Tables of Ancient Coins ,

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Several Catapotia.

A Catapotium is a general Name for a Medicine that is {wal-lowed solid without being dissolved, and most commonlymade up in Pills.

A Catapotium for a Cough with Spitting.

Croci pondo unciæ, Myrrhœ P.fextantis, Opii pond. quadrantis.Contunditur Crocum 3 prœscribatur ,contusœ Myrrhœ Opium admisceturaqua exigua dilutum. Pojlea ad-jicitur Crocum, & cum in unumhene mixta sunt 3 finguntur pilulœernji magnitudinis : dantur in nodeternœ <vel quaternœ.

R Of Saffron {even Drachms,seventeen Grains, of Myrrh dou-ble the Quantity, of Opium tri-ble.To Myrrh bruised add the O-pium dissolved in a little Water,afterwards the Saffron; after itis bruised and strained, and madeup in Pills of the Bigness of afort of Vetch, three or four ofthem in a Night.

What is remarkable in this Pill is, that the Opium is just onehalf of the Ingredients; the Pill can hardly be less than two Grains,consequently the Patient takes a Grain of Opium at a time, threeor four times in a Night.

A Catapotium for a dry Cough.

Myrrhœ 3 Piperis 3 Castorei, Gal- R Myrrh, Peper, Castor, Gal-hani, St orach , Opii, jingulorum i- banum, Storax, Opium, equaldem pondus. Cajloreum & Pi- parts. Bruise and sift the Ca-

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