perieulo

Updated: June 21, 2025

First, then, it is not so much affirmed as taken for granted, by all who ever mention opium, formally or incidentally, that it does or can produce intoxication. Now, reader, assure yourself, meo perieulo, that no quantity of opium ever did or could intoxicate. Because it contains so much proof spirit, and not because it contains so much opium.

Thomas De Quincey - Confessions of an English Opium-Eater