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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Lohoch è Pino. Page 80. in the Latin Book. Or, Lohoch of Pinenuts.

The Colledg] Take of Pinenuts, fifteen drachms, sweet Almonds, Hazel nuts gently rosted, Gum- Ara∣bick, and Tragacanth, pouder and juyce of Liquoris, white starch, Maiden-hair, Orris Roots of each two drachms, the pulp of Dates seventeen drachms, bit∣ter Almonds one drachm and an half, Honey of Rai∣sons, white Sugar-Condy, fresh Butter, of each two ounces, Honey one pound and an half, dissolve the Gums in so much Decoction of Maiden-hair as is suf∣ficient, let the rest be mixed over a gentle fire, and stir∣red that so it may be made into a Lohoch.

Culpeper] A. Before, the Colledg followed the Augustan Physitians to a hair, and indeed who can blame them for following wiser men than themselves, now they have altered the quantities, of the simples, and if you ask them the reason why they did so, you shall have the same answer Balaam gave when he dis∣puted with his Ass, ``Oh, that there were a sword in ``my hand that I might kill thee.

A. The Medicin is excellent for continual coughs, and difficulty of breathing, it succours such as are o 1.1 Asthmatick, for it cuts and attenuates tough hu∣mors in the breast.

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