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 May 22, 2024.
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The third Laudanum is that of Oswaldus Crollius, according to his description in his Basilica Chymica.
BEfore Crollius describeth his Laudanum, he commendeth the vsage of all Anodynes generally in this manner. Multi sunt morbi, qui abs{que} Anodynis sanari non possuns: Ergo in omnium morborum curationibus, vbi dolorum co∣mites vigiliae, virium{que} resolutiones adfuerint, Anodyna intrinseca appropriata possunt admini∣strari, vt ablatis symptomatum ipsis radieibus per∣nitiosorum cruciatibus, amica quies naturae rod∣datur. Afterwards setting downe the com∣position of his Laudanum (which hee calleth Laudanum paracelsi) he describeth it thus.
℞ Opij Theb. ℥iij. suc. Hyoscyam. deb. tem∣pore collect. & in ☉. prius inspissat. ℥j.ss. Spec. Diamb. & Diamosch. fideliter dispensatorum ana ℥ij. ss, mumiuae transmarinae select. ℥ss, Salis Perla∣rum,
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Corallorum ana ʒiij. liquor. succini albi per Alcohol vin•• extract. Oss. de Cord. Cervi ana ʒj. lap. Bezoad. vnicorn. animalis vel miner. ana ʒj. Mosch. Ambr. ana ℈j.
In defectu auri potab. nullis corrosiuis coniq••i∣nati addantur oleorum anisi, carvi, aurant. nuc. myr. caryoph. cinamo. succ. ana gut. 12.
Fi. ex his S. A. chym. massa seu extranctum, •• quo ad necessarios vsus possint pillulae eff orman And proceeding forward he noteth certaine obseruations concerning the Anteprepara∣tion of Opium and Hyosciamus and other cir∣cumstances, as also in particular the manner and way of their composition: the Dose hereof according to the Author, is from two graines to foure, and touching its vertues shalbe declared hereafter.
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