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.

A SINOPSIS of the KEY of GALENS Method of Physick.

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THe Scope of the whol Work.	301

Sect. 1.

Of the Temperature of Medicines.

Of Temperate Medicines what they are.	302
Their Use	Ibid

Of Hot Medicines.

Of Medicines hot in the first degree	ibid
Use 1. Reduce the body to natural heat.	ibid
Use 2. To mitigate pain	ibid
Use 3. To take away weariness and help Feavers.	303
A Caution	ibid
Use 4. To help digestion and breed good blood.	ibid

Of Medicines hot in the second degree.

What they are	ibid
Use 1. To help moist 〈◊〉〈◊〉	ibid
Use 2. To take away 〈◊〉〈◊〉	ibid
Use 3. To open the pores	ibid

Of Medicines hot in the third degree.

Use 1. To cut tough humors	ibid
Use 2. To provoke sweat	ibid
Use 3. To resist poyson	ibid

Of Medicines hot in the fourth degree.

Use. To cause Inflamations, and to cause Blisters.

ib.

Of cold Medicines. Of Medicines cold in the first degree.

Use 1. To qualifie the heat of food	ibid
Use 2. To asswage the heat of the Bowels	ibid
A Caution	ibid

Of Medicines cold in the second and third degrees.

Use 1. To asswage the heat of choller	394
Use 2. To take away the inflamations of hot swel∣lings	ibid
Use 3. To cause sleep	ibid

Of Medicines cold in the fourth degree.

Use 1. To mitigate desperate pains by 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the Sences

ibid

Of Moistning Medicines.

Use 1. To help the roughness of the throat	304
Use 2. To make the inward parts of the body 〈◊〉〈◊〉	ibid

Of Drying Medicines.

Use. To strengthen the Members of the Body	304
Cautions	ibid

Sect. 2.

Of the Apropriation of Medicines to the several parts of the Body.

THe 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉 of Authors

305

Chap. 1

Of Medicines apropriated to the Head.

Their Difference	ibid
Cautions in their use	ibid
Of Medicines apropriated to the Brain.	ibid
Directions in their use	305, 306

Of Medicines apropriated to the Eyes.

The opinion of Astrologers	306
The election or choice of Medicines for the Eyes	306
Of Medicines apropriated to the Mouth and Nose.	306
Cautions for their Use	ibid
The manner of the Medicines	ibid
Medicines apropriated to the Ears.	ibid
What they are, and why they are so	ibid
Medicines apropriated to the teeth.	ibid
What they are, and why they are so	ibid

Chap. 2

Of Medicines apropriated to the Breast and Lungs.

What they are	307
The Opinion of other Authors	ibid
The Authors Opinion	ibid

Chap. 3

Of Medicines apropriated to the Heart.

What the office of the Heart is
1 To cherish life.	307
2 To add vigor to the affections	ibid
The afflictions of the Heart.
1 Excessive heat	308
2 Poysons	ibid
3 Melancholly vapors	ibid
What Cordials are.	ibid
1 Such as metigate the heat in Feavers.	ibid
2 Such as resist 〈◊〉〈◊〉.	ibid
1 By Antipathy between the Medicine and the poyson	ibid
2 By Sympathy between the Medicine and the Heart	ibid
〈◊〉〈◊〉 Such as strengthen the Heart	ibid
4 Such as refresh the Spirits	ibid

Chap. 4

Of Medicines apropriated to the stomach

The infirmities of the stomach	ibid
1 Appetite lost	ibid
2 Digestion weakned	ibid
3 The Retentive Faculty corrupted	ibid
Medicines apropriated to the stomach, are
1 Such as provoke Appetite	ibid
2 As help Digestion	ibid
3 Such as help the Retentive Faculty	ibid
A way to find these	ibid
Cautions in the use of them	ibid

Chap. 5

Of Medicines apropriated to the Liver.

What they are.	309

How to know them	ibid
How to use them	ibid
Chap. 6. Of Medicines apropriated to the Spleen. What the office of the Spleen is	309
What medicines apropriated to the Spleen are	ibid
How they must be used	ib.
Chap. 7. Of medicines apropriated to the Reins and Bladder.	310
What they are. Their Use. Cautions.	ibid
Chap. 8. Of medicines apropriated to the womb. How they ought to be used	310
Chap. 9. Of Medicines apropriated to the Joynts. What they are. How they ought to be used	311

Sect. 3.

Of the Properties or Operations of Medicines

Chap. 1. Of Emollient Medicines	312
What they are. Their use.	ibid
How they 〈◊〉〈◊〉 known 1 By their tast. 2 By their feeling	ibid
Chap. 2. Of hardning Medicines	312
Their Qualities. Their Use	ibid
Chap. 3. Of loosning Medicines	313
Loosning Medicines described. Their use.	ibid
Chap. 4. Of medicines making thick and thin.
Described	313
The use of medicines making thin
To open the pares. To mitigate pain. To asswage swellings	ibid
The use of Medicines making thick	314
Chap. 5. Of medicines opening the mouths of the vessels	314
Their description. Their use. How they are known.	ibid
Chap. 6. Of attenuating medicines.
Their use: 1 To open obstructions. 2 To clense the breast of flegm. 3 To provoke the terms.	ib.
Chap. 7. Of drawing Medicines	315
Their use: 1 To draw thorns and splinters out of the flesh. 2 To draw corrup humors from the Bowels. 3 To call the offending humors to the outward parts of the Body. 4 By them the crisis of the disease is much helped forward. 5 To draw poyson out of the body. 6 To heat parts of the body which are over cooled	ibid
Chap. 8. Of discussive medicines.	315
What they are. Their use. Cautions in their use.
How they are known.	ibid
Chap. 9. Of Repelling medicines.	315
What they are	ibid
How they are known.	316
Their uses are, 1 To help hot swellings. 2 To ease Head-aches coming of heat. 3 To take away the windy vapors of feavers.	ibid
The time of giving repelling medicines.	ibid
Cautions in giving them	ibid
Chap. 10. Of burning medicines.	316
Their degrees in heat	ibid
Their uses: 1 To restore Limbs wasted away. 2 To burn off hair. 3 To dissolve hard tumors, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 warts and the like. 4 To help Gouts and 〈◊〉〈◊〉. 5 To help Fistulaes &c.	ibid
Cautions in using these medicines.	ibid
Chap. 11. Of clensing medicines.	316
Their definition. Their difference. Their use.	ib.
Chap. 12 Of Emplasters.
What they are. Their use.	317
Chap. 13 Of suppuring medicines
What they are. Their use. Their time of use.	317
Chap. 14 Of medicines provoking urine.
What urine is	317
The cause of the stoppage of Urine	ib.
What Diureticks are. 1 Such 〈◊〉〈◊〉 conduce to separate the blood. 2 Such as open the passages of urin.	318
How each of these may be known. Their use.	ibid
Chap. 15 Of medicines provoking the terms.
Their use and manner of using	318
Chap. 16 Medicines breeding or taking away milk.
Their Description	318
Their Use	ibid
Chap. 17. Of medicines regarding the Seed
Their Description. Cautions in giving them. Their use	319
Chap. 18 Of Medicines easing pain
Their description	319
The manner of using them	ibid
Chap. 19 Of Medicines breeding flesh.
Their uses. Their differences	320
Chap. 20 Of Glutinative Medicines.
Their use	320
Chap. 21 Of Scarrifying Medicines
Cautions in their use.	320
Chap. 22 Of Medicines resisting poyson.
What they are
1 Such as strengthen Nature	320
2 Such as oppose the poyson	ibid
3 Such as violently thrust it out of the Body.	ib.
Cautions in the use of these Medicines	ibid
Chap. 23 Of Medicines adorning the Body.
1 The Face. 2 The Skin. 3 The Hair. 4 The Teeth. 5 The Head, Scurf, Dandrif.	321
Chap. 24 Of Purging Medicines
Cautions concerning Purging	322
The choice of purging Medicines	323
Medicines Purging, 1 Flegm. 2 Watry Humors. 3 Choller. 4 Melancholly	ibid
In all these, to what Bodies such Purges are general, and such as are strong should be given	ibid
Of the time of purging	324
Of the Correcting purging medicines.	ibid
How to order your Body both before and after Purges	ibid
Inconveniences that arise to the Body by violent Pur∣ges	ibid
The way how to prevent them.	ibid
The way how to remedy them	ibid
Of the way or manner of Purging	325