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 ...

XIII. * Tinctura Cerussae, Tin∣cture of Ceruse.

Bate.] ℞ Venetian Ceruse finely poudred ℥iv. Camphir ℥ss. Oyl of Tartar, per deli∣quium ℥iij. Spirit of Vinegar ℥xvj. macerate or digest them in a cold place, then filter. It is good against Defedations of the Skin, Inflamations, Burnings, &c.

Salmon.] § 1. Thô this is mostly applied to outward uses against Inflamations, Pains, Aches, Gouts, &c. yet it is also of good use for inward Diseases, being given in a fit Dose, and a proper Vehicle.

§ 2. It gives ease in a ve∣hement Colick, and is profi∣table against a violent Hae∣morrhage of the Womb, or overflowing of the Courses, as also in Burning Feavers, the Plague, or Pestilence, and all manner of Malign and Pestilential Diseases, being given à gut. xx. ad xxx. or more, in a Glass of Wine, or some proper Cordial Wa∣ter.

§ 3. It prevails against a hot Gout, if a little Tow, or Linnen Cloth be dipt in it, and applied to the place. In a Gonorrhea, where, by the acidity of the Venereal fer∣ment, the urinary Ductus is corroded, it is of excellent use, being mixed with Rose∣water or Milk, and so in∣jected with a Spring, it gives immediate ease.

§ 4. If a Fistula happens to be in the Canthus of the Eye, being first cleansed by mundificatives, you may put into it some few drops of this Tincture, so will it be in a short time fill'd with Flesh, and cicatrized.

§ 5. In other Diseases of the Eyes, you may mix it either with Aqua Lactis, Rose∣water, Fennel-water, or some such like, and wash the Eyes daily therewith several times a day, so will they in a short time be healed and cured.