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29. John Jones, The Mysteries of Opium Reveal’d (London, 1701).
John Jones (d.1709) was a Welsh lawyer and physician educated at Jesus College, Oxford. The first edition of this work on opium appeared in 1700. It contains a handy pull-out guide to the ‘safest’ doses of commercially available opiates for ‘strong’, ‘middling’ and ‘weak’ men and women.
There are at least 66 surviving copies of this edition across the world, divided almost equally between the UK and USA. This seems to be the only copy of the 1701 edition in Ireland.
It was purchased in October 1926 to replace a copy which was noted as missing from the Library in 1767.
Citation:
29. John Jones, The Mysteries of Opium Reveal’d (London, 1701).,
Marsh's Library Exhibits,
accessed May 16, 2025,
https://web.marshlibrary.ie/digi/items/show/431
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