A physicall directory, or, A translation of the London dispensatory made by the Colledge of Physicians in London ... by Nich. Culpeper, Gent.
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A physicall directory, or, A translation of the London dispensatory made by the Colledge of Physicians in London ... by Nich. Culpeper, Gent.
Author
Royal College of Physicians of London.
Publication
London :: Printed for Peter Cole and are to be sold at his shop ...,
1649.
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Pharmacopoeias -- England.
Dispensatories -- England.
Medicine -- Early works to 1800.
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"A physicall directory, or, A translation of the London dispensatory made by the Colledge of Physicians in London ... by Nich. Culpeper, Gent." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A35390.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 2, 2024.
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Theriaca Diatessaron. Mesue.
Take of b Gentian, Bay berries, Mirrh, round Birthwort of each two ounces, Honey two pound, mix them together and make of them an Electuary according to art.
A. You must first beat them into pouder before you mix them with the Honey, else you will make an Electuary to choak Daws with.
A. This is a gallant Electuary, like the Author, It wonder∣fully helps cold infirmities of the brain, as Convulsions, fal∣ling sickness, dead Palseyes, shaking Palseyes &c. as also the stomach, as pains there, wind, want of digestion, as also stop∣pings of the liver, dropsies, it resists the pestilence, and poysons, and helps the bitings of venemous beasts.