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Pharmacopœia Londinensis: or the London dispensatory : furhter adorned by the studies and collections of the fellows, now living of the said colledg. In this sixt edition you may find, 1 Three hundred useful additions. 2 All the notes that were in the margent are brought into the book between two such crotchets as these 3. On the top of the pages of this impression is printed The sixt edition, much enlarged. 4 The vertues, qualities, and properties of every simple. 5 The vertues and use of the compounds. 6 Cautions in giving al medicines that are dangerous. 7 All the medicines that were in the Old Latin dispensatory, and are left out in the New Latin one, are printed in this sixt impression in English with their vertues. 8 A key to Galen's Method of physick, containing thirty three chapters. 9 In every page two columns. 10 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; living in Spittle
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- A key to Galen's Method of physick
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- London : printed by Peter Cole in Leaden-Hall, and at the sign of the Printing-Press in Cornhil, neer the Royal Exchange, 1655
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- [28], 106, [6], 191-377, [33] p., plate : port
- Nicholas Culpeper's translation and reworking (with many additions) of the "Pharmacopœia 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.
- Frontis. portrait (plate) of author signed: Cross fecit in Aquafort.
- In the 11th line of the title, brackets follow title word "these".
- "A key to Galen's Method of physick" has a separate dated title page; pagination and register are continuous.
- The text is continuous despite pagination.
- Copy filmed at UMI microfilm Early English Books 1641-1700 reel 2530 missing unknown number of leaves.
- Reproduction of original in the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London.
- Wing (CD-ROM, 1996) C7528
- Available electronically as part of Early English books online.