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 ...

VI. Oleum Heracleinum, Oyl of Hazel-wood.

Bate.] It is made of Hazel-wood cut down in September or March, cut into little bits; put them into a Retort and di∣stil in Sand with a gradual fire: separate the Oyl from the Water S. A. It heats, in∣cides, is anodyn, and an ex∣cellent thing against the Epi∣lepsie, and Pain of the Teeth. Gut. ij. iij. or iv. taken with Crums of Bread, kills Worms upon the spot, and brings them forth by Stool.

Salmon.] § 1. Rolfincius, lib. 3. sect. 2. art. 1 cap. 11. makes it after this manner: ℞ Hazel-wood rasped, or in pieces, q. v. fill an earthen Re∣tort therewith, fit to it a Re∣ceiver, and distil with degrees of an open fire, so will you have Spirit and Oyl: separ ate the Oyl from the acid Spirit by fil∣tration, and rectifie the Spirit. This Oleum Heraclinum Ru∣landi, (saith he) Quercetanus judges to be Oyl of Box; but Libavius; Hartman, Ke∣sle••, and Beguinus, say it is the Oyl of the Hazel-wood; the Spirit and Oyl being recti∣fied, both cure the Epilepsie, and Apoplexy, being inter∣nally taken: Outwardly, with Cotton or Lint, some drops 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the Oyl applied, it cures ••••e Tooth-ache; and anoint∣•••••• upon the Navel, kills ••orms, cases the Pains of ••••e Colick, and drives forth both Birth and After-birth, as also the dead Child. They are confirmed in the Opinion, that the Oleum Heraclinum is Oyl of Hazel-wood, because the Hazel-nuts are called Nu∣ces Heracleoticae. See Beguinus Tyro. Chym. lib. 2. cap. 6. §2. Some Authors order the Wood to be ground into Pou∣der, and then put into the Retort and distilled in Sand: and order the Oyl to be re∣ctified with much Water to make it more pleasant; and the acid Spirit to be rectified in B. M. But Hartman in his Practical Chymistry, saith, it is more rightly distilled per Descensum, or per Vesicam. § 3. Schroderus in Pharmac. lib. 4. clas. 1. sect. 108. saith, That the Oyl is made by a Retort with a naked Fire, or by descent: and that both Spirit and Oyl are hot and inciding, anodyn, and ante∣pileptick, and chiefly cure the Tooth-ache. Some, says he, will have Rulandus's Oyl of the Wood Heracleum to be the Oyl of Hazel-wood: for that the Hazel was first tran∣slated from Heraclea Ponti in∣to Greece where it was cal∣led Heracleotica seu Pontica, and the Nuts, Heracleoticae: Tho' others again will not allow it, but affirm it to be the Oyl of the Box Wood, as Quercetanus, Tetrade affect. capitis, pag. 214, 215, 216. where he shews, that the Oyl of Box-wood, abounds with a very Narcotick Sulphur, and commends it against the E∣pilepsie and Tooth-ache, Worms in the rotten Teeth, and hollow Teeth, a Tooth∣pick being put into it, and the then put to the bottom of the hollow Tooth. § 4. But if we may be guided by the

name of the thing, adding also the Authority of the greater number of the most Learned, we are obliged to conclude, that the Oleum He∣raclinum Rulandi, and which our Author here intends, is truly the Oyl of Hazel-wood, and not of Box, to which the appellation has no relation.