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OPIUM : HISTORICAL NOTE. 



Li T'ING, author of I-hsiao-ju-mKii, 16, 23. 



Described about 1550 the preparation of Opium, 



1 6, 23. 



Li T'ING, writer on divination and the I-ching, 16. 

 Lix HUNG, a writer on Poppy capsules, 10. 

 LIN Tsfi-Hsu, 43. 

 LINDLEY, the botanist, 9. 

 Liquorice, 1 1, 39. 

 Liu HAN, 7. 

 Liu HO-CHIEN, author of Hsiian-miny-fany, 12. 



LlU TSUNG-YUAN, 6. 



LIVT, story of Poppy, 3. 



Local arrangement of charges in 1822, 43. 



Lung-leu, fossil bones, used with the capsule, 13. 



MA CHIH, 7. 



Ma-tmi-liny, 20. 



Mahommedans traded to China in MAHOMET'S time, 5. 



In Chinese Turkestan, 1 5. 



In Yunnan, 38, 39. 

 Malwa, manufacture of Opium in, 14. 

 Manchu prohibition of tobacco-smoking, 25. 

 Manila, the tobacco plant in, 25. 

 Mariner's compass used in twelfth century, 14. 

 Materia Medico, of eleventh century, 8. 



Medical use of capsules probably derived from the West, 



but this is not proved, 12. 

 Of Opium in sixteenth century, 1 6. 

 Of Opium in 1723, 33. 

 Of Poppy seeds, 9. 

 Of Poppy seeds to counteract the effects of the 



exorbitant use of mercury, 10. 



Medical writers in China first mention the Poppy in 



eighth century, 5. 

 Medicines mixed with Poppy capsules are tang-shin, 



pai-shu, asafcetida, putchuck, China-root, liquorice, 



cow bezoar, n, 1 8. 



Mekou, Greek name of Poppy, 4. 



Meliapur, 38. 



Mercury, use of, 7, 10. 



Mesue, 30. 



" Millet bags," 5. 



Mi-nany, name for Poppy heads, 5. 



Ming dynasty mode of preparing Opium, 1 6. 



Prohibition of tobacco-smoking, 25. 

 Mithridate, 24. 

 Musk, value of, in 1755, 41. 



Nati-fang-ts'ao-mu-chuang, 6. 

 Negapatiini, 38. 

 Jfqjentha, 31. 



NIEN HSI-YAO, a medical writer in eighteenth century, 

 mixed 13 drags with Opium, 33. 



Ningpo, Superintendent appointed at, to overlook Foreign 

 trade, 5. 



Opium, a Greek word; its Latin fonu and Arab and 



Persian names, 4. 



Manufactured in Persia from the white Poppy, 9. 

 In Java in 1629, 24. 

 In India in sixteenth century, 14. 

 How made in Persia, 29. 

 Taverns at Batavia, 32. 

 Sale of, punished by death in 1729 and 1782, 36, 42. 



Deleterious effects as stated in Chih-wu-ming-shih- 

 t'u-k'ao, 44. 



Importation prohibited in 1796, 37. 



Value of, in 1755, 4 1 - 



Statistics of Native production in 1881, 44. 

 Opium-smoking arose from tobacco-smoking, 24. 



In Formosa and Amoy, 25, 26. 



First Opium-smoking shops, 32. 



In 1793, as described by Sir G. STAUNTON, 42. 

 Opium-smuggling in 1782, 41. 

 Orange peel taken with the capsule, 14. 



Pachyrizus angulatits, 34. 



Pwonia, albiflora (shao-yao), 39. 



Prcony, 21, 22. 



Pai-i-hsuan-fany, a work by WANG CH'IU, 1 1. 



Pai-shu (Atmctylodcs alba), 1 1, 17. 



Pan-yil-hsicn-chih, 5. 



Panicum miliaceum, S. 



Pao-yany-liny-huei-shcn-fany, 33- 



Papaver somnifervm, white and red varieties, 9. 



To be used for white and red dysentery respec- 

 tively, 17. 



Peking, failure of efforts to check Opium-smoking in, 26. 



Pcn-ts'ao-kmifi-mv,, 12,10. 



Pcn-ts'ao-ycn-i, 10. 



Persia produced the white Poppy in the sixteenth 



century, 9. 

 How Opium is made there, 29. 



Persian Gulf visited by the Chinese, 14. 



Persian national name for Opium, 4, 31. 



Pharmacopeia mentions the Poppy, 7, 8, 21. 



Philippine Islands the source of Chinese tobacco-smok- 

 ing, 25. 



Philonium Persicum, 24, 30. 



Pill called Wan-ying-tan made of Opium and 13 drugs, 

 33- 



Pipe for smoking tobacco through water, and object 

 of invention, 28, 29. 



