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Laudanum helmontii : it is good to ease all manner of pains in what part of the body forever it is.
Date: [1666?]- Ephemera
Laudanum - poison : Thomas Roper, member of the Pharmaceutical Society, chemist and dentist, Man of Ross House, Ross / Thomas Roper.
Date: [between 1868 and 1876]- Archives and manuscripts
Recipes for "The Solid Phosphorus", "The Liquid Phosphorus" and "Van Helmonts own Laudanum"
Date: 18th centuryReference: MS.7336/2Part of: Miscellany: English, 18th-19th centuries
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Spanish trade cards. On the reverse of this appears a prescription for Laudanum liquid of Sydenham.
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Homoeopathy explained and objections answered, with additional articles, viz: 1. The effects of mercury. 2. Physics and purging. 3. Laudanum and paregoric. 4. Coffee, tea, liquors, and tobacco.
Wigand, H. (Henry)Date: 1847
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cont. from folio 94, To make Ballis Oyle. Glew for Black Frames. Oyle of Earthwormes & Swallowes. A Receipt for ye Pleurisie or any pains ye side. To make the bitter Drinke. To make Liquid Laudanum. To make Drinke for ye Kings Evill, cont. on folio 92
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Papaver somniferum L. Papaveraceae Opium Poppy Distribution: Asia minor, but has been dated to 5000BC in Spanish caves. Now grows almost everywhere. The oldest medicine in continuous use, described in the Ebers' papyrus (1550 BC), called Meconium, Laudanum, Paregoric and syrup of poppies. Culpeper (1650) on Meconium '...the juyce of English Poppies boyled till it be thick' and 'I am of the opinion that Opium is nothing else but the juyce of poppies growing in hotter countries, for such Opium as Authors talk of comes from Utopia.[he means an imaginary land, I suspect]’]. He cautions 'Syrups of Poppies provoke sleep, but in that I desire they may be used with a great deal of caution and wariness...' and warns in particular about giving syrup of poppies to children to get them to sleep. The alkaloids in the sap include: Morphine 12% - affects ?-opioid receptors in the brain and causes happiness, sleepiness, pain relief, suppresses cough and causes constipation. Codeine 3% – mild opiate actions – converted to morphine in the body. Papaverine, relaxes smooth muscle spasm in arteries of heart and brain, and also for intestinal spasm, migraine and erectile dysfunction. Not analgesic. Thebaine mildly analgesic, stimulatory, is made into oxycodone and oxymorphone which are analgesics, and naloxone for treatment of opiate overdose – ?-opioid receptor competitive antagonist – it displaces morphine from ?-opioid receptors, and constipation caused by opiates. Protopine – analgesic, antihistamine so relieves pain of inflammation. Noscapine – anti-tussive (anti-cough). In 2006 the world production of opium was 6,610 metric tons, in 1906 it was over 30,000 tons when 25% of Chinese males were regular users. The Opium wars of the end of the 19th century were caused by Britain selling huge quantities of Opium to China to restore the balance of payments deficit. Laudanum: 10mg of morphine (as opium) per ml. Paregoric: camphorated opium tincture. 0.4mg morphine per ml. Gee’s Linctus: up to 60 mg in a bottle. J Collis Browne’s chlorodyne: cannabis, morphine, alcohol etc. Kaolin and Morph. - up to 60 mg in a bottle. Dover’s Powders – contained Ipecacuana and morphine. Heroin is made from morphine, but converted back into morphine in the body (Oakeley, 2012). One gram of poppy seeds contains 0.250mgm of morphine, and while one poppy seed bagel will make a urine test positive for morphine for a week, one would need 30-40 bagels to have any discernible effect. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
Dr Henry Oakeley
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Papaver somniferum L. Papaveraceae Opium Poppy Distribution: Asia minor, but has been dated to 5000BC in Spanish caves. Now grows almost everywhere. The oldest medicine in continuous use, described in the Ebers' papyrus (1550 BC), called Meconium, Laudanum, Paregoric and syrup of poppies. Culpeper (1650) on Meconium '...the juyce of English Poppies boyled till it be thick' and 'I am of the opinion that Opium is nothing else but the juyce of poppies growing in hotter countries, for such Opium as Authors talk of comes from Utopia [he means an imaginary land, I suspect]’. He cautions 'Syrups of Poppies provoke sleep, but in that I desire they may be used with a great deal of caution and wariness...' and warns in particular about giving syrup of poppies to children to get them to sleep. The alkaloids in the sap include: Morphine 12% - affects ?-opioid receptors in the brain and causes happiness, sleepiness, pain relief, suppresses cough and causes constipation. Codeine 3% – mild opiate actions – converted to morphine in the body. Papaverine, relaxes smooth muscle spasm in arteries of heart and brain, and also for intestinal spasm, migraine and erectile dysfunction. Not analgesic. Thebaine mildly analgesic, stimulatory, is made into oxycodone and oxymorphone which are analgesics, and naloxone for treatment of opiate overdose – ?-opioid receptor competitive antagonist – it displaces morphine from ?-opioid receptors, and reverses the constipation caused by opiates. Protopine – analgesic, antihistamine so relieves pain of inflammation. Noscapine – anti-tussive (anti-cough). In 2006 the world production of opium was 6,610 metric tons, in 1906 it was over 30,000 tons when 25% of Chinese males were regular users. The Opium wars of the end of the 19th century were caused by Britain selling huge quantities of Opium to China to restore the balance of payments deficit. Laudanum: 10mg of morphine (as opium) per ml. Paregoric: camphorated opium tincture. 0.4mg morphine per ml. Gee’s Linctus: up to 60 mg in a bottle. J Collis Browne’s chlorodyne: cannabis, morphine, alcohol etc. Kaolin and Morph. - up to 60 mg in a bottle. Dover’s Powders – contained Ipecacuana and morphine. Heroin is made from morphine, but converted back into morphine in the body (Oakeley, 2012). One gram of poppy seeds contains 0.250mgm of morphine, and while one poppy seed bagel will make a urine test positive for morphine for a week, one would need 30-40 bagels to have any discernible effect. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
Dr Henry Oakeley- Books
Königlicher chymischer und artzneyischer Palast, worin über dasz weltberühmte Buch genant Basilica chymica: eine durch alle Capitel des gantzen Wercks vollständige Vermehr- und Erläuterung gestellet, und diejenige hohe Secreta, als Laudanum Mercuriale, und andere, welche bisher in allen Exemplarien gedachter Basilicae Crolliano Hartmannianae ausgelassen worden / aus des Authoris Manuscript treulich ersetzt werden, nebenst offenhertziger Communication vieler spagyrischer und artzneyischer Secreten. Publiciret von Joh. Hiskia Cardilucio.
Oswald CrollDate: 1684
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Whalley "Confessions of a laudanum drinker", 1866
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WMS 3339, For cholera: '30 drops of laudanum
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Gripe cordial : without laudanum : doses...
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Gripe cordial : without laudanum : doses.
Date: [1900?]- Ephemera
Tooth essence. : containing laudanum (poison), one in twenty. / Banbury & Co.
Date: [between 1890 and 1919]
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An unscrupulous chemist selling a child arsenic and laudanum. Wood engraving after J. Leech.
John LeechReference: 15630i- Ephemera
All fours : containing:- laudanum 5'5% v/v, paregoric 27'5% v/v. Poison. / W. Stanier.
Date: [between 1900 and 1939?]- Ephemera
Solution of the bi-meconate of morphia : of the same strength as laudanum. / P. Squire.
Date: [between 1837 and 1861?]- Books
In the arms of Morpheus : the tragic history of laudanum, morphine, and patent medicines / Barbara Hodgson.
Barbara HodgsonDate: 2001- Books
Dissertatio medica eaque therapeutica proposita ab illustrissimo ... Jacobo Chastelain ... an cholerae morbo laudanum / [Jean Labiague].
Labiague, Jean.Date: 1716- Books
Case of accidental poisoning by about two drops of laudanum occurring in an infant four days old / by Thomas A.G. Balfour.
Balfour, Thomas A. G.Date: 1856- Ephemera
The mixture : oil of aniseed oil of peppermint paregoric B. P. 50% v/v. laudanum B. P. 16% v/v / John F. Usher.
Date: [between 1920 and 1959]- Ephemera
Oil of aniseed, peppermint, paregoric & laudanum. Poison. : W. J. Owen, M.P.S., dispensing chemist (from Strickland & Co., London) / W. J. Owen.
Date: [between 1920 and 1933]- Ephemera
Scragg's baby carma : the ideal baby carminative without laudanum for the disorders of children such as wind, stomachache, gripes, acidity, etc. / prepared only by A. Scragg.
Scragg, A.Date: [between 1910 and 1919?]- Books
Inhalation of laudanum as a remedy for vomiting during pregnancy / [report of verbal contribution to a meeting of the Obstetrical Society of Edinburgh made by James Y. Simpson].
James Young SimpsonDate: 1855
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The countess, having taken a dose of laudanum nears death, and is kissed by her sickly child held towards her by an elderly maid; her father slips her ring from her finger. Engraving by Louis Gérard Scotin after William Hogarth, 1745.
William HogarthDate: [1745]Reference: 38358i