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 ...

I. * Cardiacum Coeleste, The heavenly Cordial or Car∣diack.

Bate.] ℞ White Sugar ℥xvj. (trebble refined) Bor∣rage-water ℥iv. boil almost to a consistency, then (boiling) add fresh Borrage-flowers, freed from their black spots ℥vj. and continue boiling till the Flow∣ers are crisp or dryed, remove it from the fire, and mix therewith Leaves of Gold, N^o xvj. Ambergrise, gr. 24. It is a most elegant Cardiack, recreating the Vital and Ani∣mal Spirits, and is profitable against all affections arising from Atrabilis: In Hypo∣chondriack Melancholy it has no second.

Salmon.] § 1. It is not only a Cardiack, but is good against Diseases of the Brest and Lungs, as Colds, Coughs, Asthma's, tickling Rheums, Wheasings, Hoarseness, &c.

§ 2. There is no Dose to be limited in the use thereof, but it may (in the before enumerated Diseases) be held constantly in the Mouth, and suffered to dissolve at leisure.