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with white. It has an odour not very agreeable. The fruit is like a lluwi-r vase, 

 and contains very small Medft < iardriiers manure the land for the Poppy every 

 other year. The see<ls are sown in the Oth month. In the spring they are, if 

 tlius manured, seen growing with great vigour; otherwise they will not thrive, and 

 if they grow at all they are weak and Blender. When the capsules have become dry 

 and yellow, they may lie phtek- 



He also says that " In cases of nausea and vomiting a drink made from Poppy JJ* 1 '^ 1 

 seeds in the following manner will be found serviceable. Three-tenths of a pint of 

 the seeds of the white Poppy, three-tenths of an ounce of powdered ginseng, with 

 a piece 5 inches in length of the tuber of the Chinese yam, are to be cut and 

 ground fine. Boil it, adding 2 T 3 S pints of water. Take of this six-tenths of a pint, 

 and add to it a little syrup of raw ginger with fine salt. It should be' mixed well 

 and distributed into doses, which may be taken early or late, and no harm will follow 

 from taking other kinds of medicine at the same time." 



The biography of this writer in the Histoi-y of the Sung Dynasty says of him 

 that he was a man of large mind, who would not take part in quarrels. He held 

 to the rules of politeness and the laws of the State. Though high in station he lived 

 like a poor man. From the invention of writing downwards, whatever there was to 

 read and to learn in classics, histories, and the works of various authors, together 

 with diviners' books, the 12 musical tubes, astronomy, astrology, mathematics, and 

 medical botany, there was nothing with which he was not familiar. 



In regard to what kind of Poppy is meant by Su SUNG, writing in the TI.P wi.iio 



of Papaitr 



eleventh century, it may be well to refer here to the statement made by the German "" 

 traveller K.KMiTER, who towards the end of the seventeenth century was attached as 

 physician to the Embassy sent to Persia by the King of Sweden. He says that 

 the Poppy from which Opium was then manufactured in that country was the 

 white Poppy. It becomes plain, then, that in the time of Su SUNG, though the 

 name of Opium had not yet appeared in books, yet the plant that was able to 

 produce it was commonly known. The celebrated English botanist Lixni.i 

 that the Poppies from which Opium is made are those with red and those with 

 white flowers. 



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