Bate.] ℞ Opium ℥ij. Saffron ℥i. Cinnamon, Cloves, Mace, Nutmegs, Xylo-aloes, A. ʒj. Tincture of Salt of Tar∣tar lbij. mix, digest some days, filter and exhale to one half. The Vertues and Dose are the same with the for∣mer.
Salmon.] § 1. This is better to induce Sleep than the former, quiets the Ar∣cheus after a wonderful man∣ner, by sweetening the Juices and Humors, and taking away their acidity and ari∣mony; it makes those sleep who are troubled with con∣tinual Watchings.
§ 2. It asswages great Headachs, thickens and sof∣tens all harsh and sharp Hu∣mors flowing to the Brest and Lungs, stops Fluxes, as Diar∣rheas, Dysenteries, and Lien∣teries; helps a bilious Colick, stops the most vehement Cough and Catarrh, or any Flux of Humors upon the Lungs or other parts.
§ 3. But in giving of this and all other Laudanums you ought to be cautious, and not to give them while the Body is full, and has not been evacuated sufficiently by pro∣per Emeticks, Catharticks, or Clysters, by some of them or all of them, as the Prudence of the Physician shall deter∣mine; nor while there is a copiousfluxion upon the Brest, caused by thick Humors; nor when there is pain and stoppage of Breath; or when the Patient is very weak, the Pulses low and slow, and the natural heat but little, or al∣most extinct. Dose à gut. xii. ad 24 or 30.