fizo8 y 
s© or 20 grains, ’twould have the fame effeft as if they 
had drank 10 Bottles ©f Wine. 
They fay it makes them very flout and luxurious, but 
thofe that ufe it daily and too often, do bring themfelves 
at laft to i or 2 ounces 5 but then it will not have that 
effeft, but rather the quite contrary, rend ring them dull 
and doting, , depriving them, of their Memory together 
with the Appetite, and at laft making them fo lean, that 
they would have hardly any Flefh upon their Bones y and 
this is. the ufe the Moorijh Kings make of it, when they 
have a mind to be rid of their great Lords, whom they 
would make dye a lingring Death, they caufe fuch a 
Drink to be made, into which they infufe alfo the Seeds 
of Poppies, and give it them twice a day to drink in the 
Prifon, more or lefs, ' according as they have a mind to 
difpatch them, fooner or later y infomuch that they Stall 
live halt a year or a whole year without knowing any 
thing of the matter. They call this Drink Bofla. 
This Seed is little ufed by them in Phyfick, tho I; 
doubt not that it might be excellently well apply'd, be- 
eaufe it does not only imitate the effefts of Opium, but 
alfo, if there be not too much of it us’d at a time, it has 
the fame operation as the beft Wine : So much- for the 
Defcription of this Seed called Cancie — — This Seed is 
about the bignefs of Hempfeed, and ha* likewife fuch a 
hard Skin, fo that one would be apt to take it for 0 , 
I took fome of the laft mention’d Seeds and ftripped the 
hard Skins from them, and after that the thin Membrane 
that covers, the Plant, and obferved that the Matter 
which lay within was, as it appeared to me,, nothing elfe 
but two Leafs and the Root and Body of a Plant 3 but 
when I feparated thofe two Leafs, I found that they in- 
volved two other very fmall Leafs, long and (lender, 
and of the figure of the former 5. and I alfo difcover’d 
that thefe (mail Leafs had each of them four or five 
final! ones (landing, out above one another, from whence 
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