A physical directory; or a translation of the Dispensatory made by the Colledg of Physitians of London, and by them imposed upon all the apothecaries of England to make up their medicines by. And in this third edition is added a Key to Galen's method of physick. Wherein is three sections. 1. The first section shewing the temperature of medicines, viz. hot, cold, moist and dry. 2. The second section (in nine chapters) treat of the apropriation of medicins to the several parts of the body, viz. 1 The head. 2 Breast. 3 Heart. ... 9 Joynts. 3. The third section (in 2 chapters) sheweth the properties or operations of medicines: 1 Emollient, 2 Hardning, 3 Loosning, 4 Making thick and thin, 5 Opening the mouths of the vessels, 6 Attenuating, ... 16 Breeding, or taking away milk, 17 Seed, 18 Easing pain. 19 Breeding flesh, 20 Glutinative, 21 Scarrifying, 22 Resisting poyson, 23 Adorning the body, 24, Purging medicines. By Nich. Culpeper, gent. ...

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• A physical directory; or a translation of the Dispensatory made by the Colledg of Physitians of London, and by them imposed upon all the apothecaries of England to make up their medicines by. And in this third edition is added a Key to Galen's method of physick. Wherein is three sections. 1. The first section shewing the temperature of medicines, viz. hot, cold, moist and dry. 2. The second section (in nine chapters) treat of the apropriation of medicins to the several parts of the body, viz. 1 The head. 2 Breast. 3 Heart. ... 9 Joynts. 3. The third section (in 2 chapters) sheweth the properties or operations of medicines: 1 Emollient, 2 Hardning, 3 Loosning, 4 Making thick and thin, 5 Opening the mouths of the vessels, 6 Attenuating, ... 16 Breeding, or taking away milk, 17 Seed, 18 Easing pain. 19 Breeding flesh, 20 Glutinative, 21 Scarrifying, 22 Resisting poyson, 23 Adorning the body, 24, Purging medicines. By Nich. Culpeper, gent. ...
• Sinopsis of the key of Galens method of physick

People / Organizations

• Nicholas Culpeper (Author)

Imprint

London: printed by Peter Cole, at the sign of the Printing-Press in Cornhil, near the Royal Exchange, 1651.

Publication year

1651-1651

ESTC No.

R24898

Grub Street ID

108637

Description

[14], 138, [4], 139-184, [18] p. : port. ; 2⁰

Note

Nicholas Culpeper's translation and reworking (with many additions) of the "Pharmacopoeia Londinensis".

Frontis. portrait (pi1v) of the author signed: Cross sculpsit.

"A sinopsis of the key of Galens method of physick." is inserted between pp. 138 and 139 and is signed [para para]?.

With indexes at end of text.