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. * Linctus Benedictus, The Blessed Lambative, or that made with Vinum Benedictum.

Bate.] ℞. VEnice Soap, Vi∣num Benedi∣ctum, A. ʒij. Lohoch Sanum ℥ij. Syrups of Jujubes, of Colts-foot, of Maiden-hair, A. ℥j. mix them S. A. It is called the Powerful Linctus. One Spoonful may be given every fourth hour; it power∣fully causes Expectoration.

Salmon.] § 1. It causes a Nauseousness, but is scarcely strong enough to give a Vo∣mit, unless in very weak Sto∣machs; and this Nauseous∣ness, causes a great watering in the Mouth, by which much slimy Matter is spit forth.

§ 2. It is good against Ca∣tarrhs and Rheums, opens Obstructions of the Lungs, and makes an expectoration of that Matter which causes Coughs, Wheasings, Hoarse∣ness, Asthma's, and the like.

§ 3. And being taken to two, three, or four Spoon∣fuls, it evacuates some of the Morbifick cause of a Pleuri∣sie, giving relief immediately upon the Operation.