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resinous parts; but in a certain subtle part of 

 the resinous matter, somewhat analogous to 

 essential oil, but of a much less volatile kind ; 

 and they relate, that, on boiling the opium in 

 water, there arises to the surface a frothy, 

 viscid, unctuous, strong-scented substance, 

 to the quantity of two or three drams from 

 sixteen ounces ; that this substance, in the 

 dose of a few grains, has killed dogs that 

 could bear above a dram of crude opium. 



Neumann says, he knew a preparation of 

 opium by which a whole room-full of men 

 may be presently stupified, deprived of their 

 senses, and even of their lives, without swal- 

 lowing a single grain ; and he thinks opium 

 operates much in the same manner as the 

 vapours of burning charcoal, or as the exha- 

 lations of fermenting liquors. 



" From the poppy I have ta'en 

 Mortal's balm, and mortal's bane ! 

 Juice that, creeping through the heart, 

 Deadens ev'ry sense of smart ; 

 Doom'd to heal, or doom'd to kill, 

 Fraught with good, or fraught with ill." 



Mrs. Mary Robertson. 



In describing the qualities of this equally 

 valuable and dangerous drug, we do not 

 presume to write for the information of the 



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