Pharmacopœia Bateana, or, Bate's dispensatory translated from the second edition of the Latin copy, published by Mr. James Shipton : containing his choice and select recipe's, their names, compositions, preparations, vertues, uses, and doses, as they are applicable to the whole practice of physick and chyrurgery : the Arcana Goddardiana, and their recipe's intersperst in their proper places, which are almost all wanting in the Latin copy : compleated with above five hundred chymical processes, and their explications at large, various observations thereon, and a rationale upon each process : to which are added in this English edition, Goddard's drops, Russel's pouder [sic], and the Emplastrum febrifugum, those so much fam'd in the world : as also several other preparations from the Collectanea chymica, and other good authors / by William Salmon ...

XXIV. * Aqua Epidemica, The Plague-Water.

Bate.] ℞ Celandine, Rose∣mary, Rue, Sage, Mugwort, Worm-wood, Pimpernel, Dra∣gons, Scabiouse, Agrimony, Bawm, Scordium, lesser Centory, Carduus Ben. Betony, Ros. Solis, A. Mij.: Roots of Angelica, Tormentil, Gentian, Zedoary, Liquorice, A, ℥j.: macerate in White-wine lbviij, for two days, then distil according to Art.

Salmon.] You may distil in B M. to dryness; otherwise if in a Copper Vesica, you must add Water to prevent the Empyreuma. This Wa∣ter is profitable against the Plague or Pestilence, and all manner of malign and pesti∣lential Feavers, &c. It may either be given alone from ℥ij. ad ℥iv.; or used as a Ve∣hicle to convey other Medi∣cines for the same intention in letting the sick be in bed, and sweating well upon it. In my opinion, if three or four good large Lemons were thin sliced and put (after Distillation) into the Water, it would be so much the bet∣ter, for that the particles of that acid Juice certainly de∣stroys all the Vermiculi, or Miasmata, which are the Progenerators of the Plague, or Pestilence; and also more powerfully overcome it when the Infection is begun. For this reason it is, Vinegar is put into almost all our Plague-Waters, by Sylvius, Barbet, and others of the more learned Physicians.