Pharmacopoeia Londinensis: or the London dispensatory : furhter adorned by the studies and collections of the fellows now living, of the said college. In this impression you may find, 1. Three hundred useful additions. 2. All the notes that were in the margent are brought into the book between two such crotchets as these 3. The virtues, qualities, and properties of every simple. 4. The virtues and use of the compounds. 5. Cautions in giving all medicines that are dangerous. 6. All the medicines that were in the Old Latin dispensatory, and are left out in the New Latin one, are printed in this impression in English with their virtues. 7. A key to Galen and Hippocrates, their method of physick, containing thirty three chapters. 8. In this impression, the Latin mane of every one of the compounds is printed, and in what page of the new folio Latin book they are to be found. By Nich. Culpeper Gent. Student in Physick and Astrology.

  • Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654
Date:
1695
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London : printed for Awnsham and John Churchill, at the Black Swan in Pater-Noster-Row, 1695.

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24 unnumbered pages, 269 pages, 39 unnumbered pages

References note

Wing (CD-ROM, 1996) C7537

Notes

Nicholas Culpeper's translation and reworking (with many additions) of the "Pharmacopœia Londinensis".
"Originally published in 1649 under title: A physicall directory, or, A translation of the London dispensatory, made by the College of Physicians in London"--NUC pre-1956 imprints.
In the 11th line of the title, brackets follow title word "these".
Reproduction of original in the British Library.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2511:5) s1999 miun s

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