This Enumeration being raade,and a great number of Receipts; 
of which Saffron is the chief Ingredient, interfperfed, there are 
fubjoyned feveral S^ries^ viz. 
1. Whether Saffron be an Antidote to the poyfon of iV^^^///^^f 
It being affirmed fo to be, the Author adds a Relation of a conii- 
derabic Phyiitian concerning the frequent and harralefs 
eating of Napellus in their Saiats h the reason whereof is afcribed 
to the common ufe of Saffron by that people. 
2. Whether Saffron reraoveth or caufeth a furfet ? This i% 
treated as difputable» 
3» Whether It inducethlleep or wakefulnefs ? And this quefli. 
on is here debated, pro and cm, yet fo as that the Author endea- 
vours to reconcile the difputing parties. 
4. Whether ^^^fro;? tingeth the F^^^^j- in the womb .? Here are 
alledgcd feveral Experiments for the affirmative, of which the 
Author faith to have made one upon a Bitch with puppy, which 
brought her young o^nes forth yellowy-colour d, after he had gi- 
ven her, for a good part of her bearing time, all her mea& and 
drink tinged with Saffron, and for three dayes , immediately be- 
fore her whelping , put fome drachms of Saffron in her broth. 
There are alfo inferred fome Mechanical ufesofthis Vegeta» 
ble for tinging of Hair yellow •, for making a liquor to write 
golden- coloured Letters with vand gilding of Leather^ d-r. 
IV. T>t L JVDANO OPlATo[ Auth. MaPtkTiMingkU,n, 
Francofmi , 1 67 1 . i n 8 
This Treatife hath four Parts. The firft contains the Origin of 
the Opiat Laudmum^ and the Praife.s of its Ufefulnefs in general 5 
together with a difquilition of its Temperament, and whether a- 
fium be poyfanous in its felf, and may be ufed uncorreded, &€ ? 
The latter part of which queftion is here rcfolved in ihtNegative» 
The i^^coW treats of the genuine correftion of OpiptmS deli- 
vers feveral defer iptions of the Opiat Laudanum, much efteem*d 
both by Galenic and Chymicai Phyfitians h prefcribeth the Dofe 
and way of ufingit ; and withal anatomifeth and ftridly examine 
his own preparation or this Medicin p adding fome cautions to 
be obferved in the life thereof. 
The T^^W contains various Compofitions of Opiat Medicines, 
or fuchas have Opium or the Opiat Laudanum for their chief 
Ingredient-, together with an enumeration of their particular 
yertues. 
The i^om/jfpecifieththofe Maladies and diftempers, in which 
this LmiAmum is fingularly beneficial , made out both by Reafon 
and the observation of the Authour afwell as of many other fa- 
mous and worthy Phyfitians. Here are reckoned up Head^ciie&a 
Skepiefnefs, Phrenfies, Giddinefs, the Falling ficknefs, H^mor^. 
ifagies, Pieuriiies, Bloud-fpitting-s Cou-gbSjConfumpcions^Fain^ 
tings- . 
