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 ...

XIII. Oleum Viperarum, Oil of Vipers.

Bate.] ℞ Large, fat, live Vipers, N^o 3. Spanish Wine ℥ij. Oil of Hypericon ℥viij. put them into a Vessel with a narrow Mouth, boil in B. M. to the Consumption of the Hu∣midity, and then press forth the Oil. It cleanses the Skin, heals the Impetigo, &c. takes away Gouty Tophs, cures the Leprosie.

Salmon.] § 1. It is in∣deed a good thing to cleanse the Skin, but it must be long used, except it be fortified with some of the Volatile Salt of Toads.

§ 2. And that it might the more effectually answer the Intention, while this Oil is used outwardly, the Volatile Salt of Vipers ought to be taken daily inwardly, where∣by the malign Acid, which is the cause of those Distempers will be effectually mortify∣ed.