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Kendal Black Drop was a drug based on opium. Named after Kendal in the Lake District, England, it is associated with the romantic poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Black Drop was a 19th-century dark medicine made of opium, vinegar, spices, often with sugar, sometimes called ''Black drops'',〔''Oxford English Dictionary''〕 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 . . .".〔''The British Pharmaceutical Codex'' 1911〕 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.〔''(A Cyclopædia of Several Thousand Practical Receipts: And Collateral Information in the Arts,...''by Arnold James Cooley (1846) |sic| )〕 In 1823, Byron referred to it in his poem ''Don Juan'':〔''Don Juan'', Canto 9〕 " . . . for Cupid's cup With the first draught intoxicates apace, A quintessential laudanum or 'black drop', Which makes one drunk at once . . ." 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".〔Quoted in H. D. Traill, ''Coleridge'', 1884. (English Men of Letters series)〕 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kendal Black Drop」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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