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 ...

I. * Clissus Portulacae, Quid∣donie of Purslane.

Bate.] ℞ JƲice of Pur∣slane depura∣ted lbviij. white Sugar lbj. clarifie, and boil to the con∣sistency of Honey.

Salmon.] § 1. It is moist∣ning and refrigerating, and excellent to cool a hot Sto∣mach; it cools the hot Fit in Agues; it attemperates the Blood, and cools the Li∣ver, Spleen, Reins, and Womb, of which in some measure the Leaf has the Signature.

§ 2. It stops Cholerick Fluxes, Catarrhs, the Flux of the Terms in Women, and the Gonorrhoea in Men, eases Pains proceeding from a hot Cause, induces Sleep, and helps the Phrenzie.

§ 3. It allays the heat of Lust, so much, that the too great use thereof, is said to extinguish the natural Seed; and also abates the heat of Urine. Dose, ℥j. ad ℥ij. in some proper Vehicle at Bed-time.