Pharmacopœia Londinensis; or, The London dispensatory : further adorned by the studies and collections of the fellows now living, of the said Colledg. In this impression you may find. 1. Three hundred usefull additions. 2. All the notes that were in the margent are brought into the book between two such crotchets as are these [ ] 3. The vertues, qualities, and properties, of every simple, 4. The vertues 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 vertues. 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
Date:
1669
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London dispensatory

Publication/Creation

London : printed by John Streater, and are to be sold by George Sawbridge on Clerken-well-Green, 1669.

Physical description

24 unnumbered pages, 305 pages, 39 unnumbered pages

Notes

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 Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London.

References note

Wing (CD-ROM, 1996) C7532A

Reproduction note

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2530:9) s1999 miun s

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