sh PAPAVERACER, 
average consistence of ehion is + Ane settled by the fat 
method. — ; 
For the determination: of consistence which is Joni 
only on the quantity of moisture contained in the drug 
mode of procedure is a simple one and the results satisfacto 
In practice, however, disturbing elements are. very of 
: introduced, and one of these is pasewha. Opium with 
admixture of pasewha is deceptive to the touch. 
In drug free: from pasewha the granular texture appe 
_ to maintain cohesion between the particles which, as. it 
support each other and offer a. certain amount of resis 
to pressure. In drug with a copious admixture of pases 
tenaceous and shiny pasewha, the cohesion — is tl 
- lessened, but the tenacity of the drug is increase 
Where the. bulk of the produce at the factories lie 
where intermediate; with regard to the admixture of 7 
x _ between the two descriptions of drug given above, th 
_of touch is regulated by. what comes most in its way. 5 
dealing, therefore, with varieties . bordering on. the 
. extremes of the drug we are apt to go astray, and we are 
’ able to account in a large number of cases for what. is k 
. as being “out in parakh? ” (judgment). We hav 
prepared. for ourselves an arbitrary and indefinable s 
--of “touch;”’ it is, nevertheless, a standard so gen 
practically a fixed one, and it is a recognised maxim # 
opium entirely free from pasewha will assay lower than 
‘our accepted standard of touch, and that opium with a copic 
~ admixture of that substance will assay correspondingly 
A good “parkhia” (examiner) will always, therefore, 1 
due allowance for the absence . or. presence of pasewha 
saniple of the drug that is being subjected to 
for consistence. The remarks made here’ ee: 
cies obits 
