Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 495

GEORGE BATE (1608-1669) Pharmacopoeia Bateana; or, Bates' dispensatory. Printed for W. Innys 1713 4th ed. [16] 744 [12] pp. 18.3 cm.

Bate was physician-in-ordinary to the English Kings Charles I and Charles II, and to Oliver Cromwell. Bate's formulas and recipes were first published in 1688 by James Shipton (fl. 1710), a London apothecary. In 1694, William Salmon (see No. 654 ff.) translated the work from Latin and issued it under the present title. Salmon combined Bate's work with Jonathan Goddard's (1617?-1675) Arcana Goddardiana. Goddard, a London physician, was well known for a preparation called "Goddard's Drops" which he is reputed to have sold to Charles II for $P1,500 and which he prepared from "Human bones, or rather Skulls well dry'd" (p. 136). Salmon's edition of the Pharmacopoeia was well received, went through several editions, and was translated into a number of European languages.

See Related Record(s): 654

Cited references: Cushing B157 (1694 ed.); Wellcome II, p. 113 (1694 ed.)