OPIUM. 



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OPIUM. 



Opium is the concrete, air-dried, milky juice that exudes from incisions made in 

 the unripe seed capsules of Papaver soinnifcrnin (Fam. Papaveracece), an herbaceous 

 Asiatic plant. When Opium is dried at a temperature not exceeding 70 C., and re- 

 duced to a fine powder (Opii Pulvis), it should yield not less than 10% of the principal 

 alkaloid, morphine. 



Properties: 



