Pharmacopœia Londinensis: or The London dispensatory further adorned by the studies and collections of the Fellows, now living of the said colledg. Whereunto is added, 1. The vertues, qualitites, and properties of every simple. 2. The vertues and use of the compounds. 3. Cautions in giving all medicines that are dangerous. 4. All the medicines that were in the old Latin dispensatory, and are left out in the new Latin one, are printed in this fourth impression in English with their vertues. 5. A key to Galen's Method of physick, containing thirty three chapters. 6. What is added to the book by the translator, is of a different letter from that which was made by the colledg. 7. 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 physic and astrology; living in Spittle-fields neer London.

People / Organizations

• Nicholas Culpeper (Author)

Imprint

London: printed for Peter Cole, at the sign of the Printing-Press in Cornhil neer the Royal Exchange, 1653.

Publication year

1653-1653

ESTC No.

R2908

Grub Street ID

112096

Description

[14], 74, 101-188, 185-186, [2], 301-325, [15] p. : port. ; 2⁰

Note

Title page is a cancel.

Frontis. portrait ([A]1v) of the author signed: Cross sculpsit.

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

"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.