Pharmacopœia Londinensis, or, The London dispensatory further adorned by the studies and collections of the Fellows, now living of the said colledg ... / by Nich. Culpeper, Gent.

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Pharmacopœia Londinensis, or, The London dispensatory further adorned by the studies and collections of the Fellows, now living of the said colledg ... / by Nich. Culpeper, Gent.
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Royal College of Physicians of London.
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London :: Printed for Peter Cole ...,
1653.
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Pharmacopoeias -- England.
Dispensatories -- England.
Medicine -- Early works to 1800.
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Aqua Limacum 〈◊〉〈◊〉. P. 39. Or, Water of Snails.

The Colledg] Take of the Juyce of* 1.1 Ground-Ivy, Coltsfoot, Scabious, Lungwort, of each one pound and an half, the Juyce of Purstain, Plantane,a 1.2 Am∣brosia, Pauls Betony, of each a pound; Hogs blood, white Wine, of each four pound; Garden Snails, two pound; dried Tobacco Leaves, eight; pouder of Liquor is two ounces; of Alicampane, half an ounce; of Orris an ounce; Cotton seeds, an ounce and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 half; the greater cold seeds, Annis seeds, of each six drachms, Saffron one drachm, the flowers of red Ro∣ses, six pugils, of Violets and Borrage, of each four 〈◊〉〈◊〉, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 them three daies warm, and then distill them in a glass still in sand.

Culpeper] It purgeth the lungues of flegm, and helps consumptions there: If you should happen to live where no beetter nor readier Medicine can be gotten, you may use this.

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