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NOTE ON ADULTERATED OPIUM. 
ART. XXlil.— NOTE ON ADULTERATED OPIUM. 
By C. Ellis. 
The determination which is manifested on the part of 
many of the respectable importers and dealers in drugs in 
this country, to prevent the introduction into our markets 
of spurious and adulterated articles, is highly creditable. 
One of the leading objects of the American Journal of 
Pharmacy will thus be promoted; and the public be placed 
on their guard against a species of fraud, which, if it were 
less criminal in its nature and fraught with less injurious con- 
sequences to the health and even lives of our citizens, might 
be viewed with a modified degree of indignation. 
The following is extracted from a letter from David Tay- 
lor of London, addressed to the house of N. Lenig & Co- 
of this city, and politely furnished by these gentlemen for 
publication ; accompanied by a printed article taken from 
the Pharmaceutical Journal of London, by "T. N. R. Mor- 
son." The letter states : " We regret (that) we were una- 
ble to obtain a sample of the adulterated opium. The 
holders refused to let us have one, although they had pro- 
mised it. Part of the parcel has,*we believe, been shipped to 
New York and Boston. One of our morphine manufactu- 
rers has communicated the results of experiments upon the 
parcel referred to, which appears to be adulterated with 
wax and india rubber. We enclose the article extracted 
from the Pharmaceutical Journal, which will interest you." 
ON A NEW VARIETY OF OPIUM. 
By Mr. T. N. R. Morson. 
The importance attached to all matters relating to the 
complex chemical nature of opium, more especially such as 
