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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Title: 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.
Author: Royal College of Physicians of London.
Publication: London :: Printed for Peter Cole ...,; 1653.
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Subject terms: Pharmacopoeias -- England.; Dispensatories -- England.; Medicine -- Early works to 1800.
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Saccharum Rosatum. Page 87. in the Latin Book. Or, Sugar of Roses.

The Colledg] Take of red Rose Leaves the whites being cut off, and speedily dried in the Sun an ounce, white Sugar a pound, melt the Sugar in Rose water and juyce of Roses of each two ounces, which being consumed by degrees put in the Rose Leaves in Pouder, mix them, put it upon a Marble, and make it into Lo∣zenges according to art.

Culpeper] A. As for the vertues of this, It streng∣thens weak stomachs, weak hearts, and weak brains, restores such as are in consumptions, restores lost strength, staies fluxes, easeth pains in the head, ears, and eyes, helps spitting, vomiting, and pissing of blood; it is a fine commodity for a man in a Con∣sumption to carry about with him, and eat now and then a bit. This they mended as I bid them, `tis a comfort they will do something as they are bid.