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 ...

XIX. † Extractum Hypno∣ticum, seu Laudanum; The sleeping Extract.

℞ Opium ℥x. Nutmegs, Saffron, A. ℥ij. Castoreum ℥i. make an Extract with S. V. S. A.

Salmon.] § 1. The In∣gredients being of differing natures and qualities, ought to have different ways of extraction; the Opium ought to be extracted with a two∣fold Menstruum, viz. first

with Water, then with S. V. and these Tinctures to be added together, and then the S. V. to be abstracted in B. M. and the aqueous hu∣midity to be evaporated, as we have taught in our Sepla∣sium, lib. 9. cap. of Opium, the reason of which double Extraction you will there see.

§ 2. The Tincture of the Nutmegs ought to be extra∣cted with the Tincture of Salt of Tartar; so also the Tinctures of the Saffron and of the Castoreum, but each apart: Or, the Saffron being gently dryed, and ground with Salt of Tartar in a hot Mor∣tar, may be extracted with rectified S. V. and the Casto∣reum with Spirit of Castor; as in the proper places we have taught.

§ 3. These several Tin∣ctures are to be mixed toge∣ther, and the S. V. abstracted in B. M. to the consistency of an Extract, which then you are to mix exactly with the Extract of the Opium, and so keep it for use.

§ 4. It causes Sleep and Rest, alleviates all manner of Pains, in what part of the Body soever; stops Fluxes, whether of Humors or of the Bowels; stops a Cough, and is good against most Diseases of the Brest and Lungs, ha∣ving indeed all the vertues of Laudanum. Dose à gr. j. ad gr. ij. or iij. at night going to bed.