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 ...

LII. Vitriolum Camphora∣tum, Camphorated Vi∣triol.

Bate.] ℞ Vitriol calcin'd ℥vj. Camphire (dissolved in S. V.) ℥j. mix, and by a gentle fire abstract the Spirit, S. A.

Salmon.] § 1. As to the Calcination of the Vitriol, it is my Opinion, it ought to be Philosophically done, which is performed two ways; First, By a solar Cal∣cination with the Sun-beams, as Antimony is calcin'd, the full way of doing of which you will have in our Offici∣na Chymica, now in the Press, and in a short time to be published: Secondly, By the following Method of Le Fe∣bure.

§ 2. ℞ Vitriol purified by digestion, dry it between two Papers in a very slow heat, till it turns of it self to a dry Pouder, which put into one or more Matrasses, with a flat bottom, the thickness of a Shilling or Half Crown, obser∣ving well this Note, else you will come short of your design: Seal up the Vessels hermetically, and put them in Ashes as deep as the Matter is high, and half an Inch more; then give it a fire, which ought not to exceed the heat of the Sun in Summer, and continue the same without interruption for forty days, and the Vitriol will turn by degrees from a white into a yellowish Colour, and from a yellow to a red, which will come to the height of Blood reduced to Pouder; then re∣move the fire, break the Vessel, and keep this Philosophick Vi∣triol as an excellent thing both for inward and outward Ʋses.

§ 3. This is the Vitriol which is to be Camphorated according to the Prescription of our Text, which then be∣comes a most admirable Re∣medy against all Fluxes of Blood whatsoever, whether in∣ward or outward.

§ 4. It also possesses in it self the true Soul and Tin∣cture of the mixt, which may be extracted with the Alcohol of S. V. if you have Patience enough to attend the Operation; and thereof you have a famous Remedy for Wounds and Punctures of the Nerves, and indeed to cure an hundred other Diseases, if a wise Physician has it in handling.

§ 5. Take of this Campho∣rated Vitriol, q. v. Alcohol of Wine, or rather Tincture of Salt of Tartar, so much as

may over-top it two Inches, di∣gest in a very gentle heat, till the Menstruum is well tinged, which decant and affuse more fresh Spirit, digesting and do∣canting as before, and continu∣ing this Work till the Men∣struum will not extract any more either Sapor or Colour: mix and filter all these Tin∣ctures, and by an Alembick in B. M. abstract, about the one half, or two thirds of the Spi∣rit, leaving the thicker Tin∣cture behind.

§ 6. This is said to be a present Remedy against the Stone, Epilepsie, Megrim, to cleanse and heal internal Ul∣cers, stop bleeding in any part, and to purifie the Blood. Dose, à gut. 10. ad 20. in any proper Vehicle.

§ 7. But there are some which profess to bring it to a higher degree of Perfecti∣on, by mixing it with burnt Alum, or Alum extreamly calcin'd, and then distilling the Liquor by Retort, which will be both red and sweet, and having the afore-enu∣merated Vertues, but to be given in a smaller Dose.