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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

after their owne names which many retaine to this day but now the case is altered The Merchant he will haue his Factor his Casher and his Broker too the Grocer his Garbler the Vintner his Cooper the Gold-smith his Forger the Draper his Cloath-worker and Drawer too the Physition his Apothecarie The Apothecarie his Druggist and his Workeman too for few of them make all their owne Medicines In briefe Iohn wil be a Gentleman at least But me thinkes the life of man so pretious a thing in the sight of God should not be so little esteemed of as I feare it is in posting ouer hither and thither I would be loath to be mistaken or haue any man thinke I goe about to correct magnificat or teach others hauing neede of instruction my selfe but ingeniously as any conscionable man ought declare my opinion and to let the friendly Reader know how hee may bee abused if hee looke not about him for mine owne part I wil be so bold if able as to prepare the chiefest Physicke I vse my selfe and for the Medicine handled in this booke they may haue it well don of my friend Harbert Whitfield in Newgate-Market of Maister Bromhall who hath conferred with the Author and some others no doubt about this towne And so intreating thy gentle patience for these rude lines and thy kinde acceptance of this homely translation while better is abreeding I euer rest Studious of thy health THO. BRETNOR The Authour his Preface to the Reader I Make no question Curteous Reader but as soone as this little Pamphlet shall come abroade there wil be some which will presently beginne to taxe mee saying what fellow is this Sala will hee like a Master teach vs what Opium is and how wee should prepare an excellent Medicine thereof called Laudanum which will presently appease all griefes of the bodie extinguish all extreame heates in Feuers stay all Fluxes of the belly pro●oke quiet rest to the diseased c. are not these onely two things the one whereof hath beene disclosed to the world many ages agoe the other reuealed to vs of late by sundry moderne Physitions so that wee stand not in need of his instructions hee might well inough haue spared his breath to haue cooled his pottage To whom I answere first concerning the naturall propertie of Opium by demanding of them what ancient Physition was there euer who hath written of or declared the nature and vse of this Medicine so well or so amply giuen such infallible and true reasons of its vertue and energie but there may remaine some gap open or some subiect or other to worke vpon wherein they may bee controuled and whereto or from whence a man may adde or diminish something more or lesse beleeue me I thinke they would haue much adoe to finde me such an Author for if it were so to what ende should they dispute so often in their publike Academies and priuate consultations of the naturall qualities of Opium were it not a notable argument of vaine curiositie rather then of solid iudgement or discretion to dispute against a doctrine already reduced into necessary and irreproueable Maximes as they imagine But the naked truth is that the vse of Opium is yet doubtfull among the greatest part of Physitions which being granted I know no reason but that if it bee lawfull for an other to argue and dispute of many things beside the common conceipt and apprehension of the Ancient it cannot be accompted idlenesse or vani●ie in me to vtter my opinion also being grounded vpon rationall termes and agreeable to the authoritie as well of ancient and moderne Sages as mine owne peculiar experience and obseruations collected and gathered for the instruction and benefit of such onely as shall haue occasion to make good vse of them not taking vpon me in this tract or any other to teach any man much lesse those which thinke they know already much more then my selfe Secondly concerning that obiection that diuers Physitions haue written and made mention already of the Chymicall preparation of Opium as a principall ingredience into that excellent Medicine called Laudanum I deny not their assertion but rather rely vpon their authoritie and am partly satisfied with such things as they haue already divulged as may appeare hereafter yet notwithstanding the whole world can beare mee witnesse that neither Laudanum nor the vse thereof haue beene things commonly knowne for it is a thing most certaine that among a hundred Physitions and Practitioners in Europe a man can hardly finde fiftie that will take paines to read ouer the workes of Paracelfus or any other Spagitique which hath written of this subiect much lesse can the thing it selfe bee common or familiar vnto them among those fiftie a manshall hardly finde twentie which make vse of it among those twentie it were strange to finde ten which are able to prepare it with their owne hands and among those ten it were rare to finde three which durst freely publish or manifest its vertues to the world or propound the vse thereof in their priuate and particular consultations for the benefit of the diseased or maintaine the same for such a soueraigne thing as it is indeed I am very well assured that although the most part of our Physitions here at the Hage doe sometimes make vse of this Medicine yet a man may trauaile into a hundred Cities in Christendon● where the Physitions neither vse it nor make any more accompt of it then of a thing altogether strange vnknowne and of no vse in the world Furthermore if we come to a popular examination thereof I am perswaded that in this very Citie notwithstanding the aforesayd among a thousand men and women which know the name and vse of Treakle Mithridate and other ordinary Medicinall compositions and can apply them to their best vse and behoofe when they are diseased or sicke yet a man can hardly find twentie of them which haue once in their liues heard one speake of Laudanum the knowledge whereof no question had beene as requisite and necessarie as of either of the aforenamed What great matter is it then if Iames Martin Francis c. knew what Laudanum is and the vse thereof when so many thousand men know nothing at all many of them in the meane time languishing and complayning of extreame paines and want of sleepe euen to death and can finde no ease at all vnlesse by meanes of this excellent and pretious secret or such like Well then Let vs put the case that this my Treatise were good for nothing else but to inlarge and make knowne the name of Laudanum among the rude multitude to giue them occasion when time and oportunitie shall serue to inquire and demaund for it of their Physitions or of others which shall haue the same by them whereby they may be assisted and fortified against sundry daungerous accidents which by no other meanes can be so qu●ckely safely or easily auoyded so that if it

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