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 ...

XXVIII. Pilulae Tartareae Bontii, Bontius his Pills of Tartar.

Bate.] ℞ The best Aloes ʒiij. Gum Ammoniacum ℥jss. (depurated with Vinegar of Squills) Tartar Vitriolate ʒss. mix them. They are of such Estimation among the Dutch, that they think it a sin to

make them common. Dose ℈j. to ʒss.

Salmon.] § 1. They are good against Tartarous Dis∣eases, and Purge Salt, Gross, and Tartarous Humours from the very profound parts, are good against▪ Hypochondri∣ack Melancholy and Madness, Quartan Agues, Scabs, Itch, &c. They open Obstructions of Liver, Spleen, Mesentery, &c. and cut Viscous Slime, chiefly that which is gathered in the Stomach, purging it out.

§ 2. You may give from ℈j. ad ʒj. in the Morning fast∣ing, and ℈ss. before Supper, or to ʒss. after a light Sup∣per.

§ 3. It is also to be noted, that some add to the Compo∣sition Extract of Rhubarb ℥ss. and then they more respect the Liver, and Purge Choler from the Bowels.