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 ...

XCV. Sedativum Archaei, A Quieter of the Archaeus, or chief Vital and Animal Powers.

Bate.] ℞ Flowers of Sal-Armoniack martiated from which draw a Tincture with S. N. which abstract to a just Consistency S. A. It has the Vertues of the Flowers of Sal-Armoniack martiated.

Salmon.] § 1. How these martiated Flowers of Sal-Armoniack are to be made, see Chap. 10. Sect. 4. follow∣ing.

§ 2. It is only a Tincture drawn from the martiated Flowers of Sal-Arm. and therefore you may choose whether you will abstract any of the Spirit or no: if you abstract all the Spirit, the remainder will be a solid

Tincture: but if half the Spirit, it will be a Syrup like Tincture.

§ 3. But since it is impossi∣ble to abstract any of the Spirit, but that some of the Volatile parts of the Medi∣cine will come over with it; and since the remainder is not to be given alone, but in some proper Vehiculum; it is in my opinion better to keep the Tincture in its whole Body, without any abstraction, for as much it is but doubling the Dose, and the work is done; whereby, much labour and loss is saved.

§ 4. It powerfully opens Obstructions of the Viscera, but chiefly of the Slpeen and Womb, thereby removing Melancholy, and irregular Fancies thence proceeding; and is profitable against Va∣pors, and Fits of the Mother, but more especially is a Spe∣cifick against the Green-sick∣ness in Virgins, and the Ric∣kets in Children. Dose, à gr. x. ad ℈j. or ʒss.