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A11334	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.	Sala, Angelus, 1576-1637.; Bretnor, Thomas, fl. 1607-1618, tr., ed.	1618 (1618)	STC 21594; ESTC S101645	41,817	118

are alwaies good seeing without thē no man can liue we may easily perceiue the v●ritie hereof by the example of any man who hauing watched and trauailed moderately vntill at last hee become drowsie and faint who after a little sleepe and repose being awakened becommeth as liuely and frolicke as at first But if this man returne to his labour and redouble his paines watching in such sort that hee surpasse the limits of his strength and so long vntill his vitall animall and naturall functions be vtterly disbanded and weakned making such an exceeding alteration in his body and turning it quite vpside-downe so that a dangerous and mortall disease insue Now in this case if he betake himselfe to this Medicine for rest and sleepe thinking to finde like benefit and comfort as before he shal be so farre from enioying the same that quite contrary he must needs pay the price of his life for his vaine excesse and intemperance After the very same manner may wee iudge of such a sicke person as hath wanted sleepe beyond measure indured intollerable paines taken no food or nourishment and become extreame weake and at point of death who afterwards falling into a little sleepe of himselfe or by meanes of a little Laudanum or a spoone-full or two of some restauratiue liquor to comfort him insteed of recouering his life by any of these hee doubtlesse dies the cause of his death notwithstanding ought not to bee imputed to the little sleepe hee had nor to the taking of the Cordiall seeing that sleepe and nourishment are two necessary things for the preseruation of life but rather in regard that death hauing seized vpon them these things could not produce those good effects which by natures intention they were ordained and appointed for Let this suffice then to confute the third obiection aforesaid in defence of well prepared and discreetly administred Laudanum For if any man vsing Opium as the Turkes doe or Henbane Mandrage or any other Narcotiall thing so crude raw il-prepared or vncorrected hath or doth cōmit any notable error in that behalfe it is farre from my scope or intention to defend any such abuse my desire is rather that Physitions should beware how they deale with simple people and lest the Art should bee slaundered there ought to bee a fit time elected for the giuing of Laudanum that is at the first incounter of the disease when there is good hope of cure considering that wee must not onely haue regard to purge Phlebomize prescribe a Dyet c. to our Patients but also to comfort and restore to aduance and bring them to their naturall rest and to cease and qualifie their torments Moreouer wee should omit no occasion at any time to ease and succour our neighbour euen vntill the point of death in all things wee may or can possibly euen as wee would bee serued our selues in the like ●ase and that with all conuenient exceptions and protestation for the reason aforesayd And this shall suffice for conclusion of this present Treatise Now I protest to euery one that shall read this same that I haue no pretension in this discourse to iniure or detract from those which worthily make profession of Physick but onely desire to amplifie the knowledge of this medicine for the benefit of such persons as are ignorant thereof as I haue before sayd in my Preface And also to manifest the paines which I take and the diligence I bestow to find out the properties preparation and true vse of such things as are especially conuenient and necessary in Physicke and consequently to make it appeare that those which mooued with their owne proper passions shall speake any thing against me deceiue themselues and derogate from that Noble name whence they are called Christians thinking it no wrong to detract from anothers honour so they may by that meanes or any other augment their owne which I would haue construed with all modest exception intending not to touch any one mans name more than another if their owne tongues bee not their owne accusors wherby if they chance to manifest themselues they shall haue no occasion to blame me and therefore I commit my right to him which only knowes the hearts of men and who administreth Iustice Equity Mercie and Grace vnto all his Creatures to whom bee glorie for euer and euer Amen FINIS Faults escaped in the Printing IN the Epistle Dedicatory Pag. 12. line 10. reade Calci●ing In the Authors Preface p. 12. l. 6. r. iucundé In the treatise p. 2. l. 1. r. Dioscorides p. 11. l. 12. r nuisance p. 15. l. 1. r. Complicentur p. 19. l. 17. for amongst r. against p. 49. l. 16. r. Mellis LICENSED Feb. 21. 1669. Roger L'Estrange

of them in manner as followeth The Obiections 1 First that Laudanum being principally composed of Opium and still re●eyning its Somniferous propertie might consequently suffocate naturall heate and benum and stup●fie all the senses 2 Seeing Laudanum doth incrassate thicken the subtill humors it followed that although it did cease paine for the time yet afterwards it made the cause of the sicknesse malignant fixed and incurable 3 That it hath beene obserued that some sicke people haue died some few houres after the taking of Laudanū inconsideration wherof we should abstaine from its vse altogether The Answere Concerning the first obiection I am of opinion that if such men as goe about to propose any such thing would either giue place to the authority of great Physitions or experience-self both which assuring vs that c●ude Opium taken in small quantity neither suffocateth naturall hea●e nor dulleth the senses as hath beene already sufficiently proued in the beginning of this discourse they would neither blame nor so basely esteeme of it but suppose that a very smal Dose of crude Opium did produce such effects must it therefore doe the same when it is depriued of the superfluity of its narcotical Sulphur his Acrimonie corrected and after mixed with such Bezoardick and Cordiall things as aforesaid No man of iudgement or of any experience in the Mysteries of nature can deny that Opiū the principall ingredience or Basis of Laudanum being thus altered both in forme and substance becōmeth likewise changed in its vertues and operations and therefore can with no reason censure so hardly thereof as when it is crude And notwithstanding that Laudanū doth prouoke the diseased to sleepe yet daily experience teacheth vs that it doth not suffocate naturall heate but rather preserue it when it is about to consume and in danger to be suddainely extinct by reason of its violent motion extreame paines and extraordinary watching whereby it is as rudely handled as a lampe or burning-torch is in a mightie tempest which causeth a greater wasting of oyle and losse of light then it would doe if it were defended from such an accident 2 For the second obiection Laudanum is so farre from aggrauating impairing or making worse the causes of the disease by reason of its incrassating faculty that quite contrary it prepareth some offending humours and maketh them far more apt and easie to be expelled as in the 21. passage before cōcerning Gouts we haue something declared For is it not the consent and verdict of the best Physitions in the world that the preparation of humors before purgation doth chiefly consist in two operations that is in subtilizing and attenuating of those which are Viscouse thick and clammy and incrassating and thickning indifferently those which are too subtill virulent windy vagant in the body Now the greatest part of extreame paines and inward heates proceeding from some dissolued matter that is either salt sharpe or corroding or from such as doth excoriate inflame and alter the member affected whereby malignant vapors arise which passing vnto the adioyning parts doe by consent produce sūdry tormēts many euil accidents as by experience is manifest what better course can a man obserue then by meanes of Laudanum to thicken and digest the sayd humors sequestring consuming the aforesayd vapours in such sort that they can by no means exercise their cruelty as before And in case of superfluity if it be any waies requisite to be purged a man may doe it afterwards farre more warily and safely then in the former estate is not this represented to any mans vnderstanding by sundry outward vlcers which being inflamed and distilling from some subtill and corrosiue humour cause great Pricking Dolour and paines and oftentimes by consent a Feuer to the Patient so that the true remedie in such a case to take away such accidents is some excellent Anodyne which may mitigate and asswage that vnnaturall heate and suddenly ripen and indifferently thicken the offending humor which was so subtill and corrosiue which being done al other Symptomes cease whatsoeuer Laudanum then not onely producing these effects by its naturall propertie but also mundifying resisting putrifaction and healing and comforting the weakened parts as it were Balsame may by good consequence take away or extinguish the cause of many euill Symptomes rather then impaire and make them incureable for although it doth moderately incrassate yet notwithstanding it doth not coagulate the bloud nor fixe the substances which in their owne proper nature are liquid in stone nor soder or glue the parts together as Gypsum doth for which cause onely men should blame it in such maner as before 3 Thirdly we will not deny but that some sick person may chance to die soone after the receipt of Laudanum but that Lauda●um was the cause of their death that in regard therof its vse is vtterly to be abandoned and forsaken is the matter now in question First therefore it is very apparant by our former discourse that Laudanum is not a thing of such a venemous quality as will cause death to the receiuer for albeit the obseruation be true that some haue died soone after the taking thereof yet that ought not to supersede all other reasons attestations experience concerning the good effects and safe vse of Laudanum for as it is an absurd and foolish thing for a man to say ● did see certaine graines of Bezoar-stone Vnicornes-horne Pearles or such like pretious Cordials giuen to a sicke person who died not long after ergo that was the cause of his death and therf●re take heed of vsing any such thing hereafter or I saw one giue a Clister to such a sicke person who died soone after Ergo Clisters are dangerous remedies and ought not to be vsed as many simple people are accustomed to argue Euen so it is as absurd a thing to hold Laudanum in suspition because such a one tooke it after dy●d for although it doe principally and speedily cause all torments to cease and prouoke the diseased to sleepe yet that is no consequence that it can preserue a man from death when by God his secret decree his houre is come for neither that nor no other Medicine in the world can doe sleepe and exemption from paines are necessary things as well for sound as sicke men the one with distinction the other without all exception but that these two doe sometimes serue for the maintenance and strengthening of mans life and other sometimes are vnnecessary and of no vse this proceeds not through any fault in themselues but in nature which doth not receiue them for her owne good and benefit as other times she vseth to doe which thing is liuely represented vnto vs by the vse of meate drinke and all other things called Medicines not naturall which sometimes are good and profitable to the bodie and sometimes quite contrary euen as nature disposeth of them for our good or euill howsoeuer in themselues they

causeth all paines to cease of what nature or qualitie soeuer as aforesaid Secondly putting the case that Opium were the coldest thing in the world yet that small Dose which we commonly vse to giue at a time cannot exceed the great frigiditie of those things afore-named in their larger Doses Were it not a great absurditie to beleeue that one graine or two of Opium were colder then a dragme of Allome prepared or crude or one scruple of the Magisterie of Lead or an ounce of the water of the Sperm● of frogges or two ounces of the water of Nymphaa or as an ounce or two of Quick-siluer which some haue vsed to giue against the wormes and other maladies all which passe through the bodie as cold as any ice and manifestly coole the mouth and other conduits where they passe which one small Dose of Opium cannot doe but rather contrarily heateth both mouth and stomacke whence you may gather that these reasons and the like are meere palliatiue and stuperficiall arguments and fine gloses to entertaine long chat rather then to proue any coldnesse in Opium Now touching the Symptomes which Opium causeth being inordinately taken Experience her selfe teacheth vs that Aqua-vitae which is of a hot and subtill essence being too abundantly ingurged causeth semblable effects for many being drunke with Aqua-vitae haue dyed seased as it were with Stupiditie priuation of sense Trembling Lethargie and indeed ended their liues in such manner as if they had swallowed to much Opium and became benummed and stiffe as if they had died in the very yee and snow Wine it selfe also causeth diuers Symptomes of Opium in them which abuse it as wee may plainely see by the lamentable examples vsed in diuers parts of the Papacie where they commonly make those people drunke which are condemned to any violent death of whom some goe singing and some rayling thereunto and others as dull and senselesse as bruit beasts none of them hauing any vnderstanding or memorie of their iminent slaughter and which is worse haue no true feeling of their sinnes nor solide iudgement or discretion to recommend themselues to the mercie of their Creator Wine as all Authors affirme and Experience her selfe declareth being abused doth cause in processe of time Phrensie Madnesse Rage Furie Stupiditie Lethargie Palsi● and other dangerous diseases euen as Opium doth and is notwithstanding an hot liquor as all the world knoweth Wee may then conclude that Opium maketh not the Turkes fierce and couragious in warre nor maketh the diseased to sleepe nor appeaseth all inward griefes of the bodie because of its cold qualitie or by reason of its heate although it manifestly appeare to be hot but in regard of his operations which doubtlesse proceedeth from a specificall and hidden proprietie wherewith it is indowed euen as wee see in deiectorie Physicke which purgeth neither by reason of any heate or coldnesse therein but rather by a certaine specificall qualitie as is sayd Now as purgatiue Medicines rightly vsed doe not onely euacuate Natures excrements and bring the bodie to an excellent temprature but being abused doe mightily offend and bring dissolution to the same euen so Opium well administred endoweth the bodie with singular benefits but abused and vntemperatly giuen worketh the contrary whence it followeth that in the vsage of either of them it behoueth the Physiti●n to be ruled by reason and experience walking in a good conscience and practising his Art in the best manner to Gods glorie and his Patients comfort CHAP. IIII. Wherein is shewed the Counsell and aduise of Theophrastus Paracelsus concerning Medicines Narcoticall or Anodynes and in particular that of Opium HAuing generally declared the opinion of ancient Physitions concerning the nature vertue and vse of Opium and the controuersies which are among moderne Physitions touching the qualitie thereof it is not amisse to see now what Theophrastus Paracelsus that great searcher and diuer into nature saith in this behalfe This Author hath generally the vsage of Anodyne Medicines in such high esteeme and reuerence that hee recommendeth them vnto his disciples as a principall pillor of the whole bodie of Physicke assuring them that they are the most important remedies of all others to cure the bodies of men of the most grieuous diseases they are subiect vnto In the seuenteenth booke of his Archidoxes and Chap. De Specifice anodyno hee saith thus that we should speake with great reuerence and regard of the Anodyne or Specificall appeasor we are moued by diuers reasons for in particular wee haue met with some diseases for cure whereof finding no helpe or reliese among our best secrets the Specificall Anody●● not without great admiration accomplished our desire and this fell not out casually o● without reason seeing it is the nature of Anodynes to extinguish diseases euen ●● water quencheth fire And in his first booke of Naturall things and Chapter D● Sulphure F●brionato speaking generally in praise of those things which naturally prouoke sleepe and are Anodynes hee saith what greater secret would a Physition desire to possesse then that which can cause all paines to cease and extinguish all internall heate hauing this doth not his skill passe that of Appollo Machaon or Podalyrius Let a man consider a little this sentence and marke with good iudgement the subiect thereof and hee shall finde no iesting matter of it In his Commentarie vpon the second Aphorisme of the second Section of Hippocrates vb● somnus delirium c. Paracelsus speaking in the end of that exposition concerning the benefit of wholesome sleepe saith that sleepe is such a great secret in Physicke that being spoken without disgrace of other things ●ee would gladly haue any man tell him wh●re he can in all the world find such a reme●ie which can ma●ifest such sodaine and ●ctiue ease and reliefe to the health of mans ●odie as it doth Hence you may perceiue why these Ano●ynes of what kind socuer ought to bee so well regarded esteemed and made accompt of among all Physitions for seeing sleepe ●s a Medicine farre surpassing all gemmes ●ewels in the world hee that knowes how to ●pply this Somniferous secret conueniently ●nd in good season ought to be held in great ●ccompt and estimation among diseased people That Theophrastus doth also commend the vsage of Opium among his Anodynes and Somniferous Medicines it may easily appeare in the forenamed Chapter De Specifico Anod wherein hee proposeth Opium onely without addition of other Somniferous things to make that composition which he calleth his Anodynum Specificum and attributeth vnto it this excellent proprietie saying that it causeth not the whole body of man to sleepe but the diseases onely In his booke De Morbis amentium where he writeth of those that be Mad Lunaticke Phrantick Epilepticke c. hee putteth the quintessence of Opium in the ranke before Aurum Potabile Argentum Potabile the Magisterie of Pearles and all other pretious Medicines which bee ordained for these maladies Here some enuious