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 ...

XVIII. Spiritus Mannae, Spi∣rit of Manna.

Bate.] If you distil Manna by a Cucurbit, with a gentle or slow Fire, you will have an in∣sipid Sudorifick Spirit. It is an admirable Sudorifick in Fevers, whether pestilential or common; producing e∣ven a sticking kind of Sweat. Dose to one spoonful.

Salmon.] § 1. That what comes off, will be insipid like Flegm is certain; but as to its Medicinal Virtues, I can say nothing by Experience; you are obliged to take them upon the Credit of our Learn∣ed Author. § 2. It is said to expel the Excrements of the last digestion; and that it has a peculiar Virtue to dis∣solve Sulphur, and to extract its yellow Tincture, which is not one of the least Reme∣dies for easing the Breast, and the Praecordia, when oppres∣sed; this Tincture being as a restoring Balsam, to reme∣dy the Distempers and Af∣fects of the Lungs, and to strengthen and preserve their Action, and may be given from gut. iij. ad xij. in prepa∣red or depurated Juyce of Ele∣campane, or Hyssop. §3. There is another insipid Spirit of Manna, thus prepared: ℞ Choice Manna lbij. pure Nitre lbj. put them both into a Hog's Bladder, tye it exactly up: hang the same by a string, in boiling Water, till the two Substances be well dissolved: this Liquor or Dissolution di∣stil in a Glass Cucurbit covered with its Head, and fitted with a Receiver: so will you have an insipid laxative Water, provoking Sweat copiously; Dose à ʒij. ad ʒvj. or ℥j. in Aqua Lactis Pectoralis, or Cardiaca, or other proper Ve∣hicle: it is good to bring forth those superfluous Sero∣sities, which many times breed Rh••umatisms, and Defluxi∣ons.

§ 4. Spiritus Mannae A∣cidus. ℞ Manna q. v. put it into a Cornute or Retort in a Sand heat, and with a soft Fire at the beginning, draw forth the insipid Water afore∣mentioned: then change the Receiver, and augment the Fire by degrees, distilling to dryness, (which if you please you may cohobate several times) so have you the Acid Spirit, which rectifie to take away the Empyreuma. This is a Spi∣rituous Water, containing all the best of the Manna, and is more effectual than the first insipid Water, to provoke Sweat, and also makes a bet∣ter Tincture of Sulphur. This Acid Spirit is said to be a wonderful Specifick against all sorts of intermitting Fevers or Agues, giving it at the be∣ginning of the Fit from ʒj. ad iv. § 5. But here is to be noted, that whether you di∣stil in a Cucurbit or Retort, you ought not to fill them with the Matter above a quarter, or one third part full; because the Manna is apt to swell in Distillation. § 6. Spiritus Mannae Compo∣situs. ℞ Pure Manna ℥viij. pure Sal Armoniack ℥iv. mix and put it into a Glass or Ear∣then Body, so as it may fill on∣ly a third or fourth part, place it in a Sand Furnace, and fit to it a Head and Receiver, lu∣ting the Junctures with a wet Bladder: make a small Fire for an hour only to heat the Vessel; then encrease it to the second degree, so will the Li∣quor distil drop by drop, and towards the end there will arise white Vapours into the Head: increase the Fire still more, till all is come forth that will: Let the Vessels cool, and you will find in the Receiver ℥viij. of an ill scented Spirit, and a little Oyl; decant all into a∣nother Glass Body, with its Head and Receiver well luted, and distil again in a Sand heat, till you have about ℥vj. which will be a very pure clear, acid Spirit, without any Em∣pyreuma, and agreeable to the Tast. § 7. This Spirit is stron∣ger than the former, and is a good Operative against the Gravel and Dropsie; it is good to stop Diarrhaea's and Dysenteries, and may be dropt into Tincture of Roses instead of other acid Spirits. Dose gut. 8. or 10. or to an agreeable acidity in any pro∣per Vehicle. The faetid Oyl remaining may be of use to cleanse old, running Sores. § 8. Spiritus Mannae ardens. ℞ Choice Manna lbj. warm Water a Gallon: add Ale or Beer-yeast ℥ j. or ij. and mix them well together; stop the

Vessel carelesly, and leave it for twenty four hours, so will it ferment very strongly: then decant the Liquor into a Glass Cucurbit, with its Head and Recipient well luted in the Joynts, and distil in B. M. with a gentle heat; so will you have an inflamable Spirit fol∣lowed by the Flegm, or watery parts, which separate by recti∣fication: the Spirit keep by it self: the Flegm affuse upon the Feces, cover and stop it slightly up, set it in a Cellar for two Months, and make a new di∣stillation in the first Cucurbit, with its Head and Recipient, so will you have more inflama∣ble Spirit, or a Water, from which by distillation it must be separated. This Spirit added to the former reserved Spirit, will make the just weight of the whole Manna, by which it appears, that its whole Substance is a Spirit, and is here converted into a pure, aetherial, volatile, and infla∣mable Sulphur. § 9. The Vir∣tues are the same with those of Spirit of Wine; but as it is produced from an aetherial, airy, or heavenly Substance, so it is a more admirable and noble production than Spirit of Wine, they differing one from another, as much as their Principles differ; the one being the product of the Earth, the other of the Hea∣ven or Air, &c. Hence it appears also, it is a much better Menstruum to extract Tinctures with, and the Vir∣tues of Things, especially if impregnated with the Acid of the Air also, which is a pure Nitrious Spirit. A Word is enough to the Wise.