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SECTION VI. DRUGS, INCLUDING NARCOTICS AND OTHER MEDICINAL 



SUBSTANCES ... ... ... ... ... 576 



The COCA PLANT. Cocculus Indicus. BETEL LEAF. The ARECA PALM ; 

 extensive use of the nuts in the East as a masticatory. Narcotic proper- 

 ties. Catechu, or Cutch ; its astringent properties. Davy's analysis. Value 

 of the Areca nuts exported from Ceylon. The POPPY : increasing con- 

 sumption of Opium in this country. Production of the Drug in India. 

 Large revenue derived therefrom. Variety of the poppy grown ; sys- 

 tem of culture pursued. Various modes of consuming opium, "its 

 preparation and manufacture described. Commercial varieties met with. 

 Requisites for the successful culture of the poppy for opium. The 

 TOBACCO PLANT ; species cultivated. Loudon's classification. Ana- 

 lyses of various samples of tobacco ; statistics of the culture in Brazil ; 

 extent of the consumption ; considerations of revenue ; memorial of 

 Liverpool Chamber of Commerce. Comparative consumption of tea, 

 coifee and tobacco, per head. Imports and duty received on tobacco in 

 the last five years. Consumption checked in England and France by 

 the high duties. Imports, sales, and stocks, in Bremen for 10 years. 

 Culture and statistics in the United States. Quantity exported from 

 1821 to 1850. Countries from whence we received our supplies in 

 1850. Particulars of the tobacco trade in 1850 and 1853. Mode of 

 culture pursued in Virginia. General instructions for the planter. 

 Information as to growing Cuba tobacco. History of the trade and 

 cultivation in Cuba. Statistics of exports from the Havana. Culture 

 of tobacco in the East. Analysis of tobacco soils. Progress of culti- 

 vation and shipments in Ceylon. Manila tobacco and cigars. Produc- 

 tion in the Islands of the Archipelago. Suggestions and directions for 

 tobacco culture in New South Wales. Its value and extensive use as 

 a sheep wash. Excellence of the product and manufacture in New 

 South Wales ; culture of tobacco in South Australia. MISCELLANEOUS 

 DRUGS. Poisons. ALOE**; rarieties of the plant ; culture and manufac- 

 ture in Socotra, Barbados, and the Cape Colony. ASAF<ETIDA. CAMPHOR. 

 CINCHONA BAR^: commercial varieties of. CALUMBA ROOT. COLOCYNTH. 

 CUBEBS. GAMBOGE. GENTIAN. IPECACUAN. 



