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  • The naval surgeon; comprising the entire duties of professional men at sea. To which are subjoined, a system of naval surgery, and a compendious pharmacopoeia / [William Turnbull].
  • The naval surgeon; comprising the entire duties of professional men at sea. To which are subjoined, a system of naval surgery, and a compendious pharmacopoeia / [William Turnbull].
  • The naval surgeon; comprising the entire duties of professional men at sea. To which are subjoined, a system of naval surgery, and a compendious pharmacopoeia / [William Turnbull].
  • The naval surgeon; comprising the entire duties of professional men at sea. To which are subjoined, a system of naval surgery, and a compendious pharmacopoeia / [William Turnbull].
  • Pharmacopoeia extemporanea: sive praescriptorum chilias. In qua remediorum elegantium, & efficacium paradigmata, ad omnes ferè medendi intentiones accommodata, candide proponuntur. Una cum viribus, operandi ratione, dosibus & incidibus annexis / Per Thomam Fuller, M.D.
  • Pharmacopoeia Londinensis, : in qua medicamenta antiqua et noua vsitatissima, sedulò collecta, accuratissime examinata, quotidianâ experientia confirmata describuntur. Diligenter reuisa, denuo recusa, emendatior, auctior. Opera Medicorum Collegij Londinensis. Ex serenissimi Regis mandato cum R.M. priuilegio.
  • Pharmacopoeia Bateana, seu pharmaca e praxi Georgii Batei ... excerpta ... Nec non Arcana Goddardiana;& Orthotonia medicorum observata. Item Tabula posologica; atque appendix ad Pharmacopoeiam Bateanam, ex autographo eximii auctoris [ed. by T. Fuller] ... / [George Bate].
  • A statue of Aesculapius holding his staff and a plant stands in a large pharmacy below the coat of arms of Leiden; men working in the pharmacy in the background; representing the pharmacopoeia of Leiden. Engraving by F. van Bleyswyck, 1751.
  • Ars chirurgica. A compendium of the theory and practice of chirurgery. In seven books ... To which is added Pharmacopoeia chirurgica; or the medical store, Latin and English: which contains ... choice preparations or medicaments, fitted for the compleat ... practice both of physick and chirurgery / By William Salmon.
  • Ars chirurgica. A compendium of the theory and practice of chirurgery. In seven books ... To which is added Pharmacopoeia chirurgica; or the medical store, Latin and English: which contains ... choice preparations or medicaments, fitted for the compleat ... practice both of physick and chirurgery / By William Salmon.
  • Ars chirurgica. A compendium of the theory and practice of chirurgery. In seven books ... To which is added Pharmacopoeia chirurgica; or the medical store, Latin and English: which contains ... choice preparations or medicaments, fitted for the compleat ... practice both of physick and chirurgery / By William Salmon.
  • Ars chirurgica. A compendium of the theory and practice of chirurgery. In seven books ... To which is added Pharmacopoeia chirurgica; or the medical store, Latin and English: which contains ... choice preparations or medicaments, fitted for the compleat ... practice both of physick and chirurgery / By William Salmon.
  • Pharmacopoeia Londinensis. Or, the new London dispensatory. In VI book. Translated into English for the publick good, and fitted to the whole art of healing. Illustrated with the preparations, virtues and uses of all simple medicaments, vegetable, animal and mineral of all the compounds both internal and external and of all the chymical preparations now in life ... / by William Salmon.
  • Pharmacopoeia Londinensis. Or, the new London dispensatory. In VI book. Translated into English for the publick good, and fitted to the whole art of healing. Illustrated with the preparations, virtues and uses of all simple medicaments, vegetable, animal and mineral of all the compounds both internal and external and of all the chymical preparations now in life ... / by William Salmon.
  • Pharmacopoeia Londinensis. Or, the new London dispensatory. In VI book. Translated into English for the publick good, and fitted to the whole art of healing. Illustrated with the preparations, virtues and uses of all simple medicaments, vegetable, animal and mineral of all the compounds both internal and external and of all the chymical preparations now in life ... / by William Salmon.
  • Pharmacopoeia Londinensis. Or, the new London dispensatory. In VI book. Translated into English for the publick good, and fitted to the whole art of healing. Illustrated with the preparations, virtues and uses of all simple medicaments, vegetable, animal and mineral of all the compounds both internal and external and of all the chymical preparations now in life ... / by William Salmon.
  • Erythroxylum coca Lam. Erythroxylaceae Coca. Distribution: Peru . Cocaine is extracted from the leaf. It is no longer in the UK Pharmacopoeia (used to be used as a euphoriant in ‘Brompton Mixture’ for terminally ill patients). Cocaine, widely used as a local anaesthetic until 1903, inhibits re-uptake of dopamine and serotonin at brain synapses so these mood elevating chemicals build up and cause a ‘high’. Its use was often fatal. Coca leaf chewing was described by Nicolas Monardes (1569
  • Physalis alkekengi L. Rosaceae Chinese lantern, Winter Cherry, Bladder Cherry Distribution: C & S Europe, W. Asia to Japan Culpeper: In his English Physitian of 1652 writes: Winter Cherry ... are of great use in physic ...’ and recommends them for almost all kidney and urinary problems. In particular he seems to advocate the use of green berries in beer, for preventing kidney stones lodging in the ureters. It is called ‘aikakengi’ in the College’s Pharmacopoeia Londinensis of 1618. Belonging to the family Solanaceae, all its parts are poisonous except the ripe fruit. The green fruit and the rest of the plant contain atropinic compounds and will produce a dry mouth, rapid heart beat, hallucinations, coma and death if enough is taken. As the atropine is only present in the unripe fruit eating one will make the mouth go dry (and it has the most unpleasant taste), but it will also relax the smooth muscle in the wall of the ureter which helps passage of ureteric stones. Culpeper’s observations on its usefulness are supported by more modern observations. When ripe, the orange fruit inside its skeletal outer ‘lantern’ is edible, free of atropine, and delicious. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Physalis alkekengi L. Rosaceae Chinese lantern, Winter Cherry, Bladder Cherry. Distribution: C & S Europe, W. Asia to Japan Culpeper: In his English Physitian of 1652 writes: Winter Cherry ...are of great use in physic ...’ and recommends them for almost all kidney and urinary problems. In particular he seems to advocate the use of green berries in beer, for preventing kidney stones lodging in the ureters. It is called ‘aikakengi’ in the College’s Pharmacopoeia Londinensis of 1618. Belonging to the family Solanaceae, all its parts are poisonous except the ripe fruit. The green fruit and the rest of the plant contain atropinic compounds and will produce a dry mouth, rapid heart beat, hallucinations, coma and death if enough is taken. As the atropine is only present in the unripe fruit eating one will make the mouth go dry (and it has the most unpleasant taste), but it will also relax the smooth muscle in the wall of the ureter which helps passage of ureteric stones. Culpeper’s observations on its usefulness are supported by more modern observations. When ripe, the orange fruit inside its skeletal outer ‘lantern’ is edible, free of atropine, and delicious. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Physalis alkekengi L. Rosaceae Chinese lantern, Winter Cherry, Bladder Cherry. Distribution: C & S Europe, W. Asia to Japan Culpeper: In his English Physitian of 1652 writes: Winter Cherry ...are of great use in physic ...’ and recommends them for almost all kidney and urinary problems. In particular he seems to advocate the use of green berries in beer, for preventing kidney stones lodging in the ureters. It is called ‘aikakengi’ in the College’s Pharmacopoeia Londinensis (1618). Belonging to the family Solanaceae, all its parts are poisonous except the ripe fruit. The green fruit and the rest of the plant contain atropinic compounds and will produce a dry mouth, rapid heart beat, hallucinations, coma and death if enough is taken. As the atropine is only present in the unripe fruit eating one will make the mouth go dry (and it has the most unpleasant taste), but it will also relax the smooth muscle in the wall of the ureter which helps passage of ureteric stones. Culpeper’s observations on its usefulness are supported by more modern observations. When ripe, the orange fruit inside its skeletal outer ‘lantern’ is edible, free of atropine, and delicious. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Physalis alkekengi L. Rosaceae Chinese lantern, Winter Cherry, Bladder Cherry. Distribution: C & S Europe, W. Asia to Japan. Culpeper, in his English Physitian of 1652 writes: Winter Cherry ... are of great use in physic ...’ and recommends them for almost all kidney and urinary problems. In particular he seems to advocate the use of green berries in beer, for preventing kidney stones lodging in the ureters. It is called ‘aikakengi’ in the College’s Pharmacopoeia Londinensis of 1618. Belonging to the family Solanaceae, all its parts are poisonous except the ripe fruit. The green fruit and the rest of the plant contain atropinic compounds and will produce a dry mouth, rapid heart beat, hallucinations, coma and death if enough is taken. As the atropine is only present in the unripe fruit eating one will make the mouth go dry (and it has the most unpleasant taste), but it will also relax the smooth muscle in the wall of the ureter which helps passage of ureteric stones. Culpeper’s observations on its usefulness are supported by more modern observations. When ripe, the orange fruit inside its skeletal outer ‘lantern’ is edible, free of atropine, and delicious. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Physalis alkekengi L. Rosaceae Chinese lantern, Winter Cherry, Bladder Cherry. Distribution: C & S Europe, W. Asia to Japan Culpeper: In his English Physitian of 1652 writes: Winter Cherry ...are of great use in physic ...’ and recommends them for almost all kidney and urinary problems. In particular he seems to advocate the use of green berries in beer, for preventing kidney stones lodging in the ureters. It is called ‘aikakengi’ in the College’s Pharmacopoeia Londinensis of 1618. Belonging to the family Solanaceae, all its parts are poisonous except the ripe fruit. The green fruit and the rest of the plant contain atropinic compounds and will produce a dry mouth, rapid heart beat, hallucinations, coma and death if enough is taken. As the atropine is only present in the unripe fruit eating one will make the mouth go dry (and it has the most unpleasant taste), but it will also relax the smooth muscle in the wall of the ureter which helps passage of ureteric stones. Culpeper’s observations on its usefulness are supported by more modern observations. When ripe, the orange fruit inside its skeletal outer ‘lantern’ is edible, free of atropine, and delicious. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Valeriana officinalis L. Valerianaceae Valerianus, Phu, Nardus sylvestris, Setwal. Distribution: Europe. Popular herbalism attributes sedation to Valerian, but this is not mentioned by Coles (1657) or Gerard (1633) or Lobel (1576) or Lyte (1578) or Dioscorides (ex Gunther, 1959) or Fuchs (1553), where he quotes Pliny, Dioscorides and Galen, or Parkinson (1640), or Pomet (1712). The English translation of Tournefort (1719-1730) covers a whole page of the uses of all the different valerians, but never mentions sedation or treating anxiety. Quincy (1718) does not mention it. Because it was used in epilepsy, for which Woodville (1792) says it was useless, Haller, in his Historia stirpium indegenarum Helvetae inchoatae (1768) advocates it for those with irritability of the nervous system, as does Thomson's London Dispensatory (1811) although he lists it as an 'antispasmodic and stimulant' and for inducing menstruation. Lindley (1838) notes (as many did) that the roots smell terrible and that this makes cats excited, and in man, in large doses, induce 'scintillations, agitation and even convulsions' so used in asthenic fever, epilepsy, chorea, hysteria and as an antihelminthic.' Fluckiger & Hanbury (1879) give a wonderful account of the history of its names, but give its use as 'stimulant and antispasmodic' as do Barton & Castle (1877). but by 1936 (Martindale's Extra Pharmacopoeia) its only use was 'Given in hysterical and neurotic conditions as a sedative. Its action has been attributed to its unpleasant smell'. The European Medicines Agency (2006) approves its use as a traditional herbal medicine for mild anxiety and sleeplessness for up to 4 weeks. Despite what is written continuously about its use in ancient Greece and Rome, the only reason for its use has been because it was thought, for a brief while, to be good for epilepsy and therefore might deal with persons of a nervous disposition because of its foul smell. It has been suggested that even its Greek name, 'Phu' came from the expression of disgust which is made when one sniffs an unpleasant odour. For 1,800 years, before the last century, no-one had thought it sedative. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • The royal pharmacopoea, Galenical and chymical, according to the practice of the most eminent and learned physitians of France. And publish'd with their several approbations / By Moses Charas ... Faithfully englished. Illustrated with several copper plates.
  • The royal pharmacopoea, Galenical and chymical, according to the practice of the most eminent and learned physitians of France. And publish'd with their several approbations / By Moses Charas ... Faithfully englished. Illustrated with several copper plates.
  • Dispensatorium Hafniense, jussu superiorum à medicis Hafniensibus adornatum / Thomas Bartholinus.
  • The royal pharmacopoea, Galenical and chymical, according to the practice of the most eminent and learned physitians of France. And publish'd with their several approbations / By Moses Charas ... Faithfully englished. Illustrated with several copper plates.
  • The royal pharmacopoea, Galenical and chymical, according to the practice of the most eminent and learned physitians of France. And publish'd with their several approbations / By Moses Charas ... Faithfully englished. Illustrated with several copper plates.
  • The royal pharmacopoea, Galenical and chymical, according to the practice of the most eminent and learned physitians of France. And publish'd with their several approbations / By Moses Charas ... Faithfully englished. Illustrated with several copper plates.
  • The royal pharmacopoea, Galenical and chymical, according to the practice of the most eminent and learned physitians of France. And publish'd with their several approbations / By Moses Charas ... Faithfully englished. Illustrated with several copper plates.