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caufe it is faid to excite in the Mind of the Perfon 
who eats it a wonderful Joy and Gladnefs, and to 
fill the Brain with delightful, and tranfporting 
Ideas. 
Some moreover pickle the tender Heads of the 
Poppy with Vinegar, and ufe them in fecond Courfes 
at Table* 
In a chymical Analyfis of the white Poppy, five 
Pounds of the green Leaves with the Stalks yield- 
ed firft one Pound, fix Ounces, fix Drachms and 
three Grains of tranfparent, yellowifii, fubacid 
Phlegm, of an ungrateful Tafte, and a virofe, nar- 
cotick Smell, like that of the Leaves when bruifed ; 
afterwards, two Pounds, fifteen Ounces and one 
Drachm of tranfparent, reddifh Liquor, intenfely 
acid, auftere, and of an empyreumatick Scent *, 
one Ounce, one Drachm and fifty four Grains of a 
dark brown Liquor, alkaline urinous, with a little 
volatile Salt *, and laftly, one Ounce, two Drachms 
and fixty fix Grains of thick Oil. The black Mafs 
remaining in the Retort weighed four Ounces and 
three Drachms : Which being calcined in a rever- 
beratory Fire left one Ounce, three Drachms and 
forty eight Grains of Allies *, from which were 
extradted, by Lixiviation, four Drachms and fixty 
Grains of fixt Salt merely alkaline. The Lofs of 
Parts in Diftillation was three Ounces, one Drachm 
and twenty one Grains *, in Calcination, two Ounces, 
feven Drachms and twenty four Grains. 
From two Pounds, fifteen Ounces, of the Heads 
of the white Poppy, frefh and not quite ripe, were 
firft obtained eleven Ounces, feven Drachms, and 
forty two Grains of limpid fubacid Phlegm of an 
ungrateful Tafte, and a virofe Smell, like that of 
the Leaves of the Plant when bruifed *, then, one 
Pound, thirteen Ounces, one Drachm, and eleven 
•Grains of Liquor, which at firft was limpid, but 
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