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 ...

VII. Magisterium Sulphuris, i. Lac Sulphuris; Magi∣stery or Milk of Sulphur.

Bate.] ℞ Flowers of Sul∣phur p. j. Quick-lime, or Salt of Tartar p. iij. boyl them in a sufficient quantity of Water to the Solution of the Sulphur; filter it while hot, and preci∣pitate with Spirit of Vinegar or Spirit of Nitre, then edulco∣rate and dry S. A. It is a Balsam for the Lungs, healing and drying, being profitable against Catarrhs, Asthma's, Coughs, Phthisicks, Colicks, &c. Dose ℈ss. ad ℈j.

Salmon.] § 1. This is explicated at large in our Pharm. Lord. lib. 3. cap. 12. sect 8. from Quercetans Pre∣scription: Clossaeus has ano∣ther done with Quick-lime, and precipitated with Piss, which you may see in the same place.

§ 2. Lemery and Charras makes it also almost exactly according to this Prescript of our Author; but to dissolve the Flowers, he boils 5 or 6 hours with Water, lbii. to every ounce of Sal ☿, or Salt of fixt Nitre, and so drys it in the shade.

§ 3. Now here is to be observed, that as simple Wa∣ter is not able to dissolve the Sulphur, but an alcalious Salt is made use of, to divide it into imperceptible Particles; so on the contrary the Acid afterwards pierces the Alcali, and by separating its parts, makes it let go its hold of the Sulphur, whereby it falls down in a white Pouder, which being edulcorated, may be said to be only Flo∣wers of Sulphur Alcoholiz'd.

§ 4. And the change of the colour into a white, comes from its being more rarified, and obtaining a smoother Surface than it had before, to reflect the light in a direct line to our Eyes.

§ 5. And this operation (says he) may give us an Idea of Chylification and San∣guification; for as the Sulphur becomes white in the Magi∣stery, so the Aliments being fermented, and their substance attenuated in our Stomachs, are in part reduced into Chyle of a white colour; and as the Sulphur when entirely dissolved, turns of a red co∣lour, so the parts of the Chyle being exalted and dissolved by repeated Circulations, be∣come red, and turn into Blood, which Blood in Apo∣stems turning into Pus, be∣comes white again, by reason of the praeternatural Acid assisting anew in that opera∣tion.

§ 6. Also when you make this Preparation, let no Ves∣sels of Silver be near where it is perform'd, for the Va∣pors proceeding from the Sulphur and Alcali, with the Acid, will make it black.

§ 7. As to the Dose, our Author limits it in the largest to 20 grains; whereas Le∣mery limits it to 15, because (says he) 15 grains of this Pouder will do as much as double the quantity of Flowers of Sulphur, in Diseases of the Brest, and yet it does not heat so much: But notwith∣standing this, I have given it to ℈j. yea, to gr. xxv. with very good success.

§ 8. Marggrave makes it thus: ℞ Flowers of Sulphur ℥ss. melt them in a clean earthen Pan, and then add Oyl of Tartar per deliquium ℥iss. stir them continually with an Iron Spatula to dryness, and till it acquires a spadiceous or brown colour; reduce it to pouder, and with Alcohol of S. V. extract a Blood-red Tin∣cture in some few hours; from this, in some few days space, a grey pouder will spontaneously precipitate, which Beguinus calls the grey Magistery of Sul∣phur; But this Tincture (says he) with Vinegar is precipita∣ted into a most white Mass, which when dryed, is called Lac Sulphuris.

§ 9. Le Mort makes it with Flores Sulphuris p. j. Quick-lime p. ij. which he boyls in Water to redness, then filter the Water, and precipi∣tates with Spirit of Vinegar, which he edulcorates with ma∣ny washings. The same he also does with Cineres Cla∣vellatorum or Pot-ashes.

§ 10. Rolfincius, lib. 5. sect. 2. cap. 35. Art. Chym. saith, That in the preparation thereof there are four distinct Operations; 1. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, by Solution, which is done in some fit saline Menstruum, as an alcalious Salt, with which the fat or oily parts of the Sulphur will mix easily; this is twofold, viz. either vulgar as a Lixivium of Quick-lime alone, or with Tartar; or singular, as Salt of Tartar: But the first of these he su∣spects, for (says he) the Atoms of the terra damnata of the Calx will inseparably unite themselves with the Lixivium and pass through the filter: The other, which is a solu∣tion of the Salt of Tartar, is much the more noble. 2. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, by precipitation, which he performed by Spi∣rit of Wine-Vinegar. 3. Edul∣catione, sweetening by wash∣ing

with much Water. 4. Ex∣siccation, by drying, as is be∣fore taught.

§ 11. To this Opinion of Rolsincius, Le Febur seems to assent, for (says he) we re∣commend the Purity of Ma∣terials, which makes us make choice of Salt of Tartar in the dissolution of Sulphur, notwithstanding several Au∣thors content themselves with Ashes of Wine-lees or Sandi∣ver; but as these Salts have not the penetrating and fiery Vigor which is required for the dissolution of Sulphur and maturation of that Mineral, so neither can they make the Medicament so good nor so fai••▪ ••o•• endow it with the requisite vertues.

§ 12. These things being considered, he takes Flowers of Sulphur ••wice sublimed, and dissolves the Salt of Tartar in in 15 parts of distilled Rain-water; but before the affusion of the Water, he grinds the Flowers of Salt of Tartar toge∣ther dry▪ in a warm Marble Mortar, then affuses the Wa∣ter, and boyls 5 or 6 hours to the dissolution of Sulphur; this done while hot, he only decants the clear Solution, (but filtrates not, because it cannot be soon enough performed, for that as soon as the Menstruum begins to co••l, the Sulphur returns in∣to a body again) and then pre∣cipitates with Spirit of Vine∣gar, performing all the rest of the Operation as before dire∣cted.

§ 13. This is also to be noted, that your first Water is not to be thrown away but reserved and evaporated, for so you will find again your Salt of Tartar, which rever∣berate in a Crucible to red∣ness, dissolve and filter again, and then coagulate, so will it be as good and as pure as before, and serve for the same operation, or any other that Salt of Tartar is fit for. Lastly, he washes the Magistery in equal parts of Cinnamon and Rose-water, and so drys it slowly for use.

§ 14. This Remedy is called the Balsam of the Lungs, which consumes and drys up all malignant, serous, and watery Superfluities, for which reasons it is exhibited in melting and suffocating Catarrhs, Asthma's, Phthi∣sicks, and to such as are afflicted with old and inve∣terate Coughs, Colicks, Ven∣tosities, or Wind, malignant Humors and Serosities in the Joynts; it hinders and dissi∣pates Vapors, facilitates Ex∣pectoration, and wonderful∣ly strengthens the Brest and Lungs.

§ 15. Dose so much as will turn Bawm or Cinna∣mon-water milk-white, and may be given every day morning and evening.

§ 16. But says Charras, by reason of the various al∣terations happening to the Sulphur in its dissolution and precipitation, the ill qualities which it receives from the Substances with which it is mixt, (and of which the ill scent remaining after the washing is a sign) it will be better to lay it aside, and make use of the Spirit of Sul∣phur in its place.

§ 17. And Le Febur says, Tho' this Remedy is highly celebrated by Authors, it is better rather to trust to the Tincture extracted from it, than to this body, yet too course and material, to hope from it all the good and com∣mendable effects which are attributed unto it.

§ 18. However we can∣not rely wholly upon what these Gentlemen say, for the Medicine is not so despicable as they would make it, tho' it be none of the highest Pre∣parations; and notwithstan∣ding Le Febur says, it is yet too course and material, we say it is much more subtile than a thousand other Medi∣caments much esteemed above it, and will do that by tou∣ching only outwardly with it, which other more estee∣med sublime Medicines will not do neither by inward nor outward application.

§ 19. By simply rubbing it on an Itchy person, it will absolutely cure him; which shews the great sublimity of its Substances, and what it may do and effect if it be pru∣dently given inwardly. This very thing shews, there is something more in the tex∣ture of its parts than Artists are ordinarily aware of, and that it has a subtilty in its nature able to penetrate the whole human frame, and an alexipharmick Property able to overcome and ruinate the most inveterate, malignant, and rebellious Humors what∣soever, destroying them in their Crasis, and undoing them in their very Essence and Being.