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 ...

LXVIII. † Tinctura Cardia∣ca, i. Croci, The Cordial Tincture, or Tincture of Saffron.

Salmon.] § 1. ℞ Choice English Saffron ℥j. Spirit of Saffron, or Tincture of Salt of Tartar lbj. mix, put them into a Bolt-head, and digest in a very gentle heat, close stopt for 7 or 8 days, then decant the clear Tincture, and keep it for use.

§ 2. It is a great Cordial and of singular use against Fainting, and swooning Fits, Palpitation of the Heart, Sickness at Stomach, and other like Distempers; it al∣so is good against the Mea∣sles, Small-Pox, and all sorts of malign Feavers; opens Obstructions of the Womb, provokes the Terms, and is prevalent to facilitate the Birth, and expel the After-birth.

§ 3. Modus Utendi. ℞ Borrage or Angelica-water ℥iij. Syrup of Citron-peels ℥ss. Tin∣cture of Saffron ʒj. mix for a Cordial, to give in fainting and swooning Fits. ℞ Per∣sicary-water ℥iiij. Syrup of Motherwort or Pennyroyal ℥j. of this Tincture ℥ij. mix for a Dose, to facilitate the Birth or bring away the After-birth. ℞ Treacle-water ℥ij. Syrup of Clovegilliflowers ʒvj. of this Tincture ʒiss. mix for a Dose, to give in a malignant Fea∣ver, or expel the Measles or Small-Pox.

§ 4. But in this latter Case, viz. against all sorts of malign or pestilential Fea∣vers, the compound Tincture is much better; which is thus made: ℞ Choice English Saffron, choice Cochenele in fine Pouder, A. ℥j. Cloves, Nut∣megs, A. ℥ij. Spirit of Saffron, or Tincture of Salt of Tartar ℥40. mix, digest in a Bolt-head close stopt, for 7 or 8 days, then decant the clear Tin∣cture,

and keep it for use.

§ 5. Besides its Use a∣gainst malign and pestilential Diseases, it is much a greater Cordial than the former, strengthens the Head, Brain, Nerves, Stomach, Heart, and all the Spirits, natural, vital, and animal. Dose is the same with that, viz. à ʒss. ad ʒj. or ʒij. according as the Exigency of the Patient requires.