This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1825 Excerpt: ...ruby flow." Note 28, page 9. Helen's old Nepenthe 'tis, That in the drinking Swallowed thinking, And was the receipt for bliss. The Nepenthe of Helen has been a philosopher's stone for the commentators. Some have supposed it a species of borrage, others of tobacco (Helen taking tobacco!) others opium. When coffee first ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1825 Excerpt: ...ruby flow." Note 28, page 9. Helen's old Nepenthe 'tis, That in the drinking Swallowed thinking, And was the receipt for bliss. The Nepenthe of Helen has been a philosopher's stone for the commentators. Some have supposed it a species of borrage, others of tobacco (Helen taking tobacco!) others opium. When coffee first appeared in Europe, coffee was pronounced to be Nepenthe, because it was produced in Egypt. Plutarch is for having it to be ingenious and seasonable discourse: a commodity, unfortunately, not to be bought. The probability is in favour of opium. After reading the description of its effects in Homer (Odyss. Lib. 4), it would be difficult to be persuaded otherwise. The Italians have a great awe of medicine of this nature, and will not sell a few drops of opium for a tooth-ache without great caution. They find their better opium in wine. Its use seems to have been known in all ages. Dryden reproaches Shadwell with eating opium, an attack upon the inner recesses of wretchedness, for which so good natured a man ought to have been sorry. The enormous quantities of this drug now consumed in Great Britain, shew a frightful extent of suffering. "The average quantity," says a work lately published, " is no less than 14,000 Ibs. yearly of Turkey opium. An inferior kind is made from the poppy in the East Indies, and the 100 monopoly efr buying it up from the cultivators constitutes the third source of the territorial revenue of the English East India Company, to whom this monopoly produces a million sterling." A great deal of the consumption takes place in the manufacturing towns. A set of papers lately published, entitled Confessions of an Opium Eater, have made a great sensation, and seem calculated to do a great deal of good: b...
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