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 ...

XI. Lapis de Goa, The Goa∣stone.

Bate.] ℞ Of the Hya∣cinth, Topaz, Saphire, Ruby, Pearls, A. ℥j. Emeralds ℥ss. Oriental Bezoar, white and red Coral, A. ℥ij. Musk, Am∣bergrise, A. ℥ss. Leaves of Gold, N^o 40. make all into fine Pouder, which bring into a Paste with Rose-water, and form into oblong Balls not much unlike to little Eggs, drying them well in the Shaddow: then with a Limpets Shell, or some other thing of like na∣ture, let them be curiously pollished, that they may have a Gloss upon them, S. A. It has the same Vertues with

the former: Besides which it is a Specifick against Cramps and Contractions of the Nerves. Dose. à ℈j. ad ʒss. or more.

Salmon.] § 1. 'Tis true you may make it up with simple Rose-water, but then it will be apt to brake with the least fall; your better way will be to add a little Mu∣cilage of Gum Tragacanth, or Gelly of Harts-horn, or some such like, which being dryed will make the Stone, not only firmer, but the bet∣ter also to be polished.

§ 2. Some are of Opinion, that you ought to take the Magisteries of those frag∣ments of precious Stones, &c. but I am confident, that if they be well levigated upon a Porphyry, with a little Rose-water, it will be full as well; what is required is, that their Pouders be impal∣pable, and soft like Flower.

§ 3. It is an Antidote a∣gainst Plague and Poyson, and cures the Bitings of Ser∣pents, mad Dogs, or any o∣ther venomous Creature; it revives the Spirits, chears the Heart, fortifies Nature, re∣sists Melancholy, restores in Consumptions, prevails a∣gainst all Diseases of the Head and Brain, proceeding from Cold and Moisture, causing a lively Presence▪ nimble Wit, a pleasant Coun∣tenance, and a sweet Breath. Dose, ℈j. ad ʒj. See its Ver∣tues and Use at large in our Seplasium, Lib. 4. Cap. 65. Sect. 4. ad 8.