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tributed those 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, 
toms, which are often as distressing as those which it was applied to 
remove. 
pounds of Morphine, in its being more mak, 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 
its other valuable principles, as Codein, Narcein, and Meconic Acid, 
are excluded. 
functions of the system, nor injure the constitution and general 
health ; hence its high superiority in all those cases in which the 
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 wil] afford @ 
gratifying substitute, as it operates eff i 
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without any of those disagreeable consequences of headache, nausea,| 
vomiting, constipation, tremors, and a train of other unhappy symp-| 
The Elixir of Opium is not only superior to the artificial com-) 
long continued and liberal use of opiates are indicated and necessary} 
effectually, as an anodyne, reliev-| 
grand desideratum In 
From Dr. Chilton, the eminent , 
Chemist of New York, in proof of| 
