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 ...

II. Spiritus Aluminis, Spirit of Alum.

Bate.] It is distilled from burnt Alum by a Retort, in all respects, as you distil Oyl of Vi∣triol. Dose gut. 4, 5, 6, &c.

Salmon.] 1. It is Roch Al∣lum which you are to use, of which you may take lbvj. put it into a very large Glass or Earthen Body, fit to it a Head with its Recipient, and distil in Sand till no more moisture will arise; this is the Flegm of the Alum. 2. This done, break the Body, take out the white Mass and pouder it, which put into an earthen Retort half empty, place it in a Re∣verberatory Furnace, luting to it a large Receiver; make a gentle Fire for the first three hours, to warm the Re∣tort as it were, then increase it every hour to the utmost violence, so will the Spirits come forth, and fill the Re∣ceiver with white Clouds: continue the Fire at this height for three days and nights together, then let the Vessels cool: so will you have an Acid Spirit, which by re∣ctifying in a Glass Alembick in Sand, you may make pure and clear. 3. At the bottom of the Retort is a white and very light Calx, very much rarified, which is called burnt or calcined Alum. 4. The Phlegm of Alum is used a∣gainst Diseases of the Eyes, for Quinsies, to cleanse Wounds and Ulcers, and to heal them: more especially if in six Oun∣ces thereof, you dissolve ʒi. of the crude Roch Alum. 5. The Acid Spirit. It is scarcely so pleasant as that of Vitriol and Sulphur, but it is ordi∣narily used in Juleps for Con∣tinual and Continent Fevers, as also in Tertian Agues, and has indeed neerly all the Vertues of the Oyls, or Spirits of Vitriol or Sulphur: Dose is from four to eight drops. It is likewise used in the cure of the Aphthae or Thrush, i. e. little Cankers in the Mouths, for the most part of Children. This Spirit thus distilled with a strong Fire for three days together, does not give place neither in strength nor quantity to that of Vitriol, notwithstanding that most Authors affirm the contrary, saying, that it yields but little Acid. 6. The white light Calx, after the last di∣stillation, which we call burnt Alum, is used to eat fleshy excrescences, or proud flesh, &c. but that which remained before, after the first distilla∣tion, or when the Flegm of

the Alum was only drawn off, is much more Escarcotick than the latter, which has lost its acid Spirits. 7. In the first distillation you must fill the Retort not above half full, because it is apt to swell much, and requires a great deal of room; and the Flegm is all come off, when there di∣stils no more, for the acid Spirits being very weighty, require a much greater heat than that of Sand to raise them. 8. Lastly, There is no such thing as an Acrimoni∣ous Salt of Alum, to be distin∣guished from its Acid Salt; for that there is nothing Acri∣monious, or purely Corrosive in this Mineral, which will not turn into an Acid Spirit, being strongly forced by the Fire, which he that shall take the pains actually to distil it, shall find the Mechanical de∣monstration of.