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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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$I 22 -7^Ims ncwlyadckd. I mite Sugar four pound. Bhw t. This Syrup enclines to fleep by M«k h imo tfjmf *cco,dmS „ an. fapprcffrng'hot vapois an um^s j It helps the Hoppings of Coltsfoot, of each two handfuls. thatt*f«nd from the! Mei^cJ0liy, opens ObHruftions;oi Prep *»7w** °fthe™ *U the brain, halt an ounce 01 an o , andSoleen, and is profit- \ green and brrnfed, boyl it, flttmtt, and h'ircTy&ppoSlaMe^r4£3ek evils, and jU it > * » uptcr Bat»Clyftn.o.i,ttp|»^, h . f *. ch Remed;, fol. the , „ my b, mai, m. « frt* «m- oood, and may alfo huit. Syrupus Scabiofe. Page 64. Latin. Or, Syrup of Scabious. Compound. Colledg.] Take of the roots of ^tli- campane, polypodium of the Oaf , of each two ounces. Kaifons of the fun floned an ounce. Sebejlens twenty. Coltsfoot, Lungwort, Savory, Calaminth, of each a handful and an - half. Liqitoris, Sfanijh Tobacca, of each half an ounce. Seeds of Netthfs, Cotten, of each three drams. Boyl them all (the roots being infufed m white iVine the day before) in a fuff’.dent quantity of wine and water to eight oun¬ ces ; flraln it, and adding Juyce of Scabious, four ounces. Sugar ten ounces. Boyl itsto a fyrup, adding to it Oyl of Sulphur twenty drops. kets, or Liver grown: A fpoonful in . . . a morning is a precious Remedy fori Culpeper. The fyrup is excellent Children troubled with thatDifeafe. ;for all mwaid Wounds andBruiles, Men that are troubled with the Excoriations Vomitings, fpittings. Spleen, which is known by pain and or Fillings of Blood ; it unites bro- hardnefs in their left fide, may take ken Bones, helps Ruptures, and three or four fpoonful* they (hall ftops theTcrms in Women: You can- find this one Receipt worth the price not or in taking of it. of the whol Book. Syrupus de Stcechade. Page 6s, Latin. Or,Syrup ofStoechas Compound. of Stcechas flowers Syrupus Violarum. Page 6s. Latin. Or, Syrup of Violets. Culpeper.'] It is a clenfing fyrup ap¬ propriated to the Breafl and Lungs . when you perceive them opprelfed by flegm, crudities, or Hoppings, your remedy is to take now and then a fpoonful of this fyrup ; it is taken alfo with good fueeels by fuch as are itchy, or fcabby, Vertues newly added. This fyrup is good for Coughs en¬ gining to a Confumption. It opens obftruftions of the Spleen and Hops an immoderate flux of the whites. An ounce may be taken in Colts foot water, or Scabious water. Colledg.] Takt four ounces, Pyffemary-flowers half an ounce. Time, Calaminth, Origanum, of each an ounce and an half, Sage, Betony, of each half an ounce. Seeds of Rue, Peony, Fennel, of each three drams. Spring water ten pound. Boyl it till half be confirmed, and with Honey, Sugar, of each two pound. Boyl it into a fyrup, which perfume with Cinnamon, Ginger, Qalamus fromaticus, of each two drams tied up in a rag. Colledg.] Take of Violet flowers flejh and picked, a pound. Clecr water made boyling hot, two pound. Shut them up clopt together into a new Gla-zed pot, a whol day, then prefl them hard out, and in two pound of the Liquor, diffolvc iVhite Sugar four pound and three ounces ; take away thefeum, andfo make it into a fyrup without boy- ling. Syrup of the Juyce of V iolets is made with its double weight of Sugar, like the former. Syrupus de fcilopendrio. Page 41 .Latin. Or, Syrup of Hartftongue. Vertues newly added. This fyrup is fitted to {Lengthen the Brain, Nerves and Joynts. It therefore helps Convulfions, Epilep- fies. Tremblings of the Hands, Head-aches and Joynt pains, pro¬ ceeding from cold caufes. It warms a cold ltomach and Matrix and helps Barrennefs in Women, arifing from the over plafhynefs and moonfh dif- pofition of the Feild of Nature. It may be given from half an ounce, to an ounce and half, or two ounces, in faee or Betony water in the mor¬ ning] and at four in the afternoon, andean hour before bed-time to wo¬ men difordered as aforefaid. Culpeper.] This latter fyrup is far more chargable than the former and in all reafon is better,, although I ne¬ ver knew it ufed ; they both of them cool and moifien, and that very gent¬ ly, they correct the fharpnefs of chol- ler, and give eafe in hot difeafes of the breaft,they quench thirft in acute Feavers, and refift the heat of the dif— eafe ; they comfort hot flomachs ex¬ ceedingly, cool the Liver and Heart, and refift putrifa&ion, peftilence,and Poyfon. It is fo harmlefs a fyrup, you dial hurt your Purfe by it fooner than your Body. Colledg.] Julep of Violets is made of the water of Violet flowers and fu- gar, lily Julep ofkkofes. Culpeper.] It is cooling and plea- t the fant for theGenrry when they are hot with walking, for few of them much trouble their ftlidy. Syrupus de Symphyto. Page 6s• Latin Or, fyrup of Comfry. Vertues newly added. This tempers choler in feavers ari¬ fing therefrom. It quenches thirst Colledg.] Take of roots and tops of] ancl gently incites fieep into the Comfry, the greater and lejfer, of each three handfuls, Red R ofes, Bettony, Planum, • wearied Eye-lides. You may driiik thereof at pleafure. Purging$

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