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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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Culpeper. The cffetts are the fame With the Simple, only ’tis ftronger, and better compofed here than it was in the former Difpenfatory. Venues newly Added. It is good for afthmatical perfons being hneared upon the chert. It brings down the Haemorrhoids a- nointed upon the place, or in jetted in a clyrter. Mixed with vinegar and rue and bitter almonds, and dropt or fquirted into the ears with a Syringe, it helps deafnefs and takes away the preternatural noifes and tinklings of the ears. It cures ulc ers and flop- pages of the noftrils. Alio it is good againft an old Catarrhe, anointed u- pon the feanis of the head, the tem¬ ples, pulfes, and foies of the feet. Oleum Major once. Page 149. Latin Or, Oyl of Marjoram. Colledg.] Take of Marjoram four handfuls. Mother of time two handfuls, Leaves and berries of Myrtles one handful. Southernwood, Water mints, of each half an hand- full. Sting cut) bruifed, and put in a glafi, three pound of oyl omphacine beingput to it) let it (land eight daies in the Sun, or in a bath, cloft (lopped, then flrain it out) in the oyl put in frejh fimples, dofo the third time) the oyl may be perfected according to art. Culpeper. It helps wearinefs and Difeafes of the Brain and Nerves, coming of cold ; it helps the dead palfie, the back ( viz. the region a- long the back bone ) being anointed with it; being fnufted up in the nofe, it helps Spafmus cynicus, which is a wrying the mouth ahde, it helps noife in the ears being dropped into them ; it provokes the terms, and helps the bitings of venemous hearts j it is a moft gallant Oyl to ftrengthen the body, the back being anointed with it strengthens the mufcles, they being chafed with it,- helps the head- ach, the forehead being rubbed with it. Opium finely beaten, Styrax calamitis dijfolved in a little Turpentine) of each half an ounce. Culpeper. It is probable the Au¬ thor l’tudied to invent an oyl ex- treamly cold, when he invented this. I am of opinion it may be ufed fafely no way but only to anoint the tem¬ ples and nofes of fuch as have a fren¬ zy. If by uling this oyntinent you fee they Beep too long, dip a fpunge in Vinegar, and hold to their nofes, it may t>e a means to awake them. It is fcarte fafe, yet if you let it alone, it cannot do you harm. Vertues newly added. This way invented by Nicolaus, the Author of the Requies or Beep¬ ing medicament formerly deferibed amongft the Elettuaries. It was invented to aflawge vehe¬ ment pains of the Head. It is alfo good for the tooth-ach, being anoin¬ ted upon the cheeks and jaws. For the Head-ach and Phrentick perfons that cannot fleep,itmuft be anointed upon the forehead and temples, and in the noftrils. Thofe that are not frentick and yet cannot Beep, muft have it anointed, upon their pulfes and the foies of their feet. MofchcUum. Page 149. Latin. Or, Musked Oyl. ftrangury, being anointed upon the. Blare, for the colick fineared upon the Belly, and for al difeafes of the Nerves. It makes a man indure the cold in winter couragionfly, being a- nointed upon the ftomach efpecially the pit thereof, and upon the back¬ bone. It frren^thens the Liver and Spleen afflittccTymh cold Difeafes. It is mingled in Plaifters and Epi- thems for difeafes of the Stomach, Kidneys, and Womb. Oleum Nardinum. Page jyo. Latin Or, Nard OyT. Oleum Mandragorx. Page 149. Lat. Or, Oyl of Mandrakes. Colledg.of common oyl two pound Juycc of Mandrake apples, or for want of them, of the leaves, four ,, ounces. Juyce of white Henbane two ounces Jityce of blacky Poppy heads three ounces, Juyce of Violet t, Tender Hemlocf, of each one , ounce. Set them all in the Sun, and after the tenth day boyl them to the confumption of the juyet) then picin Colledg. Tafe two Nutmegs, Musfone dram, Indian leaf or Mace, Spickriardj Cofius, Maffich, of each fix drams. Styrax calamitis, Cajjia Lignea, Mirrh, Saffron, Cinnamon, Cloves, . Carpobalfxmnm) Cubebs, n lidcllium, of each two drams. Pure Oyl three pound. Wine three ounces. Brutfe them as you ought to do,mix them and let them boyl eafily, till the wine be confirmed, the Muskbeing mixed accor¬ ding to art after it is firained. Culpeper. It is exceeding good a- gainft all difeafes of cold, efpecially thofe of the ftomach, it helps dif¬ eafes of the fides, they being anoin¬ ted with it, the ftrangury, chollick, and vices of the Nerves, and af¬ flictions of the Reins. Venues newly added. This is good againft all cold dil- eafes of the body, as pallies, trem¬ blings, numnefs, efpecially for cold difeafes of the Stomach, as pains, windinefs, indigeftion, want of ap¬ petite, being anointed upon the re¬ gion thereof It is good againft the Colledg.] Tafe of Spickpard three - ounces. / Marjoram trvo ounces. Wood of stlocs. Calamus aromaticus, ^ilicampane) * (ffyperus. Bay Leaves, Indian Leaf or Mace, Squinanth, Cardamoms, of each one ounce and an . half. Bruife them al grofly, and fieep them in water and wine, of each fourteen ounces. ®yl of Sefamin, or oyl of .Olives, four pound and an half, for one day : then ptrfeEl the oyl by boy ling it gently in a. double veffel. Culpeper,'] It heats, attenuates,di¬ gits, and moderately binds, and therefore helps all cold and windy afflictions of the Brain, Stomach, Reins, Spleen, Liver, Bladder, and Womb : being fnufted up the Nofe it purgeth the Head, and g color and fmell to the BocR ives good Vermes newly added, j See the Vertues of the limple oyi of Nard formerly celebrated. It is to all intents and purpofes more potent and eflettuall. Oleum Nicodemi. Pa?e l<o. Latin O ' Colledg.] Take of the feeds or tops of St. Johns wort. Old Turpentine, of each one pound* Litharge fix drams, pilots Hep stick? Tutty, of each three drams. Saffron one ounce. White wine four pound. Old oyl two pound, The fourth part of the Wine being confi fumed in a bath, or fand, or in the Sun% in the Dog daies , after the tenth day flrain it,and keep the oyl apart from the Wine. , ( ' Culpeper.] Both Wine and Oyl are exceeding drying (that the wine is more clenfing, and the oylbeft to skin a fore,your genius ( though ne¬ ver fo dul ) wil tel you ) and there¬ fore excellent for fores and ulcers

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