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 ...

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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 ...
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Bate, George, 1608-1669.
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London :: Printed for S. Smith and B. Walford ...,
1694.
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Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.
Pharmacy -- Early works to 1800.
Dispensatories -- Early works to 1800.
Pharmacopoeias -- Great Britain -- 17th century.
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"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 ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A26772.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 4, 2024.

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XIX. * Pilulae Matthaei, alias Starkii, Matthews his Pills, but more truly Starkies Pills.

Bate.] ℞ The best The∣bian Opium cleansed from all its filthij. subtil Pouders of Liquorice, of white Hellebore, of black Hellebore, A.ij. Soap of Salt of Tartar and Oil of Turpentine (which see in its place)vj. mix them well, ad∣ding Oil of Turpentine q. s. so as to make a mass of Pills; which as often let be moistned with Oil of Turpentine, as the said mass shall grow dry. Where note, that some reject the black Hellebor. They are admirably Diuretick, Dia∣phoretick, Sudorifick, Lithon∣triptick, Nephretick, Hydro∣pick, Bechicik, Anodyne, and Paregorgick; and are given with happy Success in all sorts of Agues, chiefly Ter∣tians and Quartans. They are profitably given in all sorts of Catarrhs, pains of the Stomach, of the Head, and of the Teeth; as also against Coughs, Surfeits, Gouts,

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Diarrhoea's, Dysenteria's, in∣ternal Ulcers and Apostems, &c. Dose ℈ss. adj. drinking after it a draught of some proper Liquor.

Salmon.] § 1. Some (in making this Pill) leave out the white Hellebor, and put in only the black; and some (very profitably in my Judg∣ment) leave them both out, as Starky himself (who was the Original Author of the Medicine) had resolved long before he dyed.

§ 2. It is best to be given at Night going to bed, in any case wherein the Vulgar Laudana could be profitable: And it seems to be a Specifick against the Pleurisie, Colick, and Stone, whether in the Reins or Bladder.

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