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the Eyes and Ears, according to Galen, opiate Com- 
portions are extremely injurious ; for they impair 
both the Sight and Hearing. In Wounds likewife 
they often bring on a Gangrene. 
1 5. The fame Judgment muft be formed of other 
papaverine Medicines as of Opium, though their fo- 
poriferous Virtue is much weaker. 
In thefe the Heads of the white Poppy are chief- 
ly employed, from which, being gathered when 
mature, and kept dry, are prepared Infuficns and 
Decoctions ; as alfo a Syrup, commonly called Dia - 
tedium. The Seeds are left out of thefe Compofi- 
tions ; becaufe they are not foporiferous, but oily 
and nutritive. Formerly they were made into 
Bread, as Diof cor ides relates. And not only the 
Seeds of the white Poppy are alimentary, but thofe 
of the black Poppy alfo •, fince Mattbiolus writes, 
that the Inhabitants of the Valleys about Trent, of 
Stiria , and the upper Auflria^ eat Cakes made of 
the Seeds of both Sorts of Poppy with Meal j and 
though they conftantiy ufe the Oils expreffed from 
thefe Seeds with their Food, yet are not drowfy, 
nor fleep longer than common. And in the Year 
1710, the Olive-Trees being killed by the Cold of 
the Winter, the fame Oils were commonly ufed 
here inftead of the Oil of Olives, without any fen- 
fible Inconvenience. Moreover, Tour nc fort hath ob- 
ferved, that the Ladies of Genoa eat white Poppy- 
Seeds with Sugar in great Abundance, and are not 
Jethargick, or the more fleepy for them. Where- 
fore, in preparing Emulfions to foften the Acrimo- 
ny of the Humours and to abate their Efrervefcence, 
the- Seed of the white Poppy is fluently mixed 
with the four greater cold Seeds. The Oil is like- 
wife drawn from it for external Ufe in Liniments 
and Unguen:s. 
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