A physicall directory, or, A translation of the London dispensatory made by the Colledge of Physicians in London ... by Nich. Culpeper, Gent.

Hiera Logodii. Nicholaus.

Take of thea pulp of Colocynthis Polypodium of each two drachms, Euphorbium, Poley mountain, the seeds of Thymelea of each one drachm and an half and six grains, Wormwood, Mirrh of each one drachm and twelve grains, Centaury the less, Agrick, Gum Amoniacum, Indian leaf or Mace, Spicknard, Squils prepared, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of each one drachm, Aloes, the leaves of Time, Germander, Cassia Lig∣nea, Bdellium, Horehound of each one scruple and fourteen grains, Cinnamon, Opopanax, Castorium, long-Birthwort, the three sorts of Pepper, Saffron, Sagapenum, Parsly of each half a drachm, Hellebore black and white of each six grains, clarified Honey a pound and an half, mix them together and make them into an Electuary according to art, also you may keep the Species by it self.

A. It takes away by the roots daily evils coming of melan∣cholly, falling-sickness, vertigo, convulsions, megrim, lepro∣sie, and many other infirmities, for my part I should be loth to take it inwardly unlesse upon desperate occasions, or in Clysters.

Notes

• a

  which is the whol apple as they are bought at the Apothecaries the seeds only cast away.
• b Spurge-flax, see the simp∣les.