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. Potia Pleuritica, A Po∣tion against the Pleuri∣sie.

Bate.] ℞ Juice expressed from Horse-dung, by mixing with it White-wine, A. ℥ij. Syrup of Corn-poppies ℥j. Pouder of Olibanum ʒss. distilled Oil of Nutmegs, gut. iij. mix and make a Potion; to be taken three or four times a day af∣ter Blood-letting.

Salmon.] § 1. There ought to be ℥vj. of the White-wine, for thereby the Juice of the Horse-dung will be the bet∣ter extracted, and it will serve instead of a Vehicle to take the Medicine in; for o∣therwise you mu•••• give it in some other fit Liquor.

§ 2. Or you may make a compound Menstruum thus. ℞ White-wine, Onion-water, Water of Winter-Cherries or Poppies, A. ℥ij. mix them, to extract the Juice out of two Ounces of Horse-dung: which ought also to be Stone-Horse-dung, and newly made.

§ 3. It is not only an ex∣cellent thing against the Pleu∣risie: but also approved a∣gainst the Cholick and Gri∣pings of the Guts, Stitches in the Sides, and Stone or Gravel in Reins or Bladder, and all sorts of Stoppages of Urine whatsoever.