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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Hiera Logadii Page 117. in the Latin Book.

The Colledg] Take of Coloquintida, Polipodium, of each two drachms, Euphorbium, Poley mountain, the Seeds of Spurge, of each one drachm and an half, and six grains, Wormwood, Mirrh, of each one dram and twelve grains, Centaury the less, Agrick, gum Ammoniacum, Indian leafe or Mace, Spicknard, Squills prepared, Diacrydium of each one drachm, A∣loes, Time, Germander, Cassia Lignea, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Hore∣hound, of each one scruple and fourteen grains, Cin∣namon, Opopanax, Castoreum, long Birthwort, the three sorts of Pepper, Sagapen. Saffron, Parsly of each two drachms, Hellibore black and white, of each six grains, clarified Honey a pound and and half, mix them, and make of them an Electuary according to art. Let the Species be kept dry in yo ur shops.

Culpeper] A. It takes away by the roots daily e∣vils comming of mellancholly, falling sickness, ver∣tigo, convulsions, megrim, leprosie, and many other infirmities; for my part I should be loth to take it inwardly unless upon desperate occasions, or in Cly∣sters. It may well take away diseases by the roots, if it take away life and all.

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