Pharmacopœia Londinensis; or, The London dispensatory : further 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 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.

  • Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654
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1679
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London dispensatory

Publication/Creation

London : printed for George Sawbridge, at the Bible on Ludgate-Hill, 1679.

Physical description

24 unnumbered pages, 269, that is, 305 pages, 39 unnumbered pages

Notes

Page 305 misnumbered 269.
Nicholas Culpeper's translation and reworking (with many additions) of the "Pharmacopœia Londinensis".
In the 11th line of title, brackets follow the word "these".
"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.
Includes indexes.
Reproduction of original in the British Library.

References note

Wing (CD-ROM, 1996) C7535

Reproduction note

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2530:10) s1999 miun s

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