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 ...

IV. Elixir Proprietatis Tar∣tarisatum, Elixir of Pro∣perty Tartarisated.

Bate.] It is made of Myrrh, Aloes, and Saffron, A. ℥i. with Tincture of the Salt of Tartar ℥xij. digesting and filtering. S. A.

Salmon.] § 1. How Tin∣cture of Salt of Tartar is to be made, shall be shewed in its proper place; and with that the Tinctures of the o∣ther things are to be extract∣ed; so that this Elixir is on∣ly a Tincture extracted with a Tincture, or a Tincture extracted with the Sulphur of the Salt of Tartar, joyned with the Sulphurous S. V.

§ 2. Le Mort makes it thus: ℞ Aloes, Myrrh, Saf∣fron, A. ℥j. Salt of Tartar ℥ss. rectified S. V. ℥xx. then digest fix days in B. M. &c. so that he would make the Sulphur of the Wine to extract two Tin∣ctures at one time, viz. the Tincture of the Ingredients, and the Tincture of the Salt, which answers not the inten∣tion; for this Elixir is to be valued by reason of the Men∣struum extracting; and it is notoriously known, that the Tincture of Salt of Tartar much excels the best rectified S. V.

§ 3. If it be objected, that by this way of Le Mort's, you will have a Tincture of a Salt of Tartar, extracted with the Tincture of the other Ingredients, and so that up∣on the matter, it will be the same thing; we answer, No. For the rectified S. V. will first act upon the Vegetable Ingredients, by which it will be enervated, or weakned, and clogged, that it will have no ability to extract the Tincture of the Salt, which is the design of the Pre∣script.

§ 4. It has all the Virtues of the Vulgar or Common Elixir Proprietatis, at Sect. 2. aforegoing; besides which, it more powerfully opens Ob∣structions,

and more abso∣lutely sweetens the Blood, and other Juices; absorbing the Acidity, and dissolving Coagulums in any part of the Body. Dose à ʒj. ad ʒij.