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 ...

XXV, Tinctura Martis Au∣rea, The Golden coloured Tincture of Mars.

Bate.] ℞ Crocus of Mars ℥i. Spirit of Salt ℥iv. infuse two days, often stirring of it: then add rectified S. V. ℥iv. digest warm for three or four days more, then filter, and the Tin∣cture will be of a Golden co∣lour. Dose ad gut. 20.

Salmon.] § 1. The only dif∣ference between this and the former Tincture of Mars, is chiefly, that this is made of the Crocus of Iron, these of the

Filings, or Filings rusted with Water, and the difference of the Saline Menstruum, this being Spirit of Salt.

§ 2. Zwelfer Mantissae Spa∣gyricae, par. 1. cap. 3. makes it of the Crocus, with Spirit of Venus, thus: ℞ Crocus Martis Cachecticus q. s. to which affuse Spirit of Venus so much as may over-top it three or four inches: digest in a gen∣tle heat, till the Spirit is im∣bued of a rubicund colour, which decant, and affuse more fresh Spirit, and that so often as need shall require, till the Spirit will be tinged: put all these tinged Spirits together, and in B. M. abstract to an oleaginity. To the remaining thick Matter put Tartarized S. V. and extract a Golden co∣loured Tincture, which abstract in part again, leaving the yel∣low Tincture at bottom.

§ 3. This Golden Tincture of Mars made by either way, is a most excellent thing a∣gainst the Cachexia, Green-sickness in Virgins, and all Obstructions of the Viscera, being taken à gut. xij. ad xxx. or more in any proper Liquor: but this is peculiar to the Tincture of the Crocus, more than to the other Tin∣ctures, that they strengthen (in Dropsies, and other like Diseases) the Bowels more than the other, as Hofman has observed: See § 24. of the former Section.

§ 4. Kesler makes this Tin∣cture of the Crocus with Sal Armoniack; but Quercetanus with A. F. the Preparations of which you may see in our Pharm. Lond. lib. 3. cap. 4. sect. 19, 22.

§ 5. But in making this, and all other Preparations of this kind, you are to take heed, that your acids be not too extream; for so Etmul∣ler, Tom. 2. pag. meâ 606. has advised, by reason that being so prepared and taken into the Body, they little or no∣thing operate. Pari ratione (saith he) Tincturae martiales nimis acidi praeparetae intra corpus assumptae parum aut ni∣hil operantur, si verò cum al∣kalibus aut blandis acidulis praeparentur, suam merentur laudem.

§ 6. Equal to this Tin∣cture of the Crocus, Zwelfer, accounts his Tincture of the Vitriol of Mars, which is pre∣pared from the said Vitriol with Terra foliata Tartari, which is indeed a Medicine of great use, and preferred before most others.

§ 7. There is a preparation of the Crocus with Sp. Vitrioli; but this, saith Hofman, is no∣thing but the Vitriol of Mars

dissolved, and extracted with Spirit of Wine, which opens Obstructions, and after an admirable manner relieves the Hypochondriacal: but that which is made from the Vitriol of Mars, and Crystals of Venus, ana, dissolved and in∣spissated to the thickness of Ho∣ney, and then extracted with S. V. is accounted by Ett∣muller, Pyrotechnia Rationalis, lib. 2. sect. 1. cap. 2. pag. meâ 606. as a most excellent thing against Affections of the Reins, Bladder, and Urinary Parts. Dose à gut. x. ad xxx. or more, in a fit Vehi∣cle.