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learned physician; our intention is to warn 

 the incautious against the use of a medicine 

 as deadly poisonous when ignorantly applied, 

 as it is superior to all opiates when adminis- 

 tered by the skilful in physic. Its powers 

 are too effective to be left to the discretion 

 of careless nurses, and it should be as rarely 

 as possible taken, except from the hands of 

 those who have made medicine their study. 

 Persons who have accustomed themselves 

 to use it as a stimulus to sleep, we would 

 strongly advise to lessen their daily portion 

 by such gradations as will enable them 

 to do it more effectually than by a sudden 

 change. 



For is there aught in sleep can charm the wise, 

 To lie in dead oblivion, losing half 

 The fleeting moments of too short a life — 

 Total extinction of the enlightened soul ? 



Thomson. 



To such as have accustomed themselves 

 to abuse their minds and constitutions by 

 the stimulating and intoxicating powers of 

 opium, we would recommend a similar course 

 to what was prescribed to, and followed with 

 success by a gentleman who had so habitua- 

 ted himself to the drinking of spirits, that it 

 seemed equally dangerous to abstain from or 



