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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Syrupus de Pilosella. Page 61. in the Latin Book. Or, Syrup of Mousear.

The Colledg.] Take of Mousear three handfuls, the Roots of Ladies mantle, an ounce and an half; the Roots of comsry the greater, Maddir, white Dit∣tany, Tormentil, Bistort, of each an ounce; the Leaves of Wintergreen, Horstail, Ground-Ivy, Plantane, Ad∣ders tongue, Strawberries, St. Johns Wort with the Flowers, Golden rod, Agrimony, Bettony, Burnet, Avens, Sinkfoyl the greater, red Coleworts, Balau∣stines, red Roses of each a handful; boyl them gently in six pound of of Plantane Water to three, then strain it strongly and when it is setled, ad Gum Tragacanth, the seeds of Fleawort, Marsh-mallows, and Quinces, made into a Mussilage by themselves in strawberry and Bettony Water, of each three ounces; white sugar two pound, boyl it to the thickness of Honey.

Culpeper.] A. Certainly they intended an univer∣sal Medicine of this, and may prove as good as Chry∣sippus his Coleworts. It is profitable for wounded people to take, for it is drying and healing, and therefore good for Ruptures.

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