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 ...

XVII. * Pilulae Marocostinae, Pills of Herb Mastich and Costus.

Bate.] ℞ G••m Ammo∣niacum (dissolved in four Ounces of Vinegar of Squils) ʒvj. fine Aloes (dissolved in Damask Rose-water lbij. Juice of Limons lbj.) lbj. Agarick (mixt with Cinnamon-wa∣ter ʒij. Juices of Smallage, Fennel and Wormwood, A. ℥iij. by beating together) ʒvj. the best Rhubarb (beaten with Cinnamon-water ʒvj. Juices of Succory, Burnet and Fu∣mitory, A. ℥viij.) ℥iij. best Saffron ℥ss. Costus ʒvj. true Herb mastich ℥ss. Wood of Aloes ʒij. all prepared with Juice of Citrons ℥iv. Damask Rose-water, q. s. mix every thing well; then add of the Waters of Peony, Cowslips, Borrage, Bettony, Carduus, Agrimony, Gout Ivy, Centory the less, Rosemary, black Cher∣ries, A. lbj. vel q. s. digest in B. M. for three days, strain out, and exhale in B. M. to a due consistency. These Pills cut, and by degrees expel Tartarous Mucilage collect∣ed in the Stomach Mesen∣tery, Liver and Spleen: They strengthen the Head, and all the Viscera, and pre∣vail against most Diseases of those parts, arising from such like Causes. Dose, ℈j. ad ʒj.

Salmon.] § 1. The In∣vention is from Mindererus, whose true Composition you

have in our Pharm. Lond. lib. 4. ••ap. 23. Sect. 76. But this thus corrected by our Author ••s much the better Medicine, ••nd more to be valued.

§ 2. If the Body be hard to work upon, let the Dose be given at Night going to bed: Otherwise in easie Con∣stitutions, give it in the Morn∣ing fasting; and if it works not vehemently, but very gently, it may be given for two or three days together.