Pharmacopœia Londinensis: or the London dispensatory : furhter adorned by the studies and collections of the fellows, now living of the said colledg. In this sixt edition 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 vertues, qualities, and properties of every simple. 4 The vertues and use of the compounds. 5 Cautions in giving al 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 sixt impression in English with their vertues. 7 A key to Galen's Method of physick, containing thirthy three chapters. 8 In every page two columns. 9 In this impression, the Latin name 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; living in Spittle-fields, neer London.
- Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654
- Date:
- 1654
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About this work
Also known as
Key to Galen's Method of physick
Publication/Creation
London : printed by Peter Cole in Leaden-Hall, and are to be sold at his shop at the sign of the Printing-Press in Cornhil, neer the Royal Exchange, 1654.
Physical description
24 unnumbered pages, 106 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 191-341 pages, 5 unnumbered pages, 343-377 pages, 33 unnumbered pages, plate : portrait
References note
Wing (CD-ROM, 1996) C7527
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.
Frontis. portrait (plate) of author signed: Cross fecit in Aquafort.
In the 11th line of the title, brackets follow title word "these".
"A key to Galen's Method of physick" has a separate dated title page; pagination and register are continuous.
The text is continuous despite pagination.
Reproduction of original in the Folger Shakespeare Library.
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2479:4) s1999 miun s