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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    CHAP. XL. Of the Alterative Ufe of the Panacea of Opium. Y P U fee the mighty Extent and general life of 1 . yls Panacea of Opium as a Pleaftr of Sen fatten- whic,i takes up the Nine laft Chapter,, to mention the Heads of its Performances without defending in. to ail particulars, becaule their Number is inde- nmte. How univerra! then muft its Ufe be, when we add thereto its Effects as a confummate Alterative which, I Invigorates Nature by comforting the fub- limelt Principles thereof, vi%. the fenfuive Soul and Sprats, that are the Original of ali Motion and Action. 2. Furnijhes them with an indefatigable Ets. fbory m the great Bufinefs of our PrTfetvatim. 3. / ttts toe befl Means into the Hands of invigorated Nature for that End, that is, moft agreeable Prinei. pes, even more powerful, and of a greater Energy than our own; which muft (as agreeable and exalted Menfiruums do) refolve all Humours congregating the good, and homogeneous, and Se¬ parating the effete and heterogeneous Parts, which ,4- anf d’jfipates, by its brisk and atftive Volatile Salt, and at laft, y. conveys out of the Body by a liberal Perforation, the moft natural univerfal and copious, Way of Evacuation. J * All which being confidered, it is (Itbink > ma» IJifelt, that if muft excel all other Panaceas.