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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
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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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![Coafultatioti not only of two or three, but who! Col] edges ofPhyfitian^sr- haments of Phyfitwns, Inch as .London Treicletfp-up of Rhubarb of JulrburoeU-c Nay you have one Mudiaan.eut invented by a King which if you' take, you have a King to be yow Phyfitian, which 1S Syrup of Apples of King Saber a fa- mous African Phyfitian as wci asking;. * s They faid that he that could not Cure all Difeafes that have been and areao CkUxi CUraj3, f with the medicamentsof this Book, it was for want of Skil in the Nature of Mat) and Medicaments,and in the Method of Healing or Curing and not for any dethciency in thefemedicaqients. And thatthere have been and probably now are feme Phyfitians who giving their Phyfick thetsifelres and pretending that the Apothecary fliaU not divulge their fecrets, do yet ufe little other than the medicaments here defcribed. ^ A1^“r'fired *?, kaow ty tb* Apothecaries have fitch caufe to complain, that thefe fo excellent medicaments being by them faithfully and carefully’ and at a great expence prepared and kept, many Phyfitians even of the Col- ledg do perpetually trouble themfelves to invent, and the Apothecaries to make new medicaments for every Difeafe and Patient they meet with. They are fill coyning new Ponders, new Syrups, new Plafters, new Pils, for Sr.>/jK and my Lady, for Richard and William &c. and the medicaments by themfelves recomended to the Apothecaries to bemade(under penalty of the Kings difpleafure)according to their Difpenfitory}muft fleep defpifedand neg^ ie, p’.an^ atlaftbe fpoiled, unlefs the Apothecary can get the repute of a Phyfitian and prefcribe them himfelf. * ^ Their Aufwcr was, That only feme Phylitians were guilty of this abfurd Pr£““e’ v',1.lcl themfelves bell knew the rea f on 5 whether it were out of a cnildiln Ambition to ihew how wel their memories were fluffed with Varie¬ ty of Simp 1!es, or to mend Magnificat and feem mfer than the Colledg and all An ti- quity befides , or that the Apothecaries may not fmel their Art, to which In¬ tent fome are thought ftil to Vary their medicaments though never fo fuccefs. ful, and though the fame Intention continue: Which what dn unconfcionabte hazard that is in acute Difeafes,ail that are foberand good men as wel as Phy* fittans (if any can be a good Phyfitian abfolutely that as not a good man ) wil judg. It is a wretched thing that Phyfitians ihould be biafl in their Praffice wherein mens deareftlives are concerned) with confideration of the Apothe- caries quacking. Saltis Topuli ought to be the fupream Law toal Phyfitians that would deferve the name of Men, and Chriflians, and not of Foxes, and Infi¬ dels. Mens lives ought not to be hazarded through a giddy and affe&edly various fafnion ofpreferibing. There areCenfors and other waies and means to keep Apothecaries from Pra&ifing, and provided they Pra&ice not, the mox-e knowing in Phyfick, the better Apothecaries they wil prove, and more ferviceable both to the Phyfitian and Patient. It wil be a good wav to pre¬ vent their Pra&ifing,for Phyfitians to leave off that affe&ed negled of the me¬ dicaments they keep, and for Phyfitians to difperfe and fprinkle their Favors up and down ttie Town among them, balking none but fuch as are Infamous for making bad medicaments. For whiles their Medicaments fpoil with keep- mg, and whiles a few Apothecaries have all the Pra&ice of the greatefl: and mole ramousPrachtioners among them,what fhould the reft do but turn either Mountebanks or Bankrupts. For it is chiefly want of imployment from the Pnylstian, or fear of looting his medicaments with keeping, that makes any Apothecary invade and intrench upon the Pra&ice of Phyfick. My learned friends having proceeded thus far upon the Subjed, it came into my Mind, to defire further fatisfa&ion of them, as to the goednefs efficacy and utilitv](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3032404x_0001_0015.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
