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 ...

XLIX. † Tinctura Absinthii, Tincture of Wormwood.

Salmon.] § 1. Dried Tops of Common Wormwood freed from the Stalks ℥v. Tincture of Salt of Tartar, or Powers of Wormwood ℥xxx. mix, di∣gest for some days, and then decant the Tincture, being of a reddish colour.

§ 2. It is highly Stomatick, and causes a good Appetite to Food, curing the Scurvy in a cold and moist habit of Body, as also the Cachexia, and is a very good thing in a Leucophlegmatia, after due Purging.

§ 3. It comforts and streng∣thens all the inward parts;

and restores such as are in a Consumption, from Obstru∣ctions created thro' cold.

§ 4. You may give it à gut. xv. ad xxv. or xxx. or more, in a Glass of Ale or Wine; it will make it taste like Wormwood-Ale, or Wine, and be very grateful and pleasing to the Stomach: The constant use of it for some time, warms the whole Mass of Blood, preserves Health, and makes such as look sick∣ly, pale and wan, to be strong and lusty, and to have a rud∣dy and florid Countenance.