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 ...

XV. Nitrum Saturnisatum, Nitre Saturnised, or with Lead.

Bate.] ℞ Salt of Saturn, Nitre, Ana. dissolve in Spirit of Vinegar, and crystallize, S. A. It is profitable against Asth∣ma's, or for Asthmatick People. Dose, gr. v, vj, or vij.

Salmon.] § 1. It will be best to dissolve each a part in the Spirit of Vinegar; and then to join the Solutions; after which, you may ab∣stract to a Cuticle, and set it to Crystallize; or evapo∣rate to dryness.

§ 2. It is an excellent A∣nodyn and Cooler, refrigera∣ting the over-heated Spirits and Humours: But it is ac∣counted a Specifick against most Diseases of the Brest and Lungs, as Asthma's, Shortness of Breath, Difficul∣ty of Breathing, Wheasings, Stoppages of the Lungs, Pleurisies, Quinsies, and o∣ther like Diseases of those parts.

§ 3. Outwardly applied, being dissolved in a proper Liquor, it is an excellent thing against the Gout, and all sorts of Pains in the Joynts, alleviating the Pain, and drawing forth the Hu∣mor through the Pores by o∣pening them.

§ 4. The Liquor fit for this purpose is thus made. ℞ Spi∣rit of Wine, Spirit of May Dew, Ana. lbj. Oil of Sulphur ℥j. mix and digest them to∣gether for ten days; then dis∣solve therein, to every ℥j. of the Liquor, ʒj. of this Salt:

with which bath the part af∣flicted; and lay over it Cloths dipt in the same.