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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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$G^rRozihs, Balfotns, andJayccsniMk,™ VJW '_____: _npnk. and other venemc TTZiTludu caiTorth at certain rime^Ae Inhabitants there abouts ~Gwn Elemf Amh^ ?PuprTw to failures in the skul and head. See Afrceus his Liniment. Gum Lucca being \vel purified,and . C 1 -1 C ^ /4.ee\trie in ■e en uf. to mollifie the hardnefs of o{ haffadtam- taken tn Sellings and difeufs A™. “ f L^Jient liquor, ftrengthem lurnt is excellent good foi thchu a;ons>he|ps the yellow,aund.ee and the mother, and the falling dropfie ; provokes urine, breaks the Inwardly taken in Wine it provokes dioptre , P ;., the terms, helps the bitmgs of v ene- Sons beads, and diffolves congealed blood in the body. . , - AmberzM* is hot and dry in the le- ^ndd?gtee, I will not dtlputethe cafe Whether it W ^ * pents, and other venemous heads, a lingular remedy for iUnking breat if it arife from putrefaOion of the ftomach, it faftens loofe Teeth, and ftaies the {bedding off of the hair, outwardly ufed it breeds flefir in deep wounds, and covers the naked bones with fiefli. , _ , , Olibunum is hot in the fccond de- aropnc , pu,u;iv VV.',. „ree, and dry in the firft, you may ftone in the reins and blacldei. * , dram c{ it at a tune, it flops Liquid .Amber is aot much unli i and tbe runrming of the Liquid Sty rax : by un&ion itg j it ftrengthens the memory ex- and comforts a cold and mol f > 1 di ly comforts the heart, expels -yvo - T -n not duputcmc iteafeth all griefs coming of* ^ 1 fadneff and Melancholy, flrengthens :ond degree, I wi . P . jt caufe. It mightly comfoite n& , , helps coughs,rhe\vms and :afe whether it be a , . , ftrengthneth aweakrtomac , g Ipleurifies Your beft way (in my opi- [Irengthens nature much which way £ wkh % d helps digeftion P °to mi’ > with con- -MVcri, betaken, ai. but few -* .tin,he ever it uc tdTivi*, -— . _ ,rains ufually given of it at a tun* I uppofe rathewfor fear it ffould be -oo heavy for the purfe than too hot for the body, mix’d with a little Oyntment of Orrenge flowers, and the Temples and Forehead anoi with if, it eafeth the pains of the head and ftrengthens ^ omin ex¬ ceedingly : the fame applidto the privitie§s helps the fits of the mother, Lwardy taken it ftrengthens the brain and memory, the heart and vi¬ ta’ fpirit, warms cold ftomachs, an - an exceeding ftrengthener of Na- i _ '’iQO**1 ° tti ftrvi tn morning fading.) Tachamuchd is fcldom taken in¬ wardly, outwardly fpied upon Lea¬ ther, and applied to the Navil, it ftaieth the fits of the Mother applied to the fide, itmitigats fpeedily, and in little time quite takes away the pain and winditiefs of t!ie fpleen, the truth is, whatfoever ach or fwelhng proceeds of wind or cold raw-hu- __, , . . , „ ‘rs I know no better planter coin- tries whence it comes beinglar hot- ^ beyond fea, then this Gum. ter, it fals in greater abundance L g. tIie brain and memory him that delnes Reafon foiit, be,!! ^ ^ „ fllch de¬ in the firft. . „ I think it would do the Common¬ wealth no harm if I foould fpeaK a word or two of Mann* here al¬ though it be no Gum : I confefs Au¬ thors’ make fome flutter about it what it is, fome holding it to be the iuyee of a tree 5 I am confident it is the very fame condenfated that out honey-dews here are, only the coun¬ tries whence it comes being far hot- • . c. t-:__ oKmidance uct :ure to old people, »*l.ng ngotto, B»,Sb book.of1; tuitfull, if coldnefs an n01 me 01 . tQ pat]sfy any reafonable man. Sa^nc^' , j Gum stnime are fruitful 1, if coldnefs and moifture or wor^ ^ ^ any reafonable man. weakneff be rhe caufe im ? - §• ^ the dryeft and whiteft ; it is - being fmelled to, is ^ pUrger of Choller,, vulgarly known to reprefs the fits of thil.d provokes appetite, the mother; a little bit Put into an quenc ^ rouglflefs of Ae Throat aking tooth, prefently eafetn th 1 bitternefs^in the Throat, and pains : ten grains oi it taken befoie tovomitJ it is very dinner walking half an „God for fuch as are fubj eft to be iu-ovekes appetite, helps Di > foftive to put into the drinks inftead ilrengthens the Stomach, and t 0f fogar, it hath no obnoxiousqua- Lay loathing of meat,.it provokes butmaybe takenby luft exceedingly and expells Wind as Child without any much Sciatica. Glim C0sp.1l, and Gum J*nime are very like one another both m body and operation, the former is hard to come by, the laft not very ealie. It flops deductions from pie Head, if you perfume your Cap With the fmoak of it, it helps the Head-ach and Megrim, ftrengthens the Brain, and therefore the finnews. GumTragaganth, which the vul- take an ounce of:it at a. tm« , , couehs and hoarfenefs,falt and IWi*- or Borrace as fome call it, _ jefides its vertues it^hath to^fodder! ^^^it it wif melt iike fugar, «*■*** •«« -1 _ 1—fmm it hv DCUUC5 IL» Tn pH m IVillK, ltltYVii rutiLix p I neiAerwillitbe known Ivon, nby Itops nuxei, anv* wtAv- s 1 Reins : being in fine pouder,and put into green wounds it cures them at once drefling. Cambugc, which out °A many names which every CountryMows upon it, the Colledgare pleafedt cal Cuttu Gumbcc; Authors areex- treamly different, both about its be¬ ing, what it is whether a juyee, or not ? If a juyee, of what ? and about its Operations,whether it woik vio¬ lently or not: for my part I care not for medling With an unknown Me¬ dicine my felf,neither would I advile my Country men. . Caranna outwardly applied,.is ex¬ cellent for aches and fwellings m the nerves andjoynts; if you laj it be¬ hind the ears, it draws back humors from the eyes,applied to the temples as they ufually do Maftich, it helps the Toothach. find noted in tnen piup^i tp— / helps coughs and hoarfenefs,falt and ibarp diftiUations upon the Lungs, being taken with a liquoris flick, --y . , « j .v :n tbe fecond [being diffolved in lweetwinept re ps Mlrrh is hot and diy m the ice 1 5 drunk) gnawing in the bo- d«grce,exceetiing ^ wetCpne/s !,d faf.ings of Ae men with child ; it bitter, ana yet j , ,^h c,ufeth excoriations al Authors hold it to be goo 1 eithev in the Reins or bladder, being Roughneft of the in Milk and Ac Eyes wa- pipe j half a dram ot.“ I nlcd with it, it takes away wheels time helps Rheumatic _ ■ j ^ p b thnt grow on the Eye lids, onsupon theLungues, pain« the atidld to fie put m fidesi it (tops “'Vj^irtt^'pdtelires ,o fodder wounds, efpeci- SbiS^^^l^y if Ae Nerves ot Srnncws be the womb ; being taken tw° ours Ult* ■ ^ ^itfolved in juyee of Rue before the fits i^pS^f ^ny and taken, wonderfully bveaketh the Mathiolus faith kcfeldome u ed y ^ ^ ^ Madder, expels the dead other Medicine for the ^r^n A- t ^ after_Wrth deers the fight, gue then a dram of Minh given in . -ne and drunk, it helps muskadel an hour before the fit ufu- . . j diftillation upon the ally came; if you make .tup .n.o fits of, be Mother, pills wiA Treacle, and take °n outwardly in Oyls or Oyntments, it them every morning fading, it h h„|y heli!s fuch members as are foveraign prefervative agam(l(Ae\m^u I n r,ftrctchcd. peftiknee, againft the poyfon of fei- out ot joym . 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