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 ...

VIII. Infusio Sancta, An In∣fusion of Guajacum.

Bate.] ℞ Guajacum ℥ix. Salt of Tartar ℥iv. Liquorice ℥iv. Fountain-water lb xx. mix and digest warm for six days; then strain out. It is a noble Alexipharmick; it pu∣rifies the Blood, takes away Obstructions and Putrefacti∣on, and admirably preserves Health: it prevails much al∣so against the Scurvy, Drop∣sie, Fevers, French-Pox, Gout, and other Diseases proceed∣ing from Tarrarous Hu∣mors. Dose, ℥vj. four times a day.

Salmon.] § 1. It drys up watery Humors in the Drop∣sie; but was chiefly designed as a Diet against the French-Pox, and all the Symptomata belonging to the same.

§ 2. But it ought not to be used in thin, hot, dry, and tabid Constitutions, for in such (my own Experience has confirmed it to me) it does much more hurt than good.

§ 3. It is an Alcali, and absorbs the Acid Humor af∣ter a singular manner, and therefore is of singular use in all such Diseases proceeding from Acidities.

§ 4. If any object that the Spirit of Guajacum is Acid, and therefore this cannot be true; to that we answer; that there are differing Acids in Nature, and such as are opposite to one another, and will destroy one another, as they who are acquainted

with Chymical Precipitations can tell; besides the stronger Acid overcomes and destroys the weaker: but in this In∣fusion there is no such thing, for if any Acidity be in it, it is yet latent, and not stirr'd up, or put into act; And that the contrary is ma∣nifest from this, for if the Chips after the Infusion be distilled in a Retort, you would have still the full quantity of Acid Spirit from them, and in the same Pro∣portion, as if no previous Infusion had been made.

An Appendix to this Chapter, Concerning DRINKS.