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 ...

XXXIII. Spiritus Spongia∣rum, Spirit of Sponges.

Bate.] It is distilled from Sponges by a Retort, and recti∣fied, S. A. It is a singular Lithontriptick.

Salmon.] § 1. ℞ As much Sponge as you please, cut it ve∣ry small, put it into a glass Retort, which place in a close Reverberatory, with its Recei∣ver; lute the Juncture well, and give Fire Gradatim, like as in the distillation of Tartar: and continue to increase it by little and little, till the white and oily clouds begin to come,

and that you see the volatile Salt does sublime and stick to the sides of the Receiver: con∣tinue the Fire in the same de∣gree till all is come forth, and the Receiver grows clear of it self. § 2. Then cease the Fire, and all being cold, take away the Vessels, pour out the Spirit and volatile Salt together, and separate the Oyl by a Funnel, or some Cot∣ton, which keep in a Glass by itself. § 3. Put the Spirit and Volatile Salt into a low Glass Body, and rectifie them in Sand, keeping them toge∣ther: The Sponge also cal∣cin'd at the bottom of the Retort after distillation, you may save for to stop violent fluxes of Blood. § 4. This Spirit, volatile Salt, and Oyl of Sponges, are not only of excellent use against the Stone and Gravel, or any o∣ther Obstruction in the Reins and Bladder, or other passa∣ges of Urine, but are also profitable against strumous or scrophulons Swellings, and the Disease called, Broncoceles, which is a Bunch or Swel∣ling in the Throat: for they not only admirably open, but also by their acuity of parts, attenuate and resolve much. § 5. Against the Stone and Diseases of the Reins and Bladder, you may use them thus: ℞ Of the Spirit, in which the volatile Salt is dis∣solved ʒj. Aquae Fabarum, or in place thereof Petroselini, ℥iij. Syrupus Nephriticus, or in place thereof Dialthaea ʒij. Pouder of Winter Cherries ʒss. mix for three Doses. § 6. But for a Broncoceles, or Kings-Evil thus: First, Purge the Patient with my Family-Pills, or Pilulae Panchymagogae, or Pilulae Mirabiles, or some o∣ther Purge proper in this case, as this: ℞ Fine Scammony gr. xvj. Resin of Jallap, gr. viij. Colocynthis in Pouder ℈ij. mix, and with extract of Co∣locynthis, make Pills for iij. Doses. Or you may purge with a simple Extract of Co∣locynthis alone, made only with common Water, which is an admirable thing, and works well in gr. vj. or viij. This Purging is to be conti∣nued all along the Cure, eve∣ry fourth or fifth day, till the Swelling is wholly gone. § 7. Then you must anoint outwardly with this: ℞ Oyl of Sponges ʒj. Oyl of bit∣ter Almonds ℥j. mix them to anoint with Morning and Evening, applying over all an Emplaster of Oxycroce∣um, or Diachylon, or some such like. § 8. Lastly, Give the Patient every Morning fasting, and every Night go∣ing

to Bed, the Spirit mixt with the volatile Salt, after this manner: ℞ Of the Spi∣rit à gut. xij. ad xx. or xxiv. Arsmart Water ℥iij. Syrupi Volatilis ʒvj. mix for a Dose: Or, giving the said mixture at Night going to Bed, give these following Lozenges, one every Morning fasting: ℞ Of the strongest fine Sugar ℥iv. Calx of the Sponge aforemen∣tioned ʒij. Crocus martis a∣stringens ʒiij. Long Pepper ʒj. mix, and make Lozenges, weighing each ʒiiss. which dry and keep for use. By follow∣ing this course constantly, you will evidently and daily see these Scrophulous, Strumatick, and Bronchocele Tumours to decrease, and vanish to no∣thing. § 9. In what Classis to place Sponge, Authors have scarcely determined; some thinking it to be neither Ve∣getable, Mineral, nor Animal; others thinking it to partici∣pate of them all: others place it between Animals and Vegetables, affirming it to partake of both of them; for that, say they, it has an active quality to dilate itself, and shrink up together when it is in the Sea, whereby it en∣joys a tenebrous life, coming near to that of an Animal, and to that of a Plant, whence they will have it a Zoophyton, or Plant Animal.