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 ...

XXX. Tinctura a Myrrhae, Tin∣cture of Myrrh.

Bate.] ℞ The best Myrrh, fine Aloes, A. ℥i. Alcohol of Spirit of Wine lbj. mix, digest, and filter. It is an admira∣ble Vulnerary, cleanses, a∣stringes, strengthens, consoli∣dates, and hinders putrefa∣ction, and prevents Gan∣greens.

Salmon.] § 1. You ought to chuse that Myrrh which is friable, light, and every∣where of one colour, which being broken has white lines (as it were) running between, bitter in taste, well scented, and fat: that which is a∣cred, heavy, of an ill smell, and of a Pitch colour, is naught.

§ 2. The Alcohol of Spirit of Wine, if it be rectified from Carminatives, it will yet be better, and make a more Absolute Tincture, of singular uses to the purpose intended.

§ 3. The chief intention of this Medicament is to pre∣vent Gangreens, and hinder putrefaction, or mortification in Incarnations, and to restore the Natural heat almost ex∣tinct, by bathing with it hot, and fomenting the part there∣with, and laying over the Affect Cloths dipt in the same.

§ 4. But besides all the things afore-named, it is a most admirable thing against the Plague, and all Pestilen∣tial and Malign Diseases, be∣ing given inwardly, as well in a preventive as curative sence; and so may be given à ʒj. ad ʒij. in a Glass of Wine, first, and in the Morn∣ing fasting, before Dinner, and last at Night going to Bed; and in Pestilential times it will be good con∣tinually to smell to it, and besmear the Nostrils there∣with, to resist the malignity of the Pestilential Air.

§ 5. You may reduce the Tincture into an Extract, by abstracting the Spirit to a due consistency, of such a Body as it may be made up into Pills. Dole à ʒss. ad ʒj.