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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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$and oyl, being melted, as alfo the pulp and fait being finely pondered, and Jo make it into art oyntmtnt according to art- Unguentum Emlaium cum Mercurio. Page I 56. Latin Or, Oynt- ment of Elicampane with Quick-filver. Colledg.] Js made of the former tyntment,by adding wo ounces of <jnicf- filver, killed by continual firring, not only with ffittle, orjuyce o f Lemons, but with al the Turpentine hfp't for that in¬ tent, and part of the Greafe,in a fone Jtlorter. Fiennes newly added. It is good again ft al Itch and fcabs and other deforming eruptions upon the Skin, both without and with quick-filver. With quick-filver it is more effe&ual, but may bring Aches upon the party that (hal ufe it, efpecially being of a weak-timbred conftitution. Uhguentum Lanrinum commune, Pag. 156. Or, Oyntment of Bayes common. Colledg.] Take of Bay leaves brni- ftd one pound. Bayberries bruifed half a pound. Cabbage leaves four ounces. JVeats-foot oyl five pound. Bullocks faet wo pound. Boyl them together,andflrain them,that fo it may be made into an Oyntment ac¬ cording to art• • Culpeper.] Let the Leaves and Ber¬ ries be bruifed and boyled with the Oyl and the Suet til the juyee be confumedjet it be ftrained and kept. It heats and expels wind, is profita¬ ble for old Aches, and Sprains 5 but what good it fhould do to the Itch ( for which fimple people buy it) I cannot im agin. Venues newly added. It is foveraign againft cold difea- Jes of the Brain, Nerves, Joynts, and Loyns. It helps weannefs, opens ■ the pores of the Veins and Venti¬ lates the blood. It is good againft the Palfie being fmeared upon the Back-bone and againft the lhaking fit of an Ague. In a word it is of an heating, emollient, opening and dif- cufling faculty, heals all cold diftem- pers whether fimple (if fuch there be ) or with matter as flegm and winds, and confequently it is good againft the colick arifing from thefe caufes being anointed upon the Bel¬ ly and chafed in with an hot hwd. Vngutntum de minio five rubrum cafn- phoratum. Page 156. Latin. Or, Oyntment of red Lead wit h C amphire, J ‘.-A - ■ |V Colledg. Tafe of Oyl of Rofet one pound and an half, Red Lead three ounces, Litharge wo ounces, Ctrufi one oume and an half, Tutty three drams, 1 Camfhire two drams, jVax one ounce and an half, Make it into an Oyntment according to art, with a pefile and Mortar made of Lead. Culpeper.'] This Oyntment is as drying as a man fhal ufually read of one, and withall cooling ; therefore food for fores, and fuch as are treu- led with Defluxions. I remember once Dr. Alexander Read applied it to my Mothers Bread when lhe had a Cancer, before it brake a long time, but to as much purpofe as though he had applied a rotten Apple ,• yet in the foregoing infirmities I beleevc it feldom fails. Vertucs newly added. It is exceeding good for ill-condi¬ tioned ulcers that are hardly brought to clofe up under a very long time, it being of a cooling, healing,nature, and very drying, efpecially with. Camphir in it. Unguentum e Nicotiona, feu Peto. Pag ‘156. Latin. Or, Oyntment of Tobacco. Colledg.'] Take of Tobacco Leaves bruifed wo pound, Steep them a whol night in red wine ; in the morning boyl it in fieJIj Hogs greafe, diligently waJJyed, one pound, till the wine be confirmed, Strain it, and add half a pound oj Juyee oj Tobacco, Rofin four ounces, Boyl it to the confumption of the juyee, adding towards the end, round Birth- wort roots in ponder, two ounces, new iVax as much as. is fiifficiene to make it into an Oyntment according to art. Culpeper] It would ask a whol Summers day to write the particular Vertues of this Oyntment, and my poor Genius is too weak to give it the hundreth part of its due praife : It cures Tumors, Apofthumes, Wounds, Ulcers, Gun-fhotjBotches, Scabs, Itch, flinging with Nettles, Bees, Wafps, Hornets, Venemous beads. Wounds made with poyfoned Arrows, &c. Tufh ! this is nothing -— Paulo Majora canamus. It helps nafty, rotten, {linking, putrifi- ed Ulcers , though in the Legs, whe¬ ther the humors are moft fybje#: to refort ; in Fiftulaes though the bone be afflifted, Itlhall fcale it without any infrument, and bring up the fiefh from the very bottom ': Wpuld you be fair ? your face being ^uojntod with this, foon wil the Ilednpl?? Pimples, and $.nnfiurning vaxjfib : A Woumlndreffed with this wfi nev^r putrifie : a wound made with fo. final a weapon that no tent wil follow, ar noint but wifh this, & you peetj fear 1 no danger: If your Head ako, anoint your Temples with this,and you Dial have eafe : The Breaft being a- nointedwith it, no infirmity dares harbor there, no not Afthmaes, nor confumption of th* Lungs ; Belly being anointed with it, helps, the Colick and Ilfiack psfiion, the Worms, and what not! It helps the Hemorrhoids or Piles,aod js the befF Oyntment that is for Gouts of all forts : Finally there in ay be at .uni-' verfal a Medicine made for all difea- fes, of Tobacco, as of any thing in the world, the philofbphers fone ex¬ cepted- O Jpubertus } thou fhaft never want praife for inventing this Medicine, by thofe that ufe it, fo long as the Sun and Moon endurethF' Virtues newly adffa. The many Virtues and rare efFe$s of this Oyntment do argue that To¬ bacco,* however fantaftically abufed in a riotous manner,, and therefore by fome cried down, is yet a very rare and foveraign plant, as the fra¬ grant and winey fir.el thereof when burnt or otherwife, if good dees al- fo teftifie. And if the induftrious Chymift did blit think to try his Art upon it, I believe medicaments of very great* ufe might be produced from this plant for internal Maladies otherwife hard to cure.I do therefore hereby commend it to the confidera- tion of all our ingenious Englxfh men that have a dexterity in the noble and ufeful Art of Chymiftry, as a fit and promiling fubjeft to work upon. ' Unguentum Nntritnm, feu Tripharma- cum. Page 1 $6. Latin. helps Scalding? .though made with Oyl; Burnings though with Light¬ ning, and that without any Scar: It Colledg.] Take of Litharge of Gold finely pondered, half a pound, 'Vinegar one pound, OylofRofies wo pound, Grind the Litharge in a Mortar, pow- ring to it fomtimes Oyl, fomtimes Vine- gar, till by continual fiirring, the 'Vi¬ negar do no more appear, and it come to a whitijlj Oyntment. . . Culpeper.] It is of a cooling, dry¬ ing nature, good for itching of wounds. Itch and Scabs, and fuch like deformities of the Skm, as Tet¬ ters, Ringworms &c, • ftnguntum I$

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