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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Emplastrum à nostratibus, Flos Vnguentorum Dictum. Page 178. in the Latin Book. Or, Flower of Oyntments.

The Colledg] Take of Rozin, Per-rozin, yellow wax, Sheep suet, of each half a pound, Olibanum four ounces, Turpentine two ounces and an half; Murh, Mastich of each an ounce; Camphire two drachms; white Wine half a pound, boyl them into a Plaister.

Culpeper] A. I found this Receipt in an old Ma∣nuscript written in the year 1513. the quantity of the Ingredients but very little altered (except analogical∣ly) and the vertue of it thus described verbatim.

A. Yt ys well clensande and well sowdande and ge∣nerande the flesh, and heland more yn eight days then ony other Trete woll doe yn a monyth, for yt wyll soffer noe corruption yn a wounde, ne noe dead flesh to byde thereyn; also yt ys good for headache and for wynde yn the brayn, and for all mannyr posthymes yn the head, or yn the body, for swelling of the eares, or of the cheekes, for all mannyr of synowes that ys grieved, or breysyd, or sprong, and yt woll draw out yrne or splynts of trees, or thornes, or broken bones, or ony other thyngs that may grow yn a wounde, and yt ys good for bytyng of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 bests, and yt 〈◊〉〈◊〉 and healls all mannyr of boches without fawt, and yt ys good for sester or canker, and for noli me tangere, and yt drawys out all mannyr of akyng yn the lyver or reynes, or mylt, and helpyth the emerauds.

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