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Thomas Sydenham

1624–1689

A London physician who taught that diseases should be observed and described at the bedside, as Hippocrates had. He championed Peruvian bark against fevers and gave his name to a liquid laudanum: “Among the remedies which it has pleased Almighty God to give to man to relieve his sufferings, none is so universal and so efficacious as opium.”

3 Entries in the Materia Medica

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  1. Iron and steelThe metal, given as filings in wine, as its rust, or in chalybeate spring waters.
  2. LaudanumA tincture of opium in wine, with saffron, cinnamon, and cloves.
  3. Opium poppy (Papaver somniferum), plate: Papaver somniferum (opium poppy)
    Opium poppyPapaver somniferum; opium is the dried latex of its unripe seed heads.

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