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. Decoctum ad morsum Canis rabidi, A Decoction a∣gainst the Biting of a Mad Dog.

Bate.] ℞ Rue ℥vj. Gar∣lick, London Treacle, A. ℥iv. filing of Jupiter ℥iv. clear Ale lbiv. boil to the Con∣sumption of the half, and di∣gest a while. Let the sick take of the strained Decocti∣on six Spoonfuls twice a day for nine days together; and apply the Magma to the place affected.

Salmon.] § 1. Modus U∣tendi. ℞ Of this decoction five or six Spoonfuls or more: Pou∣der of the Liver of a mad Dog ℈j. ad ʒss. mix, and give it in the Morning fasting, and last at Night going to Bed.

§ 2. Or thus. ℞ Of this Decoction, q. v. Volatile Salt of the whole mad Dog, gr. vij. mix, and give it as the for∣mer; this has never been known to fail.

§ 3. This Volatile Salt is made from the whole Ani∣mal, being killed, then cut into thin bits, all the Flesh and Skin, and throughly dry∣ed, and at last distilled by Retort as we have taught in our Seplasium, Lib. 7. Cap. 60. Sect. 24. and Cap. 61. Sect. 6. of the same.