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versity College Hospital, who had been a confirmed Opium- 

 eater, and had gradually increased the quantity from five drops 

 to more than a pint of Laudanum daily. The Turks are in the 

 habit of frequenting teriakchans, or Opium-shops, and many 

 take large quantities of Opium daily. Mustapha Shatron, the 

 Smyrna Opium-eater, was in the practice of swallowing three 

 drachms daily ; and Garcias, in his History of Drugs and Spices, 

 speaks of a person who took ten drachms daily. The increasing 

 attachment to wine in Turkey has diminished the consumption 

 of Opium, but there are still to be found teriakis, or Opium- 

 eaters, who will swallow in a glass of water one hundred grains 

 daily. It is often made up in small lozenges, mixed with spices, 

 and stamped with the words Masch Allah, literally, the u gift 

 of God." Dr. Christen (Op. Hist. Chem. atq. Pharm, invent.) 

 mentions the well-known fact that the celebrated author of the 

 Brownonian system, in propounding his theory to his pupils, 

 was in the habit of taking forty or fifty drops of Laudanum in 

 a glass of rum before and during his lecture. The following 

 fact is related by a very' distinguished pupil of Brown, who, 

 happening to call upon his preceptor one morning at an early 

 hour, was surprised, as he entered his study, to hear him in the 

 act of giving this order to his daughter : u Eppy, my dear, gie 

 me the moderate stimulus o' one hundred and fifty drops of 

 Laudanum in a glass o 9 whiskey." 



Medical Uses (Rou(EOTATmc).^Hahnemann's observations 

 (Mat. Med. Pura, tr. par Jourdan) : " Many chemists have 

 lately given themselves incredible trouble in decomposing 

 Opium, and deriving from it its constituent principles, such as 

 morphine, narcotine,meconic acid, extractive matter, caoutchouc, 

 a balsam, or thick oil, a substance like starch, gum, and a volatile 

 substance. But the greater part of them disagree as much with 

 regard to the mode of the analysis, by means of numerous and 

 complicated operations, as in their statements of the chemical 

 properties of these different substances. Neither do their 



