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 Barbarum Magnum. P. 171. in Lat. B.

The Colledg] Take of dry Pitch eight pound yel∣low Wax six pound and eight ounces, Perrosin five pound and four ounces, Bitumen, Judaicum, or Mum∣my four pound, Oyl one pound and an half, Vert-de∣grease, Litharge, Ceruss, of each three ounces, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 half a pound, Roch Alum not burnt an ounce and an half, Burnt four ounces, Opopanax, Scales of Brass; Gal banum, of each twelve, drachms, Aloes, O∣pium; Mirrh, of each half an ounce, Turpentine two pound, Juyce of Mandrakes, or else dried Bark of the root, six drachms, Vineger five pound, let the Li∣charge, Ceruss, and Oyl, boyl to the thickness of Ho∣ney, then, incorporate with them, the pitch being mel∣ted with Bitumen in pouder, then add the rest, and boyl them according to art, till the Viniger be consu∣med, and it stick not to your hands.

Culpeper] A. It helps the bitings of men and beasts, easeth the inflamations of wounds, and helps infirmities of the joynts, and gouts in the begin∣ning.

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