Aprit, 1842. 
ADVERTISING SHEET 
OF THE . 
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE. 
DR. McMUNN’S 
ELIXIR OF OPIUM. 
This is a new chemical — containing all the valuable 
medicinal qualities of Opium, ina natural state of combination, to 
the exclusion of its noxious atx ipl 
Full proportions of the greatest nuinber of the noxious principles 
of Opium are contained in Laudanum, Paregoric, Black-drop, De- 
narcotized Laudanum, Extract of Opium, and such other opiate 
preparations of this class hitherto made, and to which are justly at- 
|tributed those disagreeable effects upon the stomach and nervous 
system, which so frequently follow their oteson and Jimit 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 sedlive, anodyne, and antispasmodic effects, 
ae any of those disagreeable consequences of headache, nausea, 
miting, constipation, tremors, and a train of other unhappy symp- 
8 whick are often as distressing as those which it was applied to 
remo 
The Elixir of Optum i 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 expose 
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 rem medy, w when so many o 
its other valuable principles, as Codein, spun and Meconic Acid, 
are excluded. 
Those who take Opium and its ordinary preparations, cannot be 
ignorant of the fact tbat its distressing and pernicious effects result 
from the operation of its deleterious principles, and that the tremors, 
languor, and Jassitude with which its devotees are afflicted, and for 
