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concoctions, and recommended opium for reducing pain. one of his preparations, a pill which he extolled as his "archanum" or "laudanum", may have contained opium. [ ] paracelsus' laudanum was strikingly different from the standard laudanum of the th century and beyond, containing crushed pearls , musk
, amber , and other substances. [ ] one researcher has documented that "laudanum, as listed in the london pharmacopoeia ( ), was a pill made from opium, saffron, castor, ambergris , musk and nutmeg". [ ] laudanum remained largely unknown until the s when english physician thomas sydenham ( – ) compounded...
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