: Bengal opium. The analyses of pasewha are of-special initia 
\ 
negative results. Uncombined morphia to oe extent of: 
= cent. was detected in the sample. 
92° _ PAPAVERACEE, 
as indicating the very wide differences which may occur 
its composition. 
InpDIAN Manuracturep ee —We have examined m 
phia, codeine and narcotine manufactured at Ghazipore. 
The morphia hydrochlorate was in white acicular 7 
of silky lustre and free from odour. Dried at 100°, 
crystals lost 12°74 per cent. The hydrochlorate is ust 
stated to contain three molecules of water, which woul 
equal to 14-38 per cent. The chlorine calculated as. H 
amounted to 9°42 per cent., the sample was conseq 
deficientin combined acid to theextent of *3 per cent. The 
amounted to 063 per cent. By the action of chloroform 
per cent. of extractive was obtained, The precise natu: 
this extractive was not determined; it proBably containe 
trace of morphia; it was tested apéctallyy for narcotine 1 
The codeine . gg a perfectly white powder, and free fi : 
odour. Dried at 100° C. + it lost 5:16 per cent. The 
amounted to +056 per cent. The saturating power 
alkaloid for standard avid corresponded closely . with 
acquired by theory. 
The narcotine was in faintly yellowish orgie Tt. 
tained only a minute trace of ash, and was free from morph 
The following statistics of opium-eating at Balasore, 
Orissa, have been collected by Vincent Richards. He sa 
“‘T estimate that about one in every twelve or fourteen of 
adult population use the drug ; but I believe the habit iss 
what increasing ; this increase in the consumption of the 
dates from the famine year 1866, and is not,the result 
. growing ‘abuse of it by individual consumers, but ie 
_ * According to the late Surg. Maj | 
jor Sheppard, in 1871 the, 
narcotine made at Ghazipore, including ¢ every ey 1 
ounce, and the cost of loses 3 annas ‘Per, | 
