Opiologia: or, A treatise concerning the nature, properties, true preparation and safe vse and administration of opium For the comfort and ease of all such persons as are inwardly afflicted with any extreame griefe, or languishing paine, especially such as depriue the body of all naturall rest, and can be cured by no other meanes or medicine whatsoeuer. Dedicated to the illustrious, high and mighty lords, the estates generall of the vnited prouinces in the Netherlands. By Angelus Sala Vincentinus Venitus. And done into English, and something inlarged by Tho. Bretnor. M. M.

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Opiologia: or, A treatise concerning the nature, properties, true preparation and safe vse and administration of opium For the comfort and ease of all such persons as are inwardly afflicted with any extreame griefe, or languishing paine, especially such as depriue the body of all naturall rest, and can be cured by no other meanes or medicine whatsoeuer. Dedicated to the illustrious, high and mighty lords, the estates generall of the vnited prouinces in the Netherlands. By Angelus Sala Vincentinus Venitus. And done into English, and something inlarged by Tho. Bretnor. M. M.

Author

Sala, Angelus, 1576-1637.

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London :: Printed by Nicholas Okes,

1618.

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Opium -- Early works to 1800.

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Contents

• title page
• To the Learned, and my worthily respected friends, D. BONHAM, and Maister NICHOLAS CARTER Physitions.
• To the ingenious and indif∣ferent Reader.
• The Authour his Preface to the Reader.
• Ad Authorem.
• Mods extrahendi papaueris succum.
• OPIOLOGIA.
  • CHAPTER. 1. The opinion of Ancient Physitions, concer∣ning the naturall proprietie and vertues of Opium.
    • A Small Tract of Opium, taken out of the 13 Booke and 15 Chapter of Peter Bellon his Historie of the singularities of some memorable things found in Greece, Asia, and other Countries.
  • CHAP. II. Of the assurance we haue that Opium may bee vsed, and taken crude or mixed in Medi∣cines without any preiudice or indangering the Patients life at all.
  • CHAP. III. Concerning the good and euill affects which Opium may produce in mens bodies.
  • CHAP. IIII. Wherein is shewed the Counsell and aduise of Theophrastus Paracelsus, concerning Medicines Narcoticall or Anodynes, and in particular that of Opium.
  • CHAP. V. Of the inuention or meanes how to prepare Opium well, and wherein it generally cons∣steth.
  • CHAP. VI. Conteyning three manners, or waies to depri Opium from its naroticall, stupefactiue an nuisible Sulphur, which must be done be∣fore its essentiall extract can be drawne.
  • CHAP. VII. How the incture, quintessece or (as some call it the substance of Opium) is to be ex∣tracted, wherein his manifold vertues con∣sist, and how to depriue or take away his maligne acrimony.
  • CHAP. VIII. Concerning the diuersitie of those opiating com∣positions, which the Spagirists call Lau∣danums.
    • The first Laudanum or specificall Anodyne is that of Theophrastus Paracelsus, which he thus describeth in the seuenth booke of his Archidoxes.
    • The second Laudanum is that which Quer∣cetanus appointeth in his Pharmacopaea. pag. 203.
    • The third Laudanum is that of Oswaldus Crollius, according to his description in his Basilica Chymica.
    • The fourth Laudanum is the Authors Ne∣penthes Aurea.
    • Laudanum siue philonium nostrum.
    • Laudanum paestantisse. D. Bohami.
    • Vsus huius est.
    • Cautio.
    • Extractio gum. hyosc.
    • Aduertisments.
  • CHAP. IX. Concerning the vertues and vse of all opiating Laudanums, aswell in generall as parti∣cular.
    • The properties of euery Laudanum, which is well prepared and corrected, as beforesayd, are principally sixe.
    • Laudanum is more particularly vsed with good successe in these diseases following.
    • Certaine Cautions and aduertisements for the better and more safe vse of Laudanum.
  • CHAP. X. Confuting three erronious obiections which may be proposed against the vse of Lauda∣num.
    • The Obiections.
    • The Answere.
• Faults escaped in the Printing.
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