/ 
__ percentage of that alkaloid may therefore more corr 
_~ be highly desirable,” 
90 PAPAVERACE. . . 
in the tase of sample I. 
In exhausting the opium with ether, a slightly yello 
fluid is obtained, which displays a bluish fluorescence, due 
an unknown constituent of the drug. Ke 
Before precipitating the morphine, the aqueous solution ¥ 
concentrated in order to get a smaller yolume. eee 
‘*It afforded e, the crude, dried morphine, which, after 
or three times repeated ‘recrystallization, finally furnished 
purified morphine. This purification of morphine can 
performed without a loss of -morphine; the real p 
regarded as somewhat superior to the figure f. It wo 
desirable to apply a process furnishing the exact percent 
- possibly, it will be so some day if the home ‘production 
- Chinese further increases, Perhaps a more careful prepar 
of the Indian opium would at least prove of importance 
so much with regard to the smokers of the ‘drug a 
the possibility of extracting morphine from “Indian 
.Profitably. It is not needful to point ont that this 
