An essay of health and long life / By George Cheyne.

  • George Cheyne
Date:
1725
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Credit: An essay of health and long life / By George Cheyne. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    §. 13. In fine, Providence has been kind and gracious to us beyond all Ex- predion, in furnifhing us with a certain Relief.’ if not a Remedy, even to our moft intenfe Pains and extreme Miferies. When our Patience can hold out no longer,^and our Pains are at laft come to be infupportable, we have always ready at Hand a Medicine, which is not only a prefent Relief, but, I may fay, a Handing and con ft ant Miracle. Thofe only who have wanted it moft, and have felt its friendly and kind Help in their Tortures, can befit tell its wonderful Effects, and the great Goodnejs of Him who has beftowed it on us. I mean Opiumx and its Solution Laudanum, which, when properly prefcribed, and prudently managed, is a moft certain and fudden Relief in all exquifite and intenfe Pain. The Manner of its Ope¬ ration may be gathered, from the Ob- fervations 1 have made in the preceding Treatife. #Pain conftri&s, crifps up, Ifhortens and contracts animal Fibres. It a£fcs like a Wedge in tearing, rending and dividing thefe fmall Filaments ; it does to them in a living Body, what the Points of Salts do to all animal Sub- fiances,
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