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 ...

LXXV. † Tinctura Cordia∣lis antepidemica, i. Contra-yervae; A Cordial Plague-Tincture, or Tincture of Contra-yerva.

Salmon.] § 1. ℞ Spirit of Contra-yerva, or rectified Spirit of Saffron, or of Angeli∣ca lbij. Contra-yerva in gross pouder, or well bruised ℥iij. Salt of Tartar ℥iss. grind all the Ingredients in a hot Iron Mortar, in a Glass Matrass, or long Bolthead, mix them with the Spirit, which stop close up, and digest 14 days in a very gentle heat, then decant the clear Tincture for use.

§ 2. Or thus: ℞ Contra-yerva ℥iij. Virginia Snake-root ℥iss. or ℥ij. Camphir ℥ss. Tin∣cture of Salt of Tartar lbiij. mix, digest 14 days, then de∣cant the clear Tincture, which keep in a Glass close stopt for use.

§ 3. Or thus: ℞ Contra-yerva ℥iij. Snake-root ℥ij. Camphir ℥ss. Spiritus Antico∣licus lbiij. mix, digest a week in a Bolthead close stopt, then decant the clear, and keep it for use.

§ 4: Of these the second Tincture is more powerful than the first, and the third more powerful than the se∣cond; and are all famous Antidotes against the Plague, and all sorts of malign, pu∣trid, and pestilential Disea∣ses: It takes off the Contagi∣on of the Disease, and destroys the Putrefaction; so that I believe there is scarcely a greater Antidote or Preserva∣tive in the World against the Malignity and Poyson of the Plague than this Medica∣ment, chiefly the third Prepa∣ration.

§ 5. The first may be gi∣ven à ℈ij. ad ʒiss. the second à ʒss. ad ℈ij. and the third from gut. xij. ad 30, 40, 50. or more, in Carduus Water, or Aqua Theriacalis, or a Glass of Sack, or some other pro∣per Vehicle, as Water, Infu∣sion, Decoction, &c.

§ 6. These Tinctures are also famous things against the Colick, and all Oppressions of Wind whatsoever; and as they powerfully open Obstru∣ctions of the Viscera, so they as admirably destroy Putre∣faction, and the Seeds of all malign Diseases, particularly they resist the King's-Evil, Gout, and Scurvy in all their appearances.

§ 7. Lastly, for the Poor and ordinary People, you may make it with our Spiri∣tus Intimus, that they may not want an Antidote or Re∣medy to save them in the day of Necessity, when possi∣bly they may have little or no Money to pay for it.