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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Trochisci de terra Lemnia. Pag. 137. in Lat. Book. Or, Troches of Earth of Lemnos

The Colledg] Take of Earth of Lemnos, Bole Ar∣menick, Acacia, Hyposistis, gum Arabick tosted, Dra∣gons blood, white Starch, red Roses, Rose seeds, Lap. Hematitis, red Corral, Amber, Balaustins, Spodium, Purslain seeds a little tosted, Olibanum, Hartsborn burnt, Cypress Nuts, Saffron, of each two drachms, black Poppy seeds, Tragacanth, Pearls, of each one drachm and an half, Opium prepared one drachm, with Juyce of Plantane make it into Troches.

Culpeper] A. Indeed in external applications, if any inflamation, or feaver be, I think it better with Opium than without, else better without than with it.

A. It was invented to stop blood in any part of the body, and for it, 'tis excellent: well then, for the bloody flux, take half a drachm of them inwardly (being beaten into pouder) in red Wine every mor∣ning; for spitting of blood, use it in like manner in Plantane water; for pissing of blood, inject it into the bladder; for bleeding at the nose, either snuff it up, or anoint your forehead with it mixed with oyl; for the immoderate flowing of the terms, inject it up the womb with a syringe, but first mix it with Plan∣tane water; for the hemorrhoids or wounds, apply it to the place bleeding.

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