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 ...

V. Infusio Cachectica, An In∣fusion against the Cachexia, or evil Habit of Body.

Bate.] ℞ Fresh Roots of Elecampane cut thin ℥vj. Cur∣rants cut or chopt small ℥viij. white Sugar ℥vj. White wine lbiij. digest them cold for forty eight hours, and then strain. Dose, ℥iv. twice a day in a Cachexia, Green-sickness, Dyspnaea, or difficulty of Breathing.

Salmon.] § 1. It will do well if you add to the Com∣position, Raisons of the Sun stoned ℥viij. which will make it much more pectoral.

§ 2. It prevails against all sorts of Coughs, Colds, Wheazings, Hoarseness, Short∣ness of Breath, loss of Voice, Ulcers of the Lungs, Spit∣ting Blood, and other Di∣stempers of those parts.

§ 3. You may with all the safety imaginable give from ℥vj. ad ℥viij. at a time, twice a day, and in an ex∣tream Cough you may take two or three Ounces of it, as often as the Cough troubles you.