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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].

  • Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654.
Date:
1649
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: 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]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    • - «,» * » CATALOG ' O F T H E saa c o N D U e in G T 6 ■ T H E The Preface. jin the Catalogue I thought good t0 Premi^e a ^ew wor^s to the Reader : i. Let him have a care hemiftake not one thing for another, viz. Herbs for Roots.or either of them for Flowers: If he call: but his eye up to the top of the Page, he (hall there fee which it is. 2. Let a due time be obferved (cafes of neceffity excepted) in gathering all Simples 5 for which take thefe few Rules: All Floors are of moil vertue when the fap is down in them, viz, towaid che latter end offunrmer, or beginning of the fpring, for happily in winter many of them cannot be found- you may hang up many of them a drying>by drawing a firing through them and fokeep them a who! year, * ?