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 ...

LXIX. Mars Fulminans, Thundering Mars.

Bate.] ℞ Nitre ʒivss. Salt of Tartar ʒjss. Sulphur ʒij. mix and make a Pouder, S. A. It is diuretick, and provokes the Terms.

Salmon.] § 1. What rea∣son there is for the Name of this Medicament (there be∣ing nothing of Mars in it) I know not: Its usual Ap∣pellations are Lapis Fulmi∣nans, and Sal Fulminans, by which Names you may meet with it in Authors.

§ 2. Lemery makes it of Nitre ʒiij. Salt of Tartar, ʒij. Sulphur ʒj. mix together. This Pouder being heated in an Iron-Ladle or Fire-shovel to the weight of ʒj. gives as thun∣dering noise as a Canon it self. Now the fixt Salt of Tartar causes the thunder∣ing noise in this Pouder, which Gold causes in the Aurum Fulminans, viz. it so chains and locks up the Spi∣rits of the Nitre and Sulphur, that they cannot break forth out of their Prison, not be separated without an extra∣ordinary violence.

§ 3. But if you would have it Martial, and to an∣swer the Name given to it, you ought to add to it a proportional part of the Mars Fulminans at Sect. LXVII. § 1. just aforegoing. after this manner. ℞ Fu••∣minating Mars ʒiv. Nitre ʒiij. Salt of Tartar ʒij. Sulphur ʒj••••. mix and make a Pouder, which keep in a Glass close stopt from the Air.

§ 4. Marggrave calls it Nitre Fulminans, and makes it in these proportions. ℞ Ni∣tre p. 18. Salt of Tartar, p. 7. Sulphur p. 6. make each in∣to a fine Pouder and mix them.

§ 5. Le Mort, who calls it Pulvis Tonitruans, makes it in these proportions. ℞ Nitre ʒ 18. Sal-Tartari ʒ 12. Sulphur ʒ 6. mix them S. A. It is by many Tryals that you must find out the true Proportion of the Ingre∣dients; for those quantities which give in firing, the greatest blow or noise, are those which are truly adapt∣ed to the Composition.

§ 6. It is a singular Diu∣retick, opens Obstructions of the Viscera, but chiefly of the Reins and Womb, and has a singular Property in taking away the heat and sharpness of Urine. Dose, à ℈j. ad ʒj. in any proper Ve∣hicle.

§ 7. It is indeed a curious Experiment, for that it de∣monstrates the thundering Property to reside in the Nitre, which consists of an Acid and Alcali, shut up by the Sulphur.