DICTO DE MEDICINIS LAXATIVIS dicendum est de opiatis: i.e. having spoken of the laxatives it is meet to speak of the opiates. They are called opiates because of the opium which enters into their composition. Note particularly that the opiates have three virtues, i.e. the virtue of checking the flux of the humors which run to an affected part; the virtue of strengthening the part towards which they flow; and the virtue of consuming the humors. Note particularly that there are opiates which are administered before the laxative. Of these