THE 
AMERICAN JOURNAL 
OF 
PHARMACY. 
APRIL, 1835, 
ART. I. — ON EGYPTIAN OPIUM. By Jonathan Evans, Jr. 
(Extract from Thesis. Phil, Col. Pharm.) 
Dqrinq the course of the year 1833, a parcel of opium 
was imported into this city direct from Leghorn, and by its 
favourable appearance found at first a ready market; it being 
a fact however, that opium taken to France mixed with im- 
purities and manufactured into flat cylindrical cakes is oc- 
casionally received into this country, suspicions were excited, 
that the article now offered as Egyptian opium was a sophis- 
tication. 
This idea being held out, a portion was submitted to ana- 
lysis, and found to contain an unusually small per centage of 
morphia ; the account of which was published in the fifth 
volume of the Journal of the Philadelphia College of Phar- 
macy, by J. Scattergood. 
Subsequently, a quantity of opium has been thrown into the 
market, similar in form and appearance to the importation of 
1833, and sold under the same name. 
As regards the merits of the last mentioned article, a dif- 
ference of opinion prevails ; by some it is considered superior 
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