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Laudanum. St. & Mor.

{Recipe} Salis petræ & {tartar}i ana {pound} i detonent prunâ accenso, agitentorque Bacillo ferreo, Elixa, filtra, salemque exiccato.

Huius {Recipe} unciam unam, Aceti destillati libram: solve in eodem salem, ac in eodem['o' altered from 'a'] macera Opii optimi unciam unam. Filtra, lento igne ad Mellaginem evapora; tum in Vini Rhenani optimi pintâ solve, Dosis cochleare unum ad cochlearia bina, in vini Aromatici {ounce} iiii sub noctem.

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Oculos Cancrorum {Recipe} eorum Pulveratorum {ounce} i solve in librâ vini Rhenani optimi, decanta, cum hoc Opii unciam unam solve, & filtra, & utere eo['o' altered from 'a'] ut supra.

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Alcali tartari aquâ solutam, filtratum, Coque in sartagine ferrea cum {antimony}ii subtiliter levigati ana, dum siccatur agita pistillo buxeo fortiter; cumque prorsus siccus est (aquæ triplo) madefac iterum; atque exicca; hoc ter repete, Cola tum Lixivium, ac cum eodem opium['o' altered from 'a'] corrige sic, ad Lixivii {ounce} iiii adde vini Rhenani {ounce} xvi in hoc opium (in Cineribus calidis 24 horis) macera, filtra, & ad usum serva. Dosis Cochleare unum in vino Aromatico, Contra Tussim & Asthma.

Eiusdem Menstruum {circle}.

{Recipe} Urinam antiquam, distilla spiritum totum, hunc ter rectifica, ac dein cum spiritu vini 4er rectifica; vice quâ vis abjiciendo Phlegma. tum ab Aceto vice quavis renovato distilla quinies, & habebis spiritum sine omni foetore, solventem sine repassione.

NB. After the third Destillation, the spirit will be about a fourth of the whole Urine. NB Equall quantity of onely Good Spirit of Wine & Spirit of Urine. The Coagulum comes over first & the subsequent spirit dissolves it. NB Equall quantity of Vinegar in relation to the Spiritus Compositus: the more vinegar the fewer Cohobations will serve. Distill it till the Phlegme, (made of the Vinegar) begin to ascend.

Doctor Boat's Receipt for the Stone verbatim as I had it from himselfe.

Flint stones red hot quenched in Rhenish wine 3 times; a stone as big as a Fist in 3 pints. in colaturâ dissolve syrupi Nympheæ compos. & Altheæ ana {ounce} i 1/2.

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Ens {copper} fixum. St.

{sal ammoniac} per se sublima quantum potes; cum aquæ tanto quantum sat sit, solve; cum hac solutione imbibe Colchotar vitrioli Dantiscani optimi proportione anaticâ [respectu salis Ammoniaci non dissoluti;] Colchotare dulcificato prius optimè á suo sale: exsicca ac sublima quantum possis, sublimatum capiti mortuo redde ac resublima; hoc quater repete; sic fixantur omnia in fundo, non totaliter.

Ex his elixando solve quantum potes & filtra; Coque ad Cuticulam, Vitriolum habes Saccharinæ dulcedinis; quod si forti igne per retortam pellas, habebis liquorem viridem volatilem [Dosis à Granis ii ad grana v vel vi.

Sic procede cum ferro, item cum coraliis; item cum Zink; item cum Regulo {iron}is & successum mirabere. Item cum Ludo.

{Recipe} {antimony}ii part. i {nitre} part. 2. terantur & misceantur, accendantur carbone vivo, & inter detonandum agitentur Continuô, sic fiet massa alba ad modum, Elixa salem, & a pulvere albo['b' altered from 's'], (non dissolubili, at fundum petente) separa per decantationem, pulverem exicca.

{Recipe} huius pulveris & Calcinati {tartar}i cum æquali {nitre} pondere ana, misce probe in mortario, mista triquetro imposita in igne candenti continua ad horas 2, ita quod incerentur quasi, & fluitura appareant, at non fluant; tum exime, & in aqua soluta permitte inclarescere, Clarum liquorem decanta, & ad cuticulam fermè ebulli; liquorem hunc causticum ad modum <{urine}e>[replacing 'soyle'] minerali indole acuato ad usum serva.

Huius accipe partem unam, ex quocunque Malitiæ Crescentis genere partes duas, misce Fortiter in Mortario, & in vase vitreo Compressa serva ad mensem, quavis septimanâ fortiter impastando.

Dosis est quatèr tantum,quantum in sui simplicitate sine vitæ periculò adhiberi possit['ss' altered from 'tu']: in acutis & scirrosis, & dolorosis {opium} (opii) sub quadruplum admiscere sum solitus.

In morbillis commisce, Hellebori & Gummi Guttæ ana part. ii opium; part. i salis pondus duplum ad reliquæ