2g6 71:6 Ufeful Family HerhaL 



The WjHiTE Poppy. 



PAPAVER ALBUM. 



"A Tall and beautiful Plant, kept, in our Gar- 

 •f^ dens, a Native of the warmer Climates. It 

 grows a Yard and half high : The Stalk is round, 

 fmooth, upright, and of a bluifli Green j the 

 Leaves are very long, confiderably broad, and 

 deeply and irregularly cut in at the Edges, they 

 are alfo a of bluifh green Colour, and ftand irregu- 

 larly on the Stalk. The Flowers are .very large 

 and white, one {lands at the Top of each Divi- 

 > fion of the Stalk, when they are fallen, the Seed- 

 Veffel, or Poppy Head, grovrs to the Bigncfs of 

 a large Apple, and contains within it a very great 

 Quantity of fmall whitilh Seeds, with feveral 

 fkinny Divilions. 



When any Part of the Plant is broken, there 

 flows out a thick milky Juice, of a ftrong, bitter, 

 ^nd hot Talle, very like that of Opium, ^nd full 

 as difagreeable. 



The Heads are ufed with us, and fomctimes 

 the Seeds. Of the Heads boiled in Water, is 

 made the Syrup of Diacodii^m. The Heads are to 

 be dried for this Purpofe, and the Decoftion Is to 

 be made as ftrong as pofllble, and then boiled up 



with Sugar. The Seeds are beaten up into Emul 



fions with Barley- Water, and they are good a- 



ft Stranguries, and Heat of Urine j they h 

 nothing of the fleepv Virtue of the Svruns. nor 



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Parts or Preparations of the Poppy 



byrup of Diacodium, puts People to fleep ; but 

 gently, and is fafer than Opium or Laudanum. 



Opium is nothing more than the milky Juice 

 of this Plant concreted, it is obtained from the 

 Heads : They cut them while uuon the Plant in 



the warmer Countries, §n(^ the J 



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