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 ...

VI. * Extractum Diatessa∣ron; An Extract of the Species of Diatessaron.

Bate.] ℞ Species of Dia∣tessaron ℥iij. Roots of Angeli∣ca ℥i. Zedoary ℥ss. Seeds of Carduus ʒij. Waters of Scor∣dium Compound, of Carduus, of Bawm, of Angelica, A. lbj. mix, and extract a Tincture S. A. and exhale to a due con∣sistency. It is good against cold Diseases, both of the Head and Brain, as the Palsie, and of the Ventricle or Sto∣mach, as Inflations or Wind, and from that pain, want of Digestion, &c. and of the Liver also, as the Dropsy, Cachexy, Obstructions. It is powerful also against the bitings of mad Dogs, and pre∣vails against Poyson.

Salmon.] § 1. What the Species Diatessaron are you may see in our Pharm. Lond. lib. 4. cap. 22. sect. 18. which are Roots of Gentian, round Birthwort, Myrrh, and Bay∣berries, Ana.

§ 2. That the Menstruum will be too weak to make a good Extraction: Your best way will be, to abate the full half of the quantities of the cold Waters, and add as much to it of good Spirit of Wine.

§ 3. Or else, after the Extraction is made with the cold Waters, decanting the Tincture, to affuse on the Magma lbij. or better of good Spirit of Wine, to digest 4 or 6 days in a gentle heat, and then decanting this Tincture also, to mix it with the for∣mer Tincture, and then in B. M. to abstract the S. V. which having obtained, you may in a small clean earthen Sa••cepan, or some suchlike, evaporate the remaining hu∣midity to a just consistency. Dose à ʒss. ad ʒiss.