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An Essay on the Effects of Opium. Considered as a Poison

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An Essay on the Effects of Opium. Considered as a Poison

John Awsiter

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John Awsiter considered opium not as a comfort but as a poison, weighing its effects with a chemist's caution. His short essay probes dosage, danger and the thin line between remedy and ruin in an age that reached readily for the drug. A revealing artifact of eighteenth-century pharmacology. Read the warning that ran ahead of its time.

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4 chapters

  1. 1AN ESSAY ON THE EFFECTS of OPIUM.
  2. 2TO THE President and Fellows OF THE Royal College of Physicians.
  3. 3PREFATORY DISCOURSE.
  4. 4THE EFFECTS OF OPIUM,
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