202 ON ADULTERATED DRUGS. 
by chemical analysis, has been proved to contain no nior- 
phia, and was sold on the Sih last, at two and five cents 
per pound, and another lot of inferior or spurious opium 
was sold at one dollar and thirty-five cents per pound; and, 
whereas, it is understood that other lots of a similar spu- 
rious article are on their way to this country, and whereas 
the external qualities so nearly resemble those of true opium, 
as to indicate that a regular business of preparing and putting 
it up is carried on in Turkey, which, if continued, will frus- 
trate the skill of the physician and endanger the life of the 
patient; and, whereas, this subject has attracted the atten- 
tion of the medical faculty and importers of drugs, and is 
now before Congress by a memorial from the N. Y. College 
of Pharmacy, and being desirous ourselves to defeat all 
such fraudulent designs, and to protect the community 
against them, therefore — 
Resolved, That we will heartily co-operate with the 
merchants in this city, connected with the Smyrna trade, in 
their efforts to prevent the introduction and sale of spurious 
opium, and other adulterated drugs. 
Resolved, That we will obtain and communicate such 
information as may be in our power, in order to prosecute 
impositions of this kind upon the community, and to aid the 
druggists in other cities in accomplishing the same object. 
