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98 | - PAPAVERACE. 
_ of carbonic anhydride, sand and charcoal, its composition was 
7023 per cent. of impure alkaloids soluble in benzol, and 
- mild laxative which would carry the poison more rapidly 
the fluid obtained. ——— with Scrib. 
was spent by Government for the purchase of leaves (made fror 1 
petals) | for one Opium Agency. The ash yielded by r 
poppy petals has been examined by Warden*; after deduction 
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as follows :— : 
Ferric oxide, 3°86; Aluminic oxide, 1-295 Magn 
oxide, 5°60 ; Calcic oxide, 10°72 5. Potassic oxide, 41+75 5 Po 
sic chloride, 12°28 ; Sodic chloride, 1-20 ; Sulphuric anhyd 
3°85; Phosphoric anhydride, 5°61 ; Silicic anhydride, 138 
The capsules and seeds of the poppy are prescribed 
native doctors in diarrhoea ; the former retain a small quan 
of opium. From the scsi 5 is made the Shardb-i- kashipahy 
the Mahometan physicians.t+ 
The Malwa poppy capsules have been analysed By. lye 
Bombay (1879), who’obtained from them. -099 per ce 
alkaloids soluble in ether, consisting apparently of nar 
of impure alkaloids soluble in chloroform. No beret 
be detected in them by the ordinary. reagents. 
Towieology.—Opium is chiefly used in India for suici 
infanticide. Itis a common practice to swallow oil after 
opium, and this is stated to be done by the most deter 
suicides, who knowing that an attempt will be made to re 
them by treatment, have made up their minds to ren 
fruitless. The belief is that the oil unites with the opium } 
makes it adhere to the stomach in spite of emetics.- 
Center remarks that it is possible that the oil might act 
the stomach into the intestines, out of the reach of emetit 
while its absorption would go on as well in the latter as in th 
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* Chemical News, xxxix., No: 999. 
+ Take half a maund of poppy seeds, soak them for twenty-four ni 
four maunds of water, then bruise the seeds, replace them in the same + 
and boil down to one-half, rub on a strainer, and add one maund of s 
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