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tributed ihose disagreeable effects upon the stomach and nervous 

 system, which so frequently follow their operation and limit their 

 usefulness. 



This Elixir may be adopted in all those cases in which either 

 Opium or its preparations are administered, with the certainty of 

 obtaining all their sedative, anodyne, and antispasmodic effects, 

 without any of those disagreeable consequences of headache, nausea, 

 vomiting, constipation, tremors, and a train of other unhappy symp- 

 toms, which are often as distressing as those which it was applied to 

 remove. 



The Elixir of Opium is not only superior to the artificial com- 

 pounds of Morphine, in its being more mild, permanent, and uniform 

 in its effects, but the preparation possesses also a superior advantage 

 to their solutions, in not being liable to decomposition or deteriora- 

 tion from variable temperature or long keeping — a serious objection 

 to which the latter are exposed. 



Finally, Morphine, not being the full representative of Opium, 

 cannot alone, and that in artificial combination, too, produce all the 

 characteristic effects of so triumphant a remedy, when so many of 

 its other valuable principles, as Codein, Narcein, and Meconic Acid, 

 are excluded. 



Those who take Opium and its ordinary preparations, cannot be 

 gnorant of the fact that its distressing and pernicious effects result 

 from the operation of its deleterious principles, and that the tremors, 

 languor, and lassitude with which its devotees are afflicted, and for 

 which they repeat the dose to relieve, are sensations of its own cre- 

 ation. But in consequence of the exclusion of those deleterious 

 principles from the Elixir of Opium, it is not liable to derange the 

 functions of the system, nor injure the constitution and general 

 health ; hence its high superiority in all those cases in which the 

 long continued and liberal use of opiates are indicated and necessary 

 to allay pain and spasmodic action, and induce sleep and composure, 

 as in cases of fractures, burns or scalds, cancerous ulcers, and other 



painful affections. 



And to those persons who, from necessity or other causes, have 

 been accustomed to the use of Opium, this preparation will afford a 

 gratifying substitute, as it operates effectually, as an anodyne, reliev- 

 ing pain and spasmodic action, which is the grand desideratum in 

 its use. 



TESTIMONIALS. 



From Dr. Chilton, the eminent Chemist of New York, in proof of 



the accomplishment of this discovery. 



Dr. John B. McMunn having made known to me the process 

 by which he prepares his Elixir of Opium, and wishing me to state 



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