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TAke of Thebaic opium four ounces; of Spirit of Salt two ounces, purified Tartar one ounce, set them being mixed in maceration in Balneo in a glass vessel for a day and night, and the spirit of salt with Tartar will open the body of the opium, and prepare it for extraction, upon which powre half a pint of the best spirit of wine, set it in a gentle Balneo to be
extracted. Decant off the spirit that is tinged, and powre on fresh, set it in digestion till the spirit be co∣loured. Then mix the extractions together, and put to them in a glass gourd two drams of the best Saffron, of oyle of Cloves a dram, and draw off the spirit of wine in Balneo, and there will remaine a thick black juyce, which is to be taken out, and kept in a clean glass vessel. The dose thereof is from grain one, to five or six, for those of a mans age, but to children the sixth or eighth part of a graine. It may be used in all hot distempers without danger. It provoketh quiet sleep, mitigates pains as well outward, as inward, it causeth sweat; but especially it is a sure remedy for the epilepsie in children that are new born; for assoon as it is given to them to the quantity of the eighth part of a graine in wine, or womans milk, there presently follows rest, and sweat with sleep, by which means the malignity is expelled, the children are re∣freshed, and desire victuals, and the fit returns no more after∣ward. Although haply the like symptomes may be perceived againe, yet if the aforesaid dose be administred againe, the children are refreshed, and cured wholly, whereas otherwise they would have dyed, &c. whereof I have not restored few with this medicine. Moreover also there are very effectual anodyne medicines, as those volatile spirits of vitriol, allome, antimony, and other minerals, with which, as also with that narcoticke sulphur precipitated from the volatile spirit of vi∣triol, nothing may be compared.