Opiologia: or, A treatise concerning the nature, properties, true preparation and safe vse and administration of opium For the comfort and ease of all such persons as are inwardly afflicted with any extreame griefe, or languishing paine, especially such as depriue the body of all naturall rest, and can be cured by no other meanes or medicine whatsoeuer. Dedicated to the illustrious, high and mighty lords, the estates generall of the vnited prouinces in the Netherlands. By Angelus Sala Vincentinus Venitus. And done into English, and something inlarged by Tho. Bretnor. M. M.
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Opiologia: or, A treatise concerning the nature, properties, true preparation and safe vse and administration of opium For the comfort and ease of all such persons as are inwardly afflicted with any extreame griefe, or languishing paine, especially such as depriue the body of all naturall rest, and can be cured by no other meanes or medicine whatsoeuer. Dedicated to the illustrious, high and mighty lords, the estates generall of the vnited prouinces in the Netherlands. By Angelus Sala Vincentinus Venitus. And done into English, and something inlarged by Tho. Bretnor. M. M.
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Sala, Angelus, 1576-1637.
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London :: Printed by Nicholas Okes,
1618.
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Opium -- Early works to 1800.
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"Opiologia: or, A treatise concerning the nature, properties, true preparation and safe vse and administration of opium For the comfort and ease of all such persons as are inwardly afflicted with any extreame griefe, or languishing paine, especially such as depriue the body of all naturall rest, and can be cured by no other meanes or medicine whatsoeuer. Dedicated to the illustrious, high and mighty lords, the estates generall of the vnited prouinces in the Netherlands. By Angelus Sala Vincentinus Venitus. And done into English, and something inlarged by Tho. Bretnor. M. M." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A11334.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 6, 2025.
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The Obiections.
1 First that Laudanum, being principally composed of Opium, and still re••eyning its Somniferous propertie, might consequently suffocate naturall heate, and benum and stu∣p••fie all the senses.
2 Seeing Laudanum doth incrassate & thic∣ken the subtill humors, it followed that al∣though it did cease paine for the time, yet afterwards it made the cause of the sicknesse malignant, fixed and incurable.
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3 That it hath beene obserued, that some sicke people haue died some few houres after the taking of Laudanū, inconsideration wher∣of we should abstaine from its vse altogether.
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