Volume 1

The mysteries of opium reveal'd / by Dr. John Jones.

  • John Jones
Date:
1701
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The mysteries of opium reveal'd / by Dr. John Jones. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of ee put after /, and of e before / (to help the Confonants tofound) makes them feem unlike, by reafon of the different Vowels3 fo difc ferentiy placed ; whereas pi and /, having the fame Vowel alike placed after them, do truly foew their likenefs without confufion, It is by Rea¬ fon of this Likenefs, ThatF/^’ ( Are founded\SMk\ - , ' t Sapphire^ > £$affire} Or Sajire* &c. That T&nuxov is Tranflated Troph^um (or Tro- fleam) a Trophy. Befides, that the Arabians did and do very commonly change p to/, £ Fjunta ^ > C Poeonia. Saying<0/*w, SFord Opium. C C &c. And this likenefs of the Sound of p and /, is the Reafon why ph is written for / becaufe h lignifies the found of Breath expired, which if you ufe upon founding p, it will be the found of// fo that/is a kind of a breathing p} that is ph. Of which Matter, the Curious in fuch Things may find more to their fotisfa<5Hon in my Phono« graphy, when publifhed, which, I hope, will be fuddenly, if not before this Book. They call it, in fbme of the Eafiern Countries, Affium, or Affion, inftead of Ofium% it being ufoal in all Countries to change the harder, and harjher found of 0, to that of a> which is like it, but eafer and fleeter9 It is hence* B 3 That