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 ...

XVIII. * Pulvis Cornachini, The Warwick Pouder.

Bate.] ℞ Diagrydium Sul∣phuratum ʒx. Antimony Dia∣phoretick ʒvj. Cremor Tartari ℥ijss. mix and make a Pou∣der. It is good almost a∣gainst all Diseases (where purging is required) being commended in their Cure. Dose, ʒss. ℈ij. &c.

Salmon.] § 1. We have many Notes and Observati∣ons upon this Medicine in our Pharm. Lond. Lib. 4. Cap. 21. Sect. 38. where it is called by the Name of the Earl of Warwick's Pouder, but it seems that Cornachinus was the Author thereof, who wrote a whole Book of the Vertues and Uses of it, which Original printed Book is scarcely to be got; but Hart∣man for the Excellency thereof, took the pains to coppy it over, and has in∣serted it word for word, in his Opera Medica, printed at Frankford, Anno 1684. Pa∣ginâ meâ, 144.

§ 2. But Zwelfer in his Pharmacopoeia, pag. meâ. 574. has two several Preparations thereof, both which you have in our London Dispensa∣tory, the place cited; but by reason we have been there short in explicating his lat∣ter Process, you shall have it here.

§ 3. ℞ Antimonial Tartar vitriolated ℥j. Rosin of Scammo∣ny, reduced to pouder with sweet Almonds ℥ ss. Cremor Tar∣tari ʒvj. mix and make a Pouder.

§ 4. How the Antimonial Tartar vitriolated is to be made we shall shew you from the same Zwelfer. ℞ White Flowers of Antimony ℥ij. Cre∣mor Tartari ℥iv. boil them in a sufficient quantity of fair Water, repeating it several

times, till all the Vertue is drawn forth; strain all the Li∣quors, and filter them hot, thro' brown Paper; in which dissolve Salt of Tartar lbj. af∣ter which gently exhale the Humidity, till the Matter comes to the dryness of a Salt: To this Salt thus impregnated with the Essence of Antimony, put in leisurely, and by drops, i. e. Oil of Vitriol or Sulphur q. s. for the Saturation of the Salt; dry it throughly again, and dissolve in Water, filter, and gently evaporate in a gla∣zed Vessel to dryness, to be kept for the former use.

§ 5. The Pulvis Cornachini, made with this Preparation, is a most excellent thing a∣gainst the Scurvy, Dropsie, Gout, Sciatica, Jaundice, Hypochondriack Melancho∣ly, King's-Evil, old Ulcers, Fistula's, and all sorts of Chronick Diseases, more e∣specially in tedious and long continuing Tertian and Quar∣tan Agues. Dose is ℈ss. ad ʒss. for the carrying forth of heavy and vitious Humors, which it sometimes does as well by Vomit as Stool.

§ 6. It opens all sorts of Obstructions, provokes the Terms, helps the hardness of the Spleen, and is good a∣gainst the Stone and Gravel in the Reins and Bladder.