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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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$eth it to bleed, whence it Was called, Nofe-bleed j k.ftoppethLasks, and the Terms in women, helps the run¬ ning of the Reins, helps incarnations and Excoriations of the Yard, as alio Incarnations of wounds. Galen. Mofs. Is fomthing cold and bin¬ ding, yet ufually retains a fmatch oi the property of the Tree it grows on: therefore that which grows upon Oaks is very dry and binding ; Sera- po faith that it being infufed in Wine and the Wine drunk, it ftaies Vomi¬ ting and Fluxes, as alfo the whites in Women. Mirtle-Tree The Leaves are of a cold Earthly quality, drying and binding, good tor Fluxes, Spitting, Vomiting and Pilling of Blood; Bop the Whites and Reds in Wo¬ men. n'ater-Crcffes, and Gardtn-Creffes. Garden Crefes, are hot and dry in the fourth degree, good for the Scur¬ ry, Sciatica, and hard fwellings. Yet do they trouble the Belly, eafe pains of the Spleen, provoke Luft. Diofio- rides. '> Water-.Crcffes, are hot and dry. clenfe the blood, help the Scurvy, provoke Urine and the Terms,-break the Stone, help the Green-ficknefs, caufe a frefh lively color. Trea.cle-muftard. Hot and dry in the third degree, purgeth violently, dangerous for Women with Child : Outwardly it is applied with profit to the Gout. Tobacco. And in reciteing the vertues of this Herb, I will follow Chifuis, that none fhould think I do it without an Author, It is hot and dry in the fecond degree, and of a clenfmg nature : the Leaves warmed and applied to the Head, are excel¬ lent good in * inveterate Head-aches [ * K£cpctKaea I kyiow not rvhat better' name to give it. Old. Bead-aches, con¬ tinual Head-aches : takje'which we wild] and Megrims, if the Difeafes come through cold or wind, change them often til the Difeafes be gone. They help fuch whofe Neck be ftiff eafeth the faults of the Bread : Afthmaes or Head-flegm in the lappets of the Lungs : eafe the pains of the Sto¬ mach andwindineis thereof: being heat hot by the fire, and applied hot to the fide, they loofen the belly, and * kill worms being applied uqto it in like manner : this I finow by ex¬ perience, even where many other medi- dir.es have failed. ] they break the •Rone being applied in like manner to the region of the bladder: help the 'Rickets, being applied to the belly and Tides : applied to the Navel,they give prefent eafe to the fits of the Mother : they take away cold ach in the Joynts applied to them : boyled, the liquor abfolutely and fpeedily cutes Scabs and Itch: neither is there any better falve in the world for wounds then maybe made of it; for it cleiifeth, fetcheth out the filth though it lie in the bones, brings up the Filth from the bottom, and all this it. doth fpeedily : it cures j wounds made with poifoned Wea- I pbnsy- and for (this Clufius brings J many experiences too tedious here to relate. It is an admirable thing for Carbuncles and Plague-fores, inferior to none: green wounds 'twil cure in a trice : Ulcers and Gangreens very fpeedily, not only in men, but alfo in Beafts, therefore the Indians dedicated it to their god. Taken in a pipe it hath almoft as ma¬ ny vertues ; it eafeth wearinefs, takes away the fence of hunger and thirft, provokes to ftool: he laith, the Indians will Travel four daies without either meat or drink, by on¬ ly chewing a little of this [made up like a Pill] in their mouths : It eaf¬ eth the body of fuperfluous Humors, opens hoppings. Monardus alfo confirms this judgment j and indeed a man might HI a whol Volume with the vertues of it. See the Oyntment of Tobacco. Money-wort, or Herb Two-ptnCe; cold, dry, binding,' helps Fluxes, Ropes the Terms, helps Ulcers in the Lungs 5 outwardly it is a fpecial Herb for wounds. Bafil. Hot and moift. Simeon Sethi faith 3 the fmel of Bafil is good for the Head ; but Hollerius (and he Ro mean Phyfitian neither) faith the continual fmel of it hurts the brain, and breeds Scorpions there, and affirms his own knowledg of it, and that’s the reafon (faith he) there is fuch an Antipathy between it and Rue, which I am confident there is : the truth is, it will quickly putrifie, and breed worms. Hollerius faith, they are venemous, and that’s the reafon the name Bafilicon was given to it. The beft ufe that I know of it, is, it gives fpeedy deliverance to wo¬ men in Travel. Let them not take above half a dram of it at a time in pouder, and be fine alfo the birth be ripe, elfe it eafeth abortion. bidders-tongne. The Leaves are very drying : being boyled in Oyl they make a dainty green Balfom for green wounds : taken inwardly, they help inward wounds. Origany : A kind of wild Marjo¬ ram; hot and dry in the third degree, helps the bitings of venemous beafts, fuch as have taken Opium, Hem¬ lock, or Poppy,- provokes Urin, brings down the Terms, helps old Coughs ; in an Oyntment it helps Scabs and Itch. Cynkfoyl: very drying, yet but meanly hot, if at all; helps Ulcers in the mouth, roughnefs of the Wind-pipe (whence conies hoaifnefs and Coughs, &c. ) helps _ Fluxes, creeping Ulcers, and the yellow Jaundice,- they fay one leaf cures a Quotidian Ague, thr^e a Tertian, and four a quartan : I know it will cure Agues without this cutiofity, if a wife man have the handing bf it> otherwife a Cart load will not do it. - Peach leaves : They are a gentle, yet a compleat purger of Choller, and Difeafes coming from thence ; - fit for Children becaufe of their gen- tlenefs. You may boyl them in white Wine : a handful is enough at a time. Plantam. Cold and dry j an herb, though common,yet let none defpife it, for the Decoftion of it prevails mightily againft tormenting . pains and excoriaons of the Guts, bloody Fluxes, it fiops' the Terms, and fpit- ting of blood, Ptiiicks,or Confump- I tions cf the Lungs, the running of the Reins,and the whites in Women, pains in the Head, and Frenzies : outwardly it clears the fight, takes away Inflamations. Scabs, Itch, the Shingles, and all fpreading fores, and is, as wholefom an Herb as can grow about an Houfe. Tragus,' Dio- fcorides. Policy, or Pellamountain : All the forts are hot in the fecond degree, and dry in the thirdhelps Drophes, the yellow Jaundice, infirmities of the Spleen, and provokes Urine. Diofcoridei. Pnrflane : Cold and moifi in the fecond or third degree.- cools hot fiomachs, and (I remember fince I was a Child that) *it is admirable for one that hath hi§ Teeth on edg by eating fowr Apples, it cools the BloodjLiver, and is good for hot dif¬ eafes, or Incarnations in any of thefe . places, flops Fluxes, and the Terms, and helps all inward Inflamations whatfoever. , Self-heal, CarpenttTs-herb, and in Suffex Sickle-wort. Moderately hot and dry, binding. See Bugle. So fliall I not need to write one thing twice, the vertues being the fame. Venyroyal j Hot and dry in the third degree ; provokes Urin,breaks the Stone in the Reins (for as I take it, the Herb is chiefly apropriated to thofe parts) (Lengthens Womens backs, 'provokes the Terms, eafeth their Labor in Child-bed, brings away the after-birth, ftaies vomiting, (Lengthens the brain (yea, the very fmel of it) breaks Wind, and helps the Vertipo. pulmonaria, arborca,& Symphytum Mamlofiim. Lung-wort. I confefs I fearching Authors for thefe, found out many forts of-Lung-worts, yet all agreed that both thefe were one and the fame, and helps infirmities of the Lungs, as hoaifnefs, Coughs, wheeling, fhortnefs of breath, &c. You may boyl it in Hyfop-water, or any other water that {Lengthens the Lungs. Fleabane. Hot and dry in the third degree, helps the biting of venemous beafts.$

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