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 ...

XCIV. Secundinae Preparatae, The Secundines or After∣birth prepared.

Bate.] ℞ The Secundine of a Woman, or of a Sow, at its first bringing forth; wash it is White-wine; dry it as speedily as may be, and reduce it into a fine Pouder, S. A. Dose is ad ʒj. against the Fal∣ling-sickness and Suffocation of the Womb: it also facili∣tates the Birth in time of Travel, &c.

Salmon.] § 1. After it is washt in the White-wine, it will be best to cut it into small pieces, for by that means it will the more easi∣ly dry, and be made fit to reduce into Pouder.

§ 2. But that it might the more speedily be reduced, it will be best after the wash∣ing it with Wine, and dry∣ing it with Cloths, to wash it in the best rectified S. V. and then let it dry of its own accord, and being dryed to dip it in again, and let it dry again, and this work to reiterate four or five times; for by this means the Fire, or Sulphur of the S. V. will more effectually dry it in one Day, than by the other it will be dryed in a Week; and so it will be much more easily reduced to a Pou∣der.

§ 3. The Author has shown you its Vertues, for which it is excellent, but the Dose is too small upon some occasi∣ons. It may be given à ℈ij. ad ʒij. in some proper Vehi∣cle: But Note, the After∣burden of a Woman much exceeds, and is more Speci∣fick than that of a Beast.