The English physitian, or An astrologo-physical discourse of the vulgar herbs of this nation being a compleat method of physick, whereby a man may preserve his body in health, or cure himself being sick for three pence charge, with such things only as grow in England ... / by Nich. Culpeper.

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Title: The English physitian, or An astrologo-physical discourse of the vulgar herbs of this nation being a compleat method of physick, whereby a man may preserve his body in health, or cure himself being sick for three pence charge, with such things only as grow in England ... / by Nich. Culpeper.
Author: Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654.
Publication: London :: Printed by Peter Cole,; 1652.
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Subject terms: Botany, Medical -- Early works to 1800.; Materia medica.; Herbs -- Therapeutic use -- Early works to 1800.
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Chap. 13. Of Troches.

1. THe Latins call them Placentulae, or little Cakes (and you might have seen what the Greeks call them too, had not the last Edition of my London Dispensatory been so hellishly printed, that's all the Com∣monwealth gets by one Stationer's printing a∣nothers Coppies, viz. To plague the Coun∣try with false Prints, and disgrace the Au∣thor) the Greeks 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, and 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 they are usually little round flat Cakes, or you may make them square it you will.
2. Their first invention was, that Pouders being so kept might resist the intromission of Air and so endure pure the longer.
3. Besides, they are the easier carried in the Pockets of such as travel; many a man (for example) is forced to travel whose Stomach is too cold, or at least not so hot as it should be, which is most proper, for the Stomach is ne∣ver cold till a man be dead; in such a case 'tis better to carry Troches of Wormwood or of Galanga, in a Paper in his Pocker and more convenient behalf than to lug a Gally-pot a∣long with him.
4. They are thus made, At night when you go to bed, take two drams of fine Gum Tra∣gacanth, put it into a Gally-pot, and put half a quarter of a pint of any distilled Water fit∣ting the purpose you would make your Tro∣ches for, to it, cover it, and the next mor∣ning you shall find it in such a Jelly as Physi∣tians call Mussilage, with this you may (with a little pains taking) make any Pouder into Past, and that Past into little Cakes called Troches.
5. Having made them, dry them well in the shadow and keep them in a Pot for your use.