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 ...

CXII. Liquamen Silicum, Oil or Liquor of Flints.

Bate.] ℞ Calcin'd Flints p. iij. Salt of Tartar calcin'd with Nitre ℥iv. mix them exactly; and put them by degrees into a red hot Crucible, urging the Fire S. A. afterwards ex∣pose the Mass to the Air, that it ••••y melt per deliquium, S. A. It cuts Tartarous Mu∣cilage, resolves the Stone, and powerfully opens Ob∣structions. Dose, gut. 20. ad 30. in some fit Liquor.

Salmon.] § 1. Schroder says it may be given to a ℈j. but he has a Cream or Oil of Flints described in the second part of Glauber's For∣naces Pag. Mea. 44. If you keep it long in a Cellar it lets fall a Settling to the bottom, and sends an Oil to the top; which must be so long eva∣cuating from the Jelly, as any Liquor will ascend: and then be sweerned: this Oil or Cream, Clossaus says may easily be dissolved in any Liquor.

§ 2. In the place cited Glauber takes four times as much Salt of Tartar, as of calcin'd Flints, which ex∣treamly differs from this of our Author, the exact Pre∣script you have in our Poly∣graphices, Lib. 3. Cap. 29. Sect. 57. conformable to Glauber's Mind.

§ 3. In the making of it, he shews how to get a power∣ful Spirit out of the Salt of Tartar, of wonderful Ver∣tues and Effects, of which it is not our business here to speak, that being designed for the Officina Chymica, next to come forth after this work.

§ 4. But the remainder after that Spirit is extracted, is the thing of which our Experiment is to be made; What looks (says he) trans∣parent like Glass is nothing else but the most fixed part of the Salt of Tartar and Flints, which joyning them∣selves in the Heat, turn thus to a soluble Glass, in which lies a great Heat and Fire.

§ 5. As long as it is kept from the Air it cannot be perceived in it; but if you pour Water upon it, then its secret heat will discover it self.

§ 6. If you reduce it to a fine Pouder, in a hot Mor∣tar, and lay it in a moist Air, it will dissolve into a thick and fat Oil, leaving some Feces behind.

§ 7. This fat Liquor or Oil of Flints, Sand, or Cry∣stal, may not only be used inwardly, and outwardly of it self, but also serves to pre∣pare Metals and Minerals in∣to good. Medicines, or to change them into better by the Chymical Art.

§ 8. Many great Secrets are hid in this contemptible Flint, which the unlearned will hardly believe. The great Paracelsus maintains that a despicable Flint. cast at a Cow, is many times more worth than the Cow it self; not only because that Gold may be melted out of it, but because the other in∣ferior Metals may be so pu∣rified thereby, as to become like the best Gold and Silver in all tryals.

§ 9. This Liquor of Flints is of that Vertue in respect of Metals, that it makes them exceeding fair, (not by the common way of Cook-maids scowring them,) but by being dissolved there∣in by the Chymical Art, and then either after the wet or dry way, to be digested in it for a due time, which Para∣celsus terms the going into the Mother's Womb, and being ••••rn again: and if this be rightly done, then the Mother will bring forth a pure Child.

§ 10. All Metals are ge∣nerated in Sand or Stone, and therefore they may be well called the Mother of Metals, and the purer the Mother is, the purer and sounder will the Child be: and among all Stones, none are sound purer than the Peble, Flints, Cry∣stal or Sand, which are all of one Nature, and therefore the Flint, Peble or Sand is found to be the fittest Bath to wash the Metal with all.

§ 11. But this Bath, is not the Philosophers secret Menstruum, for that is more friendly to Gold, by reason of its affinity with it; but this more, easily dissolves other Metals than Gold; therefore neither can it be Bernhard's Fountain, but must only be taken to be a particular cleanser of Metals.

§ 12. As to the kind of Flints or Pebles which you ought to take for this work they should not be white, but a fair yellow, green, or blew, which possibly may contain Gold either fixed or vola∣tile.

§ 13. Then having from them made the said Soluble, Glass, and reduced it to fine. Pouder, you may there from make a Tincture thus. Put▪ this Pouder into a Belt-head.

and affuse thereon rectified S. V. (it needs to be perfectly deflegmated, or pure and fine) digest in a gentle heat till it becomes red, often shaking the Glass, that the Spirit may the better work upon it; then de∣cant it and affuse fresh Spi∣rit, which work repeat so long till the S. V. will be no more tinged. Put all these Tinctures together, and in B. M. ab∣stract the S. V. so will the Tincture of Flints remain in the bottom like a red Juice▪ which take and keep for use.

§ 14. This Tincture if it be made out of Gold-Flints, Pebles or Sand, is none of the least Medicines; for it powerfully resists all soluble Tartarous Coagulations, in the Hands, Knees. Feet, Reins, or Bladder: and tho' for want of such as hold or contain Gold, it be extract∣ed out of the common white Peble or Flint, yet will it act its part however, tho' not full out so well as the for∣mer.

§ 15. This Tincture will yet be more powerful, if first Gold has been dissolved in the Liquamen of Pebles, before the Extraction: Nor let any think, that this Tincture comes from the Salt of Tar∣tar, because that will also tinge S. V. for there is a great difference between this Tincture, and that of the Salt of Tartar.

§ 16. For the Tinct. Salis Tartari is no true Tincture, but only the purest part of the Salt dissolved in the Spi∣rit, as you may prove by ab∣straction, wherein you will have, First, a clear Spirit of Wine: Secondly, an unsavory Flegm: Lastly, a white com∣mon Salt of Tartar remain∣ing behind.

§ 17. Whereas this Tin∣cture of Flints or Pebles is clear of another nature; for if you abstract the S. V. from it, which comes over colour∣less, yet there remains a deep tinctured Salt, whose colour is lasting in the strongest Fire, and therefore may be ac∣counted for a genuine or true Tincture.

§ 18. The Liquamen Sili∣cum does precipitate all Me∣tals which are dissolved by Corrosives, but not as Salt of Tartar does; for the Preci∣cipitate will be much hea∣vier hereby, than if it had been done with Ol. Tartari, because the Particles of the Flint do mix themselves therewith.

§ 19. Ex. gr. ℞ Fine Sol q. v. dissolve in A. R. q. s. then precipitate with the Li∣quor

Silicum, till all the Gold falls down in a yellow Pouder, and the Solution becomes white and clear: decant the Liquor and edulcorate the Precipitate by many ablutions with fair Water and dry it (as Aurum Fulminans, but you need not fear its fulminating in the drying, as it uses to do, when precipitated with Salt of Tar∣tar, or Spirit of Urine) so will you have a yellow Calx, as heavy again as the Gold, before Solution, the cause of which is the Particles of the Flint or Peble precipitating therewith.

§ 20. This edulcorated yel∣low Calx put into a Crucible on a fire of live Coals, till it begins to be red-hot, but not long, so will it become a most fair Purple, very pleasant to behold: if it stands longer, the Purple colour will vanish, and it will be of a brown Brick colour, for which reason you must not let it remain too long.

§ 21. This purple Gold pou∣der may be given à ℈j. ad ʒss. in any fit Vehicle, in all Di∣seases where sweating is need∣ful, for it provokes Sweat, comforts the Heart, and is said to expel Stone and Gra∣vel from both Reins and Bladder: and to cure even the Plague it self.

§ 22. From this purple Calx of Gold, you may ex∣tract a Tincture with this our Liquamen Silicum, thus. ℞ Purple, Calx of Sol, p. j. Liquaminis Silicum, p. iij. mix them in a good large Crucible (lest in run over) and evaporate over a gentle heat to dryness, and increase the fire till the Crucible is red-hot (keeping it covered, that no Coals, Dust, or Ashes may fall into it) then still increase the fire in a Wind Fornace, till the Mat∣ter melts and flows like Wa∣ter, keeping it so long melted till it be like a transparent fair Ruby, which will be in an hours time, or thereabouts. Then being cold reduce it into Pouder, and with S. V. ex∣tract a Blood-like Tincture, which will be much more pow∣erful than the former Tin∣cture.

§ 23. The remaining Calx, you may melt with Lead and re∣duce into white Gold, which being melted with Antimony will recover its yellow colour again.

§ 24. And as this Liquor of Flints is the Medium of opening the Body of Gold. in order to the extracting of its Tincture, so also will it do in all the other Metals and Minerals, for which rea∣son it is needless to describe them by themselves, all the

Processes of them, being de∣monstrated in this One of Gold.

§25. By the help of this Liquor of Flints, you may also make the Golden, Silver, and Steel Trees of the Phi∣losophers as is taught in our Polygraphice, Lib. 3. Cap. 29. Sect. 54, 55, 56. as also other profitable things in Alchymie, fair Pigments for Paintings, out of Metals which will a∣bide in all Elements; and to frame all sorts of transpa∣rent hard Stones out of Cry∣stal, which in Beauty may be as fair or fairer than the Natural, Enamels, and such like.

§26. Lemery instead of a five-fold proportion of Salt of Tartar, uses a six-fold of Tartar to one of calcin'd Flints: ℞ Calcin'd Flints in fine pouder ℥iv. Salt of Tar∣ter ℥xxiv. mix and put them into a large Crucible in a wind Fornace, making a fire by lit∣tle and little, and then gently increafing it to the last degree, in which keep it for five hours, the Matter being in Fusion, till it grows Diaphanous like Glass, which you may know by putting a Spatula into it: cast it forth into an Iron Mortar, and it will presently congeal into a hard Mass, which Pouder while hot: take one half it, and set it in a Cellar in a Glass Pan' and it will dissolve into a clear Liquor, which filter, and keep for use.

§ 27. This Liquor is said to be diuretick given à gut. vj. ad xxvj. in some fit Vehicle: and being mixed in equal parts, with some Acid cor∣rosive Spirit, they will pre∣sently become a Stone: and from this Phaenomenon the Generation of Stones in Ani∣mal Bodies may be explica∣ted, seeing Acids and Alca∣lies do often meet within us; and for this reason some Au∣thors give a Caution against the use of this Remedy in∣wardly, as also the Tincture therefrom; tho' they con∣ceed, that they may some∣times dissolve some Sulphu∣rous Obstructions, and so thereby provoke Urine.

§ 28. This Liquamen Sili∣cum has obtained mightily among some Men, insomuch that they give it no less than the name of Alcahest: but it is indeed use to extract the Sulphurs of many Metals and Minerals.

§ 29. Upon the mixing of it with an Acid, an Ebuliti∣on is made, and a stronger Coagulation, than upon the mixing the Oil of Tartar with an Acid; the reason of which is because this Alcali

contains more Earth than the Salt of Tartar does, whence the cause of the Lapidiscent property-appears plainly e∣nough.

§ 30. Upon the other half of the Pouder, put into a hot dry Matrass, affuse the best rectified S. V. so much as to overtop it four Inches, stop the Matrass with ano∣ther, whose Neck may be received into that which con∣tains the Matter, lute the Juncture with a wet Bladder, and digest in a gentle Sand heat for two or three days, so as the S. V. may simper, so will you have a very red Tincture, which decant, put∣ting in fresh S. V. to the re∣mainder, repeating, &c. these Tinctures mix, and in B. Vap. abstract two thirds of the Spirit, and keep the re∣maining Tincture for use.

§ 31. This Tincture is e∣steemed an excellent Medi∣cine to cure the Scurvy, open Obstructions, and root out Hypochondriack Diseases, be∣ing given à gut. 10. ad. 30. in some fit Vehicle.

§ 32. Lastly, From the melting of the Calx per De∣liquium, it appears. that the Calx of the Flint is so inti∣marely incorporated with, and into the Salt of Tartar by Calcination, that it may truly enough be said to be convert∣ed into a Salt.