A warm day 28 AUGUST 239 DAYS PAST Thursday 126 DAYS TO COME Mary did not rest very well last night but is doing all right I slept late and after doing up house work and cooking a good dinner slept two hr. Oertel & Cleone have spent the day with Mary. LAUDANUM-SOLID OPIUM Paracelsus first used the word laudanum, though his secret compound was not a liquid. Varying formulas for a sold preparation of opium under the name laudanum were contained in the first few editions of the London Pharmacopoeia. This preparation contained opium, saffron, castor, diambra, ambergris, musk and oil of nutmeg, first made into a tincture and later evaporated to form a pill mass. PARACELSUS (1493-1541) Friday 240 DAYS PAST AUGUST 29 125 DAYS TO COME Have spent some time at the hospital with Mary. She is recovering nicely. Nothing requires a rarer intellectual heroism than willingness to see ones equation written out- SANTAYANA WARNERS CALENDAR OF MEDICAL HISTORY