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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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 June 11, 2024.

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XXIX. Spiritus Salis Mar∣tialis, Steeled Spirit of Salt Gem.

Bate.] ℞ Sal Gem. p. j. Mars, p. ij. mix and distil by a Retort, S. A. Dose à gut. 5. ad 15. It is diuretick, and wonderfully aperitive or o∣pening.

Salmon.] § 1. It is made as Spirit of common Salt, and indeed is nothing but Spirit of Salt impregnated with the virtue, power, and efficacy of the Steel or Iron, and the most volatile parts thereof, which are dissolved by the Acid of the Salt, and made to ascend with it. § 2. It may be dulcified after this man∣ner: ℞ Of this steeled Spirit lbj. Alcohol of the Spirit of Wine lbiss. mix and digest a week, shaking the glass once a day: being thus sweetned by digestion with Spirit of Wine, it is more balsamick, and na∣tural to the Body of Man. § 3. It strengthens and forti∣fies

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the Stomach, potently re∣sists the Scurvy and Green-sickness in Virgins; opens all manner of Obstructions in Liver, Spleen, Womb, Reins, or Bladder, expels watery Humours and Wind, and is of singular use against the Colick. It increases the Ap∣petite, and causes a good di∣gestion. ℞ Of this Spirit à gut. 6. ad 20. White-wine, or Canaryiv. ad vj. Tincture of Wormwood gut. xxx. mix for a Dose; to be given either at Night going to Bed, or early in the Morning fasting: where Note, That if it be dulcified with Spirit of Wine, you may give it from 15 drops, to 50, or 60, as you see need requires.

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