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Kendal Black DropKendal Black Drop was a drug based on opium. Named after Kendal in the Lake District, it is associated with the Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Additional recommended knowledgeBlack Drop was a 19th century dark medicine made of opium, vinegar, spices, often with sugar, sometimes called Black drops, [1] and known in Great Britain and North America. One recipe for Black Drop began, "Macerate the opium and nutmeg in . . . the diluted acetic acid, for seven days, stirring frequently . . ." [2] As well as Kendal Black Drop, there were versions called Lancaster and Armstrong's Black Drop. Other names given in a 19th century Cyclopædia of Several Thousand Practical Receipts were Quaker's or Toustall's Black Drop, after a Dr. Toustall of the Society of Friends in County Durham who is said to have invented the recipe. [3] In 1823 Byron referred to it in his poem Don Juan [4]: " . . . for Cupid's cup At first Coleridge welcomed the relief from pain provided by Kendal Black Drop, but was later to say that his "eyes had been opened to the true nature of the habit into which I had been ignorantly deluded by the seeming magic effects of opium".[5]
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