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 ...

LXII. Flores Sulphuris albi, white Flowers of Sul∣phur.

Bate. ℞ Lapis Prunellae calcined for two hours in a Crucible covered (which do with live Coals laid above and below and round about it) ℥iij. Sulphur ℥vj. mix and sublime in a Sand heat, S. A. They are equal in Vertues to L••c Sulphuris. Dose ℈j. ad ʒj.

Salmon.] § 1. Lemery makes these white Flowers with Sal-Polychrestum instead of Lapis Prunellae after this manner. ℞ Sulphur in pouder lbij. Sal-Polychrestum lbj. mix them to∣gether; put this mixture by half Pounds into a Glass body, which place in a small open fire, and cover it with a Pot, or another Cucurbit of unglazed Earth, so as the neck of the lower may enter into the neck of the higher: change the

upper Cucurbit every half hour, and fit another in its place, adding likewise new In∣gredients: gather your Flowers in the upper Cucurbit, and continue this work, till all your mixture is added, and there remains at bottom only a little infignificant spungy Earth.

§ 2. The Salt remaining at bottom of the Cucurbit may be calcin'd, and if after∣wards you purifie it by Solu∣tion. exhaling and filtering, it will be as good as before.

§ 3. The whiteness of these Flowers proceeds from the attenuation of the sulphu∣rous Particles by the adjoyn∣ed Salt.

§ 4. And exactly as Lemery makes them, you have them in Monsieur Charras both for Method and proportion of Ingredients; but he uses in his Preparation Sal-Nitre.

§ 5. But the true Author of the Prescript was Angelus Sala, as you may see in his Opera Medico-Chymica, pag. 745. A. who makes it of fixed Nitre, or Sal-Prunellae in the same proportion, whom our Author is pleased to follow.

§ 6. They are a most fa∣mous Pectoral, drying up all Catarrhs and Rheums after a most admirable manner: and yet withall open Ob∣structions of the Brest and Lungs; are good against Coughs, Colds, Hoarsness, Asthma's, shortness of Breath, difficulty of Breathing, and other Vices of those parts.

§ 7. Motus Ʋtendi. ℞ Of these white Flowers ℈ij. Be∣zoar mineral gr. xvj. Mithri∣date ʒiss. mix for a Dose to be given at Night going to Bed. ℞ Of these Flowers ʒj. Syrup of Comfrey ℥j. mix for a Dose against a Catarrh. ℞ Of these Flowers ʒj. Syrup of Poppies ℥ss. mix for a Dose against a Cough. ℞ Of these Flowers ℈ij. Catechu ʒss. Venice-treacle ʒj. mix for a Dose against Fluxes of the Bowels.