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 ...

LVI. Sal Vitrioli Compositum, Compound Salt of Vitriol.

Salmon.] § 1. ℞ Common Vi∣treol, or instead of that, Vi∣triol of Mars, dissolve in di∣stilled Rain-water, digest in a Matrass for some time, after filter this Liquor precipitate with Oil of Tartar per Deli∣quium, or Oil of Pot-ashes, decant the clear Liquor from the Feces which dry; these are the sweet Sulphur of Vitriol. The Liquor evaporate to a Pellicle, and crystallize, or o∣therwise abstract to dryness, keeping the Salt remaining at bottom, in a Glass close stopt for use.

§ 2. Thus you see the clear Liquor decanted after Precipitation contains in it the most pure Acid and Salt part of the Vitriol, united with the fixt Salt part of the Tartar or Pot-ashes, of which this most excellent Salt is made.

§ 3. And by this Operati∣on the Terrestial parts con∣cealed in the Salt of Tartar, precipitate with the Earthy parts of the Vitriol; so that by Conjunction of the Acid part of the Vitriol, with the fixt Salt of Tartar, you have a Crystalline Salt, composed of two Salts, the Effects of which are very much dif∣ferent from the Effects of the common simple Salts of Vitriol.

§ 4. For they are emetick, whereas this works general∣ly by Stool, and rarely pro∣vokes Vomiting; it is com∣mended as an admirable thing against intermitting Fevers or Agues, especially when there is a necessity to purge Melancholy.

§ 5. For the Lixiviate Salts correcting the emetick Quali∣ty of the Vitriol, which lay in its too pungent Acidity, ren∣ders this Salt in a condition only to operate by Stool or Urine: and it may with much safety be given from ʒss. ad ʒj. in any proper or specifick Vehicle.