This Essay he entitles "Mortis Imago," and he, therein, discusses the Vinum letiferum, the Beatifica, the Somnus Angelorum, the Hypnus Sagarum, the Aqua Thessalliæ,
and about twenty other infusions and distillations, well known to the
sages of eight hundred years ago, and two of which are still, he
alleges, known to the fraternity of thieves, and, among them, as
police-office inquiries sometimes disclose to this day, in practical
use.