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The common pain-killer which was popular in the 17th-18th centuries:

 

2 ounces of opium;

1 ounce of saffron;

a drachm of cinnamon and cloves

- all dissolved in a pint of Canary wine.

To your happy health!

This is how Opium poppy (Papaver somniferum) grows in the wild. Watch out!
Artist: Unknown

Do you know some more natural pain-killers?

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We've been friends  for almost half a century and enjoyed several of each others' theatrical productions, so reading your memoir of Mrs. Gulliver is a wonderful surprise: so witty, subversive, and yet, arousing... it tickled my mind as well as inspired my G-spot. Highly recommended!

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