(H9) 
hopeit may come abroad before it be quite too late, if you 
pleafe to afford it room in the Rapers.w herewith i am infonn'd 
you intend this week to gratifie the Curious : 
Ldtudmum Helmomii Juniork. 
Tdiktof Opiumd^ quarter of a pound, and of chejuyce of 
c^^i;*^ four pound at the leaft^j the Opium, 
L • • 1 ■ I , ^ (For near five 
being cue into very chm Uices , and then as pound would 
'twere minc*d to reduce it into fmaller parts, perhaps do bet- 
is to be put into, and well uilx'd with, theli- ^^^'^ 
quor,(firft made!uke-warm)and fermented with + rwhichcircum. 
a moderate Heat for eight or ten dayes , rather ^ance the Author 
more than lefs; then fiirerf it, and having in- ?dono?j"*''' 
fus'd in itof Cinamon, Nutmeg and Cloves, of 
each an ounce II , let rhem (land three or four ||(the Author fome 
dayes more, if it be a full week it may be fo ouTce'' m^^^^^^ 
much the better ; then filter * the liquor once each Spicej ^ 
more, having let it boil a Walme or two after 
the Spices have been put in: This being done,e- *h?o^lTa"can^^^^^^ 
vaporate away the fuperfluous water to the Bag. 
confidence of an extraft, or to what other con- 
fiftence you pleafe. 
Laftly, incorporate very well with it two, or at moft three 
ounces of the beft Safron reduc'd to fine f f ( Some times the 
powder. Author inftead of 
the Powder makes 
ule of as much extra^ as can be obtain'd from that quantity of Safron.} 
According to the confifteoce you defire to have your Medi- 
cine of, you may order it fo^as either to make it up into a Mafs 
of Pills (in which form I have caus'd it to be given,) ey keep 
it in a liquid form 5 but in this later cafe the Evaporation muft 
have been made more fparingly, that after the f cor its cx- 
putting in of the f Safron it may not grow too traa.) 
thick. In this form the dofe may be from five or fix drops to 
Ten, or fewer, according to.Circumftances^ and of the pills 
a fomewhat lefs quantity is required. 
