PAP—PAP glee 
; wad fora short time, with opium, some of ‘ ’ itt) - 
ferior in quality to that. imported from @ t ee 
East Indies. Dr. Rickertson, of Dutchess county 
also cultivated the poppy to advantage: from one eke 
procured 7 grains of opium. As far north as - New-Hamp- 
n= Dr. Spal “theo this gum from the { pium 
oP on) and also from a poppy 
8 the suceus which most : 
etude Prost the capsules. It is a milky, snow- — 
opaque, narcotic juice, differing in no apparent 
deetitapance from the proper juice of numerous less nar- 
cotic lactiferous plants. 
—Tti is obtained immemorially in the same manner, making 
longitudinal scarifications of the cortex of the ws 
the dews favour the exudation, and the concrete is collect- 
ed in the morning, deposited in earthen vessels, rubbed 
about with wooden spatulas in the sunshine, until it ac- 
~ quires spissitude; formed into cakes or rolls, covered with _ 
Poppy oF tobacco-leaves, (in India,) and with the leaves and 
capsules of a species of Rumex. The Turks call Opium 
affioni; and in the theriaki kikana, or opium-shops of Con- 
stantinople, they take it in graduated doses, from 10 to 
100 grains, in sand inspissate fruits, or in lozenges 
marked Mash iterally, “the work of God.” “The 
Tartar couriers, who travel great distances with astonish- 
ing rapidity, take nothing else to support them during 
their journeys. (Dallaway’s Constantin re There is 
some reason for supposing that the Mash Malash, 
of the Turks, contains other chi Si le < 
hemp and lolium. aeiae 
According to Kempfer, ‘the sicahieh of the first i incisions is 
; grocery a and called Gobaar in Persia, and is es- _ 
* - teemed much s-enperior in, siete ames ss. 
In England, a Mr. Ball, in 1796, received & preinium 
the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, for a sp 
of British opium, little inferior to the oriental. Mr. Young 
(Edin. Med. & Phys. Journ. No. fe p pes? 
UALKEIES. Dried capsules* slightly itter by chewing, | with- 
A oar Peiiecd i in water, the mild anodyne ¢ ity. j is 
imparted, eer when the fluid is evaporated, 4. opium 
: is obtained, i in form of extract. There are two kinds of 
Turkey and East India. Turkey opium has a 
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heavy narcotic ‘eect taste bitter, warm, sub-acrid; kept _ 
* isles palit js su pled ek hire Spidlak woltbetions of : 
Peta ms up he bags 3000 capsules 5 ee ; 
aceording to Stevenson, at 4i. 10s. ee 
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