceeding fromCholler,flegm, as yellow jaundice, &c. and llreng- thens the body exceedingly. Take Colledg.] Take of Species of Hiera picra, ten drams. Trochs f lhandal, three drams and an half, Diacrydium two drams and an half. T urbith, Stechas, of each five drams, Wtth a Jitfficent quantity of fyrup of Stechas, make it into a Mafs according to art. Culpeper ] It ftaies hot Rhewms that fal down upon the Lungs, there¬ fore is good in Ptificks, alfo it initi- gates-pain : a fcruple is enough to take at a time going to bed, and too luch if your body be weak : have a nv care of Opiates for fear they make you fleep your iaft. • V ertues newly added. Thefe Pills were invented, not to Culpeper.] Gefner and Manh. de ( purge but to flop all cfiftfllations of Grad, put in only two fcruples and a j rheum from the Head into the Lungs a half of Diacrvdium, belike becaufe and Cheft, the Teeth, or any other they would not have it work fo vio- part. They are.tnerefore good after lently : But Mefue, Jfhafis, and Nico-} univerfal remedies methodically ap- laus SWyrepfus, preferibed two drams plied, to flop the^Tooth-ach^Cough- and an half, as here in the Difpenfa- tory : only Mefue appoints it to be made up with Syrup of Wormwood. ’Tis held to purge the head, and it OH£ time, Gout pains, aud all troublefom mo¬ tions of the humorSyten grains being taken at night when the Patient lies .. down to reft, and repeated every o- muftbe given only to ftrong bodies, ther night, for about three nights, if and but half a dram at a time, and, the pain or Cough continues 10 as alfo with great care. to hinder the Patients fleep. Cnlpt- Venues newly aided. \per oyerfhoots in afiigmng the do e Theft; arc of Ifhafes his Invention of this Pill for though a Rtuple$

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