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A physical directory; or a translation of the Dispensatory made by the Colledg of Physitians…

Full Title

Full Title
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. ...

Author

Culpeper, Nicholas

Last Name

Last Name
Culpeper

First Name

First Name
Nicholas

Date

Date
1651

Publication City

Publication City

Imprint

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

Topic

Genre

pharmacopoeia

ESTC

http://estc.bl.uk/R24898

Public Digital Facsimile

https://archive.org/details/b30336867/

Format

Format
2

Printer

Printer

Printer Place

Pages

Pages
219

ID

ID
R24898

Translator

Translator
Nicholas Culpeper

Original Work

Original Work
Pharmacopoeia Londinensis