Volume 1

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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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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    Black Hellebore, Bears-foot, or Chriftmas flower ; botb this andthe former are hot and dry in the third degree. This is nothing fo violent nor dangerous as the former: Both GaU len and Julius Ahxxndrinw report the roots of this boyled in vineger to be an admirable remedy againft inveterate Scabs, Itch and Leprofie,the lame helps theTooth-ach,being held in (a) You mnft the mouth , and dropped into the ears helps deafnefs coming boil them but of Melancholly,and noife in the ears/ corrected with a little very little, for Cinnamon ( in pouder ) it purgeth Melancholly , reliftetli the ftrength Madnefs. Alfo P/iw/, Abjjrtuf^ and Columella^ affirm that a way in vapor P*ece tbe rOOt pit into a hole made in the ear ofabeaft * ^ * troubled with the Cough, or that hath taken any poifbn, and drawn quite through next day about that time,helpeth them: out of queftion it is a fpecial thing to rowel cattel withal. JEnuU Campan&yHelemj. Of Elecampane, is hot and dry in the third degree, wholfom for the Aomach, refills poyfon, helps old coughs and ffiortnefs of breath, helps ruptures and provokes luft : in ointments, it is good againft fcabs and Itch. ^ . . o&bi Endivi£ &c. Of Endive, Garden Endive which is the root herefpecified, is held to be fomewhat colder, though not fo dry and cleanfing as that which is wild,it cools hot ftomachs hot livers, amends the blood corrupted by heat,and therefore muft needs be good infeavers; it cools the reins, and there¬ fore prevents the ftone, it opens obftru&ions and provokes n* line Eringrj. Of Eringo, or Sea*holly, the roots are moderate¬ ly hot, fomething drying and cleanfing, bruifed and applied to the place they help the Scrophula, or difeafe in the throat called the Kings Evil,.they bijeak the ftone, increale feed, ftir up luft, provoke the terms &c; EJul&, majority minority Of Spurge the greater and leificr, they are both (Yaken inwardly) too violent for a vulgar ufe, outwardly in ointments they cleanfe the skin, and takeaway funburning. Filicis &c. Fearn* of which are two grand diftin&ions, vir. male andfocmale, 1 fuppofethey intend the male here, be- caufe they adjoyn fome other names to it3 which the Greeks attributed!