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 ...

XLI. * Tinctura Scorbutica, Tincture against the Scur∣vy.

Bate.] ℞ Scurvy-grass, Wa∣ter-cresses A. M j. Horse-Ra∣dish-roots ʒij. Rhubarb ʒiv. Polypody of the Oak ℥iss. Sena. ℥i Spirit of Wine lbij. mix, in∣fuse two days, then strain. Dose ℥i. or ij. every Morning with Scurvygrass-Water: it is marvellous how great a Relief it gives to Hydropick and Scorbutick People.

Salmon.] § 1. Thô the Scur∣vygrass and Watercresses be used green, yet the Spirit ought to be rectified or tar∣tarised, for by that means it will be the stronger (being mixt with the Flegmatick part of the Herbs) to extract the Tinctures of the other things; for otherwise, were it common Spirit, the Flegm of the Herbs would so much weaken it, that it would scarcely have force enough to reach the internal saline and sulphurous Principles of the Ingredients.

§ 2. You must also allow it a longer time to digest in, viz. seven or eight, or ten days, the longer the better; unless you digest warm, (which I presume our Author intends not) then indeed a much shorter time might suf∣fice; the Potential heat of the Menstruum being assisted with the actual heat of the Fire, Vis unita fortior.

§ 3. It is really a very good Cathartick to purge all such Bodies as abound with ill Humors, or are gross and and pursie, and cannot move up and down without puffing and blowing; as also for such as are Scrophulous, or trou∣bled with the King's-Evil, or affected with stubborn and rebellious, or ill natured Sores, old running Ulcers, or Fistu∣la's, which are hard and dif∣ficult to heal.

§ 4. It is also a singular thing for such as are troubled with old Coughs, Colds, Asth∣ma's, Shortness of Breath, Obstructions of the Lungs, Liver, Spleen, Womb, or U∣reters; and for all such as are troubled with the Scurvy, Dropsie, or Gout, carrying forth the Wind, Water, and Tartarous Matter, both by Stool and Urine.

§ 5. And given by a pru∣dent Hand, and in a due Dose, it perfectly cures the Rickets in Children, and kills Worms, whether in the Sto∣mach or Bowels.