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 ...

XLVII. * Tinctura Virginia∣na, Tincture of Virginian Snake-root.

Bate.] ℞ Virginian Snake-root in fine Pouder ℥ij. Tincture of Salt of Tartar ℥xvj. ex∣tract a Tincture by digestion, S. A. It is an Alexiterick, Cardiack, Sudorifick, Anti∣scorbutick, &c. Dose à ʒj. ad ʒiij. &c.

Salmon.] § 1. The common way of making this Tincture is with rectified S. V. but this of our Author is vastly to be preferred before that, for that the sharp particles of the Sulphur of the Salt of Tartar, more effectually o∣pen the Body of the Ingredi∣ent than simple S. V. can pos∣sibly do.

§ 2. It resists Poyson, cures the Bites of the Rattle-Snake (the most poysonous of all li∣ving Creatures) Vipers, and other Serpents, the Biting of Mad Dogs, the Malignity of the Plague, and of all other contagious or infectious Di∣seases.

§ 3. And by reason of its subtilty and volatility, it powerfully provokes Sweat, expelling all noxious Vapors from the Heart: It chears the Spirits, comforts Nature, and prevails against Faint∣ing and Swooning Fits, Pal∣pitation of the Heart, and other Diseases of the Precor∣dia.

§ 4. As it is also a high Alcaly, so it encounters and resists all Distempers proceed∣ing v from Acids, and the pu∣trefaction of Humours, the chief of which are the Scur∣vy, Gout, Surfeits, and such other as proceeds from a Tartarous Mucilage: It is also commended against in∣termitting Feavers.

§ 5. Modus Utendi. ℞ Of this Tincture ʒiss. ad ʒij. Aquae Bezoartiae nost. ℥ss. Mint-water ℥iv. Syrup of Clovegilliflowers ℥i. mix for

a Dose, the Patient being in Bed, and covered warm, to sweat upon it.