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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Title: 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.
Author: Royal College of Physicians of London.
Publication: London :: Printed for Peter Cole ...,; 1653.
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Subject terms: Pharmacopoeias -- England.; Dispensatories -- England.; Medicine -- Early works to 1800.
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Emplastrum Cephalicum. Page 173. in the Lat B. Or, A Cephalick Plaister.

The Colledg] Take of Rosin two ounces, black Pitch one ounce, Labdanum, Turpentine, flower of Beans, and Orobus, Doves dung, of each half an ounce, Mirrh, Mastich, of each one drachm and an half, Gum of Juniper, Nutmegs, of each two drams, dissolve the Mirrh, and Labdanum in a bot mortar, and adding the rest, make it into a Plaister according to art. If you will have it stronger, ad the pouders, Euphorbium, Pellitory of Spain, and black Pepper, of each two scruples.

Culpeper] A. It is proper to strengthen the brain and repel such vapours as anoy it, and those pouders being added it dries up the superfluous moisture there∣of, and easeth the eyes of hot scalding vapors that a∣noy them.