OPIUM. 
It is neceffary, however, to take 
om- 
the form of tincture. 
heed that it be not combined with {ubitances which dec 
been ae Ai accuftomed to the ufe of it; a 
might prove fatal in cholera or 5 ole = not a ° Percept 
fe) t four 
gra angerous dofe is fo apt to eredack soailing 
that it neg feldom time to occafion death. When given in 
too {mall a dofe, it often produces difturbed fleep, and other 
ioe confequences; and in fome cafes it feems aig 
offible to be aedet to agree in any dofe or form. Ofte 
on the ie hand, from a {mall dofe, found des and allevi. 
ation of pain will be produced, while a larger one occafions 
Some prefer the repetition of fmall 
otherwife prove ree 
and they who habituate jane to opinm, find it as 
neceflary as {pirituous liquors to tiplers, and can take fifty 
or fixty grains: Charas fays, that he has taken twelve grains 
himfelf, and adds, that he knows one who made no {cruple 
of thirty-fix. And in the Phil. Tranf. we have an inftance 
of one Mr. Lovelock, who, ina fever, in three days time, 
took one hundred and two grains. 
few grains will deftroy a perfon unaccuftomed to it; 
but fome diforders, as madnefs, enervate its force. on 
the Eaftern nations, a dram ium is but a moderate dofe 
they go to 
re arcias mentions o rams every 
day, an ough fhe appeared ftupid and fleepy, yet 
a e e 
remarkable that, notwithftandin 
act o 
vinous fpirits; the ill effects of both differ little 
See Wedelius in his Opiologia, and Geoffroy’s Materia 
Medica Plater firms that wine is narcotic, and Syden- 
ham, that opium is the moft excellent cordial in nature. 
Dr. Smyth, while at Smyrna, tock pains to obferve what 
ofes a opium taken by the Turks, in general, were. 
om found that three drams in a day were a common quan- 
iiy among the larger takers of it, but that they could take 
without mifchicf, A Turk eat this quan- 
chearfulnefs. 
pairs the aveunlae, the 8 one ho accuftom themfelves 
to it, can b eans live without it, and are feeble and 
weak ; their be are ufually thin, and their gums eaten 
away, fo that the teeth ftand bare to the roots; they are 
alfo often of a yellow complexion, and look much older 
than they really are. Turkifh meffengers, when fent 
upon butinefs of hafte, always aaa! opium with them, and 
take largely of it when tired; they fay it immediately gives 
them ftrength and wate to proceed, taken with proper pre- 
caution, ae 
The 
es ng ufe of it are, that ey foon look 
old and befotted, like fuch as in Europe have ruined their 
ses aa by hard drinking. The habitual ufe of it can- 
is much reprobated. 
obfti 
ree with lo: 
And i ay be confidere 
feldom live to a good ol 
confequences of hard drinking among ut g 
loft their memory, and moft of their eas ee 
they decline, in all appear = in the fame way as thofe w 
fink under the weight of 
We have an account, in “the Memoirs of -the — of 
Sciences at Paris, of the death of a young man at Ca airg, 
from his being decoyed into taking a very large dofe of this 
medicine. Among a number of F Youre pee in that city, 
ho always 
Cad 
gay 
a. 
ipecacuhane comp., p 
_ oe opil Sano, and trochifci sep 
e 
o fm all piec a part sige it in 
e refiduary liquor, and evaporating 
it until the extract be of a proper thicknefs. Purifie . 
opiu 
