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 ...

II. Essentia Cardui Benedicti, Powers of Carduus Bene∣dictus.

Bate.] This Essence is made in all respects like that of Wormwood aforegoing.

Salmon.] § 1. The Powers of Carduus Ben. are not to be accounted among the num∣ber of mean Remedies, for that they have an admirable force against all putrefactive and contagious Diseases, and therefore are said to be a sure Antidote against the Small∣pox, Measles, Spotted Fea∣ver, Callentures, Plague and all malign and pestilential Di∣seases.

§ 2. They are Cardiack, and Alexipharmick, preva∣lent against Fainting, Swoon∣ing, Heart-qualms, and all manner of Poyson whatsoe∣ver, chiefly the Bitings of Serpents, mad Dogs, or any other venemous Beast.

§ 3. They attenuate, open Obstructions, discuss Wind, are good against the Colick and Gripings of the Bowels, kills Worms, and expel Sand or Gravel from the Reins, and esteemed as an Antidote

against the Scurvy, and French-Pox, being an excellent sweet∣ner of the Blood, and a resto∣rer of it to its purity.

§ 4. They are Cephalick, Neurotick, and Antihysterick, cure Head-achs, Lethargies, Vertigo's, Loss of Memory, Deafness, and Dimness of the Sight; they are said to cure Quartans, allay Vapours, and resist Hysterick Fits. Dose à ℈j. ad ʒj. or ℈iv.