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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Rosatae Novellae. Page 97. in the Latin Book.

The Colledg] Take of red Roses, Liquoris, of each one ounce, one drachm, two scruples and an half; Cinnamon, * 1.1 two drachms, two scruples, and two grains, Cloves, Indian Spicknard, Ginger, Galanga, Nutmegs, Zedoary, Styrax Calamitis, Cardamoms, Parsly seeds of each one scruple eight grains, beat them into pouder.

Culpeper] A. Excellently penned, even to half a grain.

A. It quencheth thirst, and staies vomiting, and the Author saith it helps hot and dry stomachs, as also heat and driness of the heart, liver, and lungues, (yet is the pouder it self hot) it strengthens the vital spirit, takes away heart-qualms, provokes sweat, and strengthens such as have labored long under Cronical diseases. You may take a drachm of the Electuary e∣very morning, if with clarified Honey you please to make it into such a body.

Notes

* 1.1

They should hav added a quarter of a grain, and half a guarter.

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