Galen
(AD 131-200)

Galen of Pergamum writes about the juice of the poppy "which physicians are in the habit of calling opium". He commended its use as a cure for headaches, deafness, epilepsy, asthma, coughs, colic, fevers, women's problems and melancholy.


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