Pratical hints on opium considered as a poison / [Robert Hamilton].
- Hamilton, Robert, 1749-1830
- Date:
- 1790
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Pratical hints on opium considered as a poison / [Robert Hamilton]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![&c. the analogy thus far holds good, that in this as in thofe there is a fufpenfion of the functions from a deprivation of feniibility in the fyftem. In thofe Electricity is ftrongly recommended. The writer of thefe hints will not enter here into that part of the Pathology which fuppofes the operation of the Opium to be by augmenting, or rarefying the volume of the blood in the fanguiferous fyftem in genera], and the head in particular, where¬ by a turgefcence, and over-diftention of the Veflels of this organ are faid to be parti- cuarly p refen t, and from which the fymp- toms of apoplexy are argued to arife, Of this opinion among others was the celebra¬ ted Mead. He affirms that it enflames the Stomach, and rarefies the blood to fiich a degree, that the Veflels cannot again reco¬ il](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30361576_0011.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
