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  • A physicall directory, or, a translation of the London dispensatory made by the Colledge of Physicians in London. Being that book by which all apothicaries are strictly commanded to make all their physick with many hundred additions. Which the reader may find in every page marked with this letter A ... / [Nicholas Culpeper].
  • A physicall directory, or, a translation of the London dispensatory made by the Colledge of Physicians in London. Being that book by which all apothicaries are strictly commanded to make all their physick with many hundred additions. Which the reader may find in every page marked with this letter A ... / [Nicholas Culpeper].
  • A physicall directory, or, a translation of the London dispensatory made by the Colledge of Physicians in London. Being that book by which all apothicaries are strictly commanded to make all their physick with many hundred additions. Which the reader may find in every page marked with this letter A ... / [Nicholas Culpeper].
  • 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.
  • The London dispensatory, containing: I, the elements of pharmacy; II, the botanical description ... and medicinal properties, of the substnaces of the materia medica; III, the pharmaceutical preparations and compositions of the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Colleges of Physicians ... a practical synopsis of materia medica, pharmacy, and therapeutics : illustrated with many useful tables and copper-plates of pharmaceutical apparatus / by Anthony Todd Thomson.
  • The London dispensatory, containing: I, the elements of pharmacy; II, the botanical description ... and medicinal properties, of the substnaces of the materia medica; III, the pharmaceutical preparations and compositions of the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Colleges of Physicians ... a practical synopsis of materia medica, pharmacy, and therapeutics : illustrated with many useful tables and copper-plates of pharmaceutical apparatus / by Anthony Todd Thomson.
  • The new domestic medicine. Or, a treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases, by regimen and simple medicines : With an appendix containing a dispensatory for the use of private practitioners / by William Buchan ... ; To which is now first added, memoirs of the life of Dr. Buchan: and important extracts from other works, praticularly his 'Advice to mothers' ... by William Nisbet. Including also new treatises on sea-bathing, etc.
  • Matæotechnia medicinæ praxeos. : The vanity of the craft of physick. Or, a new dispensatory: wherein is dissected the errors, ignorance, impostures and supinities of the schools, in their main pillars of purges, blood-letting, fontanels or issues, and diet, &c. and the particular medicines of the shops. With an humble motion for the reformation of the universities, and the whole landscap of physick, and discovering the terra incognita of chymistrie. To the parliament of England. / By Noah Biggs, chymiatrophilos.
  • The compleat surgeon, or, The whole art of surgery explain'd in a most familiar method : containing the principles of that art; and, an exact account of tumours, ulcers, and wounds, simple and complicated, with those by gunshot: As also of venereal diseases, the scurvy, fractures, and luxations: With all sorts of chirurgical operations; the bandages and dressings, which are illustrated in forty copper plates; the method of dissecting the brain, by M. Duncan; several reflections and new machines by M. Arnaud. Likewise, a chirurgical dispensatory; shewing the manner of preparing all such medicines as are most necessary for a surgeon; and particularly the mercurial panacea / Written in French, by M. Le Clerc.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Boer War: the dispensary of the Imperial Yeomanry Hospital at Deelfontein, South Africa. Process print, 1900.
  • Jean de Renou: his portrait, and the subjects of his book on pharmacy; centre, Galen and Hippocrates holding a lion skin; below, Richard Tomlinson. Engraving by T. Cross, 1657.
  • Heuchera 'Silver Scrolls'
  • Culpeper's Complete English physician enlarged and improved, or, An universal medical herbal, and botanical and astrological practice of physic ... : in three parts ... / By Nicholas Culpeper ; with valuable additions and improvements, by Geo. Alex. Gordon.
  • Culpeper's Complete English physician enlarged and improved, or, An universal medical herbal, and botanical and astrological practice of physic ... : in three parts ... / By Nicholas Culpeper ; with valuable additions and improvements, by Geo. Alex. Gordon.