Pratical hints on opium considered as a poison / [Robert Hamilton].

  • Robert Hamilton
Date:
1790
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Credit: Pratical hints on opium considered as a poison / [Robert Hamilton]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fiances of the Materia Medica : or jfhould the like again take place, that they may from thefe hints, be the better prepared to put in force the means of cure, he fubmits to their confideration, which on many fuch occaiions, (for too many fuch are on record) have been found effectual when they were had early recourfe to, and flirenuoufly applied. * This drug of high ufe, and deferved ef- timation in Medicine, like many others of the virulent Vegetable Poifons, becomes, when incautioufly exhibited by thofe lefs acquainted with its powers, and when given thro’ miftake, fpeedily deftrudtive; chang¬ ing the regular motions of the living body into irregular and violent; inducing ftupe- fadlion; convulhons; appoplexy &c. foon to be followed by a total deprivation of life.* * Eos, qui Opium copiofius acccperunt, fequitur in fomnum gravem collapfio, mentis fopor, et fenfus ab~
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