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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Unguentum Album. Page 153. in the Latin Book. Or, white Oyntment.

The Colledg] TAke of Oyl of Roses nine ounces, Ceruss washed in Rose∣water, and dilligently sersed, three ounces, white Wax two ounces, after the Wax is melted in the Oyl, put in the Ceruss, and make it into an Oyntment ac∣cording to art, add two drachms of Camphire, made into pouder with a few drops of Oyl of sweet Almonds, so will it be camphorated,

Culpeper] A. Some hold it impossible to make it into an Oyntment this way: others hold it not convenient, but instead of Oyl of Roses they add so much Hogs grease; and leaving out the white Wax they make it into an Oyntment without the help of the fire, but 'tis to be supposed, that 'tis so long a∣go since the Colledg made an Oyntment, they have forgot how to make it, but they are not to be blam∣ed for that, but for commanding in what they have no skill in, they must go teach how to make Oynt∣ments when they have no more skill in it, than a hobby horse.

A. It is a fine cooling drying Oyntment, easeth pains, and itching in wounds and ulcers, and is an hundred times better with Camphire than without it.

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