Aqua Narcotica, or a Narcotick Water.
Take juyce of the flowers of wild Poppy depurated six∣teen ounces, Opium dissolved in water of Nightshade two ounces, bark of the roots of Mandrake, Oriental Saf∣fron, of each half an ounce; Styrax Calamit. two drams, wood of Aloes a dram. Mix them, and distil them in Balneo, drawing off the Liquor three times from the same Faeces, which Chymists call Cohobation.
Virtue, Use, and Dose. It provokes sleep wonderful∣ly, and is a most excellent profitable Anodyne in all pains, unquietness and extreme watchings: And it operates to a Miracle in those troubled with sorrow∣ful and pensive Melancholy; for it refresheth the animal Spirits, takes away sorrow, and discusseth all those ill Vapors that rise and offend the Brain. It restrains the heat of Choler, and mitigates the fury of Phrensies and Madness, and suddenly produceth rest. The dose is from one dram to two.