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 ...
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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 ...
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Bate, George, 1608-1669.
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London :: Printed for S. Smith and B. Walford ...,
1694.
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Subject terms
Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.
Pharmacy -- Early works to 1800.
Dispensatories -- Early works to 1800.
Pharmacopoeias -- Great Britain -- 17th century.
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"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 ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A26772.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 29, 2024.
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XXI. Spiritus Nitri Bezoar∣ticus, Bezoartick Spirit of Nitre.
Bate.] ℞ It is distilled from Spirit of Nitre rectified, and Butter of Antimony, ana; by a Retort, S. A. The Caput Mortuum serves to make Bezoar Mineral of.
Salmon.] It ought to be di∣stilled in a Retort in Sand; whereof, if the Fire be spee∣dily urged, the Spirit will be red, and as Authors affirm, be able not only to dissolve Gold, but also to volatilize it. § 2. It ought to be made of rectified Spirit of Nitre; which is thus done: ℞ Of the former Spirit of Nitre, at Sect. 20. q. v. put it into a Glass Body, and in an open Fire make it to evaporate, till the Vapours or Fumes begin to ascend yellow; then re∣move it from the Fire, and keep it for use; this is recti∣fied Spirit of Nitre. § 3. This Spirit of Nitre thus rectified, ought to be put upon the Butter of Antimony, so long till the Effervescence ceases: then the mixture to be distil∣led to dryness; this Liquor thus distilled is the Bezoar∣tick
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Spirit, which indeed is nothing else but Aqua Regia, made by a conjunction of the Spirit of common Salt, which Spirit of Nitre, for which reason it dissolves Gold, and does other things which the vulgar A. R. does.
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