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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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$115 Seeds of ytnnis, Samllage, fennel, of each one ounce. Endive half an ounce. Cleer water fix found. Boyl it gently in an Earthen vejfel till half the water be confumed, then firain and clarifie it, and with three found of fit gar, and a found and an half of white Wine vinegar, boyl it into a fyruf. Culpeper.] This in my opinion is a gallant Syrup for fuch vvhofe Bodies are fluffed either with flegin, or tough humors, for it opens obflru- ions or floppings both of the Sto¬ mach Liver, Spleen, and Reins 5 it cuts and brings away tough flegm and choller,and is therefore a fpecial remedy for fuch as have a fluffing at their Stomach. Alefue prefcribes ten pints of water, and a quart of Vinegar , let every one uie which Dr. Exferiencc tels him is belt. Lat. tf de Mgno Caflt. Page 50. r. Syrup of Agnus Callus. Colledg. Take of the /beds of Byte. Hemp, of each half a dram. Seeds of Endive, Lettice, Purflain, Guords, Melons, of each two drams. Fleawort, half an ounce. Mgms C a fins, four ounces. Flowers of Water Lillies, Leaves of Mints,of each half a hand¬ ful. Deception of feeds of Lentils, Coriander feeds, of each half an ounce. Three pmtnd, boyl them all over a gen¬ tle fire till two found be confirmed. Mdd to the refidue being firained two ounces ofjuyce of Lemmons. Mi found and an half of white Su- gfr- Mafe it into a fyruf according to art Virtnes newly added. This Syrupe is defignedto allay fiefhy lull by cooling, quenching and confuming the feed; and it is very good for fuch are defire to live chari¬ ty and enjoy the happynefs ofafin- gle life without vexation and fcan- dal. It is good for fuch widdowes or Maids as are vexed with the furor titerinus, or madnefs arifing from heat of the Womb and genital parts and acrimony of the feed. It is alfo food for fuch as are fubjeft to fpit Iood and bleed much at the Nofe, and for defluftions of thin fait and hot Rheums and the Whites. An ounce may be takeivat a time in Let¬ tuce or Purflain water in the mor¬ ning and at four a clock in the after¬ noon. Syrupus de Mltkcea. Page fi. Latin. Or, Syrup of Marjh-mallows. Colledg.] Take of Boots of Marjh- mallews, two ounces. Boots of Graf (faragus, Liquor is, Baifons of the Sun fioned, of each half of white Sugar into a Syruf, adding the mixtures of the Gum at the end. Culpeper.] It cools the Liver, and opens obftrudlions both of it and the Spleen, helps old Suriets, and fuch like Difeafesj Scabsj Itch* Lepro- fie, and what elfe proceed from the Liver over heated. You may take an ounce at a time. an ounce. T ops of Mallows, Alarjh-mallows, Pellitory of the wall, Burnet, Plant ane Maiden-hair, white and blacfi, of each a handful. Byd Cicers an ounce. Of the * four greater and four leffer cold feeds, of each three drams. Boyl them in fix found of cleer water * What they are til four remain,which fee at the end of being firained, boyl the Simples,and into a Syrup with before rheCom- four found of white pounds in this Sugar. Book. Culpeper.'] It is a fine cooling, opening, flippery fyrup, and chieny commendable for the cholick, flone, or gravel in the kiclnies or bladder. I mail only give, you a Caution or two concerning this fyrup, which for the forenamed effefrs, I hold to be excellent: 1. Be lure you boyl it enough, for if you boyl it never fo little too little, it will quickly be fowr. 2. For the cholick (which is nothing elfe but an infirmity in the Gut caljed Colon, and rhence ir takes its name) you had befl ufe it in cly- flers , but for gravel or the flone, drink it in convenient Medicines, or by it felf; if both of them affiicfi you ufe it both waies : I a flu re you, this Medicine wil five thofe that are fub- jeft to fuch difeafes, bothmony and mifery. Syrufus de Mmmonlaco. fr. Or, Syrup of Ammoniacum. Colledg.] Take of Maudlin, Cetrach, of each four handfuls. Common Wormwood an ounce. Boots of Succory, Sfaragus, Barf of Cafar roots, of each two ounces. Mfter due frefaration fieef them twen¬ ty four hours in three ounces of white Wine. Water of Badijfoes, Fumitory Water,of each two found. Then boyl it away to one found eight ounces, let it, fettle : In four ounces of which whilfi it is warm, difolve by it felf Gum ammoniacum, firfi diffolved in white Wine Vinegar, two ounces. Boyl the refi with a found and an half Syruf us de Mrtemifia. Page 51. Lat. Or, Syrup of Mugwoit. Colledg.] Take of Mugwort tJPo handfuls. Peny royal, Calominth, Origanum, Bawm, Mrfmart, Dittany of Creet, \ Savin, Marjoram, Germander, St. Johns-wort, Camefitis, Fcathcrfew with the flows**. Centaury the lefi, Byte, Bettony, Buglofi, ofieach 4 handful. Boots of Fennel, Smallage, Parfly, Sfaragus, Bruficus. Saxifrage, Mlicampane, Cyfertts, Aladdir, Orris, Peony, of each an ounce* Juniper berries. Seeds of Lovage, Parfly, Smallage, Mnr.is, NigeUa, Carfobalfamum or cubtbs3 Cofius, Cafiia lignea, Cardamoms, Calamus aromaticus. Boots of Mfarabacca, Pellitory of Spain, Valerian, of each half an ounce. Being clenfed, cut, and brut fed, let them be infufed twenty four hours in four¬ teen pound of cleer water, and boy led till haflfbe confumed, being taken off. from the fire, and rubbed between your hands whilfi it is warm, firain it, and with Honey and Sugar, of each two pound, Jharp Vinegar four ounces. Boyl it to a Syrup, and perfume it with Cinnamon and ff iiky nard, of each three drams. Culpeper.] Ithelpeth the pafiion of the Matrix, and retains it in its place, it diflolves the colduefs.wind, and pains thereof S it ffrengthens the$

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