An experimental inquiry into the properties of opium : and its effects on living subjects: with observations on its history, preparations and uses. Being the disputation which gained the Harveian prize for the year 1785 / By John Leigh.

  • Leigh, John, active 1786.
Date:
1786
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Credit: An experimental inquiry into the properties of opium : and its effects on living subjects: with observations on its history, preparations and uses. Being the disputation which gained the Harveian prize for the year 1785 / By John Leigh. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of Ele&arium Japonicum, which feems much more elegant and valuable; but even in this the quantity of opium is very final], ten fcruples of the eleeluary only contain- ing one grain of the opium. This is con- fidered as a moderately warm aftringent and opiate. Confectio Paulina. (£.) In this the proportion of opium is one grain to thirty-two of the other ingredi- ents. It is ufed as a warm opiate medi- cine. If this preparation has been found nfeful, perhaps the opium is intitled to the fmalleft fhare of the merit, as its quan- tity is fin all, and all the other ingredients of a warm and a&ive nature. ft ! Philo- /