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A35390	A physicall directory, or, A translation of the London dispensatory made by the Colledge of Physicians in London ... by Nich. Culpeper, Gent.; Pharmacopoeia Londinensis. English	Royal College of Physicians of London.; Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654.	1649 (1649)	Wing C7540; ESTC R2883	224,260	364

seldom or never provoke sleep Mithridate Damocrates Take of Mirrh of Arabia Saffron Agrick Ginger Cinnamon Spicknard Frankinsence the seeds of Treacle-mustard of each ten drachms the seeds of Seseli or Hartwort Opobalsamum or oyl of Nutmegs by expression Scaenanth Stoechas Costus Galbanum Turpentine long Pepper Castorium of Pontus the juyce of Hypocystis the best Styrax Opopanax fresh Indian leaves or for want thereof Mace of each an ounce Cassia lignea Poley white Pepper Scordium Carrot seeds Carpobalsamum or Cubebs Trochisci Cypheos Bdellium of each seven drachms Celtich Spicknard Gum Arabick Macedonian Parsly Opium Cardamoms the less Fennel seeds Gentian the leaves of red Roses and Dictamni of Creet of each five drachms Annis seeds Asarabacca Acorus or Calamus Aromaticus Orris Valerian the greater Sagapenum of each three drachms Spignel Acacia the belly of Scineus the tops of St. Johns wort of each two drachms and an half so much wine as is sufficient to dissolve the Gums and Juyces then with three times the weight of all the wine excepted in Honey make it up into an Electuary A. I have not time to search whether there be any difference in the Composition between Damocrites and the Colledg It was also corrected afterwards by Bartholomew Maranta Also Andromacus hath another sort of Mithridate It may be it is that usually called with us Venis Mithridate but because the Electuary is very chargable to be made and cannot be made but in great quantites and only that here prescribed is to be gotten or at least easily to be gotten I am willing to spare my pains in any further search A. It is good against poyson and such as have done themselves wrong by taking filthy medicines it provokes sweat it helps continual watrings of the stomach ulcers in the body consumptions weakness of the limbs rids the body of cold humours and diseases coming of cold it remedies cold infirmities of the brain and stopping of the passage of the sences viz. hearing seeing smelling c. by cold it expels wind helps the Chollick provokes appetite to ones victuals It helps ulcers in the bladder if Gallen say true as also difficulty of urine It casts out the dead child and helps such women as cannot conceive by reason of cold It is an admirable remedy for melancholly and all diseases of the body coming through cold it would fill a whol sheet of paper to reckon them all up particularly Philonium Persicum Mesue Take of white Pepper white Henbane of each ' twenty drachms Opium Terra Lemnia of each ten drachms Lapis Hematitis prepared Saffron of each five drachms Castorium Indian Spicknard Euphorbium Amber Zedoary Doronicum Troches of Ramich Pellitory of Spain Pearls of each a drachm and an half Camphire one scruple Honey Roses the triple weight of all mix them together into an Electuary according to art A. All the difference is Mesue appoints Honey whose commendations of it is it stops blood flowing from any part of the body the immoderate flowing of the terms in women the Hemorrhoyds in men spitting of blood bloody fluxes and is profitable for such women as are subject to miscarry Philonium Romanum Nicholaus Take of white Pepper the seeds of white Henbane of each five drachms Opium two drachms and an half Cassia lignea one drachm and an half the seeds of Smallage one drachm the seeds of Macedonian Parsly Fennel and Carrots of Creet of each two scruples and five grains Saffron a scruple and an half Indian Spicknard Pellitory of Spain Zedoary of each fifteen grains Cinnamon a drachm and an half Euphorbium Mirrh Castorium of each one drachm with three times the weight of them all in clarified Honey make them into an Electuary according to art A. It is a most exquisite thing to ease vehement and deadly pains in what part of the body so ever they be whether internal or external that vehemency of pain will bring a feaver and a feaver death no man well in his wits will deny therefore in such diseases which cause vehemency of pain as Chollicks the Stone Strangury c. this may be given ordered by the discretion of an able brain for it conduceth little to the cure to mitigate the extremity of pain while convenient remedy may be had as men pump the water out before they can stop the hole in a leaking vessel As for other vertues which Authors say this Electuary hath I shall pass them by resting confident that other remedies may be found out for them in this book as effectual and lesse dangerous and because the former Electuary is not much unlike to this in some particulars take the same caution in that also Electuarium De Ovo Maximilian the Emperor Take an Hens Eg new laid and a small hole being made in the top take out the white leaving the yolk still in then fill up the void place with Saffron not beaten into pouder then cover over the hole with another cover then roast it with a gentle fire till all the she l begin to look black attending it diligently lest the Saffron burn for then is all the medicine spoiled then take the matter out and dry it that so it may be beaten into fine pouder ad to it its weight in white Mustard seed in pouder Then take the roots of white or bastard Dittany Tormentil of each two drachms Mirrh Harts-horn Petasitis roots of each one drachm the roots of Angelica and Burnet Juniper berries Zedoary Camphire of each half an ounce let all these being beaten into pouder be diligently mixed with the other in a mortar and add to them their weight of the best Treacle mixed together with a pestel for three hours powring in syrup of Lemmons so much as is sufficient till it be made into an Electuary according to art A. A drachm of it given at a time is as great an help in a pestilential feaver as a man shall usually reade of in a Galenist Requies Nicholaus Take of Red-Rose leaves the whites being cut off blue Violets of each three drachms Opium of Thebes dissolved in Wine the seeds of white Henbane Poppies white and black the bark of the roots of Mandrakes the seeds of Endive Purslain Garden Lettice Psyllium Spodium Gum Traganth of each 2. 〈◊〉 5. grains Nutmegs Cinnamon Ginger of each one drachm and an half Sanders yellow white red of each one drachm an half Sugar three times their weight dissolved in Rose-water mix them together and make of them an Electuary according to art A. Requies the title of this prescript signifies Rest but I would not advise you to take too much of it inwardly for fear in stead of Rest it bring you to Madness or at best to folly outwardly I confess being applied to the temples as also to the insides of the wrests it may mitigate the heat in feavers and provoke the rest as also mitigate the violent heat and raging in Frenzies

something else to do than to write one thing twice as they did Pastinacae Sativae et silvestris Garden and wild Parsnips they are of a temperate quality enclining something to heat the Garden Parsnips provoke lust and nourish as much and more too than any root ordinarily eaten the Wild are more physical and so usually are all wild plants I could give reasons for it if I durst spend time and paper being cutting cleansing and opening they resist the bitings of venemous beasts ease pains and stitches in the sides and are a soveraign remedy against the Wind chollick Pentaphylli Of Cinkfoyl commonly called five-leaved or five-fingered-grass the root is very drying but very moderately hot It is admirable against all fluxes and stops blood flowing from any part of the body it helps infirmities of the Liver and Lungues helps putrified ulcers of the mouth the root boyled in vineger is good against the Shingles and appeaseth the rage of any fretting sores Petasitae Of Butter-bur the roots are hot and dry in the second degree they are exceeding good in violent and pestilential Feavers they provoke the terms expel poyson and kill worms Peucedani foeniculi porcini Of Sulphurwort 〈◊〉 fennel or Horestrange it is very good applied to the navils of children that stick out ruptures held in the mouth it is a present remedy for the fits of the mother it being taken inwardly gives speedy deliverance to women in travail and brings away the after birth Poeoniae maris foemellae Of Peony male and foemale they are meanly hot but more drying the male is more effectual in operation than the foemale the root helps women not sufficiently purged after travail it provokes the terms helps pains in the belly 〈◊〉 also in the reins and bladder Falling-sickness and convulsions in children being either taken inwardly or hung about their necks Phu Valerianae majoris minoris Valerian or Setwal greater and lesser They are temperarely hot the greater provokes arine and the terms helps the strangury flaies new 〈◊〉 in the head and takes away the pricking pains thereof The lesser resists poyson aswageth the swellings of the cods coming either through wind or cold helps cold taken after sweating or labor Wind 〈◊〉 outwardly it draws out thorns and cures both wounds and ulcers 〈◊〉 c. Of 〈◊〉 It doth this good to bring forth a gallant physical hearb Plantaginis Of Plantane the root is something dryer than the leaf but not so cold it opens stoppages of the liver helps the Jaundice and ulcers of the reins and bladder 〈◊〉 affiirmeth that one root helps a quotidian ague three a tertian and four a quartan which though our late Writers hold to be fabulous yet there may be a greater truth in it than they are aware of yet am I as loth to make superstition a foundation to build on as any of them let experience be judge and then we weigh not modern Jury men Polypodij Of Polypodium or Fearn of the Oak It is a gallant though gentle purger of Melancholly Also in the opinion of Mesue as famous a Physitian as ever I read for a Gallenist it dries up superfluous humours takes away swellings from the hands feet knees and joynts stitches and pains in the sides infirmities of the spleen rickets correct i t with a few Annis seeds or Fennel seeds or a little Ginger and then the stomach will not loath it Poligonati sigilli Solomonis c. Of Solomons Seal Let it be no dishonor to Gallen nor Dioscorides that English men have found out in late daies that these roots may safely be given inwardly Intruth they may be excused if the difference of the climates they and we lived and now live in be but considered neither I hope will my country men blame me for following only Dr. Experience in the vertues of this root stamped and boyled in wine it speedily helps being drunk I mean for it will not do the deed by looking upon it all broken bones it is of an incredible vertue that way as also being stamped and applied to the place it soon heals all wounds and quickly takes away the black and blew marks of blows being bruised and applied to the place and for these I am perswaded there is not a better medicine under the Sun or as Copernicus and Kepler will have it above the Sun Porri Of Leeks they say they are hot and dry in the fourth degree they breed but ill favored nourishment at the best they spoil the eyes heat the body cause troublesom sleep and are noisom to the stomach yet are they good for something else than only to stick in Welchmens hats for the joyce of them dropped into the ears takes away the noise of them mixed with a little vineger and snuffed up the nose it staies the bleeding of it they are 〈◊〉 of the two boyled than raw but both waies exceeding hurtful for ulcers in the bladder and so are Onions and Garlick Prunellorum Silvestrium Of Sloe-bush or Sloe tree I think the Colledge set this amongst the roots only for fashion-sake and I did it because they did Pyrethri Salivaris c. Pelitory of Spain it is hot and dry in the fourth degree chewed in the mouth it draws away Rewm in the tooth-ach bruised and boyled in oyl it provoke sweat by unction inwardly taken they say it helps Palsyes and other cold effects of the brain and nerves 〈◊〉 Reupontick or Reubarb of Pontus it takes away windiness and weakness of the stomach 〈◊〉 sobbings spittings of blood diseases of the liver and spleen rickts c. Rhabarbari Of Reubarb It gently purgeth choller from the stomach and liver opens stoppings withstands the dropsie and Hypocondriack melancholly a little boyling takes away the vertue of it and therefore it is best given by infusion only it leaves a binding quality behind it therefore dried a little by the fire and beaten into powder it is usually given in fluxes Rhaphani Domesticae et sylvesiris Of Radishes Garden and Wild. Garden Radishes provoke urine break the stone and purge by urine exceedingly yet breed very bad blood are offensive to the stomach and hard of digestion hot and dry in quallity Wild or Horse Radishes such as grow in ditches are hotter and drier than the former and more effectual in the premises Rhodiae rad Rose root called I suppose by that name because of its sweetness Stamped and applied to the head it mitigates the pains thereof being somewhat cool in quality Rhabarbari-Monachorum Patience Monks-Reubarb or Bastard-Reubarb it also purgeth cleanseth the blood opens obstructions of the liver 〈◊〉 Of Maddir In this were Gallen and Dioscorides quite beside the cushion in saying this root was opening and cleansing when clean contrary it is both drying and binding yet not without some opening quality for it helps the Yellow Jaundise and therefore opens the obstructions of the liver and gall it is given with good success to such as have had bruises by falls