An experimental inquiry into the properties of opium : and its effects on living subjects: with observations on its history, preparations and uses. Being the disputation which gained the Harveian prize for the year 1785 / By John Leigh.

  • Leigh, John, active 1786.
Date:
1786
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Credit: An experimental inquiry into the properties of opium : and its effects on living subjects: with observations on its history, preparations and uses. Being the disputation which gained the Harveian prize for the year 1785 / By John Leigh. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    generally edeemed the mod pure; but Condamine difputes the propriety of this common opinion. Thus, when mention- ing “ that the greated part of the opium “ fold at Condantinople is brought from “ Natolia, he obferves, that it grows in “ gceat plenty in the territorry of Thebes c‘ in Egypt; but even there the Natolian is “ preferred, and fells for double the price 4< of that made in the country.” Chardin expreffes himfelf in the following words on this fubjedl: “ The bed apoum, as call- “ ed by the ancients, hence our term opi- “ um, is made in the canton of Lingar, “ fix leagues from Ifpahan, where the “ fields are covered with poppies : There “ are fome who hold the opium of Caze- “ ron in dill greater edeem than that at “ Ifpahan ; faying/ that the opium of the “ latter produces crudities in the domach, “ while the other does not.” Though didindtions of this kind can afford no real 3 utility