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

  • George Cheyne
Date:
1725
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    be given with proper Volatiles, Anti- hyftericks and Attenuants. In violent and acute Pain, the firft Dofe ought to be large, at leaft from thirty to forty-jive Dops of liquid Laudanum y or its Equi¬ valent in Opium, from two Grains and a half, to three and a half; and after¬ wards to be increafed by fifteen Drops of Liquid, or half a Grain of folid Laudanum every half Hour, till the Pain begin to remit > and then an intire flop is to be put to its Adminiftration* And thus the End will be obtained without any Fear of over-dofing. And the Truth is, there is lefs Hazard of that, than Perfons are aware. For thofe who die of an Over-dofe of Laudanum in the Opinion of the World, would have lived few Days without it. For there are thofe that by Cuftom, have brought themfelves to two Drams of folid, that is, near fix Ounces of liquid Laudanum a Day. And I know a Gentleman who took near three Ounces at once, inftead of Elixir Salutis, and had never taken any in his Life before > who (though it extreamly weakened his Stomach for fome Time, and that he dofed almoft a Month under it) yet did well, and, for ought I know, is alive Ff 2 ft ill 3
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