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 ...

XCIX. Sulphur Auratum, The Golden Sulphur of Anti∣mony.

Bate.] It is made of the Scoria of the Regulus of An∣timony, being separated from it, boiled in water and filtred, precipitating the Sulphur with Vinegar, and washing it. Dose, gr. ʒ. ad xv. In some it vo∣mits before it sweats; with others it sweats, and then provokes stools: it wonder∣fully conduces to the cure of Tertian and Quartan Agues, being given an hour before the Fit: it often prevents the Infection and Contagion of the Plague, Small-Pox, &c. being given, and two or three times repeated, or otherwise it happily makes them to come forth: it is profitable also against the French Pox.

Salmon.] § 1. It is called Sulphur, but Sennertus lib. de consensu & dissensu. Cap. 19. will scarcely allow it: Sul∣phur illud auratum non esse Sulphur, sed calcem subtilem Antimonij, quae etiam in An∣timonij facilè reducitur, docet. But it is without doubt a Sulphurous part of the Anti∣mony dissolved by Alcalious Salts, and precipitated by an Acid: Thus.

§ 2. ℞ The Scoria or Dross of the Regulus of Antimony in fine Pouder, boil it in common Water in an Iron. Kettle or Earthen Pot half an hour, to make thereof a Lixivium, this decant and filter thro' brown Paper into a Stone or Glass Vessel (not an Earthen one gla∣zed, lest the Salts should cor∣rode the Lead) then affuse thereon Vinegar, or its Spirit, or Spirit of Sulphur or Vitriol, or Nitre, or some other Acid, so will the Liquor presently co∣agulate, which let stand for a while, and the Coagulum or Curde will settle of a reddish yellowish colour; then decant the clear Liquor; or otherwise, filter the whole, and separate the Precipitate, which dry and keep for use: but if you filter it not, you may put the Coagulum into common Water, and the Sulphur Auratum will precipitate in a Saffron-colour∣ed Pouder; being settled decant this first Water, and put on more in great quantity, that you may at once sweeten the Pouder, take away its ill smell, and diminish its Emetick force: then decant the clear Water, and filter the rest thro' a brown Paper, in which let it dry leisurely in the Shade, and keep it in a Glass close stopt for use.

§ 3. Lemery says that from fifteen Ounces of Scoria, you will have ℥12. ʒij. of the Sulphur Auratum; which is Emetick, and may be given à gr. ij. ad vj. in Broth or other like Vehicle; or other∣wise in form of Pills.

§ 4. To ℥xvj. of Scoria you may put Water lbxvj. this Liquor will coagulate like a Gelly when it is cold, by reason of the Salts and Sulphurs joyning together; the Scoria, being nothing but a mixture of the fixt parts of the Nitre and Tartar, joyn∣ed with the more impure part of the Sulphur of Antimony.

§ 5. The Coagulum is caused by reason of weaken∣ing the force of the Alcali∣ous Salts (which held the Sulphur of the Antimony) through the help of an Acid, by which means the Alcalies letting go their hold, the Sulphur precipitates; and of a yellowish colour, because it is the natural colour of Sulphur, which here is height∣ned and enlivened by the help of the Acid.

§ 6. So soon as the Vine∣gar or any other Acid is poured on, it causes a most abominable stinking Scent, from the ascending of some part of the Volatile Sulphur▪ of which so much as the Acid seizes on, it fixes; and this is natural to all Sulphurs being heat with Acids; and the hot Waters or Springs of the Mineral Baths are not free there from, for that mostly, they stink very much with Sulphur: the Precipi∣tate which the Acid makes is in large quantity, and much like a Coagulum or Curd.

§ 7. Now this Sulphur Au∣ratum is emetick, and not altogether pure, but is mix∣ed with much Salt and Ter∣restreities, which it yet re∣tains in its precipitation; and some suppose, that it is this Salt, which gives it this co∣lour by rarifying its parts.

§ 8. As to its Vertues and Operations it is much like to that of Crocus Metallorum, and therefore ought to be given in the same Dose; tho' some Chymists think it may be given in a larger, as to gr. x. or xij. or more: and it is called Golden Sulphur, by reason of its colour, it much resembling that of Gold.

§ 9. But doubtless the Gol∣den Sulphur of Antimony of the Ancients was another thing, viz. a fixt Sulphur, like that of Gold, which was subtil tinging Sudorifick and internal: whereas this Sul∣phur

is gross, without Me∣tallick Tincture, Emetick and External.