Table of Contents
Illustrations vii
Herbs: description, place, time, virtues 1
Directions for making syrups, conserves, etc. 199
Gathering, drying, and keeping simples 200
Making and keeping compounds 202
The English Physician and Family Dispensatory 211
Roots 217
Barks 227
Woods and their chips, or raspings 229
Herbs and their leaves 229
Flowers 247
Fruits and their buds 248
Seeds or grains 249
Tears, liquors, and rozins 251
Juices 252
Things bred from plants 252
Parts of living creatures, and excrements 253
Belonging to the sea 254
Metals, minerals, and stones 254
A Catalogue of Simples in the New Dispensatory 256
Roots 256
Woods 260
Herbs 260
Flowers 265
Fruits 267
Seeds 268
Gums, rozins, balsams, and juices 270
Liquid, juices, and tears 274
Bees, woodlice, silkworms, etc. 275
Parts of livingcreatures and excrements 275
From the sea 276
Metals, stones, salts, and other minerals 276
Simple waters distilled 278
Compounds, spirit and compound distilled waters 283
Tinctures 290
Physical wines 291
Physical vinegars 292
Decoctions 293
Syrups 294
Altering syrups 294
Purging syrups 305
Syrups made with vinegar and honey 308
Rob, or sapa: and juices 311
Lohoch, or eclegmata 312
Preserved roots, stalks, barks, flowers, fruits 314
Conserves and sugars 315
Sugars 316
Species, or powders 317
Electuaries 324
Purging electuaries 331
Pills 339
Troches 346
Oils 353
Simple oils by expression 353
Simple oils by infusion and decoction 354
Compound oils by infusion and decoction 355
Ointments more simple 359
Ointments more compound 362
Cerecloths 366
Plaisters 367
A Key to Galen's Method of Physic 376
Culpeper's Last Legacies 395
General Index 399
