8 Adam in Eden , Or, 
weaker) is (ometimes ufed. Ir is an ingredient of much reipect in thole great 
Compofitions of Treacle and Adithridate, and in other Medicines that are 
made ro procure reltand fleep ; and to eale the pains of the head, as well as o- 
ther parts, or rather to palliate them, and make them infenfible for the time 
prefent; It is ufed alfo both tocool Inflammations, Agues, or Phrenfies, and 
generally for the fame‘occafions, asthe feed or any part of the Plantis; bur if 
aebe taken in too great a quantity, it canlechthe Lethargy, and fometimes kill- 
eth, and therefote it isco be ufed with cation inwardly: divers have found, 
that applyed tothe Gout,it hathgiven much eafe, and; put into hollow teeth 
ceafeth their pain. The Syrup of Adeconinum or Diacodium, which is made of 
the heads of white and black Poppies, a little after the heads are fallen off, may 
fafey be givento théfe which are troubled with hot and fharp Rhéwms:, buc not 
~ . to young Children which are froward ; for if Nurfes would keep their own bo~ 
dies temperate, their Children would fleep well enough withour it. Fhe Sy 
a 
rup made of the Flowers of the red wilde Poppy, is with good effe& civemto | 
thofe which have a PJurifie,& the dryed Flowers alfo,either boyledin water,or 
made into Powder, and drunk either in the diltilled water of them, or in fome 
other drink, worketh the like effe&t: the fame alfo is available in all orher Ce- 
phalicall or Pectoral griefs. - The diftilled water of the {aid Flowers,is held to 
be of much good ufe againft furfeits, to drink ic evening and morning: ir is al- 
fo more cooling in quality, then any other Poppy, and therefore cannor bar be 
as effeStual in hor Agues, Phrenfies, and orher Inflammations, either inward 
or outward, bur che feed is dangerous to be ufed inwardly. ‘The Syrup afore= 
faid is hus made... Take of the fre[h Flowers or red Poppies two pound, big So 
r pound of warns Sprin the next da tpn boil it into a Syrmpy 
itsyand may be 
e, faid Galen and caufeth vomirings, faith 
“oe! - apg oo) a5 iofceri 
ken in Mead,or honyed water,and is efpeciall ‘good for thote that are t 
was in flower, which the Greeks called Swaépsaor, becanie it doth forefhew, as 
_ they conceived, the fuccefs of their love : For thefe Flowers, the tops beine 
cloted together with ones fingers; feem like liccle Bladders,which being broken 
againit ones other hand; make a noyfe like unto the Bladders of little Fithes, 
being broken: If they gave.a good report, they concluded, they fhould be fixc= 
mae 2 5 ee ently ler fall ’ ‘. . » 
een r 
re 
rdayes be. 
Argemoné, or Battard wilde 
theeyes,'eafeth the Inflammation: 
ed Argema, whereof it took his 
sppeniceh OH th Diack ot semvey 
fans ‘fo fuperftitious were ‘thofe | 
erith ve Fallin Sicknetié Abwistthicheadol ‘chs Poppy ; abhue themes 
