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 ...

IX. Vinum Viperinum, Vi∣per Wine.

Bate.] ℞ Live Female Vipers, gathered in the Spring time, N^o vj. best Spanish wine, or Canary lbvj. digest them (the Vessel being stopt) with∣out heat for six Months, then strain out for use. Some make it by digesting the Vi∣pers excoriated (and casting away the Bowels, Heads and Tails) in the Wine afore na∣mod for some days. It is a most celebrated thing against the Lepra Grecorum, or Le∣prosie, the Elephantiasus, Bar∣reness Plague &c. and prolongs Life. Dose, ℥iij. or ℥iv. twice a day for some considerable time.

Salmon.] § 1. The way of making it is explicated more at large in our Doron Medicum, Lib. 1. Cap. 24. Sect. 39. with its Vertues and Uses, to which you are refer∣red.

§ 2. In weak and con∣sumptive Habits of Body; you may exhibit it thus. ℞ Of this Wine ℥iiiss. Con∣fectio Alkermes ʒj. Tincture of Cinnamon ʒss. or in place thereof Oil of Cinnamon, gut. j. or ij. mix for a Dose, to

be given first in the Morn∣ing fasting, and last at Night going to bed.

§ 3. Or thus, in an ex∣tream Consumption, or an Impotency. ℞ Of this Wine ℥iij. Salt of Ox-flesh, gr. vj. Milk-water ℥iv. mix for a Dose, to be given Morning and Evening.