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 ...

L. Aqua Regia, The Dissol∣vent of Gold.

Bate.] It is made of Nitre and Sal Ammoniacum, ana, in a Glass Retort sufficiently large, placed in Sand, distilling for two days S. A. with degrees of Fire. It dissolves Gold.

Salmon. This is Basil Va∣lentine's Aqua Regia: but that you might the better and more conveniently draw off the Spirit, you ought to add Pouder or Calx of Flints, viz. to the Nitre and Sal Ar∣moniack A. lbij. Pouder of Flints lbiij. and to distil by a red hot tubulated Retort; but the ordinary way is by an Iron pot, on which is pla∣ced an earthen Cover like an Alembick with a Beak, set in a naked Fire with a large Receiver. This Water dis∣solves Gold, and after many Cohobations will reduce it to an Oyl, and carry it with it, over the Helm into the Re∣ceiver. Through the mani∣fold Cohobations, the Sol be∣comes

volatilized, and is made to yield a blood red Tincture in rectified Spirit of Wine, if you proceed Philosophically; which is the highest of Cordi∣als, and may be given some drops at a time, in a Glass of Sack, or other Wine against Faintings, Fits, Swoonings, Palpitation of the Heart, Trembling, Plague, Pesti∣lential Fevers, Measles, Small-pox, &c.