rdii [Symbol: Dram]ss
aquae lactucae [Symbol: Ounce]iijss mista fiat potio ad horam somni
sumenda."

Requies Nicholai, Philonium Romanum, Triphera magna, pilulae, de
Cynoglossa, Dioscordium, Laudanum Paracelsi, Opium, are in use, &c. Country
folks commonly make a posset of hemp-seed, which Fuchsius in his herbal so
much discommends; yet I have seen the good effect, and it may be used where
better medicines are not to be had.

Laudanum Paracelsi is prescribed in two or three grains, with a dram of
Diascordium, which Oswald. Crollius commends. Opium itself is most part
used outwardly, to smell to in a ball, though commonly so taken by the
Turks to the same quantity [4350]for a cordial, and at Goa in, the Indies;
the dose 40 or 50 grains.

Rulandus calls Requiem Nicholai _ultimum refugium_, the last refuge; but of
this and the rest look for peculiar receipts in Victorius Faventinus, _cap.
de phrensi_. Heurnius _cap. de mania_. Hildesheim _spicel. 4. de somno et
vigil_. &c. Outwardly used, as oil of nutmegs by extraction, or expression
with rosewater to anoint the temples, oils of poppy, nenuphar, mandrake,
purslan, violets, all to the same purpose.

Montan. _consil. 24 & 25._ much commends odoraments of opium, vinegar, and
rosewater. Laurentius _cap. 9._ prescribes pomanders and nodules; see the
receipts in him; Codronchus [4351]wormwood to smell to.

_Unguentum Alabastritum, populeum_ are used to anoint the temples,
nostrils, or if they be too weak, they mix saffron and opium. Take a grain
or two of opium, and dissolve it with three or four drops of rosewater in a
spoon, and after mingle with it as much _Unguentum populeum_ as a nut, use
it as before: or else take half a dram of opium, _Unguentum populeum_, oil
of nenuphar, rosewater, rose-vinegar, of each half an ounce, with as much
virgin wax as a nut, anoint your temples with some of it, _ad horam somni_.

Sacks of wormwood, [4352]mandrake, [4353]henbane, roses made like pillows
and laid under the patient's head, are mentioned by [4354]Cardan and
Mizaldus, "to anoint the soles of the feet with the fat of a dormouse, the
teeth with ear wax of a dog, swine's gall, hare's ears:" charms, &c.

Frontlets are well known to every good wife, rosewater and vinegar, with a
little woman's milk, and nutmegs grated upon a rose-cake applied to both
temples.

For an emplaster, take of castorium a dram and a half, of opium half a
scruple, mixed both together wit