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 ...

VIII. * Extractum Ecphra∣cticum; The opening Ex∣tract.

Bate.] ℞ Wood of Aloes, Galingal, Cloves, A. ℥ss. Cinna∣mon, Gentian, Cortex Winte∣ranus, A. ℥i. Horse-radish-roots ℥ij. Calamint, Pennyroyal, Wormwood, A. M. j. Mars prepared with Sulphur ℥viij. White-wine, and a decoction of white Tartar, A. lbiiss. Digest, strain out, and exhale, to a due consistency S. A. adding fine Aloes in fine pouder ℥i. Myrrh ʒij. Micklethw. It is a most effectual Remedy against the Green-sickness in Virgins, and the Scurvy. It has a great Ver∣tue in opening Obstructions, chiefly of the Liver, Spleen, Womb, and Mesentery, and curing those Diseases procee∣ding therefrom.

Salmon.] § 1. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 medicamenta, apud Galenum, quae meatus obstru∣ctos expediunt. An Ecphra∣ctick Medicament is such a one as opens Obstructions of the Passages, and a powerful one of that kind is this here of our Authors.

§ 2. You had better make it thus: First extract a strong Tincture from the Species with S. V. grinding their pouders first with Salt of Tartar in a hot Iron Mortar, then make a strong Extract of the Mars by itself, with the White-wine and decoction of white Tartar: Put these Tinctures together, and in B. M. abstract the S. V. after which evaporate the remaining humidity to a due consistency, and so add the Aloes and Myrrh as before directed.

§ 3. The Mars is thus to be prepared: ℞ Common Sul∣phur ℥iij. Filings of Mars ℥i. mix and put them over a Fire, and kindle the Sulphur, often∣times stirring of it, till the deflagration is over; to what remains add more fresh Sul∣phur ℥ij. deflagrate again, then being cold, grind it into a sub∣tile pouder for the intended use.

§ 4. It is good against the Cachexia, Dropsy, yellow Jaundice, black Jaundice, Ob∣structions of the Courses, Va∣pors, and Fits of the Mother; it sweetens the Blood and Juices, and is excellent in ma∣ny other cases. Dose à ʒss. ad ʒiss. in a proper Vehicle.