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OPIUM : HISTORICAL NOTE. 



INDEX. 



Aden, 14. 



A-fii-yuwj, old name of Opium, 16. 



Afyiln (afiuun, abyiin, apytin, ofiuun), 4, 29, 32. 



Afytini, 24. 



Amwnitatcs exotica;, extracts from, 27-32. 



Amoy, tobacco plant introduced from Philippine Islands, 



25- 

 Opium-smoking in, 35. 



Arabia visited by Cnfixo Ho, 14. 



Arabs, their knowledge of the Poppy, 4, 5. 



At Canton, 5. 



Uncle of MAHOMET buried at Canton, 5. 



Two Arabian travellers, 6. 



The Arabs as traders in fifteenth century, 14. 



They grew Opium in India in sixteenth century, 14. 



The Arab national name for Opium, 4. 



Arabian method of obtaining Opium, 15. 

 Aralia edulis (tang-kuei), 39. 

 Arsenic mixed with tobacco, 25. 

 Asafoetida, 1 8. 

 Atractylodcs alba (pai-shu), ll, 17. 



Bwhrs, 30. 



Baghdad, 5. 



BAIIBOSA, account of trade in Opium, 14. 



Batavia, 24, 31, 32. 



Bezoar, 18. 



BONTIUS, a Dutch physician in Java, 1629, 24. 



His opinion of Opium, 24. 

 Burma, Opium cultivation in, 38, 39. 



Calicut, 14. 

 Cambay, 14. 



Canton, Superintendent appointed at, to overlook Foreign 

 trade, 5. 



Official corruption on a large scale, 1822 to 1840, 43. 

 Upright and bold Viceroy in 1 780, 42. 



New prohibitory edict in 1796 not obeyed by the 



Canton authorities, 43. 



Another prohibitory edict in 1800, 43. 



Capsule of Poppy, called mi-nang, 5. 



First medical use in twelfth century, 10, 12. 

 Use in dysentery, u. 

 Use, whence derived, 12. 



Use in North China in twelfth and thirteenth cen- 

 turies, 12. 



Use in South China in thirteenth century, 12. 



Use against diarrhoea and cough : " it kills like a 

 knife," 13. 



Use in fourteenth century, 13. 



Use in 1742, 39. 



Pricked for its juice in 1488, 15. 



Pricked for its juice in sixteenth century, 16. 



Process in preparing, 10, 11-14. 

 Ch'an-su, 33. 

 CH'EN TS'ANG-CH'I, 5, 6. 

 CHEXG Ho, voyage to Aden, 14. 

 Ch'cng-tu-fu, cultivation of Poppy in, 6. 

 Chi (Panicum miliaccuin), 8. 

 Chi-su-shui, 7. 



Chi-yen-liang-fang, a work by NIEX HSI-YAO, 33. 

 Chien-kiiang-t'a, 5. 



Chili-wu-ming-shih-t'u-k'uo, a botanical work, 44. 

 China-root, u. 



Chiu-liuang-2)n-ts'ao, a medical work of fourteenth 

 century, 13. 



CHOU-TING WANG, 13. 



Gnu CnfiN-nfiNG, writer on the Poppy capsule, 13. 



Chung-shu-shu, a work on trees, 6. 



Cigars, 29. 



Cochin, 14. 



Cochin China, trade with, 5. 



Comma- (kOkndr), Persian name for Poppy, 4, 31. 



Comfrey (Symphytum), 39. 



Compass, floating, in 1122, 14. 



CORNELIUS NEPOS, story of Poppy, 3. 



Coromandel coast, export of Opium from, 14, 32. 



Counterblast to Tobacco of King JAMES I, 25. 



Crocus Indica, mixed with Opium, 24. 



Curcuma, 24. 



Customs books at Canton : the tariff, the book of 

 comparisons, the book of values, 41. 



