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Diac••dium.
Take fourteen ounces of the heads of white pop∣peys well dryed, in••u••e them twenty four hours i•• eight pin••s of fountain water, boil them well, th•••• press them out, and put a pound and an half of Su∣gar to the liquor, then boil it to a Sy••up.
Virtues. This Syrup eases pain, stops tickling cough••▪ and is in general a good anodyn medicine, and much i•• use.
Dose. Half an ounce, an ounce, and an ounc•• and an half may be given at a time in some prope•• liquor.
Note. That such medicines as are of an opiat na∣ture ought not to be given to such as are weak, o•• whose Lungs are much obstructed, or at the beginnin•• of Feavers, or Plurisies, or the like; they succeed bes•• when evacuation by vomiting or purging hath wen•• before. Women that are subject to vapours, or me•• that are hypcchondriack, must be sure to lye long i•• bed the next day after taking an opiat, for other∣wise their heads will be much disturbed when the•• rise.